We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.
Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.
COMMUNISM IN MOTION-PICTURE INDUSTRY 157 it, and therefore I was more or less the focal point of attention, and this did not displease me, I must admit, and I went on and on about what I had seen in Yugoslavia. Mr. Velde. I guess Steve Nelson was particularly interested in your story? Mr. Hayden. He didn't seem to be too much. Mr. Velde. Who did the most talking, Steve or you ? Mr. Hayden. I think it was split up among the entire party. Mr. Velde. Do you remember anybody else who was present at all, their first name ? Mr. Hayden. I am sorry; I do not. No names come to my mind. I think this was a very haphazard gathering, though I may be wrong about that. Mr. Velde. I may have forgotten your testimony about "Pop" Folkoff. Where did you meet him ? Mr. Hayden. In a restaurant. Mr. Velde. Was anybody else present at that meeting? Mr. Hayden. I think we decided somebody named Baroway. Mr. Tavenner. Leo Baroway? Mr. Hayden. I think so. Mr. Velde. Anybody else? Mr. Hayden. Tompkins, Folkoff, this missing link, and myself. Mr. Velde. Was the restaurant on Marcus Street? Mr. Hayden. I don't remember. Mr. Velde. What was the subject of the conversation? Mr. Hayden. Just general conversation. We weren't discussing the weather. Mr. Velde. I don't want to put you through the grill. I am inter- ested in finding out what the facts are. Mr. Hayden. I appreciate that. I shouldn't have said general discussion. Mr. Velde. In your associations with the Communist Party, what did they ask you about ? You had important information. Mr. Hayden. It was more colorful than anything else. Mr. Velde. What was the general nature of the conversation ? Mr. Hayden. I am afraid of being redundant here. I can only say it was a description of what I had seen in Yugoslavia. Folkoff maintained a very distant approach to the whole thing, smiled as though he knew all about it. There were no points made; no line was followed that I can recall in any way. Mr. Velde. Did he ask you about your experiences in Yugoslavia ? Mr. Hayden. Yes. I don't think I needed to be asked at the time. It was like pressing a button and I was off to the races. Mr. Velde. How did you happen to make contact with Mr. Folkoff? Mr. Hayden. Tompkins told me he wanted me to meet him. Mr. Velde. Where were you staying at that time ? Mr. Hayden. On Tompkins' schooner. Mr. Velde. Was Tompkins the sole owner of the schooner? Mr. Hayden. I think he and his wife. Mr. Velde. Is he a wealthy man ? Mr. Hayden. I would say he is anything but wealthy. I think that—well, that is getting into the realm of conjecture again. Mr. Velde. There are degrees of being wealthy, like everything else.