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100 Yes, Mr. DeMilk very start. It was a daily specter, what with columnists conning the grounds for little morsels. "Aaron and Pharaoh's wife were seen in an arm-in-arm stroll along the beach/' one gossip columnist quipped. Guadalupe was cursed with biting offshore winds and sand that stung and annoyed the players. Many wore veils to protect make-up. The netting cramped Theodore Roberts' cigar smok- ing, so he cut a hole in the veil and moved contentedly among his people, a magnificent figure in flowing robes trailed by an acrid plume of black smoke. One day a clipping reached DeMille with a headline, MOSES SMOKES BLACK CIGARS, and a story chiding Roberts for adding something new to the Inspired Word. DeMille thrust the clipping into the hands of an assistant and dispatched him to Roberts' tent with the stern imprecation, "Tell Moses to cut out that goddamn nicotine in public!" It was the custom on DeMille's set to refer to players by their cast names to help to instill the feeling that they were not playing the character, they were the character, DeMille took every practical step to prevent any naughty behavior at Guadalupe that might reach the newspapers and harm his costly sally into austere Old Testament times. He let the cast know that if there was any sinning he wanted it done in front of the camera, not behind it. The tent city was laid out in streets with a sort of plaza in the middle. The men were quartered on one side and the women on the other. Thirty men were deputized by DeMille into what came to be known as the Sex Squad, with instructions to report any mischief, however innocent it might appear. No man and woman were permitted to be seen together after 7 P.M., except at the recreation tent. This social center was known as "Pop's Place." There, every night, tent flaps shuddered and tent poles trembled under the non-Hebraic blasts of a four-piece jazz band. Held at bay all day, the players cut loose at night, shifting from ancient wails to modern ditties. Only serious illness was warrant for a man