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COMMUNISM IN HOLLYWOOD MOTION-PICTURE INDUSTRY 3515 been at my apartment, all of the meetings I went to, because I was the only member of the group Avho lived alone, and I didn't have the problem of little brothers or husbands and so on to be bothered with. At the end of four meetings or three, I am not sure which, this loca- tion was inconvenient for other people in the group, and the next meeting place was set quite far downtown in Hollywood. I didn't drive and I worked all day and it just got to be too much of a hustle to try to get to a late evening meeting, and I dropped out of the group at that time. However, I didn't stop worrying about the fact that I was doing nothing but going to the studio and coming home at 6 o'clock and that was that, and things were going on in the world around me. I changed studios at that time and went over to Fox, where I started with script. But I continued seeing Jessie Burns and the people I had met through her, Madelaine Ruthven was one. Mr. Tavenner. Did you say Madelaine Ruthven? Miss Lennart. Ruthven. And I continued worrying about the fact that I should be doing something and not just talking. The people I met through Jessie were people who seem to lead far more active and useful lives than I did. After a period of time I told Jessie that I was willing to join the Communist Party. She asked and I said that I was, and I did. And I have gone completely blank on what date this was. May I look at my notes, please? I can't remember what date it was. This was either at the extreme end of 1938 but I think more likely the beginning of 1939. Nothing happened for quite a while. I said I would join the Com- munist Party and I never heard anything more for months, because no new member class was starting. The way it used to work was that all people went into a new member class, and there was a series of lectures and material to read and so on, and then they were assigned to groups. But no such group was formed. I think, as I remember, the reason was that there was no teacher available. It was very difficult to get people to give their time to teach these classes. It was some months tater I was assigned to a group without having been in a new member class. Mr. Tavenner. When you were assigned to this group, who did you find were members of it ? Miss Lennart. This is the one thing I want to be sure I have right. People I recall in these very early meetings were Maurice Murphy, Betty Anderson. Mr. Tavenner. Can you give us further identifying information regarding Maurice Murphy? Miss Lennart. He was a young actor. It has been years since I have seen him. I have never seen him in Hollywood for 10 years. Certainly that long. But at that time he was an actor. And Betty Anderson later became Betty "Wilson. Mr. Tavenner. And she testified in the hearings in California ■ Miss Lennart. Yes. Mr. Tavenner. Regarding her own Communist Party membership and her reasons for leaving the party. Miss Lennart. Yes, the same. Nora and George Hallgren. Mr. Tavenner. Spell the last name. Miss Lennart. I think that is H-a-1-l-g-r-e-n. Mr. Tavenner. Can you give us further identifying information regarding them ?