YES, MR.DEMILLE (1959)

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124 Yes, Mr. DeMille Tor thine is the power and the glory at the end of the Lord's Prayer?" "How was St. Peter likely to have held the portion of the bread at the Last Supper?" "Is there any ancient au- thority who maintains that Judas was moved by thwarted am- bition rather than by greed to betray Christ?" "If Peter were fishing for a single fish, would he be likely to use a pole, reel or net?" The board of editors consisted of Father Lord, Dr. An- drews, Clifford Howard, DeMille and Miss Macpherson. They gathered in DeMille's private office in the morning and con- tinued until 7 P.M., returning after dinner. They wrote and rewrote titles, cut and recut, thumbed their Bibles to put events and reasons into subtitles of 25 words or less. They realized how perfectly the Evangelists had written the Christ story when they tried to match wording against theirs. Meanwhile DeMille publicized a questionnaire to find out what people knew about the Scriptures. Thousands of persons replied. Among the answers was this gem: The elders are a sort of bush from which you get berries to make wine. 3. DEMILLE and Sid Grauman, another showman of local repute, joined hands in unveiling The King of Kings. Grauman's new theater on Hollywood Boulevard, dubbed by the late showman "Sid Grauman's Chinese Cinema Temple," had just been completed. It was equal to the title. Its rococo towers, rising like battlements of some ancient oriental fortress, were visible for miles in any direction in that smog-free period. On the evening of the premiere of the film story of the simple Nazarene, a gigantic fountain in the forecourt shot tongues of water some 100 feet into the air. The effect was further en-