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Lillian Lily Hellman — Part 1
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sayy Kors and soLouoyarteaaais, a Jewish delegation from Russia, made a visit —
to america in oepterber, 1943, that . sponsoring committee and a Los Angeles re-
eeption were a pointed to attend to the affaira relating to this visit. :
LILLIA HELLLAN was o7 the reception cormittee, alon; vith such pere
sonapes as B.DI:, CaiTO?, .DAD C. CARTI:, LION FSUCHT “ANGER, ALITI2 LUSTOH, PAUL
ROBISO., BoRWAN SHUWLIN, UPTON SINCLAIZ, JOHN.0 aD LA So, TY Cit, Sai. OidiITZ,
Je SDiAWD BRO.BSIG, and others. .
42,679 BIER -2c0rtea that star ZLs0y, secretary of the Alameda County
Communist Party, 1723 Webster Street, Oakland, California, and a member of the
State Buro and of the national Committee of the Communist Party, addreseed a
letter to LILLIAN HBLIMAN, care of arner Brothers Studio, Hollywood, California,
dated October 1, 1913, in which he complimented her on her story vhichvas made
into a notion picture entitled "“ATCH Ox TH. RHINE", In part, the letter stated:
"I have bacon out in Crlifornia nov for about four years, and have more
or less permanemtly located in Oakland, carrying; on the usual kind of work
that I was doing even before I went to Spain. « « Iam taking it for
granted that you remeber me, but perhaps you have fergotten. Anyway ,ve
meat dn Vaelannta in 1937 with DORCTH ARER aL LEW CA ‘YBELL, LASSER, and
aay we ook PR he we ak crepe pe
LOUIS FISHER.” ; ; -- Fe ee ee ae
The lotter was returned on October 8, 1943, withthe notation "Not at
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LILLIAN SECLLHAN ig the suthor of several well knowm dories and plays,
among which are "THE LITTIC FOK3S” and "HO.TH STAR".
The LOS ANGELZS EXAMINTR for December 27, 1913, under the heading
PNO.TH STAR insidious propaganda", carried an article by NEIL 2aU, in sudstance
as follova:
“SANUDL GCLLWYI! has a reputation for making fine nictures, de is
famous for sparinz; no pains, and for his netioulous attention to the
emallest production details. I+ is therefore hard for this reviewer to
understand why he has squandered a cold two million dollars in the making
of "i0:TH STARt*. It 48 a sioture that should rever have been made -
eanécially by an nerican, presumably as patriotic as SANUEL GODIN.
‘Written by LILLIA HeLL. ai’, vhose interest in Sovietism is well known,
it should get more Cecmunist friends amonz unthinking sophomerioc minds
than the Jete TilA GOLDKA™ tried to snare before her deportation. It
Chie Wk “se
isn't that ‘NOT? STAR! comes out boldly labeled as Soviet pr opaganda.
It is too insidious for that. The danger is that someone may take the
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