Another guest who never appeared on the show because of the controversy surrounding him was legendary African-American singer-actor Paul Robeson, who, at the time of the Draper incident, was undergoing his own troubles with the industry's hunt for Communist sympathizers.

The song was made famous by Paul Robeson whose voice, deep and resonant as it was, was said by some to have attained the status of the voice of God.

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Notable performers there included among others: Pearl Bailey, Count Basie, Nat King Cole, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Coleman Hawkins, Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, Burl Ives, Leadbelly, Anita O ' Day, Charlie Parker, Les Paul and Mary Ford, Paul Robeson, Kay Starr, Art Tatum, Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, Josh White, Teddy Wilson, Lester Young, and The Weavers, who also in Christmas 1949, played at the Village Vanguard.

Whale gathered as many of those as he could who had been involved in one production or another of the musical, including Helen Morgan, Paul Robeson, Charles Winninger, and, as Magnolia, Irene Dunne, who believed that Whale was the wrong director for the piece.

Whale used a similar technique during the Ol ' Man River sequence in Show Boat, in which the camera tracked around Paul Robeson as he sang the song.

Paul Leroy Robeson ( April 9, 1898 – January 23, 1976 ) was an American singer and actor who was a political activist for the Civil Rights Movement.

Paul Robeson was born in Princeton in 1898, to Reverend William Drew Robeson and Maria Louisa Bustill.

* 1949 – The Peekskill Riots erupt after a Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill, New York.

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Clara Rockmore, a well-known thereminist, toured to wide acclaim, performing a classical repertoire in concert halls around the United States, often sharing the bill with Paul Robeson.

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* January 23 – Paul Robeson, African-American actor, singer, writer, and activist ( b. 1898 )

In the film, the last few lines of the song " Ol ' Man River " ( from Show Boat ) are sung by what sounds like a tenor, while the song was intended for bass Paul Robeson and sung in the original production by bass-baritone Jules Bledsoe.

For example, in December 1924, actor Paul Robeson, then appearing in a revival of Eugene O ' Neill's The Emperor Jones, performed a scene from the play over New York's WGBS to critical acclaim.

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Newark is also home to numerous art galleries including Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art, City Without Walls, Gallery Aferro, Rupert Ravens Contemporary, Sumei Arts Center, and the Paul Robeson Galleries at Rutgers-Newark.

* In 2009, Edgecombe Avenue and 160th Street in Washington Heights, Manhattan, were renamed as Paul Robeson Boulevard and Count Basie Place.

The corner is the location of 555 Edgecombe Avenue, also known as the Paul Robeson Home, a National Historic Landmark where Count Basie had also lived.

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When they could not come to a reconciliation, O ' Neill replaced Gilpin with Paul Robeson as Brutus Jones in the London production.

The play was adapted for a 1933 feature film directed by Dudley Murphy and starring Paul Robeson.

Paul Robeson's 1936 film Song of Freedom features a scene from the opera with Robeson singing the role of Jones.

K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & co., ltd., 1898.

K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & co., ltd., 1898.

* Life and Letters of Paul, ( 1898 )

In 1926, the government of South Africa designated Kruger National Park as the nation's first national park, although it was an expansion of the earlier Sabie Game Reserve established in 1898 by President Paul Kruger of the old South African Republic, after whom the park was named.

State President Paul Kruger at his fourth inauguration, Pretoria, 1898

* May 8 – Sharbel Makhluf, Lebanese monk canonized in 1977 by Pope Paul VI ( d. 1898 )

Félicien Rops ( 1833 – 98 ) won acclaim as a graphic artist, as did surrealist painters Paul Delvaux ( 1897 – 1994 ) and René Magritte ( 1898 – 1967 ).

But the most important Pierrot of mid-century was Charles-Dominique-Martin Legrand, known as Paul Legrand ( 1816 – 1898 ; see illustration at top of page ).

* Paul T. Hogan ( 1898 – 1976 ), American football player

Many of Matisse's paintings from 1898 to 1901 make use of a Divisionist technique he adopted after reading Paul Signac's essay, " D ' Eugène Delacroix au Néo-impressionisme ".

Erich Maria Remarque ( 22 June 1898 – 25 September 1970 ), born Erich Paul Remark, was a German author, best known for his novel All Quiet on the Western Front.

Erich Paul Remarque was born on 22 June 1898 into a working-class family in the German city of Osnabrück to Peter Franz Remark ( b. 14 June 1867, Kaiserswerth ) and Anna Maria ( née Stallknecht ; born 21 November 1871, Katernberg ).

On 29 March 1898, Hermann von Eckardstein, who had described Chamberlain as " unquestionably the most energetic and enterprising personality of the Salisbury ministry ", arranged a meeting between the Colonial Secretary and the German Ambassador in London, Paul von Hatzfeldt.

Most famous Belgian authors are: Guido Gezelle ( 1830 – 1899 ), Emile Verhaeren ( 1855 – 1916 ), Max Elskamp ( 1862 – 1931 ), Maurice Maeterlinck ( 1862 – 1949 ), Paul van Ostaijen ( 1896 – 1926 ), Henri Michaux ( French born and educated in Belgium, 1899 – 1984 ) and Jacques Brel ( 1929 – 1978 ) and prose writers: Hendrik Conscience ( 1812 – 1883 ), Charles de Coster ( 1827 – 1879 ), Willem Elsschot ( 1882 – 1960 ), Michel de Ghelderode ( 1898 – 1962 ), Georges Simenon 1903-1989, Louis Paul Boon ( 1912 – 1979 ), Hugo Claus ( 1929 – 2008 ), Pierre Mertens ( born in 1939 ) Ernest Claes ( 1885 – 1968 ), and, Amélie Nothomb ( born in 1967 ).

Bathori originally studied piano and planned for a career as concert pianist but soon turned to singing, making her professional debut sometime in 1898 at the small Théâtre de la Bodinière in the rue Saint-Lazare in a concert to honor the poet Paul Verlaine.

* St Paul the Traveller and the Roman Citizen ( 1895 ; German translation, 1898 )

That motion, introduced together with another Volksraad member by the name of R. K. Loveday, and accepted for discussion in September 1895 by a majority of one vote, resulted in the proclamation by Paul Kruger president of the Transvaal Republic, on 26 March 1898, of a " Government Wildlife Park.

On his retirement in 1898, Naorojee sold the company to The Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company Limited, at that time owned by Jardine, Matheson & Co. and Sir Paul Chater.

Paul J. Baron designed the town in 1898.

* Paul Sidney Martin ( 1898 – 1974 ), American archaeologist