PERFORMING+IN+LONDON

 1928: Recieved role of Joe in //Show Boat -//__sang__//-//Ol' Man River -Gained attention from British socialites 1930: Accepted lead in Shakespeare's //Othello// [|//-Savoy Theatre//]//(//Savoy Theatre, Strand, London, WC2R 0ET) -First time since Ira Aldridge, a black man performed the part of the Moor -Historical event -Twenty curtain calls (Clarke) "killing two birds with one stone. I'm acting and I'm talking for the negroes in the way only Shakespeare can."-Robeson ( Paul Robeson in Othello, Savoy Theatre, 1930 | Stage | The Guardian .)