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242 Yes, Mr. DeMitte 2. Fight with Lion, 3. Fight with King's wrestler, 4. Jawbone Fight, 5. Falling Temple. Inevitably his credo of physical up- heaval made him a natural prey for the sweeping movement of Biblical history. He once exclaimed, "I can make a picture out of any fifty pages of the Bible," then in momentary self- abnegation, "except possibly the Book of Numbers." The plot, its mood and pace, were matters upon which he ruled. Suggestions were apt to be risky, at least until the writer had been given some idea of the sort of story whirling about in DeMille's mind. The story of Helen of Troy was once under serious consideration, later abandoned in favor of a remake of The Ten Commandments. At the time there was much secret speculation. How was DeMille going to approach the classic Trojan tale? We were not in doubt for long. At luncheon one day he set forth the format, which, incidentally, revealed a good deal of his formula with the old heroics: "We eliminate all the gods and goddesses in the Helen of Troy story. We think of the characters as people and not as something out of Homer's Iliad. Some have dandruff, some have toothaches, some are clean and intellectual, others are dirty and sinful. Some have B.O., others are lovely. They must talk like people yet not like a reporter giving an account of a Dodger- Giant ball game. We caught the spirit pretty well in Samson and Delilah. A man may address his god with thee and thou but not when he is addressing a human being. The thing is to give the speech a poetic quality and still not go down to the Dodger level/'