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AVARICE AMONG THE AVOCADOS 91 daily needling from policemen for tying up traffic in the area. Included in the haul were several Yemenites from one of the most primitive branches of Hebraic stock. They were visitors in the city and agreed to prolong their stay indefinitely for a chance to appear in a story about Moses. It was in the midst of these preparations that DeMille was struck by the necessity of a $25,000 organ for his ranch, Para- dise. The porch skirted two sides of the house, at two points dipping around the trunks of huge oaks rising unmolested through holes in the floor. The thought of organ music floating out to guests dining under the oaken boughs sent him on the trail of the organ. The Ten Commandments made the whole idea plausible; he contracted with the studio for its use in composing the music for the picture. The proceeds from this arrangement enabled him to defray a good part of the cost, apart from providing the composers with a haven far removed from the vulgar lay atmosphere of Hollywood. As a location for filming the Biblical half of the story (the other half has a modern setting in San Francisco), DeMille chose barren sand dunes near Guadalupe, some 200 miles from Los Angeles, a rolling waste swept by strong winds from the nearby Pacific. Much deliberation at the scene took place before Guadalupe was chosen. DeMille and his staff paced the length of the dunes to determine whether they were long enough for the proposed line of escape of the Israelites. Once he shouted to an assistant, startling sun bathers, "We'll bring Moses and his followers down to this spot and head 'em into the ocean here- in May 1923, he led 3,500 people and 6,000 animals to Guadalupe. The throng cast its eyes on a strange sight. Before them, standing with grotesque complacence on the desert wasteland, was a replica of a segment of the ancient temple of Rameses II. The great entrance was approached by an avenue of twenty-four sphinxes, each weighing four tons. Off to the right lay the encampment, row on row of pup tents. The tent