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Bertolt Brecht — Part 2
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3. 2A new anti-Wazi magazine, NEIVE DEUTSCHE BLANTIZR will be issued
by writers barred from Germany by the Hitler movement. 4acng the contributors
are JACOB“-MASSERMANY, ERNSTCIOLL::R, BER CHT, EGO ERVRLKISCH, BRUNO
—¥FON-SOLOMON and RUDOLPH-SDENe Persons still in Germany are expected to con-
tribute anonymously and a special office to collect suca contributions has
been set up according to annovncements bere. The first issue of the new
_ Review will be published in Prague, Czechoslovakia on September l5e"
. Confidential Informant T1 furnished the writer with a letter
. dated april 26, address to "Dear RUTH" and signed "HANNS and LOU", presumably
mys and TAT PISIERS The English translation of the letter is being set
forths
"Dearest RUTH,
"It locks now as if BR. and EISLER are really coming to New York,
I have to stay home on account of great poverty. (Ex. being very poor.)
4s you probably have already heard there has been sincs six weeks or
a strike in the film industrie and al] employees (also HAXNS) feel its
influence, The strike may still last very long, as the fat (Ex. ponerful)
filmstudios can keep it up even for a years
SHANNS woul like very much to go to New York fur the rehearsals,
as the music only goes well when he is there, He has to fit it in, arrenge
it, direct and compose ite On account of really serious lack of roney he
can only come when it does not cost him anything. HANNS wrote to this Mre
BNROBERTS (do you' know him?) from the Theatre of All Nations, that he nedds
money for the fare and expenses. Mre ROBERTS answered that he could ray the
money for fare, but not for expenses. HANKS wrote then sgain that money
for fare and at least $150 for expenses were necessary and that is much toc
little anyway for three weeks stay as you know, and on the train one needs‘.
also money and HANNS is unfortunately not wery economic an? the liqucer
cost also something. (He would naturally have to stey with a friend.)
"I don't know, dear RUTH, if you have any connections with those
People and if you can talk to them, (fx. to tell them) to send HANKS im
mediately the money for the round trip ( one has to make rescrvati in
advance and pay in advance) and if possible also £200 for the most neces=
say expensese If you could do something, HANNS would be very thankful, It
ds so difficult to talk abort money matters in a letter to people that you
don't know expecially as they surely haven't got it, but one could not wiy
well tell them that one hasn't got it either and otherwise cannot come, 2 &
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