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60 Yw, Mr. DeMille wanted something light and catchy, but the Department kept coming up with what DeMille considered slow and heavy. One night the Department head, Louie Lipstone, thoroughly fed up with DeMille's ragging, went out to die home of Victor Young, one of the composers working on the DeMille project, to discuss what could be done about the situation. An evening of canasta was in progress at the Young home and one of the players was a chap named Ned Washington, a top musical hand who had written a number of famous Disney songs, in- cluding "When You Wish Upon a Star," winner of an Academy Award. Washington heard Young and Lipstone discussing the DeMille project and offered to try his hand at the lyrics. Since Young had already composed much of the music for the circus picture, the two joined forces and produced a song which they called "The Greatest Show on Earth/' DeMille received it enthusiastically but was a little fidgety about the price the upper-bracket composer might charge, Washington reassured him that the price would be high but not anything beyond what DeMille should be willing to pay, being happy to get a credit on a DeMille picture. At luncheon one day DeMille, anticipating a hit song, told his publicity man to prepare a story on how it all came about, to wit: "I was up in the Music Department giving Louie Lipstone plenty of hell when some young fellow who was over there playing canasta came over to me and said, 'Mr. DeMille, I'd give anything to get a credit on your picture. Ill do the song for nothing if you'll give me a screen credit/ So he goes away and comes back with this great song. It's going to be a terrific hit. This boy Ned Washington has written a lot of Disney songs but he was just over there playing canasta and he was willing to do the song for nothing just to get a DeMille credit/'