Soviet Composers And Anti-Soviet film
NEW YORK, -May • 42. • « Four leading .Soviet composers -— Dnxiti'i Shostakoviclx, Serge Prokolieif Aram KlxatcUatuiiaii and Nikole Miasoovaky asked Ihe New York State oupreme Court today to prolxibit the use of their nxusic in the Twentieth CenturyFox film, "The Iron Curtain," claiming tix&t the film company had put them in a treasonable position by employing their eoihpositions for anti-Soviet purposes. The composers were all recentlv .Cjensured: in MosCow for yielding to bourgeois influence in their musie. . The film is a drainatisation of the storv of Ogor . Gozenko, the Rus&ian ttyphe.r clerk who »gav0 the Cahadian Government information that led to the spy trials. The theatre which is showing the film on Broadway is being picketed bv Left Win fr nvfrQniaQfin«n I
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Chronicle (Levin), 14 May 1948, Page 3
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