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246 MODERN DRAMA December impressive opening in Peachum's shop became an unimpressive upper bourgeois cocktail party, which included a mannequin parade. There was also some rearrangement of the order of scenes, the Moritat ("Mack the Knife") coming, not at the beginning and as it were presiding over the play, but after the cocktail party. Brecht himself gave some authority to a change in the locality, suggesting that the play could beset "In a country such as Italy" (Giorgio Strehler is the only director I know of who has actually set it in Milan, the city of his audience), or in the Italian quarter of New York round about 1900, but changes of that sort are in harmony with the text. Changes such as those in Grossman's production seemed a distortion of the play's meaning. One was certainly seeing something entertaining and new, but one felt one was not seeing Brecht's 3d. Opera. NOTE JOURNALS OF INTEREST LATIN AMERICAN BIBLIOGRAPHY ANTONY PRICE Comentarios Bibliogrdficos Americanos is designed as a guide to new Latin American books, with annotations in English. There are longer critical essays in Spanish and English of interest to librarians, scholars, students, and general readers. Information is presented on periodicals,· serials, reprints, contest prizes, translations into Spanish of foreign books, and matters of general interest in the Latin American publishing world. Author, title, and subject index is provided with each issue. CBA is published bimonthly, in photo-offset, with illustrations. It draws on a roster of some 500 faculty members to review the books selected. Further information about the magazine, subscription price for universities and libraries, and sample copies may be obtained by writing: eBA Editores, Eduardo Datino, Publisher. Casilla de Correo 1677, Montevideo, Uruguay. The editors offer an introductory subscription to individuals for $5.00, surface mail, prepaid. ...