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COMMUNISM IN MOTION-PICTURE INDUSTRY 337 Mr. Tavenner. Have you at any time become personally acquainted with V. J. Jerome ? Mr. Garfield. No, sir. Mr. Tavenner. Are you acquainted with Alexander Trachtenberg? Mr. Garfield. No, sir. Mr. Wood. Spell it. Mr. Tavenner. T-r-a-c-h-t-e-n-b-e-r-g. Mr. Garfield. No, sir. Mr. Tavenner. There has been evidence here that the former, Jerome, was a member of the national committee, and Alexander Trachtenberg was also a member of the national committee, of the Communist Party. Mr. Garfield. I don't know. Mr. Tavenner. You have never met those people? Mr. Garfield. No, sir. Mr. Tavenner. While you were in Hollywood, were you associated in any way with Actors' Laboratory, Inc. ? Mr. Garfield. I would like to tell you about that. I was never associated with Actors' Lab; I was never an officers of Actors' Lab. I one time did a play for the veterans' program, not at the Actors' Lab, but at a theater called Las Palmas Theatre, which is downtown. They had a veterans' program, to give scholarships to veterans under the GI Bill of Rights. I checked it before I gave my services, and I found it to be the fact. In other words, they are an authentic school. At that time—I believe it was 1946—the major studios sent many of their players to this place. I appeared in a play for them for the purpose of raising money for veterans who had missed 3 or 4 years of their careers, so that they would have an opportunity to be seen again. That is the only relationship I have had with this organi- zation. Mr. Tavenner. Was your personal secretary at that time a person by the name of Helen Schlain? Mr. Garfield. Sloate, not Schlain; S-1-o-a-t-e. I had a girl who worked for me at that time by that name. Mr. Tavenner. Did she also go by the name of Helen Schlain ? Mr. Garfield. Not to my knowledge. Mr. Tavenner. Did she hold an official position in the Actors' Laboratory as a secretary or something of that nature ? Mr. Garfield. She hung around there. I don't know what her position was. I had no knowledge of her outside activities. Mr. Tavenner. Did you at any time authorize her to represent you in connection with any of the business coming before the meetings of that organization? Mr. Garfield. Absolutely never, sir. Mr. Tavenner. Or did you authorize her to act for you in any other organization? Mr. Garfield. No, sir; no, sir. Mr. Tavenner. As an actor it was necessary for you to become a member of the Actors' Guild, was it not ? Mr. Garfield. The Screen Actors' Guild. Mr. Tavenner. Screen Actors' Guild? Mr. Garfield. Yes, sir. Mr. Tavenner. In 1945, during the period of the strike in the moving-picture industry, the Communist Party is alleged to have