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Composer Hanns Eisler earns his living by writing music for the movies. He dislikes both his work and his employers. According to him, ". . . No serious composer writes for the motion pictures for any other than money reasons." Last week Left-Winger Eisler blamed Hollywood's "moguls" for the sad state of film music. "They are afraid of their own shadows, which they mistakenly think is public taste. ... I realize my remarks are a little risky, but I like risky remarks...
...Eisler is riskier still in a new book, Composing for the Films (Oxford University Press; $3), just out. In it, he tees off not only on the producers but on the public: "The practitioners of commercial music ... have had to deal with an illiterate, intolerant, and uncritical public taste, and they have had to bow to it if they wanted to remain true to their dubious maxim: give the public nothing but what the public wants. . . . The alleged will of the public is manifested only indirectly, through the box-office receipts...
Pudgy, owlish Communist Gerhart Eisler, reputed to be the Comintern's boss in the U.S., was convicted again. On June 27, he had been sentenced to a year in jail and fined $1,000 for contempt of Congress. Last week, a month and a day after he was brought to trial in Wiashington's District Court, a federal jury of seven men and five women found him guilty of passport fraud. Maximum penalty: five years and $5,000 fine...
Free for 30 days on a $20,000 bond, while his attorneys filed motions for a new trial, Soviet Agent Eisler had a curious comment on justice. Said he: "It was a fair trial on a very unfair indictment...
...Gerhart Eisler, in contempt of Congress for refusing to take an oath before the House Un-American Activities Committee, was sentenced to one year in jail, $1,000 fine...