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THE SIGN OF THE BOSS 163 stuffed specimen. DeMille was morbidly uncomfortable. He ordered the set closed to all except a skeleton crew, and police- men guarded every entry. Once when a workman let out an amused chuckle at the sight of the perspiring actor squeezing the inert mass, DeMille raged, "If I hear another laugh, 111 clear this goddamn set/' The scene was intercut with other shots of a bruising scuffle between a real lion named Jackie and his trainer. It proved to be one the best sequences in the picture. Even so, DeMille's congenital showmanship inwardly recoiled at making any concessions to the stuffed creature publicly. Whenever asked by reporters to explain how he staged the lion fight, he would reply mysteriously, It is a real fight between a man and a lion. You saw it, tell me what you think." It was not unusual for a visitor to exclaim on what was going on behind the camera, for the boss was able at any moment to put on a more fascinating show than his script writers. The train wreck climax of The Greatest Show on Earth was a superb challenge to DeMille—splintered cars, fire and smoke, wild animals prowling in the shambles, great numbers of dead and wounded. It took a week to shoot the hand-made cataclysm in the course of which DeMille unloosed a flow of commentary reflecting how he was able to manage scenes of such size. Typi- cal is the following verbatim excerpt: I saw them coming in and around... the men and poles in and around ... I know it, I know it... I am looking with my eye. You are looking with the finder... Hey! What have you done with your hands. There are three men here, and I see only two pairs of hands,.. Do YOU HEAR ME? WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH YOUR HANDS? DAMN n! LlSTEN TO ME, WHAT HAVE YOU ... There, that's better... You're right, right. There were only two men when I rehearsed it The elephant was much farther forward. THE ELEPHANT WAS MUCH FARTHER FORWARD! Will someone in tbis vast assem- blage of talented assistants listen to me? We've only been at this three days now. Not a bad record, you know. If we