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THE SIGN OF THE BOSS 179 shirt and trousers, but considerably more showy in the early days. A local newspaper noted in 1923 that he wore "a green sport shirt with one of the world's five green diamonds to match, set in a ring of green gold/' During the remake of The Squaw Man a few years later he passed around gold-tipped cigarettes to reporters visiting the set. On that occasion he was "a symphony in brown—chocolate- brown rough cloth with Norfolk jacket, soft shirt of jonquil yellow, tie of yellow and ruby floral design and cuff links and ring with ruby setting." The outfit alternated with shirt open at the throat, pants and puttees, Louis XV hat, drooping pipe and silver whistle, which gave way to the loudspeaker in 1924. He was unable to work in unattractive surroundings. The cluttered museunJike look of his office served to accent its air of casual wealth. When he opened his own studio in 1925 he took over Ince's personal suite, which resembled a small cathe- dral in one room and an old Spanish galleon in another. DeMille tore it all out, designed one large room from two, removing every vestige of Ince's kind of meaningless display. If display had meaning, it was admissible. There was hardly an item in his office that did not tell a story or yield a moral, and visitors were treated to the genealogy of each object as DeMille cere- moniously conducted office tours lasting for hours. His favorite transportation for years was an aged Locomobile, built for General Pershing. He paid $11,000 for it. His sprightly humor rose to the surface when reminiscing about this posses- sion. "After I bought it I took it to Don Lee, the Cadillac dealer, and told him I wanted another body for the car. He began to jump up and down like a chimpanzee released in its native jungle among a lot of bananas. He drew a sketch of his idea, a long, low car. It was the first chassis that gave him a chance to build a passenger car that was long and low. Im- mediately the Cadillac people took it up and started to use it. And that changed the whole pattern of cars."