 I'm Jen White, and this is 1A. Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones is a classic 1920 play about a black Pullman porter who brutally seizes control of a Caribbean island. Paul Robeson starred as Brutus Jones in the 1933 movie version. There's also a 1933 operatic version by Louis Gruenberg, a virtuoso vehicle for Lawrence Tibbett at the Met. Let's hear Tibbett stop the show.