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"fi" AS IN BARNUM 261 he handed "DeMille Medals" to the pluckier of his players who did not flinch from the hazards of a DeMille script. Among the donees was Franklin Delano Roosevelt for the permission to film the story of Navy Commander Corydon Wassell, World War II hero of Java. DeMille lived to rue the gesture to the President, breaking sharply with the administration's labor-union policies. His irri- tation cropped out unexpectedly in the direction of the Presi- dent's dog, Fala, during the making of Unconquered. In one scene Gary Cooper pats a small wire-haired pooch with the remark, "Hi! fella." DeMille ordered it struck from the script. "Someone," he said, "might think he said, 'Hi! Fala!'" DeMille went about the making of The Greatest Show on Earth with his usual joie de vivre. He led a troupe of some 200 players and crewmen to the Ringling winter training quarters at Sarasota, Florida, for a 2-month location that convinced the local gentry that here was a new and formidable force in circus life. The situation had in it the elements of a first-class struggle- two vigorous societies, Hollywood and the circus, with widely divergent habits and mode of living. Circus folks are of a suspicious bent, their pride admittedly not the product of Cadillacs, 6-figure salaries or servants-in-waiting. When the DeMille entourage moved in, the toilers under the Big Top were agreeably surprised. The stars and the rest scampered about in jeans and slacks, indistinguishable from the rank-and-file of the circus. Before departing Hollywood, DeMille had issued a strong edict: "Don't put on airs. We are joining their way of life," The warning proved unnecessary; in no time at all we all were caught up in the magic of the spangled world. The Sarasota location was two weeks old when DeMille took stock of our progress. The results were alarming—a great deal of activity but little finished footage to show for it. "This thing is costing us $20,000 a day," he told his top aides. "We'll be here ten years at this pace." DeMille shared a per- centage of the production costs with Paramount. At this point