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"HIT SEX HARD!" 227 Father Lord wondered whether it would not be better to show Joseph "on worried guard outside Mary's door on their wedding night, followed by a momentary suggestion of drowsing, then the light to indicate his doubts are cleared up." This would cover possible Scriptural criticism. The priest pointed to the Salome-Judas-Herod sequences. They were "new and different," and a problem that had to be faced. He continues: If it goes frankly pagan, if there are costumes that are Fofly- ish, if the dancing is shown as wild, etc., etc., there will be very unfavorable reactions and consequent headaches— People will go to this film expecting something on an extraordinarily high level If they get pagan orgy and bacchanal, criticism will be insistent and troublesome— This would hold true about the costumes of the women of the court, and especially of Salome herself 1 keep wondering about the possibility of not show- ing Salome's dance itself, but doing it entirely by suggestion— as you did in the famous stripping scene in The Volga Boatman. It seemed to have been somewhat Father Lord's fate to keep films about the Blessed Virgin off the screen. The priest re- counted in his memoirs how he had frustrated the Warner brothers* plans to film The Miracle, a story about an eloping nun, as also an effort by Stephen Vincent Benet and Samson Raphaelson. The autobiography farther notes: When we were working on The Kings of Kings, with con- siderable amusement Cecil showed me a cartoon of himself, labeled "The Man that Nobody No's/* Indeed, I had been warned by many that to hfrn you said yes. The one who corrected that was Jearde Macpherson, who told me that I was to say no whenever the situation called for no. If I made any contribution to his great filrn, it was my constant use of the word no when I thought the scene simply would not do for the story of Christ Now I was saying no to an entire subject. In the future when we met, Mr. DeMille regarded me a little sorrowfully and re-