Word: satanic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...less pleasant caverns of Hall there is a band of the more demoniac fallen angels preparing an appropriate punishment for a group of mortal sinners. The cohorts of Satan are underlining the vacuous and unimportant passages of a public collection of fine books, and adding in the margins a gloss of irrelevant comments to each passage. The sinners will when their time comes, be required to read the books, following the thought despite the defacement. This done, each sinner will be forced to eat the books, and the lead from the pencil marks will be rendered out of them...
Instead of the central character being God, it is Satan (A. B. Comatheire) in patent leather shoes and a pinchback suit, walking the earth as a natural...
Actor Comatheire, a Lenox Avenue Lucifer, well fits his part. He brandishes whips, laughs horribly, almost corrupts Sts. Peter, Paul, James & John, almost makes Gabriel (a character strongly reminiscent of The Green Pastures' Gabriel) sound the Last Trump. Discovered in his wickedness, Satan is sent to hell by a microphonic Jehovah, there continues his evil doing. From this point on, 01' Man Satan wallows in confusion, terminates with the cast of 131 lifting their hands in thanksgiving, for what the audience cannot be quite sure...
High point of the performance is a song, "Across the River," composed by the playwright and sung by David (Walter Richardson). If you liked The Green Pastures, 01' Man Satan should remind you in spots of that more profound, more seriously comic predecessor...
...giastic interpretation of an oldtime Shaker meeting; a marionet show in which Alfred Emanuel Smith, Herbert Hoover and John Davison Rockefeller jig together with a chorus of little oil cans. Tunes: "Wouldja for a Big Red Apple?", "You're Not Pretty But You're Mine," "Satan's Little Lamb." When Ladies Meet (by Rachel Croth- ers; John Golden, producer). Everything Mary Howard (Frieda Inescort) did bore the hallmark of success. Her novels sold, the ivy on her Manhattan terrace grew, her life and friends operated efficiently. Yet she was lonely. Her closest male companion, an easy-going...