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138 COMMUNISM IN MOTION-PICTURE INDUSTRY thing had introduced me to a new world that up to that time I had never known. I tried to raise money to get a schooner. I couldn't raise the money. Then someone in Paramount contacted me to sign a new contract. I said, "O. K. Here we go." Mr. Tavenner. Who was that? Mr. Hayden. Russell Holman, of Paramount's New York office. Mr. Tavenner. Was that prior to your leaving the east coast for the west coast '. Mr. Hayden. We made the deal in New York. I then went out to Nevada, where I got a divorce from my then wife, Madelaine Car- roll, and then went to San Francisco and spent 6 weeks with Tomp- kins, and then reported to Paramount in Hollywood. Mr. Tavenner. Did Holman know of your past associations and connection with Capt. Warwick Tompkins ? Mr. Hayden. I doubt that he did. He may have. I don't think he did. I don't know. I am sure that everybody I saw at that time, I talked to them about this Yugoslav thing. What came out of the conversations, I don't know. Mr. Tavenner. At the time of your second employment by the mov- ing-picture industry, did your employer have any knowledge, as far as you know, of your associations with other Communist functions in California, such as William Schneiderman and Isaac Folkoff ? Mr. Hayden. No. I think that was more or less lost in the shuffle of the war. There was so much going on, and I was fortunate enough to come out of the war better, publicitywise or otherwise, and they felt I had done pretty well in the war and let it go at that. There was no detailed analysis of what happened. Mr. Tavenner. As a result of your signing the contract in New York, you went to the west coast. At that time, did you see Capt. Warwick Tompkins again ? Mr. Hayden. I saw him as soon as I left Nevada. I returned to Hollywood by way of San Francisco and spent some time with him on his schooner there. I don't remember how long. Mr. Tavenner. What was the date ? Mr. Hayden. I would say it was approximately the last week in March 1946. Mr. Tavenner. What occurred on the occasion of this visit to Cap- tain Tompkins? Mr. Hayden. I don't remember anything in particular. Yes; one thing. He said he wanted to write a book about me. He was a very good writer. He had written for yachting magazines and had written several books with no political content whatever, and he thought it would be a good idea to write a biography of my life, and the slant he wanted to give it was, "The development of a typical nonpolitical American youth into a militant participant in the class struggle," something like that. I said O. K.; O. K. So I went down to Hollywood and purchased a boat which I lived on, made my home on. Shortly thereafter, I would say in April, pos- sibly the latter part of April or first of May, for 3 weeks he came on the schooner with me and took notes copiously. He followed me wherever I went on the boat, and eventually he got 75,000 words writ- ten on the story before I "came to" sufficiently to call on him one day and call the whole thing off.