Page "Karamu House" Paragraph 18

By 1940, according to Hughes's biographer Arnold Rampersad, " Langston consigned all his skits and sketches, divided into three classes -- Negro Social, Negro, Negro Non-Social, and white -- to his agent, who had alerted him that Cafe Society, a novel interracial cabaret founded in New York by Barney Josephson, was planning a revue.

Hughes sent twenty skits, collectively titled ' Run, Ghost, Run '.

He also sent a copy to Karamu ; there is no record that the revue was staged there or anywhere.

Three of those skits appear here in print for the first time, and these three may have been produced by the Suitcase Theatre ( 135 performances ), at different times Hughes added to the program a short satirical skit: ' Limitations of Life ', or ' Little Eva '...( 331-332 ).