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"/-N¥-100-67077 ee * . . cd 1996, ateted that "Rert Brecht, Uost Sormanv's port ~ for the Comfunist Line, will witness "is entle cart Play, ‘The Private sife of the ‘ester Pacet (01 th- 2lst) at the Onen “tare downtotm.... ‘ee seve is favorite play critic is WALTER 3%. KEcR,” ” On Merch 21, 1956, it was determined that inspectors of the Immigration end aturetization Service (INS) attended the performance of Tre Privete Life of the sineter Rece et the Open Stee, Li Seanne Avenue, Hew Yerk, “ew Yark, on the evenine oo bepen Sly 1956. . Durinz the intermission, it was escerteines, the audience demanded to hear from the author of the “play, in that WALTER WI'NCHELL had mentioned in his colwan that BRECHT, would be there. ERIC RUSSE: BESTLEY, who, accordine. to en advertisement eppeariiuc in the "Jew York Times" of March 21, 1955, and accordinre to “Sno's Who in snert:-., 1952-1953 edition, translated the vlev to eter, ‘stated in response to these demends thet FREC'T wee not there and that he, BENTLEY, had last seen TRECIT in Munich, Germany in 1950. It was also learned that one member of the ‘audience made comment to the effect that, "ke exvested ‘*--¢9 see hoards of FEI men here." Another commentec «that, “We certainly fooled the "6I this time.” The subject wae unobserved smone those entering and leaving the Open Stace Theatre tv Snecial Agents of the PSI on the evenine of Herch 71, 1956. In a review of the play by PZOOKS ATKINSOY in the "New York Times" for January 31, 1956, he states in part as follows?