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"B" AS IN BARNUM 269 "She knows all the answers and is very quick on a come- back/' Top Publicity confides. Further, were we aware that Omar Rainey of the Cleveland press—"who has not been a friend of ours on every occasion- is a circus fan from way back." Mr. DeMille nods approvingly. "... And Rainey is trying to sell articles to magazines like Saturday Evening Post, Life and the New Yorker?" Mr. DeMille stiffens at the sound of these names. He is biting his finger tips, the mannerism escaping those who do not have access to his confidential moments. The sudden crisis might have dissolved by itself, except that Top Publicity presses on. "We're in contact with a writer who has a firm commitment from Saturday Evening Post for a six-part article on DeMille and also a book commitment to do either a biography of DeMille, or help DeMille with an autobiography. This writer has had two books published in the last two years." The crimson flush creeping up his neck, Mr. DeMille enumer- ates the reasons why he thinks it a waste of time to give the man the time he would need—two years of undivided time to do a book properly. "In the end," DeMille concludes, "the six-part commitment would end up as a one-part commitment, or not be published at all" Top Publicity, surging on, suggests they were ripe for De- Mille on the cover of Time magazine. "And a profile," he adds, brightly. Time magazine! It was like a thousand wounds being re- opened, a harsh cry redolent of the whiplash of the first review printed by the old Life magazine on February 10, 1921, under the custody of Robert E. Sherwood, who was not yet a name on Broadway. Three times a year DeMille sends forth a new picture con-