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First, each witness produced a statement. Chairman Thomas gave it a hasty, belligerent look and almost without exception refused to admit it. Then Committee Counsel Robert Stripling fired the two questions: "Are you a member of the Screen Writers' Guild?" "Are you or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?" In the witnesses' plan, the second question was the signal for a defiant outburst over the Bill of Rights. Disappointed spectators waiting outside the caucus room could hear the mingled shouts of the witnesses and the thumping of Chairman Thomas' gavel. Cried Scripter Alvah...
Only one witness would stand still long enough to be counted. He was quiet-spoken, 45-year-old Emmet Lavery, president of the Screen Writers' Guild and a member of the New York state bar. Like the others, he challenged the committee's constitutional right to ferret out a man's personal politics. "But," he said, "let me break the suspense immediately. I am not a Communist. I never have been, and don't intend to be. I am a Democrat, who in my youth was a Republican. Now if the committee is interested...
...aimed one blast straight at Scripter Lawson, called him "an out & out Communist." The Screen Writers' Guild, he said, is "under complete Communist domination," and so is the Story Analysts' Guild. For that matter, 44 of 100 plays produced on Broadway since 1936 "have contained material to further the Communist line...
...Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 9:30 p.m., ABC). Robert Montgomery in The Petrified Forest...
Died. Dudley Digges, 68, veteran character actor; after a stroke; in Manhattan. One of Dublin's original Abbey Players, wry-eyed, roly-poly Digges came to the U.S. in 1904, stayed to join the infant Theatre Guild, played in 25 Guild productions (including Liliom, The Doctor's Dilemma). He reached stardom in 1938 as "Gramps," who chased Death up a tree in On Borrowed Time, won his final laurels in O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh...