Simply Heavenly
by Langston Hughes, David Martin

THE STORY: The New York Journal-American called SIMPLY HEAVENLY “…a treat.

This story by Langston Hughes, based on his novels about Jesse B. Semple, a Joe Doakes Harlemite, seems…to capture the color and the humor and poetry of these neighbors-to-the-North as no outlander could imitate.

This is the story of the New York Negro written from the inside out; it is a happy and exciting evening.

There is a mood and a temper about this show that is unique.”

The New York Post describes the play: “It possesses such unhackneyed freshness and cheeriness of spirit, such humorous decency and regard for the human spirit, that, as offered last night at the 85th Street Playhouse, it was a real delight.

Its great merit is that Mr. Hughes contemplates the people he is writing about with a respect that never becomes patronizing or stuffy and always retains its sense of humor.”