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AMONG THE LILLIPUTIANS 13 agreeable fellow in your job. I finally had to tell him for God's sake wait until I finish talking before you say yes." He turned next to a source of much sorrow, a major battlefield in his life, *1 guess you know I don't get along with the movie critics. They don't like my pictures. The public seems to like them but not the critics, Every time I make a picture the critics' estima- tion of the American public goes down ten degrees. When I did The King of Kings I showed Jesus paying off the Roman head tax with gold taken from the mouth of a fish. A woman critic on a Chicago newspaper threw up her hands. She wrote that only DeMille could do anything so ridiculous as pulling a fish out of water with gold in its mouth. I sent her a friendly note saying she might like to check the Book of Matthew. I was happy to have the Savior of Mankind as my authority^ He was smiling again, softly. "Do you think you will like your work here?" "Yes, Mr. DeMille," I said. 2. DEMILLE'S home sat on a ledge near the top of the Laughlin Park hill sector, a few blocks behind the crowded Hollywood business area. It was joined by a glass-enclosed passageway to another home, equally impdsing/the former resi- dence of Charlie Chaplin. The latter housed, beside the family projection room and storage area, the offices of Cecil B. DeMille Productions, Inc. Until its dissolution in 1952 the family-owned compan) managed DeMille's varied and substantial investments,.prin- cipally real estate, oil and race horses. These multimillion-dollaj interests \<tere in the care of the "staff up at the house," as w<