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AMONG THE LILLIPUTIANS 35 Saw our first day's dailies. This is really exciting stuff to see on the screen. Color is gorgeous—soft and true. Betty Button looked completely at home up there on the trapeze. Gloria Grahame got a nice hand when she rode through on the elephant's trunk. While Button was up on the trapeze doing a difficult stunt- the camera was at a high angle shooting down—Charlton Beston was to jump out of a jeep and run into position below her. Bere was Button knocking herself out, after a third take! when Beston jumps out of the jeep, trips on a ring-curb and sprawls on the sawdust. Picking himself up in great embarrassment, he takes off his hat and apologizes. After two weeks under the Big Top at Sarasota, Bernie noted: Everybody is so tired, edgy and groggy and everything this day kept going wrong. We need a vacation—from each other. Today Button did her favorite stunt-flying, for which she got another DeMille "medal.'' This was Cornel Wilde's day. Be went up and hung by his knees, holding Betty Button for several takes. And with no visible effort on his part. A great relief to the whole company when it was over. Betty at one point said she thought she was getting too heavy to hold, whereupon Cornel, the perfect gentle- man, replied, "Why you're light as 120 pounds of feathers." The notes recorded moments when tempers were short, with more than the usual amount of feuding between principal players. The gals are at it again-Button and Lamour. Each claims she's never been so insulted! A woman came up in back of the Boss and touched his shoulder. She said she just wanted to be able to say that she had touched him, and now, she said, she is ready to die. Imagine! The great Button-Wilde feud flared up today. I heard both sides. It started with Betty having eaten garlic last night—great