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MATTHEW, MARK, LUKE, JOHN—AND CECIL 131 with Metro. In the prior seven years the company had been active in real estate and securities. It acquired a number of business properties, which it let. It bought a theater or two, purchased several ranch properties, and took interests in varied enterprises—Arizona cotton lands, oil development, a construc- tion company, and others—some successful, some not. It had made no pictures except under contract, and into the production of such pictures it put no money of its own, the funds being supplied by other parties to the contracts. Most of the picture profits were from productions personally directed by DeMille. From 1924 to 1929 the company had built up a surplus of well over a million and a half dollars, and in that time DeMille had received in salary a total of $366,000; Mrs. DeMille, $229,000. Now the world seemed to close in on him. He had been stifled in efforts to produce his own pictures, and the specter of executive interference in creative matters continued to be- devil him. "If Edison had a supervisor we would not have electric lamps, and nothing of any real worth in a creative way has ever been done if the creator has been hampered and utterly restricted,'* he fumed at the industry in a statement to Variety. "Raphael would never have painted the Sistine Chapel if his patrons had told him just what and how many cherubs he could paint in And individual contribution is just what the present picture system hampers and almost totally destroys.'* Then he announced he was going to Russia and could not think of any place offering more drama at the moment. He described it as a great prehistoric beast shaking off its shackles and stepping into civilization. He saw the capitalistic system as a failure. There was no integrity in it, and he believed that the fundamental integrity of the American people would revolt against it.