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LA 3p0-16)12 =e : “In 19335 when BRECHT's dramatic version of Gorky's iiother was “tn its sixty-firat performance in Berlin, the police mounted the stage and arrested the asters. Fhe play , translated by Parr PETERS, was steged by the Theater \ | ! Union of New York in December 1935. After Hitler's rise to power, SRECHT was expelled from the Third Heich and has since lived in France, Norway, the Soviet Union, and now the United States. "In exile BERTOLT BRECHT has written a novel, ‘A Penny for the Poor,‘ (1954)....mercilessly exposing with mordant wit the faults and failures of the present age. For the theater he has created the vitriolic anti-Nasi satire, Round Heads, Peak Heads (1957), and an equally pungent sequence of plays on _ life in the Third Reich.... The most sipnificant of his dramas, hov-ever, is the one act Senore Carrars Rifles (1938), @ dealing with the Spanish are *,..-eHated by the Nazis, BRECHT was fortunate to escape with his life and arrive in this country safely at last in 1941.... Hother Courage, — an historical play of the fhirty Years Wer, has been tentatively announced for publication here." SOURCE wi This source furnished further information concerning BRECHT from the book entitled, “Germany; A Self Portrait," published in 1944 by the Oxford University Press, London, New York, Toronte. Thie book states that BRACHT was bormn,as previously indicated, of a lower middle class family. He was drafted into the German Aray at the age of 17 and served through World far I as a medical orderly. The phenomenal success of his “Balled of the Dead Soldier, which was based on his experiences in Army hospitals, decided him on a writing career. He became the most important playwright of the younger generation. f He was invited to join the staff of the Deutsches Theater in Berlin by the } director, MAX REINHARDT. later, seeking more freedan for experiments, he F with the director, ERWIM-PISCATOR, and the composer, AUKJ“WEILL. The most notable production of this trio was an adaptation of JOHN GAY's "The Beggar's Ooere “ which in BRECHT’s modern werafon became an acid satire an sonditions 5 weve, ees Sb WD maewewsses Vwiwvewss ww we Se Sas in Weimar, Germany. BRECHT escaped from Germany when Hitler came to power and lived in exile in France, Denmark, Horway, and Soviet Russia before coming to the United States. He has written much in exile, and every line is directed against the rulers of present day Germany. His most recent book is a poetic play, “The Trial of Lucullus." His poem,: "The Balled of the Gernar Soldier's Bride,” has been beamed to Germany by the British Broadcasting Corporation. | supervised his ow productions at the Schiffbauerdan ag “ai collaborating oe