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92 Yes, Mr. DeMille city would house, feed and entertain the players during those off-the-set moments when the Israelites were not praying plagues down on the heads of their oppressors. The nerve center was the DeMille tent, sitting Monticello-like atop a knoll, furnished in grand Egyptian style with oriental rugs and a huge bed with snake-head posters. As one of the star actresses in the cast, Julia Faye, recalled, "He was up there all by himself. We were all living in the city down below. I guess it did give him a feeling of everything/' The camp was run on a strict military basis. Reveille was sounded at 4:30. Players dressed and put on their make-up before breakfast at 6 A.M. The population was broken into companies and platoons, with a captain and lieutenant in charge of each. The chain of command went from these minor functionaries to a score of assistant directors, and ended with DeMille. He was not so much the final arbiter as the only one. Important players like Theodore Roberts, Charles de Roche, Estelle Taylor and Julia Faye went directly to him with their problems, though entree to DeMille's tent was not easily achieved, even by the stars. On one occasion Roberts in flowing robes of the patriarchal Moses, and James Neill, garbed as Aaron, cooled their heels outside the tent for more than an hour. Finally the patience of the bearded patriarch broke. Rising to his full imposing height, Neill collared a perspiring slave about to enter the producer's tent and bellowed, "Tell God that Moses and Aaron are waiting without!" In the matter of expenditures, DeMille had gotten up a fine head of steam; bills poured into the studio. Thrice daily, the producer was feeding nearly 10,000 mouths-3,500 human, 6,000 animal. Among the latter were some healthy appetites, including 900 horses and 200 burros, as well as a Noah's Ark assortment of small farm animals and fowl which could not be expected to scratch much nourishment from the sand dunes. With this picture, as with others, DeMille rarely took time off