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COMMUNISM IN MOTION-PICTURE INDUSTRY 121 support that. I decline to answer this question on the grounds previ- ously stated. Mr. Wood. The answer of the witness is that he declines to answer for the reasons stated. Mr. Tavenner. I have no further questions. Mr. Wood. Very well. Mr. Margolis. We would like to have this made a part of the record. This is merely a request that this objection which this witness started to read and which the committee did not permit him to complete be made a part of the record, so that it may be clear as to what grounds he stands on in refusing to answer these questions. Mr. Wood. I have no objection to that. (The statement referred to was filed in the records of the committee.) Mr. Wood. That will be all. Mr. Tavenner. Miss Gale Sondergaard. Mr. Wood. Will you be sworn. TESTIMONY OF EDITH HOLM (GALE) SONDERGAARD, ACCOM- PANIED BY ROBERT W. KENNY AND BEN MARGOLIS, AS COUNSEL Mr. Wood. Do you solemnly swear the evidence you give this com- mittee shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God ? Miss Sondergaard. I do. Mr. Kenny. For the record, the same objection to the witness being called at all which was made at the outset of the witness Da Silva is repeated in behalf of Miss Sondergaard at this time. Mr. Wood. It will be included in the record. Mr. Tavenner. Will you please state your full name? Miss Sondergaard. My name is known professionally as Gale Son- dergaard. I was born Edith Holm Sondergaard in Litchfield, Minn. Mr. Chairman, I wonder if I might be allowed to read a statement. I find it difficult to express myself, and I have worked this up. Mr. Wood. Not until you have been examined. If you have a state- ment you want to file with the committee for the record after you have answered the questions that are asked you, you can leave it with the reporter. Mr. Tavenner. You are an actress by profession, I believe. Miss Sondergaard. I am an actress by profession. Mr. Tavenner. What is your married name? Miss Sondergaard. My married name is Mrs. Herbert Biberman. Mr. Wood. You are represented by the same counsel that repre- sented the previous witness. We will dispense with the necessity of further indemnifying yourselves. Mr. Tavenner. I believe you are here in response to a subpena as served on you on March 21, 1951, are you not? Miss Sondergaard. That's true. Mr. Tavenner. Will you please relate to the committee briefly your educational background? Miss Sondergaard. Yes. I went to high school in Minneapolis, Minn. I graduated from the University of Minnesota. I attended the Minneapolis School of Dramatic Art.