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226 Yes, Mr. DeMilk Bishop Sheen had made an effort to alter the story line, for Bill reported, "He was so interested he began to write the play and make numerous suggestions for added scenes " The conference with Father Lord took place two months later. They spent two days going over the scenario. "It was completely dreadful," the priest recalled in an auto- biography published in 1956, shortly after his death. The story focused around the love affair of Judas, this time with Salome.... The climactic scene occurred during the dance of the seven veils Mary is in the garden outside the house of Herod, and the camera is swinging back from the dancing Salome to the suffering Mother in the shadows as she tries to save John the Baptist. Father Lord was convinced that the Catholic public would raise the roof. His memoirs then disclosed something surprising only to those who did not know Bill. Bill DeMille had come to St. Louis chilly to the whole idea of the film. He knew the scenario was hash and a hazard, and though lie submitted it to me with objective justice and some show of enthusiasm, the moment I began to take it apart he was entirely in agreement. Two days later Lord sent DeMille a seven-page criticism, along with a statement of the reasons why the scenario "must not and could not be done," and a prediction of the extent of Catholic anger if the script ever became a screen reality. Referring to the episodes between Joseph and Mary on their wedding night, he said DeMille "would have to realize that this is delicate ground. Any slightest rough handling of Mary by Joseph would cause a lot of criticism.** He said too much building up of Joseph's "doubt" (as to his relationship with his Virgin wife) would cause mingled re- actions in die audience, largely nervous, since the Scriptures say so clearly that Joseph's doubt was cleared "while he slept."