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THE SIGN OF THE BOSS 173 in the male lead, changed this item procedurally to reflect what has often been called "the DeMille touch/' A shark bites off the hero's toes! DeMille's sense of economy seemed to drive him unwillingly to little frugalities. These, when smilingly called to his attention by intimates, embarrassed him, and he would speak of the poverty of his boyhood and early marital years. He ordered his office to use the back of old scripts for scratch paper. He kept score on each razor blade, discarding it only when it had served him a required number of times. During a postwar drive for clothes for the needy of foreign countries Mr. DeMille, moved by their plight, instructed the family to choose an older suit or two, some shirts and socks. He owned a costly array of cash- mere suits, some a decade or two old but showing little sign of wear. A few of these older models, with other articles, were laid out on his bed for his approval, prior to shipment abroad. The boss eyed these selections, and returned diem to the closet The following day they were back on his bed, whereupon DeMille returned them again to his closet. The silent contest went on a few more days and finally the family, who had been through this sort of thing before, sent the shipment off without any contributions from the head of the house. When DeMille learned he had been left out he was furious, demanding to know why some of his things had not been included. Great skill was often reflected in his thrift. He had staged a march of British soldiers in his early version of The Buccaneer, holding up the episode as an inducement to the wise employ- ment of special effects. "You could see the line of British for five miles/' he said. "It was done with eight soldiers and six