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52 l[es, Mr. DeMilk that lie did—but he couldn't understand at the time what I wanted to tell him—I wanted to express my love and affection for him but I couldn't. I couldn't speak. I was nine or ten at the time. Did your father have some maxim—some precept—some philosophy which he handed down to you—to the family? Honesty, respect, morality, propriety—I don't think there was any single thing. He kept on his desk a saying of Dion Boucicault's— PLAYS ABE NOT WRITTEN, BUT RE-WRITTEN. It served me well, because I don't think anybody rewrites more than I do. What was his favorite pastime? Let's see—hunting, fishing or playing cards—racing— No, he didn't go in for racing or anything of that sort. He went through the Civil War as a boy and he used to hunt a little bit—I don't think he ever killed very much—and he used to be fond of walking. I remember in Echo Lake, New Jersey, there was a big rock up on a hill called Fourth Act Rock because he and Belasco used to walk up to that and that's where they got the idea for the fourth act of the play The Charity Ball, which was a well-known American play, and that rock was always known to us as Fourth Act Rock. But he did not go in for sports of any sort. Was he a pessimist or an optimist, your father, Mr. DeMille? He was an optimist, I would say, hundred per cent optimist. But not a stupid optimist. Reason dominated him first. Could you describe his attitude toward money? His attitude toward money? Well, he never had very much because at the end of the Civil War, the family was entirely ruined and I remember that I wore Bill's clothes after he had outgrown them and Bill wore my Uncle John's clothes after