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188 Jes> Mr. DeMitte "No one/' he commented later, "ever walked off a DeMille set and came back/* Though Paulette failed to land a part in The Greatest Show on Earth, others were busy with little stratagems calculated to shatter DeMille's careful defenses. One of the more spirited competitors for a key spot in the circus picture, Betty Hutton sent over an elaborate floral creation— in circus motif, festooned with hundreds of expensive blooms. Its centerpiece was a china doll swinging from a trapeze, the part Betty was after. A note with it read: My career is in your hands! IVe never been so happy in my life at the thought of working with the greatest of them all— C. B. DeMille. Love, BETTY (can do anything— will travel) HUTTON We were set to work devising a reply to all this, and from several samples DeMille selected one with a lighter touch: Tournament of Roses was never like this. Definitely favor your directing as well as playing in the picture and urge you to con- sider me for role of elephant boy. You are marvelous. What other man in the world can tell his grandchildren that Betty Hutton once sent him a bouquet of nineteen orchids, seven hundred fifty Esther Reed daisies, two thousand stock blossoms, two dozen garnet roses and three dozen Lillies of the Nile. My heart belongs to Annie with or without a gun. CECIL B, (His mention of Annie was in reference to the title role played by Betty in Annie Get Your Gun.)