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LA, 100-18124 ee . ae om ” * 400 °In .ay 1942 the | smbGhei L OR SOG} nb %. 2 Saal: “antag. a Oe leave of absence to continue his wort: on the Rockefeller Project in iollyvo. “oe, woe cise bbe Muon. « "SISLE: is mrried te the former eepes 2ro Tope ot, & Isicer! writer..,." Gu : ‘ mL, ‘ a There were also two typevritten documents purporting to, list the works of [05 cISLER. These letters refleoted that SISLIR had done the following, in adcition to the works listed in the above mentioned artiole fr: the "Current Dio:raphy, 1942-0 1 The documentary film entitled "Rain", directed by Juz miS IVES; the Fin eerie “Tancmen tlen Tia® firangtead he POTTS? 7. and WP). , ee i i A ae r wha Wi We wy 246-44 Gf dein gg ebb published in ipscow, ¢g a In connection with these lista of EISLER's works, there vee a - rough draft letter addressed to a man named ROLUGK by Ea llS JISLR, furnishing XOHNHR with his credit titles. It my be noted here that KOHEGR is probably PLUB\SOHIR, Aotors' Agent in Tollywood. This Vetter, in spealing ofyhis - eredit titles, reads as fellows: Yu mo Se i" , "so oseYou will Zea that thov heave mot only been yaad be the United Ar Lotto weeny Saw y fan “eww SF Ma 7 we the French filn. industry, and the *ylish Pilm industry, but that the Russians too have made me come over phere. Inthe Mln, ‘Our Russian Front', made by /ILUSTO'E and IVsNS, which wes-nadé here in /unerioa, they have used along with SCHOSTAKA. ATSCH also wy rusic, taicen from old films..ee” vu There vas a sorap book containing various newspaper articles con~ eernin;, subject, One of these articles apyeared in the ")oscow Daily Yew" — of July 18, 1935 and was in the Inclish Lansuage. -It was entitled, “Two Black Years for German-jusic.” This article states thet sISLR, & renowmed composer then visitin; the Soviet Union, ‘had first baen thrust face-to-face with the grin realities of his social environzent when he was 18 years of aze and fizht- ing in a world war. It states further that at the age of 28 he vent fto per lin and cast aside his early concern for the “pure™ esthetics of msicay’ conpositioc: and turned his intelligence towards the tore profound problema thati/were af- flicting the art.: "The crisis in misic has been oreated by the general cr in sosisty," was the conclusion that brought LISLR to newer nethods of oc sition,. The article continues as follows (4) 4 - "The people of many ‘countries, whose lives have. been brightened strengthened by the sonjs and ballads of WAS SISLR, by sush stirr‘ as the ‘Comintern’, *golidarity', "United Front’, and others, oan « thet to this musician his art is an inetrument capable of expres: “ DOM, or SR ee ae tare Le . ee ee ice ee Spy * we Mei, ger pot be bear ee ware ee a vanes nay ated A Mas ie Wiehe Fae iséve 7 we . - pee