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...Congress for refusing to turn over records to the House Un-American Activities Committee (TIME, July 7). The whacks: for Chairman Dr. Edward Barsky: six months in jail and $500 fine; for Novelist Howard Fast and nine others: three months in jail and $500 fines; for Theatrical Producer Herman Shumlin, Leverett Gleason (publisher of comic books) and three others: $500 fines and suspended three-month jail terms. The eleven sentenced to jail appealed and were freed on bail...
...Committee were convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over their books to the committee. Among the reluctant board members: Chairman Edward K. Barsky, a doctor with the Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War; Communist-line Howard (Citizen Tom Paine) Fast; Theatrical Producer Herman (The Searching Wind) Shumlin...
London slavey. Peter Lorre, Katina Paxi-nou and Victor Francen are a very nasty gang of despicable villains. And Director Herman Shumlin has polished up a gallery of minor characters that are as balmy and memorable as any Hitchcock ever thought of. Notable examples: an intense old professor who has invented a new language as a means toward international peace, and a Hindu "mass observer" whose love of irrelevant facts helps solve a crime...
...amplified these views three months later in a letter to Broadway Producer Herman Shumlin (The Male Animal, The Searching Wind), a director of the Independent Citizens Committee. Wrote Hopkins: "The fact cannot safely be ignored that some things cannot be done by violence but require persuasion. Those who do ignore it are killing the thing they love...
...this Shumlin replied: "I am filled with anger against you and shame. . . . It is fantastic to me that a man in your position can, at this date, make use of the very allegations which were used by Hitler and his accomplices...