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_ HY, 2100-67077 ee 196, ‘ateted that "Rert Precht, Wost Sermanv's port cece for the Comfunist Line, will witness ts enti- tart ’ plav, ‘The Privote sife of the ‘fester Racet (11 th- 2lst) at the Onen itare downtotm.... be seve ir favorite play critic is WALTER ?. KEGR.® ~ on Merch 21, 1956, it was determined that inspectors of the Immigration end “atureiization Service (INS) ettended the performance of Tre Privete Life of the tineter Rece et the Open Ete~e, Li Sennné Avenue, Hew Yerk, “ew Yark, on the cvenine of ep: 1956. fl, Durinz the intermission, it was escerteined, the audience demanded to hear from the author of the “play, in that WALTER WI'NCHELL had mentioned in his column that BRECHT would be there. . ERIC RUSSEL BENTLEY, who, accordine to en advertisement eppeari:c in the "Ncw York Times" cf March 21, 1955, and accordinre to "Sno'ts who in an 1952-1953 edition, translated the plav to tn-2 -stated in response to these demends thet FR=% not there and that he, BENTLEY, had last seen *4n Munich, Germany in 1950. It was also lesrned that one member of the audience made comment to the effect that, "ke exvested ‘to see hoards of FBI men here." Another commented ‘that, “We certainly fooled the "BI this time.” The subject wae unobserved smong those entering and leaving the Open Stave Theatre ty Snecial Agents of the FSI on the evening of erch 71, 1956. In a review of the play by PHOOKS ATKINSON in the "New York Times" for January 31, 1956, he stotes in part as follows: -2- er oe ei ®