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108 yes, Mr. DeMilk in a somewhat better bargaining position. I can remember standing there in the front office and I had told the gentleman behind the desk what terms I would have to have on The Ten Commandments. He looked at me, his eyes were sharp as steel. I can still remember what he said as I left the office: 'Cecil, you have never been one of us. If you do this I will break you/ And his two fists came apart sharply like a man breaking a stick." DeMille did not budge from his demands. When he walked out of Paramount he held a lucrative interest in the picture, about the only thing he could claim as his own out of a world organization which he had watched grow from a barn in a lemon grove. The Ten Commandments had opened brilliantly, but it would be a long time before the studio would realize anything on its investment, DeMille's final three pictures before leaving Paramount, Triumph ($265,012), Feet of Clay ($315,636) and The Golden Bed ($437,900), returned the studio a mere pit- tance as major productions went. And they had featured some of the studio's most important stars: Vera Reynolds, Leatrice Joy, Rod LaRocque, Lillian Rich. Hie secession of DeMille caused little apparent sorrow within the officialdom of Famous Players-Lasky. A wicked swipe was made at the departed producer at a luncheon for exhibitors on a Monday in April 1926. An 11-reel trailer was shown the guests. What was contained in the trailer provoked Harrison's Reports, a film trade publication, into an indignant headline: LET THEM HIDE THEIR FACES IN SHAME. The trade paper went on to say: At the end of the trailer there was a little playlet; it consisted of the showing of a dinner table, with vacant chairs arranged around it. On each chair appeared the name of a Paramount director.