"EMPEROR JONES"
FAMOUS O'NEILL PLAY ROBESON AS PRINCIPAL " Emperor Jones," the screen adaptation of the famous Eugene O'Neill stage drama, will be released by United Artists. The picture will be the initial production of John Krimsky and Gilford Cochran, and it will star Paul Robeson, internationally known negro actor and singer, who has just returned from an engagement in O'Neill's "All God's Chillun Got Wings " in London. Robeson' will portray the powerful role of Brutus Jones, who made himself an emperor in the Congo through ruthless cruelty and then' is destroyed, partly the'wrath of his subjects and partly through his own superstitions.
The three principal supporting rolep will be playecl by Dudley Digges, Ruby Elzy and Taylor Gordon. Dußose Hej'ward did the adaptation. Ernest Heller has ; charge of the photography and Herman Rosse is art director. Rosamund Johnson, well-known composer, will prepare the musical arrangement) most- of which, of course, will bear a negro imprint. -
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21580, 26 August 1933, Page 10 (Supplement)
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