Evening star., 1947-10-24

told the House Committee on I
the level"
Mile, Actor Hugh Marlowe, Actor
Philip Loeb, Leonard Bernstein,
composer-conductor; Harold Rome,
composer; Actor Louis Calhern,
Producer Cheryl Crawford, Daniel
Saidenburg, conductor, and Mrs.
Gladys Robinson, wife OF Edward
G.. Robinson.
Hollywood personalities listed as
committee members include Paulette
Goddard, Henry Fonda, Gregory
Peck, Van Hefin, Myrna 10y, Kath-
arine Hepburn, Burgess Meredith,
Ava Gardner, Dorothy Mcguire,
Eddie Cantor, Norman Corwin, Cor
mel Wilde, Marsha Hunt, Paul Hen
reid, Barry Sullivan, Sheppard
Strudwick, William Wyler, Anatole
Litvak, Jerry Wald. Norman Krasna,
John Huston, Philip Dunno, Doris
Nolan, Sheridan Gibney, Richard
Conte, John Houseman and Collier
Young.
Cooper Draws Laughter.
Mr.. Cooper drew laughter from
the spectators yesterday when he
read aloud two pamphlets reportedly
circulated by Communists in Italy
and Yugoslavia this year to picture
him as a Communist who had been
imprisoned in Hollywood because of
his views. :.
He chuckled at the assertions, but
added grimly that this is pretty
good evidence of a tieup" between
Communists here and abroad.
One of the pamphlets, given the
committee by the State Department,
asserted Mr.. Cooper fought in the
Spanish civil war and later told an
audience of 10000 people in Phila-
delphia: Il wish everybody knew
what the Communists are because
they would like them
Reporting that he never had been
in Spain or Philadelphia, the lanky
screen actor draWled: "A crowd of
10000 is hard to disregard but it is
not true. You would have hard
time getting a crowd of 10000 for
anything in Philadelphia.
The pamphlet distributed in Yugo-
slavia asserted Mr.. Cooper, Alan
Ladd and Tyrone Power had been
imprisoned in Hollywood and also
that they had carried the coffin"
of Buster Crabbe. Mr.. Crabbe, who
has figured in Tarzan pictures, was
described in the pamphlet as hav-
ing been riddled by bullets from
Fascists in a closed car at Seventh
avenue and Broadway, New York
City. The pamphlet added that
10000 men attended the Crabbe
funeral"
"Mr. Crabbe is a very healthy
specimen" Mr.. Cooper declared, in
branding the contents of both
pamphlets as totally untrue"
Tells of Rejecting Scripts.
Chairman Thomas assured him
that you don't have to worry, Mr..
Cooper; we know the whole thing
is a dirty, ruthless lie"
Mr.. Cooper disclosed he turned
down quite a few scripts because
I thought they were tinged with
communism" He said he could
not recall the titles or authorship
of any of them" Fl.
Mr.. Cooper said Communists
have often operated through social
gatherings. He said he had heard
some Hollywood personages say
they thought the United States
Constitution was about $50 years
out of date" and that this would
be more efficient Government
without Congress" Mr.. Cooper
said he thought such comments
were very n-American.
Leo McCarey, director Of Going
My Way" and "The Bells of st.
Mary's," followed Mr.. Cooper. When
he was asked how much money the
two pictures made in Russia. Mr..
McCarey replied:
1--WE haven't received one ruble
from Russia on either picture. ]
have character in there they don't
like"
"Wto, Bing Crosby?"
mo, Cod
Half a dozen priests who had come
especially to hear Mr.. McCarey
smiled appreciatively,
Testimony before the committee,
meanwhile, was challenged by Mr..
Shaw and Actor Howard De Sylvia
in Hollywood. Mr.. Shaw labeled
statements about him by Jack L.
Warner of Warner Bros. as "reck-
less lies" and said he had con-
suited a lawyer with view to lin
stituting an action for punitive
damages"
Mr.. De Sylvia, who was mentioned
by Actor Robert Taylor as always
having something to say at the
wrong time" at Screen Actors Guild
meetings, challenged Mr.. Taylor to
a debate ANY time, any place he
chooses" and said he would come to
Washington voluntarily Monday.
In Chicago, Emmett Lavery, pres
ident of the Screen Writers Guild,
telegraphed Chairman Thomas to
urge him to recall Mr.. Warner to
the witness stand and to subpoena
all pertinent records of Warner Bros.
so tnat your committee and Con-
gress and public can have all the
facts which Mr.. Warner distorted
so reckleSsly" in his testimony
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