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AVARICE AMONG THE AVOCADOS 97 "Have you prepared a statement?" asked the banker, eyes cold as marble. "I haven't got time. It would take a month/' "Is the company good for it?" "It's DeMille," said McCarthy, playing his trump card. Giannini's manner relaxed instantly. "You can have twice as much as any statement will justify. I know DeMille." This accomplished, McCarthy sent a wire to Zukor in New York: MILLION DOLLARS is nsr BANK OF AMERICA, TTH AND OLIVE. PLEASE SEND BILL OF SALE AT ONCE. Twenty-four hours passed, and no word from Zukor. Where- upon DeMille went to Lasky. Frank Garbutt, a Paramount board member, was with him. DeMille removed a check from an envelope and placed it on Lasky's desk. "There's your money," said DeMille. "One million dollars. Take it and the picture is mine.'* DeMille's recollections of the occasion were always accom- panied by a big owlish grin. "Lasky couldn't believe we had raised the money. He called up Zukor in New York, and pretty soon there was quite a conversation going on. Garbutt was sitting there saying nothing. Lasky looked at him, expecting him to say something and pretty soon Garbutt did. He said, 'Jesse, have you seen any of the film Cecil has shot?' Lasky said no, and Garbutt said, 'Jesse, never sell anything you haven't seen.' Lasky repeated this remark to Zufcor on the phone and it was all over. They wouldn't sell." Zukor made one more move, attesting to a high financial acumen that has distinguished his long career in motion pic- tures. He had McCarthy's telegram, which expressed one mil- lion dollars' worth of confidence in a Paramount picture, and an unfinished one at that. He went to the bankers who had been shying away of late from granting the studio any loans for new products. Zukor twitted them for their lack of faith