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50 Yes, Mr. DeMille yellow lamplight falling down over this central figure who was reading.,.. Did she, your mother, coin phrases? No. She was a good writer, and incidentally, a little incident in connection with that: My father and Belasco when they wrote their first play which was called The Wife—it was the first of the American social plays that I recall. They couldn't afford a stenographer. The first manuscript of those plays that went to Dan Frohman was written in my mother's handwriting. Was he a disciplinarian-your father? Yes—but never in a violent way—he would explain what you had done that was wrong, and if you couldn't offer a rather good explanation for it, you felt rather foolish. Are you emotional, Mr. DeMilk? Perhaps more than he. I am yes, I have to be for the work I do to get dramatic effects. I can be moved by a great scene, and I can be made to cry by a great piece of acting, by a high point in heroism or patriotism. I can stand before the Lincoln Memorial at night alone and be deeply moved. Mr. DeMille, did your father ever suggest to you what you should choose for your career? No—never—I was pretty young when he died and on his deathbed, he said to my mother, "Make the boys butchers or grocers or candlestickmakers or anything, but keep them away from the stage." So naturally we both made a beeline for the stage. I want to ask you, Mr. DeMille, if— Let me continue a second in the answering of that question you asked me—if you mean did he ever influence me—I would say yes, strongly, Because he was a very great playwright--a