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368 COMMUNISM IN MOTION-PICTURE INDUSTRY Mr. Tavenner. All right. Now I want to get the names of those who were together with you in the Communist Party cell. Mr. Lawrence. Well, let's see if I remember. Mr. Tavenner. You named a few moments ago Lester Cole. Mr. Lawrence. Yes, sir. Mr. Tavenner. Was he one of those in the cell with you ? Mr. Lawrence. Yes, he was at the time, that's correct; and there was Gordon Kahn. Mr. Tavenner. Gordon Kahn ? Mr. Lawrence. Yes, sir. Mr. Tavenner. K-a-h-n? Mr. Lawrence. K-a-h-n. Mr. Tavenner. You stated that Lionel Stander was the one who introduced you into the Communist Party? Mr. Lawrence. He was the guy that said to me, "Get to know this stuff and you will make out more with the dames." This is the guy. This is the introduction. Mr. Velde. What was that he said to you ? Mr. Lawrence. You get to know the dames more, with the line. I got confused a great deal. Now, this stuff really confused me. I thought at first it was a good idea. I went to the thing because I thought that you could learn something. I never learned anything. Mr. Tavenner. Well, was he one of the persons who was in this cell with you, Lionel Stander ? Mr. Lawrence. He was; yes. Yes, of course he was. Mr. Tavenner. Now let us see if we can recall the names of any others. Mr. Lawrence. Yes. There was Mr. Bromberg. I believe he was there. Mr. Tavenner. Do you know what Mr. Bromberg's first name and middle initials are ? Mr. Lawrence. J. Edward Bromberg. Mr. Tavenner. Were there any others in that particular group whose names you can recall ? Mr. Lawrence. It is very—I can't. If you mention the name, maybe I can remember the name. I maybe can remember the way he looked. But this is hard for me to identify. I want to say Mr. Tavenner. You mentioned the name of Robert Rossen? Mr. Lawrence. Rossen; yes. Mr. Tavenner. I don't know whether you identified him as being in this particular group or not. I would like to know whether he was. Mr. Lawrence. Whether I met him at "cause parties" or not I don't remember, but I do recall af the time he was interested in the idea. Whether I saw him at one of the cell meetings, this is hard for me to identify, because there were a lot of parties at the time. I would like to say following this particular period, 1938—following this par- ticular period I had nothing at all to do with the Communist Party. In 1944, I believe it was—No. The Actors' Lab were doing—the Actor's Lab is an acting organization in Hollywood. They were do- ing a lot of plays for the war effort, and about 1944 I contributed by doing a play for the war effort, and I toured up and down the coast, went to Army camps, went to hospitals, went to other places, and I did these plays for the USO. About this time—around this time, I think it was—there was a sort of a general cocktail party at which John