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THE SIGN OF THE BOSS 185 member me but I was a harlot in your Golden Bed" Through the years two and sometimes three generations of the same family appeared in his pictures. One energetic mother hurled her proudest lineal boast, in the effort to get herself and son engaged as extras: "Sir, you killed my four-year-old Bobby in The Sign of the Cross and he's a married man now!" Persons thus woven into the past were given preference and their names were added to a roster of "DeMille alumni" Paulette Goddard proved herself most resourceful while angling for the part of Louvette, a sexy half-breed in Northwest Mounted Police" It was a big part and DeMille was keeping pretty quiet about it Paulette tried telephone calls, chatty notes and occasional visits to the DeMille luncheon table, then hit upon something bolder. She knew about DeMille's weakness for petite feet. Intimates are quick to proclaim that Miss Goddard's feet are shapely, though perhaps not as small as Gloria Swanson's, whose window-display size 23£ AA was a Paramount boast for years. One day Paulette appeared in an inner door leading to De- Mille's office, dressed in a sparse costume, her reddish hair falling carelessly over shoulders gleaming .with walnut dye— and feet connivingly bare. Altogether she presented a most pleasurable picture, walking into DeMille's office with a slow, primitive gait that proved to be effective, though hardly in- digenous to the North country. She struck an artful pose on the couch in front of his desk, and announced, "I am Louvette," then quoted a line from the script: "You lyin* Scotch Indian! Son-uma-gun! I t'ink I keel you!" DeMille liked what he saw and gave her the part. Paulette confessed she was fascinated by the complex ma- chinery of a DeMille movie, but even more by what it could do for her career. "Every actress wanted to get into a DeMille