丁里是我军著名的戏剧家,曾在延安鲁艺任教,后到晋察冀军区任联大文工团团长,抗敌剧社社长。如今许多知名人士当年都曾经在他领导下’比如胡可、杜烽、侯金镜、钟惦棐、胡朋、田华等。丁里的贡献突出表现在抗日战争时期,当年在聂荣臻元帅领导的晋察冀军区,有两位有名的大艺术家,一位是崔嵬,一位就是丁里。他们当时齐名,双峰并峙,都创作过许多反映抗战军民生活而有影响的好戏。说起来似乎丁里更突出些,他的一部《子弟兵和老百姓》从解放区一直演到解放后的北京城。八一电影制片厂的老导演严寄洲同志曾对我说,当年贺龙元帅到冀中后,对二人 Dingli was a famous dramatist of our army. He taught in Yan’an Lu Yi and later served as head of the General Political Work Art Team and the anti-enemy drama agency in the Cham-Ji-Jin military region. Many celebrities nowadays have under his leadership ’such as Hu Ke, Du Feng, Hou Jinjing, Zhong Kuih, Hu Peng, Tian Hua and so on. Ding’s contribution was outstanding during the Anti-Japanese War. In the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region under the leadership of Marshal Nie Rongzhen, there were two famous big artists, one was Cui Wei and the other was Dingli. At that time, they were all well-known names and both sides were confronted with each other and created many good operas that reflected the life and war of civil war. It seems that Dingli even more prominent some of his “soldiers and civilians” from the liberated areas have been acting in Beijing after the liberation. Comrade Yan Zhizhou, an old director of the August 1 film studio, told me that after Marshal Helong came to Hebei in the same year,