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130 Jes> Mr. DeMille to Yesterday, released in August 1925. Beulah Marie Dix and Jeanie Macpherson had collaborated on the scenario, with Joseph Schttdkraut, Jetta Goudal, William Boyd and Vera Reynolds as the stars. It had cost $447,479 and was to gross a meager $552,663. The next film, The Volga Boatman, released the same year, performed somewhat better, returning a million and a quarter on a half-million-dollar budget—a fair profit. The King of Kings cost well over two million dollars and would one day return that much, but it was The Godless Girl —the fourth and last picture under DeMille's personal banner- that destroyed the remnants of confidence in the new venture. Made in 1928 at a cost of $722,000, the film grossed $486,000- failing to pay much of its basic expenses. In 1929, DeMille moved over to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio. Under a contract entered into by his own firm, DeMille Productions, Inc., he was given complete authority as to pic- tures, stories and cast. The DeMille company was to receive a guarantee of from $150,000 to $175,000 per picture in addi- tion to a percentage of the income from each. Disputes arose with the very first picture. In April 1931, the parties agreed to terminate the contract, Once again the arguments were over DeMille's choice of stories and types of production. He made three pictures at Metro: Dynamite cost about $700,000 and yielded a million and a quarter. Madam Satan cost $980,000 and brought in only $742,000. A remake of The Squaw Man cost $742,000, yielding only $356,000. Both for Metro-and DeMille at this stage of his career— the showing was disastrous. Financially, however, he had not fared badly. Nor had DeMille Productions, thanks to the guarantees in the contract