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4 | OF 2. na ay 4 a THE SPEECH MADE BY PAGAN FROM THE STAGE {E EL PATIO THEATRE AFTER “omy jin Hollywood that will shock you Into @ full nm of what a menace these trait America. of that , until ent | i thi will anti- they appiled against: me this ti han the first time. And they. we e that they would make it -open. convinced that ! would never be able to heatre owners demanded cash in advance ‘he f e 44 the y you ad to Ko fof the fe $ e roaring out of thelr rat holes with one jop ‘Thieves Paradise’ at aii costes!" Agente bluntly told me it permit thelr actors to appear in this play. - h f Hollywood te find Ith JING NIGHT PERFORMANCE 8S PARADISE’ ON MON- friends, you shall hear about Com. you know, the re-opening of “Thieves here instead of In New York wae prompted Who organized “Citizens United for American js’ for the d ad Communi an net purpose of proving to the their despicable palsy- they cannot control the legitimate a they control most of the Film industry's » actors and writers. The Iron Ring t began to organize for the re-openin es Paradise’ did { become fully aware wha icing the Commies have welded around the dicture Studios and the Broadcastin Stations, re-open announced my Intention to Why? te the firet and only anti-Communist . on the stage—and they fully realize urvives thelr sabotage It will break th the spines of the Studia other playwrights to start a unist plays and films. And the wae far rrogant. impossibie for Likewise they had everybody in thr of ail operational costs. Even John who publi the reguiar program ters demanded that | put up the cost jaygoer to insure him against ioss— do not see the Playgoer in this theater hey would not or y, thru the entire actor elont actors—and under- nough courage and American spirit to of the Commies that it would mean le careers If they dared to appear in comb, literalt ore are to the. Club Women Aroused To give you a clear, but by no means a complete picture of how deeply the Commies have entrenched themselves in Hollywood, | will go back to the day after they forced the closing of “Thieves Paradise” last New Year's Eve: { was preparing to teave for New York when a prominent Club woman called me on the phone and asked me to hoid my departure in abeyance for a few days~~she wae very anxious to have me meet a group of Presidents of Women's Clubs and telt them exactly what had happened. She told me how she had been fighting Communism in Hollywood for 20 years—and what an uphill fight it had been. Of course, | promptly agreed to meet with her—and help, If 1 could. When | met these women ‘1+. § was deeply moved by their grand and unselfish Americanism. They urged me to re-open “Thieves Paradise” right here In Hollywood in deflance of the Reds—and they promised me the support of the full membership of their Clubs. 1 hesitated. i had just been thru a very tough and grueling experience—and | knew how much tougher it would be to re-open. They continued to urge me--and then proposed to hold a funcheon meeting two weeks later at which they would assemble at least another hundred prest- dents of other Women’s clubs wha would also sup- port the re-opening—and make that re-opening the breach into the Red stronghold. | agreed to listen some more. Now | come to my most startling dis- covery—of how the Studio heads themselves actually protect the Communiste in the industry. ‘Reign of Terror in Hollywood They had asked me to get a Movie “‘celebrity’® to attend this meeting— to speak on “Communism in Hollywood.” Preferably one of those men who had one to Washington to appear before the Thomas ommittee. | spoke to at ieast a dozen men, all old friends, men who had worked in my_ plays and pletures—and all staunch Americans. One by one, they all “reluctantly” turned me down. It puzzled me. Finatly one of them gave me the true reason for all these turndowns. . “Shortly after that the Thomas Investigation fizzled out, and the “friendly witnesses’ returned from _, Washington, a strict but secret order had \grapevined its way thru all the Agents’ offices that anybody, no matter how big a personality, who would dare to talk about Communiem tn the Motion Picture Industry would be blacklisted out of Hollywood! This state- ment came from a star who commands $100.000 per picture! At this time | won't mention his name be- cause if 1 