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100 COMMUNISM IN MOTION-PICTURE INDUSTRY Mr. Doyle. Now, may I ask you this, my final question I think for now: You were in that cell from 1941 to 1945, inclusive, as I understand your answer? Mr. Parks. As I said, from 1941, as I recall, to 1944 or 1945. Mr. Doyle. Approximately. Mr. Parks. Approximately that. Mr. Doyle. About how many years were you in that cell before you began to be disillusioned—the proposition that perhaps the party you joined was not the answer to your idealism? How long did it take you to come to that conclusion before you dropped out? Mr. Parks. Well, "disillusion" is not the exact word that I would choose, I don't think, at that particular time. Mr. Wood. Do I understand from that answer, sir, that you are not yet disillusioned about it? Mr. Parks. No, no. Don't bend it. Because I don't mean it that way at all. I am answering this Congressman's question to the best of my knowledge that it wasn't a question of disillusionment really at that time. It was a question of lack of interest, of not finding— you may call it disillusionment if you want, but not finding the things that, as a young man with those particular feelings, I thought I would find. Mr. Doyle. Were most of the 12 or 15 occasions on which you attended in 1941, 1942, and 1943, or were most of them in 1944 and 1945? How would you estimate? Mr. Parks. Well, it would be hard for me to estimate that, be- cause when I was—I began to work more, and when I worked I didn't go. And it would be hard for me to say, through this lack of interest in not finding what as a young man I was looking for, whether these were at the beginning or the end. I do know that it just petered out like a spent rocket. Mr. Kearney. Will the gentleman yield ? Mr. Doyle. I just want one more question: Mr. Parks, of course, you were well acquainted with some of the members of the cell? Mr. Parks. Could I just explain one other thing when I say "when I worked I didn't go"? If you know anything about an actor's work, it goes from 6 in the morning till 7: 30, 8 at night, and when you do work you really don't have much time for anything else. And I have finished my forty-first picture in 10 years. And this means I have been working pretty hard. Mr. Doyle. I greatly respect the dedication of you artists to your profession and the diligence with which you work at it, Now, let me ask this further question: You, of course, in these 4 or 5 years became acquainted with some of the members of the cell ? Mr. Parks. With what? Mr. Doyle. You became acquainted with some other members of the cell, so you had a talking acquaintance at least? Mr. Parks. That's correct. Mr. Doyle. Now, did you ever discuss with some other members of the coll the fact that you were becoming less satisfied or not satis- fied? That is, that you didn't find in the Communist Party member- ship that which you had hoped ? Mr. Parks. I believe that I did. Mr. Doyle. With men or women ?