Word: satanic
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...Satan (by Donald Hey wood; Shillwood Productions, Inc., producer) is a Harlem composer's idea of Roark Bradford's idea of a Negro's idea of Biblical history. Playwright Heywood, author of dance tunes for Blackbirds, makes no effort to conceal his attempt to paraphrase super-successful The Green Pastures. Instead of having an old darky and a Sunday school class of pickaninnies to introduce the various scenes of his mystery play, he employs a Negro mammy...
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...
Bishop James Cannon Jr., the South's arch Dry, sounded the same note: "Mr. Rockefeller's attitude is doubtless sincere, but it's not surprising to those who know the influences which surround him, living as he does where literally Satan's seat is, in the home of Alfred E. Smith, of Jimmy Walker and of the Tammany Tiger...
...Author. Authoress Seymour spent her British childhood in a strict Nonconformist atmosphere in which theatres and dancing were taboo. Unrestricted reading, however, left a loophole for Satan. After three years of co-educational schooling she made a living doing secretarial work, studying literature meanwhile under Sir Israel Gollancz at King's College. Married to a poet, poetically inclined herself, she started novel writing when her husband was off in the Air Force during the War. Almost a dozen novels followed, of which four have already been published in the U. S.: Three Wives, Youth Rides Out, False Spring...