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2080 COMMUNISM IN HOLLYWOOD MOTION-PICTURE INDUSTRY » Mr. Wheeler. You knew him as a member of the Communist Party? Miss Ettinger. Yes. I did know Lester Fuller. Mr. Wheeler. Lester Fuller is a writer? Miss Ettinger. Yes. I did not know the man as a writer. I had a feeling that Lester Fuller was all through. I had never discussed him. I had a feeling that he was as displeased as I was and then I didn't see him for many years. I met him around Hollywood and said, "Hello." Never—whether he was avoiding the subject or I was avoiding the sub- ject, just this was a part of my past I had wiped out. Then he was brought into the studio on a job last year by somebody else. I didn't bring him in. I didn't do anything about it. It was many years since I had been in the party. I could assume that it was many years since I hadn't seen him since he had been in the party. How could I go and say to the producer, "You can't hire this man be- cause he is a party member," because 1 didn't know. I had no idea. Mr. Wheeler. Did you know Martin Berkeley as a member of the Communist Party ? Miss Ettinger. For a short time I think I did. In thinking back about Martin, I knew him in New York when he was writing a play with a woman that I knew, whose name I know well because we bought a book of hers—there is no reference of the party—and I thought maybe I knew him because of that. I thought maybe that was the tie. Mr. Wheeler. Did you ever meet John Howard Lawson in New York City? Miss Ettinger. Never. Mr. Wheeler. Do you recall anybody else that you knew as a mem- ber of the Communist Party ? Miss Ettinger. I recall a guy that I knew as Dave. Some people just call themselves by a first name that I didn't know. I must have been awful naive, because I thought people just knew Eve, too. Mr. Wheeler. What was Dave's occupation, do you recall? Miss Ettinger. No. I didn't know the occupations of most of the group. I doubt very much, outside of the few people that I have discussed with you, that they belonged to any of the companies. Mr. Wheeler. Did you know any actors to be members of the Com- munist Party? Miss Ettinger. You mean stage actors, Hollywood actors? Mr. Wheeler. Stage actors or screen actors. Miss Ettinger. No, I had nothing to do with actors so I wouldn't have come in contact with them. Mr. Wheeler. Most of the people you knew then were readers? Miss Ettinger. And later on I knew agents and publishers and some writers, naturally, who came to me. Mr. Wheeler. I am referring to people in the Communist Party group. Miss Ettinger. I'm sorry. No. Mr. Wheeler. There were no actors in the Communist Party that you knew? Miss Ettinger. Not that I knoAv of. Mr. Wheeler. Did you know any agent in the Communist Party? Mis Ettinger. Not that I know of. You mean literary agents? Mr. Wheeler. Yes. In New York City. Miss Ettinger. Yes.