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THE SIGN OF THE BOSS 153 With sudden bravado an assistant who was listening blurted out, "Gad! what a frightful prospect/' DeMille broke the stunned silence with a loud guffaw. "Yes, isn't it so. The world can hardly handle the one it's got" The assistant later confessed to a sudden panic the moment he had uttered the remark. "It could have been curtains if C. B. were having one of his bad days/' On one occasion he was on stage at a local theater, comment- ing on the picture the audience was about to see. A few of the stars of the film were seated in the front row. Suddenly someone at the rear of the house, apparently fearful that DeMille was not going to call the performers onto the stage, shouted, "We want to see the stars/* DeMille paused, peered into the darkness beyond the lights and with an elfish grin shouted back, "Evidently, my good man, you do not understand the egotism of a director!" 2. OF all our duties none caused more anguish than the writing of letters for DeMifle's signature. He had a hard and fast rule: prompt replies to all letters. Promptness though was not enough; each letter must be bril- liant, a gem of the purest ray serene. We were only too well aware of his vibrant animosity to conventional business phrases. The boss would not have been caught dead with such hum- drum pleasantries as "Thank you for your very kind comment," or "It was courteous of you to trouble to write." Nor would he permit a letter to begin with the personal "I." That was, he felt, a mark of arrogance, so we usually began his letters with "There was..." or "It was. * /' keeping in mind