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"HIT SEX HARD!" 201 become very secretive, pretend to be looking for spies of rival producers seeking to unlock an important trade secret. DeMille's first important use of the tub was in an unrefined soiree called, Old Wives for New, in which he hit upon the idea of having Sylvia Ashton leave hairpins and all sorts of debris around the place, while Florence Victor's bathroom was as bright and neat as a Tiffany showcase. The moral for American womanhood was clear: a slovenly wife can wreck a marriage. Then he revealed Gloria Swanson to the public in Mde and Femak in 1919. She was in a sunken bathtub, the Model-T of its day. "We thought that was pretty hot stuff.'* DeMille smiled reminiscently. "From that I went on to Saturday Night, then to Why Change Jour Husband? and Dont Change Jour Wife" These were DeMille's marital-mixup movies, and all had bath- ing scenes—piquant sauces that caused talk. And talk sold tickets. He traced his affection for the pretty bath to childhood memories of a dingy bodike tub into which he was dunked every Saturday night. "The cockroaches used to come out, look at you and say, Hi, boy,* and go back." He resolved, should he ever have the chance, to restore bathing to its proper estate. Even fate had a hand in this legend. The DeMilles became engaged in December, 1899. "We were watching tie new cen- tury come in, sitting on the steps of No, 9 Beacon Street in Boston, It was one of those old houses with colored panes of glass. For sentimental reasons we decided to visit the spot many years later, and what do you think we saw? It was occu- pied by a plumbing company and in the window was a huge bathtub!" As a young actress at Paramount, Claudette Colbert played only "sweet young thing" roles. One day DeMille saw her on