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2072 COMMUNISM IN HOLLYWOOD MOTION-PICTURE INDUSTRY Mr. Wheeler. Do you recall how you were introduced into the Communist Party ? Mrs. Frank. Through a friend of mine, Mrs. Meta Rosenberg. I was taken to a Communist Party meeting. Mr. Wheeler. You subsequently joined the party? Mrs. Frank. And I subsequently joined the party. Mr. Wheeler. Were you assigned to any particular group or unit ? Mrs. Frank. No, sir. Mr. Wheeler. Did you attend meetings for any period of time? Mrs. Frank. In 1943 there were two or three meetings that I went to in Hollywood. Mr. Wheeler. Do you recall where these meetings were held? Mrs. Frank. Somewhere north of Franklin near Western. Mr. Wheeler. Do you recall at whose home ? Mrs. Frank. No ; I don't. Mr. Wheeler. Do you recall who was present at these initial meetings ? Mrs. Frank. No, I don't, simply because these were, I was led to believe, radio people. I never saw them before and never saw them afterward. They were all strangers to me. Mr. Wheeler. Were you first assigned to a radio group? Mrs. Frank. Well, I never was formally assigned to anything. There were radio writers' problems discussed here, joining the guild. Mr. Wheeler. For what period of time did you remain with this radio writers' group ? Mrs. Frank. I remember two or three meetings, and how long, over what period of time I really couldn't say. Mr. Wheeler. You don't recall anyone in this first group? Mrs. Frank. No. They are all strangers to me. I was working in MCA from 10 o'clock in the morning until 7 in the evening, then I w T as working, I was writing these radio scripts for F. Hugh Herbert. This was my first entrance into knowing anybody in radio at all. I didn't know radio workers, I didn't know anybody who was working for radio. I wasn't included in a group because this was, if I can phrase it a little bit better—I wasn't officially in radio work. My relationship with F. Hugh Herbert was one in which I assisted him in connection with his literary work. Mr. Wheeler. You have previously testified that you attended two or three meetings comprised of people in the radio industry. Were you subsequently transferred to another group or did you attend meetings of another group at any time ? Mrs. Frank. Yes. Three or four months after I joined the party I left for New York. While I was in New York I had no contact what- soever with the Communist Party or any other political organization. I returned to Hollywood in November 1943, where I resumed my radio work. The pressure of this work and my romantic involvement with the man who has since become my husband precluded my at- tending party meetings. In January 1944 I was married. Shortly after that I resumed attending meetings. It was then that I first told my husband about my membership in the party. Over his strenu- ous objections to my membership I continued the meetings. My attendance was occasional and irregular, however, amounting to no more than six or seven in all. Mr. Wheeler. Do you recall where these meetings were held?