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212 Yes, Mr. DeMitte The item in the New Yorker, under the caption "Furthermore Department," read: From the Chicago Daily News: The film is a work of art, of great interest to people of religious faith because it is a Biblical story, DeMille said on the witness stand in Federal court here Wednesday "All denominations commend the picture," he said. *lt will draw 40 million people who don't usually go to movies. My father studied for the ministry and read the Bible in our home, and this picture is near my heart. Furthermore, we have to take in $7,000,000 on it to break even" The transcript of DeMille's testimony revealed no statements in that juxtaposition. DeMille called in attorneys and ordered them to demand retractions from the editors. They refused even in the face of strong hints of legal action. No suits were brought, and once again DeMille's convictions about "the big city press" were rekindled. 3. DEMILLE'S testimony in Federal court that day would have attracted much wider interest had he revealed his real attitude toward the Samson story—the attitude he set forth nearly four years earlier when he gathered with writers for the first time to outline the mood and spirit of the Biblical story. That session took place on July 19,1946. Like all of DeMille's opening story conferences, it was an occasion long awaited. The writers marked the day because DeMille would give them the first word on how he expected the story to shape up. What he said would become a sort of blueprint, a master plan for the coming months. His ideas at these opening conferences were set down in shorthand, copies thereafter distributed, to be con-