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eee : i ee) wo . ow « : z pasion a of 8 Wiestrioal nature, BRECET gave no specific address in New Yock £2" to which the was going, but stated thet he could be reached there through SR— 7 By » 66 West Twelfth Street, New York City. Relative to Subject'’s activity in New York, it is observed april, y issue of "FREIES DEUTSCHLAND", @ German-language period= hed in Mexico, that BRECHT!'s works are being read there as par’ of : progran dedicated to him, This matter was reported the above publication +>" “under the caption "New York Letter", written by KANTOROWICZ» A portion % of this article relative to BRECHT is translated as fo’ . from the ical publis baled "The literary activity of the anti-Fascist German American circles E 7 in New York were stimulated by the arrival of BERT BRECHT in New tO, York, The 'fribune for Free German Art and Literature in America’ took possession of the man and his new works. On Saturday, March an 6, a BERT BRECHT evening will be held in the theater of the 'New when School" in New York, directed by ERWIN PISCATOR, This occasion ‘A wag initia’ by the ‘Tribune? and is under the artistic direction of PRIEDRICH in the ence of the guest. The former (and one may well the future} publisher of the German editions of y BRECHT!s works, WIELAND 7» Will open the program. One wilk = 3 hear phonograph records, some of the songs of BRECHT which are fan~ . iliar and liked by al] anti-Fascists in the world—‘or example, the Solidarity Song, whose refrain will certainly be humeed or sung ty tals “the audiences ¢ lp and do not forget the source of our _ etrength', new poetic prose written by aes BRECHT. The actor » Who bas become & star in ° Boliywood, will recite poess BRECHT, And ELIZABETH, At : dg unnecessary to explain her importance to German acting, every- “ene knows her=will read BERT BRECHT's ballad 'The Children's Cro- sade', which was first published in the German American periodical "The German-American’, which is well worth readings” It is noted that the above quotation makes reference to 2 one WIELAND HERZFELDE, publisher of the German editions of BRECHT's works, 3 & check of the edition of BRECHT's works containing the play entitled “Die h Massnabme® (known in English as the Expedien% or"The Disciplinary Measure") t¢-> which has been previously reported on, indicates that WIELAND HERZFEIDE's 3.) pame appears on the copyright page, together with the name of the Malik- : Verlag Publishing Company. Further reference to HERZFEIDE will be found , Mater in this report. : * wt. : It 4s alec noted fram the program quoted above that § “BRECHE@ *Boliderity Song" was to be heard at the meeting of March 6, ~ Atteatden 1g directed to the information previously reported, to the effest that this song, which was written in about 1931, was adopted as the song ef the Communist youth organisation in Germany, prior to HITIER's rise to pow- er, With the permission of Subject, its author.