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-anaum ° onrreG Seeres GOVERNMENT ut DIRECTOR, FBI pats: July 17, 1952 Mffirces + 8M, SPRINGFIELD (65-0) Bel suBJECT: {DIE _DREIGROSCHENOPER OTION PICTURE FILM Confidential Infornent on July 10, 1952, furnished the following informat concerning a motion picture production, the property of Warner Brothers Studios, entitled DIE DREIGROSCHENOPER, which film was borrowed from Warner Brothers by a staff member of the University or Fijnoie in April, Ioks, and shown at the University April 6, 1948. . formant advised that on June 1 wy \ of Warner Brothe pictures, who was searching : 3a or information leading to the recovery of a lost film of | 9 DIE DREIGROSCHENOPER. . e This film was borrowed from the Warner Brothers Studio oi by the Speech Department, University of Illinois, in April, . 1948, and exhibited publicly in the auditorium et the University. Th ent rtpent in this 3 . transaction was 3, Speech Department. : . During the winter of 1952, Warner Brothers Studio dis- ‘A: a covered that the f in their possession and @ * made inquiry of whether she had returned 3 => it. states that she returned this filma ~ r » 1948, via railway exprese to on a. Biitor, Director of Censorship, Warner Srothers, * New York City. Intensive tracing of records in New Yors City failed to locate the film according to therefore, he visited Urb 7 an attempt to trace the, file. — RECORDED ef phe i: oe ae mi The informant aivieed that one fila of DIE DRE IGROSCHENOPER ie an exceedingly rare and valuable property. Its negative and this one positive copy are owned by Warner Brothers and in spite of inumerable. request or tt they “never® loan it out. According to‘ the positive copy bears certain characteristicg make its loss a matter * of more than usual impoF tance. © Rais fila is report. = ap adaptation of an 1 Ceftury“play ridiculi state of the world and vas oyen about: 1925 by 5B ~ @ Native German who has sip PS >ep kpbwn for stic es ec be REDO — “Got *. i seinen a ff