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Deep Are the Roots : Memoirs of a Black Expatriate
author
:
Heath, Gordon.
publisher
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University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin
:
1558490205
print isbn13
:
9781558490208
ebook isbn13
:
9780585278964
language
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English
subject
Heath, Gordon,--1918-1991, African American actors--Biography.
publication date
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1992
lcc
:
PN2287.H39A3 1992eb
ddc
:
792/.028/092
subject
:
Heath, Gordon,--1918-1991, African American actors--Biography.
Page iii
Deep Are the Roots
Memoirs of a Black Expatriate
Gordon Heath
Introduction by Doris Abramson
Afterword by Ekwueme Mike Thelwell
THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS AMHERST
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Copyright 1992 by The University of Massachusetts Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America LC 92-181 ISBN 0-87023-778-0 Designed by Edith Kearney Set in Berkeley Book by Keystone Typesetting, Inc. Printed and bound by Thomson-Shore, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Heath, Gordon, 19181991. Deep are the roots : memoirs of a Black expatriate / Gordon Heath; introduction by Doris Abramson. p. cm. ISBN 0-87023-778-0 (alk. paper) 1. Heath, Gordon, 19181991. 2. Afro-American actorsBiography. I. Title. PN2287.H39A3 1992 792'.028'092dc20 [B]91181 CIP
Page v
The horizons of an artist should be as wide as his talents can encompass. A whole artist is everything his open hands can hold. GORDON HEATH
Circle One (for Gordon Heath) Nothing happens only once, Nothing happens only here, Every love that lies asleep Wakes today another year. Why we sail and how we prosper Will be sung and lived again; All the lads repeat themselves, Shore for shore and men for men. OWEN DODSON
Page 1
Contents
Introduction
by Doris E. Abramson
3
Columbus Hill and I Are Born
9
Camp Carlton
18
Music Appreciation
22
Growing Pains
32
National Youth Administration
38
The Temple of Tranquility
53
Dream Days and Daydreams
57
Interlude: Icons, Idols, and Intimates
63
From WMCA to Broadway
94
Deep Are the RootsLondon
115
At Home Abroad
121
London Particular, 1947
127
The Othello Syndrome
134
Paris, One Way
149
Music Hall in Paris
162
Doxology
169
Epilogue: Noting Gordon
by Richard Trousdell
171
Afterword: Getting to Know Gordon,
by Mike Thelwell
173
Index
197
Page 3
Introduction
Doris E. Abramson
In these pages we meet a man, meet him as a child, an actor in training, an actor in performance. We meet a black man born in the United States in 1918 who fashioned a life for himself that kept him mostly abroad, mostly in Paris. Gordon Heath can be counted among such distinguished black expatriates as Ira Aldridge, Paul Robeson, Richard Wright, and James Baldwin. Their names have been written larger than his in the record books, but with the publication of his memoirs Gordon Heath moves from footnote status to deserved inclusion in the text itself.
Looking back on the support given to Negro artists by England and Europe, Paul Robeson once wrote:
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