do he will be through. But ! am willing. if called upon, to give that name in strict confidence to J. Edgar Hoover. However, | could hardly belleve what | heard. ( immediately put the question to one of the Studio heads and, after { pledged myself not to divulge his name, he confirmed that statement, and then proceeded to vindicate tha? stand by the “Gods of the Industry.” He pointed out that Studios had yi 1 | | - wash that young woman. millions of dollars invested in such atars ae Katherine Hepburn, Gene Kelley, John Garfield, Myrna Loy, etc., etc., whose values would be destroyed if their names were publicly linked with Communism. Movie Colony Founded on Reds “Do you mean to tell me,” | demanded, “that the Louis B. Mayers, the Harry Warners, the Schenks and the David Selznicks are deliberately fostering Communiam in the picture Iindustry—and allowing -those rats to poison the minds of our youth just to eave thelr lousy dollare?” “Oh, not” replied this executive, “but we are In a tough spot which you can’t seem to understand. We have a great many brilliant minds in our industry, great actors, great writers, great directors. It's true, unfortunately, that some are communistically Inctined, but we could not survive without them.” “Well, my friend,” | retorted, “all | can say ie that if the motion picture Industry cannot survive without these rats, then tne motion picture Industry has no right to survive.” : ; At thie point | will show you Just how far these Studio heads go to protect these “gommunistically inctined’” enemies of America—and, in turn, punish others for thelr Americaniam. Katherine Hepburn, an Example Katherine Hepburn’'s love for Joe Stalin Is no secret. However, she is coming out in “State of the Unies.” - MGM has tong been jittery about what would happen to that picture unless something was done to white- So one of the big shots sold Fulton Lewls a bill of goods that {little Miss ‘Hepburn hae decided to repent and recant. One of the things . e she is supposed to have repented of and recanted her now famous—or shall we say, (infamous? speech on behalf of Mister Henry A. Wallace in which she denounced the Thomas Congressional investigatin Committee and—quote “All thelr {ik unquote; an the Tenney Committee and—quote “ali thete ik unquote. This MGM executive told Mr, Lewis that Mise Hep- burn had been drawn into delivering that speech by very dear friends at the iast moment, that she was naturally a very impetuous little woman and had acquiesced without stopping to think—and thus lll. advisediy read a speech written and prepared by others, . Naturally Mr. Lewle accepted that etatement, com- ‘ing from such a man, in good faith—and announced the story In one of his broadcasts. + But a short time later Mr. Lewle Jearned that that MGM gentleman had delfiberately lied! He also learned that upon hearing the broadcast Mise Hep- burn had furlously denounced all the heads of MGM. He aleo learned that Mise H ten that apeech—anu had ¢: worn a red dress to emphasis Geny the truth of the story the fact that Mise Hepburn ‘ cants, Edith Gwynne of the announced that Miss Hepbu the confused and bewilidere: President of the United Gt Myrna Loy other young woman wh “tng|her name and her mer te the enemies of the Ame popular and wealthy, le My anybody who dares to expos an addrees before the Wom i did expose that fact, Her Protested to the President day a representative of the faat picture called me up & sald about her. | repeated ¢t my address—and told him | me she could do eo, that | tunity to cross-examine an: In a Court of Law where offense and a refusal to pr contempt of court and eq this representative warne: weuld Und a way to muz Shoir stare tn open suits. Anti-Commt And now | will tell you t tlen Picture Industry’ pu brazen audacity to try to 5 ing the brilliant Communie' A writer, who appeared mittee in Washington and and has not hed a jobv ein | the most famous names in ved of two picture aesig nm echeduled-—for the ® enemies of Americat | will the names of these od - might mean more puniahm of the Industry—-but | am v —and more facte to the pre: quarantee to pretect the pe 1 And now Just a word te & ‘you are so busy keeping | of cex! How about keeping of America’s most vicious muntemt it wae theese siece me to a decision to re-open At the next meeting of C were more then 150 pree. would re-open “Thieves Pe