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138 Jes y Mr. DeMilk He appeared clad for battle, first with field boots and breeches, then adding whatever equipment or people he deemed necessary as the years went on. The microphone, which came into wide use in the 20's, DeMille found a real boon; now he could be heard above Acre, Fort Pitt, the Crusades, and other campaigns of similar scope that roared from the DeMille barracks. In time, he hired a chair boy, microphone boy, small-equip- ment boy (ready with pencil, pad and such), yielding a sort of key to his stage character. The corps of specialists soon became a favorite target of the press. Their humorous jibes left little impression on the epic-maker. His stature considered, the chair and microphone boys made sense to him, though for public consumption he was careful to justify the contributions of these minor functionaries. "What the gentlemen of the press don't understand," DeMille would grieve, "is that my sets cost me anywhere from fifty to a hundred thousand dollars a day. I move around pretty fast and even a minute's delay waiting for a microphone can be pretty expensive." During production he was as busy as a general launching a major offensive. Appointments were next to impossible. On one occasion a critic from an important paper asked for "only twenty minutes of Mr. DeMille's time." "Twenty minutes," the boss ejaculated. "I haven't given Mrs. DeMille that much time in ten years." He was irritated when the staff felt compelled to take time off during filming of a picture; news of the illness of this or that member left the boss cold as basalt. In pro- duction, he was interested only in maximum effort. Anything less than that was traitorous, or at least an unspeakable defec- tion. One aide's father died while the DeMille party was en route by train to Philadelphia to join the Ringling circus. Word of the death was communicated to the man en route, ,and he left the train at that point to return home.