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34 Jes> Mr. DeMille Miss Mosk's famous black book contained a full script of the film being made, with hundreds of marginal notes. Some were references made months ago by DeMille bearing on a future scene, descriptions of "pieces of business/' camera angles and lines of dialogue. It was her duty to bring the correct memo to DeMille's attention on the right set at the right moment. On the first day's shooting on Samson and Delilah the book weighed ten pounds. During production Bernie was put at her physical best to keep up with her boss's activities—viewing the "dailies" (the film shot on the set the previous day), editing, checking the first rough cuts, recording lines, dubbing and scoring. She figures she has seen each picture about 150 times. A sturdy soul, she was in the audience when Samson and Delilah had its first public showing. "That was for entertainment," she recalls. The great personal worth of Berenice Mosk to DeMille the Director was indicated in his frequent reference to her as "my right arm and memory." She kept a daily log during the periods of filming on the sets. The chronicle sparkles with Bernie's own observations, as well as the wit of others, all of it showing her enthusiasm and durability in the most difficult stage of a DeMille production. The cast and crew were at Sarasota in the winter of 1951, filming the circus picture, when Bernie made the following notes, taken at random from,her log. This morning Art Concello pulled a DeMille by going up and trying the 50-foot trapeze fall first. He landed in the pit-full of water, of course—and was really dunked. Some of the crew standing around watching, said, "He won't pay any attention to that—he's a trouper." One of the writers in a lather today because we'd shot a scene he hadn't written yet.