ROBESON BARRED
SAN FRANCISCO, Tues.
Daily Advertiser (Wagga Wagga, NSW : 1911 - 1954) Wed 30 Apr 1952 Page 4
The Board of Trustees of the
San Francisco. War Memorial
Opera House has decided un-
animously to bar Paul Robe
son from singing in the Opera
House.
They said that as a pro
Communist, the negro singer
was unfit to appear within
the memorial — where he had
planned to sing at a concert
on May 22.
SAN FRANCISCO, Tues.
Daily Advertiser (Wagga Wagga, NSW : 1911 - 1954) Wed 30 Apr 1952 Page 4
The Board of Trustees of the
San Francisco. War Memorial
Opera House has decided un-
animously to bar Paul Robe
son from singing in the Opera
House.
They said that as a pro
Communist, the negro singer
was unfit to appear within
the memorial — where he had
planned to sing at a concert
on May 22.
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