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COMMUNISM IN MOTION-PICTURE INDUSTRY 1587 doubtedly met out here in secret with John Howard Lawson or in New York with V. J. Jerome, or a gentleman called F. Brown, who is a member, or was then a member of the Politbureau of the party. You would meet with these people and get your directions and in- structions from the party and function, but you would have no contact with anybody else in the party for your protection and for the pro- tection of the party and the collection of dues. Mr. Tavenner. Was there any action taken at this meeting at your home which you can now recall ? Mr. Berkeley. Yes, sir. We all promised to be good children and bring in a new member for the next meeting. We promised to work in the mass organizations and it was agreed that Harry Carlisle had been fairly well exposed at that time as a Communist, to bring out here someone that nobody knew who would conduct Marxist classes. And they brought out, I imagine he is a pretty excellent teacher, his name was John Weber, W-e-b-e-r. Mr. Tavenner. Did you at this meeting discuss the problem of bringing out a person to teach Marxist classes? Mr. Berkeley. Oh, we did. We had to have somebody to teach Marxism because if anything had happened to Jerome or Mike Pell there would be nobody there to tell us what to do or to instruct us in the finer points of Marxism. Mr. Tavenner. I understand.. But I wanted to make certain whether that action was taken at this particular meeting. Mr. Berkeley. That was, sir, at the second meeting. Mr. Tavenner. As a result of that action you say a Mr. Weber ■ Mr. Berkeley. Mr. John Weber, W-e-b-e-r, who functioned as a teacher, both for party people and to work with nonparty groups and later became a very successful agent with the William Morris Agency. T doubt if he is there right now. Mr. Tavenner. Did you return to New York shortly after the meet- ing to which you have just referred? Mr. Berkeley. I did. I went to New York and up to Cape Cod and had a little vacation and then came back to Hollywood. Mr. Tavenner. On your return were you assigned to any particular cell or group of the party ? A Ir. Berkeley. Yes, sir. By the way, everybody who has never been a party member calls it a cell. I have never heard it called a cell in the party—all the spy books call them cells, but they are called groups, and I was assigned to a group which met at the home of var- ious members. Mr. Tavenner. Do you recall the names of the persons in whose homes that particular group met? Mr. Berkeley. I do. I remember the first group very well. We had an actor in the group named John Miller. Mr. Tavenner. Will you Mr. Berkeley. Skins Miller. A Ir. Tavenner. Will you repeat the name, please? Mr. Berkeley. Miller, M-i-1-l-e-r, formerly of the famous vaudeville team of Miller and Mack. Skins Miller, and his wife, Patricia Miller. Also, we had a secretary named Leona D'Ambarey, who was a secretary at the studio, and her brother Bob. I don't know what his occupation was. I haven't the faintest idea. A young writer who was also in the group named Searle—I think it is spelled S-e-a-r-1-e, Searle; Kramer, S1595—51—pt. 4 12