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a¥ oD a) Pwr top67077 =" em woe ope . WAUPICE ELLIS (narrator) end ROBERT Ion! (balled sinjer}s Dy LAvIs ISHS rsa ap te ASP NM “Since it is interested in ths facts of life as well as the stage, the Theatre of All Nations has come upon Bertol< Brecht 'S "the Trivate Life 1 0f the Master Race'. For the rest of the week it will be on view, in ad- * wittedly experimental farm, for those who care to travel to tie ity college “ guditorius, oa Twenty-third Street at Lexington. As an experiz: nt, tue ~ latest off-Broadway study is alvays interesting, and occasionally it goes be q rn "yond that to be gocd theatre on any terms whatever. It is s al Zeumrerioe, ; more adult that the usual test-tule theatre boy-ue_t¢ girl tiene, fer voth - Bre Brecht and his sponsors strike with their fists. "(The Yrivate Life of the Master Race! is composed of a series of " §netdenta showing how the Nazis became Nazis; how the doctrine spread dis- “¥ {linsion, contezpt, hatred. Yr. Brecht tells the story of tke Judge who : found himself unable to reach a decision beceuse of presrurc, tbr hon-sryan ¥% wife who must leave her husband, the parent who ca:mot te cer+ son is not apying at howe. The soldiers of a panzer are t the scenes go back to their private Jives. ‘re. Brecht and isl: adaptor, Fric Russel Sentley, are forceful; they have contempt tor the Nazis end make no bones abcut it. They strike with withering sarcasm on occacion; they always are frank, “Unfortunstely not all of ‘The Private Life of the taster zace! is ,. a9 good es its best one or two scenes. Some of the incidents are too long; ' they would be more pointed if cut in bali, The onc about the judge trying to wake up his mind which side he dare offend is obscure; its valuc is not e tenth of that of a shorter bit about a concentration cape The production, too, is not always al] tht it should be. ‘there is a good deal of florid acting and some of the wices lose the Brecht-Beitle; words, Albert tasser- “wan and hig wife, Elsa, are in one of tke scenes—that of th: parents with ; the Hitler Youth eon—-and Clarence Derwent, dom [roc Broadroy, is the baffled judges There is a good bit by Dwight “eriield, as a worker; some of ¥ the other players also have both the spirit of the play and the ability to it express Ate : S'The Private Life of the Master Race seems old now, of course, be | toe the panser hes come to a halt, Put on a few yesrs ago, Tt could have . + deen made into en important theatrical contribution against the Nasi doctrine | ‘ete bl only en interesting experiment. History goes fester then the bef