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148" Yes, Mr. DeMille tines, the platoon of actors playing the role of the doomed soldiers were supposed to give forth with a low rumble of hate. The armored soldiers tried. DeMille didn't like it; the rumble didn't have enough body. The men tried again, "I must have the right murmur from you men/' said DeMille, not satisfied. For a moment he brightened, "You know the kind I mean. The same murmur IVe been getting behind my back day after day and year after year/ 7 He turned and pointed to crewmen and actors behind him. "Listen to it!" he cried, and at that moment the chatter broke off. Complete silence. "I guess the DeMille era is over/' he said, mopping his brow despairingly. "Now I can't even get them to prattle behind my back." An occasional extreme measure was taken to stem the flow of his vitriol on the sets. One veteran assistant tried a daring feat of sound-stage buccaneering, first enlisting the aid of a wardrobe worker. When the unconventional abuse was hitting thick and fast, two extras dressed as nuns were spirited "onto the sets, as if visiting. The subterfuge worked a couple of times but was called off when DeMille acknowledged the presence of the good sisters, apologized, and resumed the usual fire and brimstone. DeMille has been described as "the gentle tyrant who has left strewn behind him the broken bodies of underlings and assistants, though an astonishing number of people profess to have told DeMille at one time or another to go jump into a lake." It is possible that one per cent of these have actually mustered the necessary courage. DeMille, on the other hand, has fre- quently offered to supply the gun if the object of his disaffec- tion would go out and shoot himself.