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WASHINGTON, Oct. 23. NOMMUNISM plus Holly-
the wood. with
Un- American Activities Com-
lot more.
It may be a faint satisfaction to British readers to know that among the most bewildered in America are top-flight lawyers who, while trying to intervent in the committee proceedings on behalf of their film clients, are abruptly muzzled or thrown out by the police.
R. M. MacCOLL sends a ringside picture of this fabulous inquiry into Communism in Hollywood
with are complaisant who frequently push them aside in order to place Dielr cameras on the committee table to get better shots.
Circus sidelights
some new
This
Exit the thoroughbred
by BASIL CARDE W
THE Spitfire is out. They're The last version rises at 4,800ft a
putting the old girl out to minute.
grass as a trainer, I'm
told. There's a new job coming
It started with eight .303 mochino
Then it
along to take its place, a jet job guns, four In each wing.
and as from now the Spitüre was given two 20mm, cannon and alx machine guns, later four, cannon, goes out of production.
then 2601b, and 500lb. bombs, and,
All this
But what if the 21,767 Spitfire finally, rockets. is to be the last to leave the this Supermarine Works? What if
2-4 of Mark month's delivery Spitfires be the last the R.A.F. will get? You can't kill the "Spit" that way. It won't even move over bomber, in our affections....
ten
Ton yours ...
The memory
It was a fighter, then a Aghter- a photographic recon- naissance plane, an alreraftcartier plane, and it finished up, doing 10 rolos for the R.A.F. It had its wings clipped, then put back to dull length and points again.
When the Americana came over in
of a plane which fought in 33 different guises and in 1042 they asked for Spitfires first. master The fame and glamour of the pin-up years never met its cannot easily be puffedt off the slate. Aghter plane swept the world. Other For us, the very word Spltare is nations asked for them and got them France, Belgium. Czechoslovakia,
passport
to
memory #
of
Dunkirk beaches, to the Battle of
the Spitfire. abroad
Britain... to all those moments Poland, Greece, Yugoslavia-all used
battlefields here and when this word alone brought hope and a fighting chance of victory,"
Tho-smiles 1 1.1
On the Hghter side, there was the
"Achtung! For 10 Germans. Sehpitfeur!" was a warning given in terrur... a warning which had a record 47-minute flight from Edin- birthday on October 16, 1939, when burgh to London in this fighter two the Luftwaffe attacked naval units years before the war starled; and of the rigger who, taken by surprise, In the Firth of Earth Three
The sat astride the tall of the Spitfire their bombers failed to return. lesson was often repented, but soone during a 300-m.p.h. flight. times the warning voices were in italian, and later in Japanese....
Against time 1-29
Supermarines built u
tsf
And the German who, shot down in Kent by a Spitlire pilot, awarded It his Iron Cross. But, then, we all have our own Spitfire stories.
out.
con-
mittee as a spark-plug, has produced an explosion that has
These Committeemen, although Parks and Larduer come cut with views at interviews. Said angered a whole lot of people
cameramen. Parks, "I am. here not as an aelor and totally bewildered a whole giving the shortest skrift to lawyers, their
but as a citizen whose right to think and speak freely has been attacked."
In the course of 10 years' develop- How was it born-this symbol of ment, with engines ranging from the One thing seems certain. public and highly spot-lighted up-victory with steek, rounded wings 1,050 hp. Merlin in the Mark 1 to to 1931. That year the 2,350 h.p. Griffon, Mitchell's roar is going to leave wounds and Let's go back
setting the firm of resentiments in Hollywood,
won the Schneider basic design was never fundamental- which
that y altered. It is no good for and director plane star against. star, few minutes "VERY
experience victory went to a high perfor- veralon to jets. That is why it is touch of comedy catches your against director, which will take a Trophy. The
long time to heal.
inance fighter. The designer was attention, Examples:-
And now •-• • THREE frozen-faced men with
Example: Adolphe Menjou got his square-jawed, quiet, abcntminded hard eyes, who never smile at even flest big chance a quarter of a cen-jengineer R. J. Mitchell.
Time was pressing
And the the most upproarious developments, tury ago in "Woman of Paris," a Charles
It is the directed
new boy?
Attacker, World War was one of the few sit on either side of the committee's flenl
he Vickers Supermarine
with ກ counsel and chief examiner. Robert Chaplin. But Menjou,
jet engine de- Stripling. They are former members One veteran, snorted contemptuous-it. He was of the F.B.1 who were retained by ly of Chaplin in evidence that the struggled with the orgy of work single-seat fighter atted
dawn. veloping more than 5,000 h.p. Gune Mitchell worked daily till the committee for "under-cover" only gan Chaplin ever heard to off complete the Spitfire (inal version). Rools-Royce Nene
was a potgun in his studio.
But painfully, week after week for four are the classic Spithre wings, investigations in Hollywood.
Spire the pilot, in emergency, can jump Although Menjou was accused by years. In the year that Britain was graceful smooth-lined fusciage.
proud
himself. to safety with a cordite- his opponents of being "hammy," | given
fact remains that he showed Mitchell died. That was 1037.
cperated jack, and the engine, un- The "Spit" started life with like the Spitre, la installed about courage in speaking out.
midships. the
Whatever the real strength of speed of 302 miles an hour on the speed Progressively it
Here she is, in the plcture below. Communism in Hollywood may be, Mark 1.
increased to 450 with the
This artist's impression is based on the man who depends for his liveli- was hood on pleasing many directors and Mark 24. The first Spitfire had a
minute. a photograph of carly test models. producers might have been expectedrale of climb of 2,500ft. u
Lew to take care to tread on as Locs as possible.
