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164 Yes, Mr. DeMille keep going at this speed we may finish the picture by 1963— GET THAT ELEPHANT BACK! He keeps edging for- ward all the time— [To Miss Button, who is urging an elephant to lift wreckage off Charlton Heston] Betty, is it better for you if the elephant starts there? Okay, that's all right with me. All right. Elephant! Action! Hold it! Mel, you take out the kitty. TAKE AWAY THE KITTY! I won't be using her on this line— Let me see the action from where you drop -down Are there any legs or anything in there? Get your leg there. No! No! YOUR LEG! Do you want me to show you where your leg is! That's it, that's it, you're doing better already. Now you know where your leg is. You have me to thank for that. You see what you learn working on a DeMille picture Are there any legs on the other side? ... Wait a minute. I want to see this spot where he says that. I think... I think we should give a little bit of play... I want to get you in while he's saying his line to you Do you need a cushion [To Miss Button kneeling]. She can have a cushion if she needs it. It doesn't show— Do that with the entrance once, will you, for me, Betty? ... I would keep John's legs right there, to look like he's still pulling on that pole— Here's my... Oh! for God's sake, why don't you turn it? All you have to do is turn it. I don't care whether you focus the mike or not. It takes you longer to do that than it does for me to make a motion picture [To sound man] It isn't a lion roaring from the cage. It's hard to get tiger roars but it's easy to get lions. Pick up tigers whenever you can.... Get me a finder Wait a minute, wait a minute! We may have to... STOP! EVERY- BODY STOP! DON'T DO ANYTHING DeMille's bold methods on the sets were viewed with envy by most Hollywood producers. Though they considered him foolhardy at times, they secretly admired his skill in getting important stars to take the risks. Producer Leo McCarey, a DeMille booster, looked upon the showman's powers of per- suasion as a form of black magic. "No one knows how or why the stars do it," he says. "Not even the stars themselves, but they do."