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Bertolt Brecht — Part 3
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a 25,000 vnits doily —“Gill cou
severe vasculer and kidne ‘seove,
perhaps even death. Anyon. recom-
mending more than 25,000 U.S.P. units
' of Vitomin D os a supplement to the
doily diet ix, therefore, e pojentiol
aurderer.
Consumptiog of more thon $0,000
units of Vitonia A con cause skin,
bene, end mente! changes, especially
in infants but else in adults.
High-pressure advertising frequently
pertvedes people that lorge desanes
of yitamins A ond DO. will accelerate
growth and improve health. Porents
ensious to stimulate the growth of on
infant may be lured into overdosing
hie with Vitamin D, thereby endanger:
ing the heoith of the baby: “while try-
ing fo promote it. ! /
The best procedure i i to foliow the
doctor's Instructions suactty Where vita-
min Giet is concerned, end stick fo the
dow he prescribés.,
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A TRADEMARK
Set, whi toliowing the doctor's in-
structions aligidusly ‘insofar os the sate
dose bs i ncerned, you need not follow
his advic @ as to the brand. If you can
ipliles ef 100 in-
ternational unily each from a respon-
sible and repuloble firm for a froction
of what those: some copsules cost in
« bettie beoring o fancy Jabe 1, you are
pertectly sefe a) at goin
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Becouse of me e mous “role vite-
mins ploy ! proper bolene- cL:
ing-of * the unoboshed con-
game practiced with them deserves |
severest censure. tn -considering |
vitamin quéstion, therefore, you) |
“best served when you follow the «
vice .of the ‘Better: Bysiness Poreat
ra investigote before you’ buy. *
-Giatly, find put whether gow ore pay
‘exorbitany” “prices for on “ethic
brand name.
“t
He wes beth preceded and followed
to these shores by his reputation as a
top-ranking fed in the intellectual
field, close to the Agitprop, the de-
portment of the Communist Interna-
tional handling propoganda. But this
reputation failed te prevent Herr Srecht
from prospering in the United States.
He sold his plots to the movies and
mode on eacelient living. Sut he wos
never es great ao hit while he wos
among us ot he is now, knocking us
from abroad.
His song, “Mock the Kaife,” has
been around for tome time. It was the
introductory song of a fobulously suc.
cesstu!t German musice! produced in
Berlin ond playing to capecity audi-
ences for five yeors, until the coming
of the Nozis drove it off the billboard.
The play was written by Herr Srecht
and music was supplied by Kurt Weill, :
the brilliant composer of “September
Song” ond innumerable recent Amer-
jean hits.
There can be no objection to Weill
musical genivs for one thing. For an-
other, he was ao firm opponent of the
Communists. As a matter of fact, when
the political activities of Bert Brecht,
bis tyricist, become both evident and
oppressive, Weill broke with him.
Weill never worked with him while both
in the United States. In fact, he
@—. . —fsh _ _f oi _* #4. 4 KB!
Get aimougn inew TeNGin weat
on the rocks fer obvious politico! ree-
even a fellow-waveler. Such a de
was good for business end come w
out his batting an eyelosh. He p<
os a victim of the Nazis, @ refu
from persecution, and we swolia
his tele hook, fine and sinker.
But there was at lees! ene mar
Washington Herr Brecht could
hoodwink. This was Robert A. Stripi
chief counsel for the Howse Com
tee on Un-American Activities. A fi:
less and untiring investigator of C
munists, seeking them out in thei b:
outs, Stripling come ecross Bre
nome during an investigation of C
_ mune in Holtywood.
Me didn't take Brechi's ae fo-
answer and looked a bit deepe:
the political past of the poet. \
he found there perwaded hir
Brecht was not only a lop-canking
ogent, but aiso one of the smorte:
large. .
ACCOMPANIES “HOLLYWOOD TE:
Far a faw weeks im 1940, it tec
the jig was up for Sert Brech:.
Stripling hed the dope oa him, ir
locked files of the Commitee.
there seemed to be aething to pre
the exposure of this fugitive in H:
wood. The evidenca was overwhe'-
and it appeored certeia thet Bre
halcyon doys in the U. S$. were <
At thet time, Congressmen Pc
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