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110 Ye*, Mr. DeMille He couldn't understand why Sam refused to behave as he felt a team man should. "Every hour on the hour, and some- times the half-hour, Sam Goldwyn sent a shock through the organization/' Zukor relates, "and kept things whirling in what amounted to a frenzy/' Goldwyn's forceful approach continued to grate on Zukor, convinced that Sam disagreed with him many times "only for the sake of argument/' Zukor made up his mind that if Goldwyn did not go, he would. "One of us was out of water in Famous Players-Lasky," he put it recently. It was not easy to broach the matter to Lasky, who was Sam's brother-in-law. Zukor called DeMille to New York, told both Lasky and DeMille they would have to choose between himself and Sam, one or the other. They chose Zukor. Goldwyn left with a substantial settlement for his quarter interest in the company—a little under a million dollars, according to Zukor— after four years in the business. Even with DeMille and Lasky still in th@ picture, little remained of Lasky company policies. The feeling between Zukor and DeMille was considerably more mutual— neither could understand the other s thinking. Soon DeMille would leave, and eventually Lasky. Zukor, little Napoleon of the conference table, was gobbling up some titans. DeMille took an initial step in August 1920. He formed, at first as a partnership, Cecil B. DeMille Productions, Inc., with himself, Mrs. DeMille, his attorney Neil McCarthy, and a rela- tive of Mrs. DeMille as partners. The corporation agreed to pay Cecil $1,500 a week to retain his services as a director. Then, it would "sell" Cecil as a director to producing companies under agreements which entitled it to guarantees, plus a per- centage of profits from pictures directed by DeMille. It was, roughly, the kind of contract favored by the DeMille company for many years.