"With the darkened Lafayette Theatre bearing mute testimony to the fate of one group of Negro actors who attempted to "bring Broadway to Harlem" recently, another group - more ambitious, more hopeful - will stand behind the footlights at Rockland palace tonight... and attempt to "express the lives and the problems of the Negro people" in the terms of the Theatre. Tonight's debut will be that of the Negro People's Theatre, a subsidiary of the Friends of Harlem, an organization which hopes to develop cultural activities of the community on a permanent, cumulative basis. Their initial offering will be 'Waiting for Lefty,' Clifford Odet's stirring one-act drama which deals with the recent taxicab strike in New York City"