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46 Yes, Mr, DeMilk ing to a prescribed set of rules to determine the order in which they may choose their gifts. Later, when dinner is over, each takes her turn at examining the display, once more, this time more closely, and experimenting with possible selections be- fore a mirror, while the others stand by watching and hoping that their own choices won t be taken before their turn comes. DeMille, who makes a hobby of collecting jewels, has been known to toss in a pigeon-blood ruby or other unset gem worth far more than the whole basket, and revel in the fact that no one chose it over the gaudy baubles. It seems to put women in their proper perspective for him." 6. THE barbs hurled at DeMille's pictures by what he called "big city critics" were many and varied. They sent him into reflections of such bitterness that a deep caution was bred in all of us. A newcomer to the staff learned immediately of the existence of this cold war. He was told it was risky to schedule an interview without knowing in advance something about the visitor's background, politics and, if possible, his attitude toward DeMille. The warning signals always went up when a corre- spondent asked to talk to DeMille about his Biblical pictures. We knew he had been stung most by editors from metropolitan papers who took a dim view of his claims to a unique ministry —that sent the Biblical word to far corners of the earth. Too often we faced the ordeal of handing DeMille a clipping of a story twitting him for, in one critic's phrase, "coming sexy dollars off Holy Writ." DeMille was able to handle the enemy at press interviews, and quite graciously, but it was up to us to identify members of the so-called anti-DeMille clique. A worri-