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? Pie ant +. wy oe . 7 - eo *. NY 10B=6 ane - 3! | Manatee ELLIS (narrator) end ROBERT I20! (talled s4njer). oy LLVIS SISduls a” “Since it is interested in ths facts of life as well as the stage, _ the Theatre of All Nations has come upon Bertol< Brecht 's "The Frivate life a. 1 Of the Master Race’. For the reat of the week it will be on view, in ad- we i * wmittedly experimental farm, for those who care to travel to tue lity college a ; | Auditorius, on Twenty-third Street at Lexington. As an experizont, tue ~ .%" Latest off-Broadway study is alvays interesting, aud occasionally it cocs be 4 | in yond that to be gocd theatre on any terms whatever. It is several cu:mratio,.; BO! more adult that the usual test-tule theatre boy-ue_t¢ cirl tiene, fer voth -Hre Erecht and his sponsors strike with their fists, Fane wae ty Ak Pa aE e. *'The Private Life of the Nester Race' is composed of @ series of mn " ineidenta showing how the Nazis becane Nazis; how the doctrine spread dis- | fllusion, contezpt, hatred. Yr. Brecht tells the story of tte jucge who . found himself unable to reach a decision beceuse of presrurc, thr nonesryas wife who must leave her husband, the parent who cannot te certsis (is am son is not apying at howe. The soldiers of a panzer are ths churecters; the scenes go back to their privata Jives. Yr. Brecht and his onclisl: adaptor, Fric Russel Sentley, are forceful; they have contempt for the Nazis and make no bones abcut it. They strike with withering sarcasm on occacion; they always are frank. “Unfortunately not all of 'The Private Life of the Laster face! is enEtE 4, good as its beat one or two scenes. Some of the incidents are too long; is y would be more pointed if cut in balt, The one about the judge trying to . mp ee mind vhich side he dare offend is obscure; its value is now e ‘. of that of a shorter bit about a concentration camp. ‘ihe production, z » is not always all tmt it should be. ‘there is a good deal cf florid ing and some of the wices lose the Brecht~Beitle; words, Albert Casser= b ~ hig wife, Elea, are in one of the scenes—that ef th: parents mith . ““; the Hitler Youth eon—and Clarence ferwent, dom [roc Broadroy, is the baffled judge. There is a good bit by Dright Merijield, as a worker; some of ¥. ‘the other players also have both the spirit of the play and the ability to “ae express ite te Re “The Private Life of the Master Racet seems old now, of course, ~ 24 _ | “fer the panser hes come to a halt. Put on a few years ago, It could have 0 «been made into en izportant theatrical contribution against the Masi doctrine _ aot * idastead of head an interesting experiment. History goes faster then the te *