YES, MR.DEMILLE (1959)

Record Details:

Title:
YES, MR.DEMILLE
Date:
1959
Publisher:
G.P.PUTNAM'S SONS
Volume:
YES, MR.DEMILLE
Leaf #:
00056
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Universal Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
July 19, 2022
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AMONG THE LILLIPUTIANS 53 he had outgrown them. Then when Father became a successful playwright, we began to have money, but he just treated it as a means to an end. I don't think money interested him at all. Mr. DeMille— I noticed in these four days I had the pleasure of being with you that you are dressed meticulously and every day differently. Well, with me, I think it's probably vanity. When you get to be seventy years old, the only way you can make an im- pression probably is by being well dressed. You mentioned the other day, Mr. DeMille, that he was a Democrat— your father. Was he ever active in politics? No, he was never active in politics, except as he influenced people; coming from the South right after die Civil War— any- body that came from the South alive after the Civil War was a Democrat. Were your parents well-to-do people, Mr. DeMille? No, they were not. Father made a very small fortune with his plays. When he died, Mother was left with three children, a home, and $20,000 life insurance, and whatever value the plays might have. never enjoyed an allowance from your family, Mr. DeMille? As a boy I got ten cents a week. That would make a dollar today probably. Do you give an allowance to your own children? Yes, yes I have. I don't suppose my mother had a day until I brought her out here-a day from the time my father died until I brought her out here-that she wasn't worried about money.