Such men as highly respected Bartley Crum, who sat on the Anglo-American Palestine Com
lawyer mittee, corporation Charles Katz. and the former Philippines High Commissioner Paul McNutt have been told in so many words to shut up by the committee chairman Parnell Thomas.
Katz was, in fact, given what is known in America as "the old heave-ho," meaning that he was escorted, far from gently, outside the Capitol building.
Paul McNutt, good-looking, silver haired giant, was informed brusquely by Thomas that all he could do was in sil beside Slim tycoon Jack Warner and other of his producer clients and instruct them, if necessary, on their constitutional rights.
trouble is,"
Not a law court
explains Mr "OUR
McNutt outside the committee- room, "that people think this is a Judicial hearing, but it isn't.
"The House committee is not try- ing anyone-it is investigating con- ditions in the film industry. It has. a perfeel right to do so, but it is not a judicial hearing or a court of law."
That means nobody has the right to cross-examine any witness, and this, lawyers feet, is the principal in- justice.
SABC
ASKED by lawyers for
if the committee would witnessus
Chulemon Thomas agree to sean "run-offs" of some suspect fluns, replied: "I think we'll be much too busy to see any movies."
ONE "still" cameraman lost his from excitement while footing
a chair and fell with balancing on a crush to the floor behind the com- mittee table. He was helped to his feet by two of the committee' men.
ACCORDING
une 14
witness,
by
Johnston's there
Ware Juston, Reel-faced prest-
John Mott (former script writer WATCHING from the sidelines is
edfior of Esquire and at present magazine), he dropped into a school for neling in Hollywood one night and listened to a lecture for young actors.
dent of the Association of American. Motion Picture Producers. His face twisted from time to time into a
smile as
he somewhat unhappy watched such
ገነነ as Jack Warner, Sam Wood, and Louis B. Mayer give their not always im- pressive evidence.
"There was a man 1 regard us a to Communist telling extras how play a country club cene. 'Lounge about on the porch of the country
"Wear long Mr Johnston looked like a highly club,' he told them. white trousers; look as decadent strung schoolmaster on the opening and as snobbish as you possibly night of a school pageant, but it is Rsafe bet he was wishing that no- this body hnd ever thought of particular pageant.
can."
Mott ended: "And If that isn't Communist propagands, what is?"
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tands
GAGGED by Thomas's orders from speaking in the committee hear- ings the lawyers are reduced to hold- ing frantic Press conferences outside afterwards. For instance, as soon as Robert Taylor finished giving evidence in which he named writer Lester Cole as an alleged Commu- mist, Cole's lawyer, Robert Kenny toid reporters qui triumphantly side:
"That's funny thing, Lester Cole was one of the writers
dispersion. "The High Taylor's latest picture. Wall."
Chairman Parnell
મ Thomas, growling, scowling, red-faced man. American and broker insurance Legion official, who uses the gavel on the slightest provocation, cunnot be blamed for this. Ile is merely for lowing
laid!
down.
the committee
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Florida's Senator Claude Pepper bas loudly advised witnesses to re- fuse to tesiify and "stand on their rights as Americans."
More reluctance
on
with it."
How often one reads une su account of the boyhood of one " these artists who end up by painting
a triangle, a large eye, a mandolin
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WHEN Smepalpo was a since the pooling of formula, by a and legs bare. She had given orders
to stabilise
nass that not even the merchant or the admitica. dipping a haddock in marnia- schedule-planning a non-regional Inndowner
baltlenecks the issue of planning an old Tibetan love-song, her snake- and like hands rippling across the keys late and then sloshing the wall basis. Overall schedulisation merely Furthermore, she now began to hum
schedules, by decentralisation
of a golden pianoforte from Chocho. And as she played, she glanced provokingly over her shoulder at the two delegates. Mince, thinking Moonflower' (XVII.) of home, wondered how she would and a pair of cursets and calling it
go down with fils Aunt Charlotte picture.
I read the other day of an
INGI-POOS lad determined to at Weston-super-Mare.
make quite sure ot getting the Kenny, Katz, and Crum admit they TAYLOR himself has been describ-artist who "never knows what
for The love-song ed by the chairman as a "relue is going to paint. He lets his brush
cavers Ife is a good little waterpoof typewriter are out of their depth, but hesitate
tant witness," There are moru gukle him."
No nonsense about nothing. Hence the display of drink. to, take this step as they know wit- nersen so refusing to co-operate are reluctant witnesses in 10 top-flight existentialist. immediately lable for contempt of actors, writers and directors who essence preceding existence for hun. She had also attempted to introduce
But I note that he uses a brud.
atmosphere of business into the matter of historical curiosity, luxurious apartment in which she was singing: Congress with jail and fine.
Id received the two Kowks. For
Lhata-mul Tear Flanking Thomus are half a dozen.. They were all subpoenaed. They An important point.
instance, a bejewelled fountain pen
Thakpo yult bo. century This is repented as often as you fellow committeemen who take turns Include
often table. plenser rather as inlaid Annamese Independent macny Mass writer-
Finger pleases. It means; "If you questioning witnesses. They include Trumbo, who has made £79,500 in C. SUET, ESQ., has made it clear lay Invitingly on, a 12th
three year's Itänkin.
from the last Democrat
Schedulisation of Planning Formule Ding-Poos herself was dressed in u shares Mississipi, who
the Inte director for Metro-Goklwyn.
as simple one-piece redingote which come to Tsarl, bring your own rice, Senator Bilbo's extreme views on Ring Lardner Jun., famous son of is not Overall Schedullsation, racial questions,
a famous father, is also subpoenaed. adunrated in the Flabstone Report, left her back sides, arms, shoulders beloved,"
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Larry Parks und Dalton
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