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1580 COMMUNISM IN MOTION-PICTURE INDUSTRY Mr. Tavenner. I would like for you to look at it. You may look at it and see if it is the Herbert Klein to whom you have referred. Mr. Berkeley. No, sir, that is not the Herbert Klein to whom I refer. Mr. Tavenner. You mentioned the fact that V. J. Jerome gave you certain instructions and directions. When did you first meet V. J. Jerome ? Mr. Berkeley. Well, I would say I met Jerome about a week after I joined the party. The party was very anxious to contact anybody in the motion-picture business and I presume that when I filled out my application and gave my occupation that the card was filtered through the center to Jerome, or possibly Bill Browder, or Isadore Schneider, who was a writer, may have told Jerome. But all I know is that I was sent for and I met Jerome some place in Greenwich Village. I don't know what street it was, I don't know the address. Mr. Tavenner. While a member of the Communist Party in New York City did you become acquainted with John Howard Lawson? Mr. Berkeley. I did. I met Lawson at a meeting with V. J. He was introduced to me as a nonparty member. I was told that he was very sympathetic with our aims and was very interested in seeing the Screen Readers' Guild grow and prosper, but that in spite of the fact that he was referred to as Comrade Lawson he was not a party member. Subsequently I learned that that was untrue. Mr. Tavenner. Do you know what position V. J. Jerome held in the Communist Party ? Mr. Berkeley. I believe his title was chairman or commissar of the Cultural Commission of the Communist Party. Mr. Tavenner. What was the year in which you came to Holly- wood ? Mr. Berkeley. 1937, approximately the 15th of January. Mr. Tavenner. After coming to Hollywood did you continue your affiliation with the Communist Party ? Mr. Berkeley. I did, sir. Mr. Tavenner. Will you state to the committee the circumstances under which you continued your Communist Part}^ membership. Mr. Berkeley. Well, it sounds a little bit like a B picture. Lester Fuller, whom I had known for many, many years before I joined the party, when he discovered I was coming to Hollywood and didn't know many people out here, suggested that I contact a man named Guy Endore, who was not a party member, and Guy Endore would intro- duce me around town and see that I met people. The third day I was in Hollywood I was assigned to a picture and lo and behold Guy Endore wasmy collaborator. It was through Guy Endore, who then was not a member of the Communist Party but subsequently was, that I was invited to a meeting at the home of Frank and Sonia Tuttle. Mr. Tavenner. Now, what Frank Tuttle is that? Mr. Berkeley. That is Frank Tuttle, the director. Mr. Tavenner. Yes. I understand there is more than one Frank Tuttle, also. Mr. Berkeley. Well, this is my friend, Frank Tuttle, who testified in Washington. . w< Mr. Tavenner. And a director? Mr. Berkeley. Yes, sir.