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56 Yes, Mr. DeMille choice. Faced with the weight of evidence against him, DeMille had been known to settle for a single reference in a single volume, aware as he was of the vagaries of historians and of the mutations of passing centuries. As for Delilah's bra, a photograph was found in a musty volume showing a Minoan woman whose dress had a bra-like sweep to the upper portion. It was far less revealing than Delilah's but DeMille felt its lines were such to justify a bare midriff. Naturally, Mr. DeMille liked to have the historians on his side, and usually they were; it was when history's verdict was contrary that Henry endured the greatest travail—torn between professional honor and the edicts of an employer who claimed he was making history. In this respect The Story of Dr. Wassell was a bell ringer. Dr. Wassell, hero of the big rescue at Java, assisted as technical advisor and laid out facts often received by DeMille with the rejoinder, "We won't do it that way. The audience will never believe it." The Navy commander later remarked in good humor, "DeMille pushed me around more than the Japs. I had figured out a way to save my men but no way to save myself from DeMille." DeMille, popping his head out of his office, would let fly as many as a dozen teasers in the course of a day—"Henry, if a man abducts a bond slave, can he be hanged?" "What land of arrows did the Senecas use and how long were they?" "Which way does the sun shine on the circus midway when it's playing in Washington and Philadelphia?" There were times when Henry was shut off from the truth by outside forces, as in the instance where DeMille was re- quired by the Breen censorship office to pile heaps of soapsuds around the upper portion of Paulette Goddard as she bathed in a prerevolutionary wooden tub in Unconquered. Henry stood shoulder to shoulder with the boss in the claim that this was an era long before Lever Brothers, and there were no such things as soapsuds! The boss was properly distressed over the anachronism but fortunately it escaped public notice.