The Wilmington morning star., 1947-10-22
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taste OF Russia Woulo euA
'em.
1.-THE Russian people are
completely enslaved. Molotov
and Vishinsky are enslaved
Mr.. Stain would just as soor
kill them as look at them"
"He said Stain got rid o1
iLenin and Gorky.
"He acted a great deal like
Mr.. Capone, Menjou said. HE
committed the murders, then
he killed the witnesses.
The scene shifted from Holly
wood to Broadway when critic
writer John Charles Moffitt fol
lowed Menjou. He testified that
material to further the Com
munist line" seeped into a
Broadway plays produced be-
tween 1943 and this season,
while "32 others favored Com
munism.
"The reading departments OF
publishing houses" Moffitt
said, "have been very, very
heavily infiltr ated by Comn1u-
nists. Broadway is practically
dominated by them"
Charles j. Katz, Los Angeles
lawyer, was thrown out of the
hearing room when he made {
bid to cross examine Moffitt al
the start of an afternoon ses
sion. BARLEY C. Crum, Sar
Francisco attorney. almost was
tossed out a few minutes later
Katz pushed his way down ar
aisle while Moffitt was saying
the chances of movie stories
submitted by non Communis'
writers often are prejudiced by
analysts and readers with Com
munist leanings.
81 represent a number o
writer's who have been sub
poenaed here" Katz roared.
OQC OF OTQeT
you're out of order" Chair
man ]. Parnell Thomas (R-NJ
thundered back.
When the lawyer tried again
Thomas ordered capitol police
to "throw him out"
One on either arm, they es
corted him from the building
and turned him loose. He tole
reporters he wanted to ask Moi
fit for lone example" of al
analysis criticizing a story
either as pro-Communist o.
anti-Communist.
Later when a hum of conver
sation developed, Thomas saie
it would have to stop. Crun
hoped to his feet to answer
Police closed in on him.
''Un American" somebody
muttered.
Katz and Crum both are here
among group of attorney:
representing 19 actors, writer:
and directed who are sched
uled as witnesses later.
Moffitt listed 13 Hollywood
writer's and seven script read
ers or scenario workers he sale
he understood or believed to be
Communists or followers of the
Red party line.
Names Names
In the script department, he
said, he understands Frances
Millington, Simon Maise, Dave
Robson, Thomas Chapman, Mi
chael Urls, Jessie Burns anc
Iona Packer are Communists
He said he believes these
writer's are Communists: Albert
Maltz. Robert Rossen, Dalton
Trumbo, Gordon Kahn, Ring
Lardner, Jr., Richard ]. Collins,
Harold Buchanan, Lester Cole,
Henry Meyer, William Palmer,
Maurice Harry Raft. Harold J.
Salemson and John Wexley.
Other witnesses brought some
OF these names into the hear
ings yesterday.
Moffitt said those he men.
toned have followed the Com.
nunist party line, but he has nc
proof they are Communist party
members.
Tomorrow the committee
may hear actor Robert Taylor
Menjou's role was as dramat-
ic as many he has played on
the screen. The setting was IA
miliar. too, with hot lights beat
ing down for the benefit of hall
a dozen movie cameras.
They caught him in a choco-
late colored suit with chalk
stripes, double breasted and
paddS1 at the shoulders. They
caught his famous mustache
tWitching as he talked.
Menjou volunteered that he is
81. He was asked his occupa-
ton.
~ am a motion picture ac-
tor he replied in mellow
tone. He paused, smiled and
added: 81 hope"
With forefinger pointing
straight up, Menjou took ar
oath to tell the truth. He sale
he was appearing under sub
poena and produced it. The pa.
per was pink.
Menjou said ne had studied
Communism and other ''isms'
extensively. Rep. Mcdowell (R'
Pa), a committee member, said
that of all the people with whom
he had discussed Communism,
ne never had met anyone with
the profound knowledge q
background" of the movie ac'
tor