Bertolt Brecht 125 -- February 10, 2023

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Playwright and theatrical director Bertolt Brecht was born 125 yeats ago, on 10-February-1898. He was a pioneer of epic theater, which tried to make the audience experience alienation. He collaborated on musicals with Kurt Weill, The Threepenny Opera and Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. He talked to the House Un-American Activities Committee, denying that he had ever been a communist.



Mack The Knife

 

Lotte Lenya Singing "Seeräuber Jenny" (Pirate Jenny)

 

ALABAMA SONG

Are You Booked? -- June 7, 2019

Moving Picture World, 07-June-1919

The Red Scare went on in the United States after the successful Bolshevik Revolution in Russia and other revolutionary but unsuccessful movements such as the Bavarian Soviet Republic. Bolshevism on Trial was "A box office winner. A patronage builder. An all-round success."

Moving Picture World, 21-June-1919

An interesting variety of theaters, theater chains and circuits were happy with the results.

Americanism Versus Bolshevism -- May 9, 2019

Moving Picture World, 17-May-1919

This colorful ad reflects the Red Scare which went on after the successful Bolshevik Revolution in Russia and other revolutionary but unsuccessful movements such as the Bavarian Soviet Republic. Prolific producer Thomas Ince was preparing Americanism Versus Bolshevism, a story of young Americans falling under the influence of Communists and Anarchists.  Movies and common people often got the two mixed up.  The movie was released as Dangerous Hours.

Moving Picture World, 03-May-1919

Bolshevism on Trial was based on a novel by Thomas Dixon, who also wrote the books on which The Birth of a Nation was based. "Bolshevism held up to the world a mask of idealism...But what has been seen to lie behind the mask?"

Moving Picture World, 17-May-1919

The creature in the second page looks like Trotsky.

Bolshevism on Trial -- April 7, 2019

Moving Picture World, 05-April-1919

This colorful ad reflects the Red Scare which went on after the successful Bolshevik Revolution in Russia and other revolutionary but unsuccessful movements such as the Bavarian Soviet Republic. Bolshevism on Trial was based on a novel by Thomas Dixon, who also wrote the books on which The Birth of a Nation was based.