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...committee produced no evidence to show that Ferrer had played anything worse than the sucker's game he had freely admitted to. But if he was as naively ignorant as he professed to be, Actor Ferrer could serve as a classic warning to other gullible citizens of Broadway and Hollywood...
...less impressed with the story told by Academy Award Winner Jose (Cyrano de Bergerac) Ferrer. He stoutly denied that he had ever been a Communist or had ever had the least sympathy with party aims. He was, explained Ferrer, just a sucker for high-sounding left-wing groups...
What Happened to Jose. Ferrer was in hot water from the moment he began his simple-country-boy tactics. How did it happen, the committee demanded, that so many Communist front outfits used his name? It was a case of "plain, stupid carelessness," replied Ferrer. Didn't Ferrer know that Ben Davis was an open Communist candidate when he sponsored him for election to New York's City Council? "I linked Davis with the Democratic Party," Ferrer said. "This is only an evidence of how careless...
...After Ferrer admitted a host of careless affiliations, exasperated Committeeman Harold Velde recalled that FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had once said that an innocent person could perhaps join two or three Red front organizations-but not six or seven. Replied Ferrer: "I don't know, sir. That is not true in my case." But just to show the committee that he had finally gotten his politics straightened out, Puerto Rican-born Actor Ferrer added, a little irrelevantly: "I am completely against Puerto Rican independence...
Playwrights Bevan & Trzcinski, who met during their years in a German prison camp, provide a few glimpses of Nazi brutality. But in general they display sharper memories for what goes over on the stage than what went on in their stalag. Producer Ferrer, in his boisterous staging, equally neglects mind and heart for spine and funnybone...