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Bertolt Brecht — Part 2
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a “ . . - oe
oie s fon Bou! “an dfticle by ROBERT CARLAND appearing in the NEW YORK JOURNAL
at “" eRpcaN on June 13, 1945, relative to "THD PRIVAT: LIFE OF IKE MASTS RACE*
’ is quoted in part: -
®Itm not sure what manner of thestzical thing i -as arsec to go
down near Gramercy fark and report upon. Was it play or was it propeganda?
y de am sure, however, that 'The Private Life of the haster race’ is effective
-"% <@@ neither. Instead it goes on and on and on, for act and act and act, in
“te “a footless effort to retell a certain sousthing well known to every member
of the audience and well despised by every member of the audience who's
“decentecssoeeThe result, filled out by the incidental music of Hanns Eisler
as directed by Josef Schmid, is neither play, propaganda nor good ied stalling.”
City College, 23 Street
and a. — = = esr capes th: PAGLINE SPVADL
La THEATRE is the acditorium of City College which is sometimes contracted to
‘ . @uteiders for performances. ve -e that the THEATRE OF ALL NATIONS,
a 144 Bleecker Street, New York & contract with City College for
the production of "THE PRIVATE LIFE OF THE MASTER RACE", a play sritten by
BERTOLT BRECHT, which played at the PAULINE EDWARDS THRATRE from June 12th
through June 17th, 1945. QUE stated that the THEATRE CF ALL NATIONS
originally planned to use the PAULINF. EDWARDS TEATRS on Yay 19th and 20th
and later of June 4th, all of which dates were cancelled. They used the
: _ theatre from June 6th to June Ith for rehearmls and continued to use it
«+ for the production of the play as noted aboves advised that
- +, » Q@lthough be did not personally know BRECHT he understood that BE=CHT had
: --s. been present during the rehearsals and supervised the production ef the
plays - .
aR.
58th Street Brauch,
New York ic ary, ry Bi rd could be located for
BRECHT. She aleo advised that BURLAU's card was not on file at present and
| apparently is in the possession of BERLAD inasmuck as the uscrs are at li-
oa berty to keep the card either on file at the library or in their orn
possession, She stated it would be almost impossibls to determine whet
: books had been charged out without the aic of the users library cerde It
a ‘was noted on BERLAU's application for a library card that she had given as
+" peference SEMRICHTHAUFFMAN, Minister, Danish Delegation, Washingtor, De Ce
. A search was made at the morgue of the WER YORK TILES newspaper
je for any articles that might be on file relative to BRECHT or S<RIAGe Only
$ one article could be located, which was dated August 26, 1933 end reads as
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