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272 Yes, Mr. DeMitte tingling aphrodisia. The censors in his life were almost as for- midable as the critics; he had little use for either. On Greatest Show it appeared for a while we might get off with few censor problems. The Breen office had objected to a remark by a girl performer—"I never was thrown out of bed like that before!"-as being "unacceptably sex-suggestive/ 7 We could Have kept the line in the script but New York warned it might be ordered out by state boards, and it would be much less expensive to delete it at this point. Eight lines of dialogue were censored and subsequently re- moved from the script. Fortunately for the writers, all had been contributed by Mr. DeMille. Nor did the Breen office cotton to scenes in the girls' ward- robe room. We were told the Breen office "naturally assumes that where any of the girls are changing their clothes or performing other functions of their toilet, such as washing, etc., they are not to be clad in only shorts or bras—unless it clearly appears that these are rehearsal scenes, and not underwear. If the wear- ing of underwear is desired, then the girls should also have on dressing gowns or negligees/' A remark by Betty Hutton to Jimmy Stewart, as the clown— "Maybe you killed someone because you loved her too much" -was ordered changed; it implied a justification of euthanasia, or mercy killing. Further, there might be repercussions by the Legion of De- cency, we were advised by the Breen office. The Catholic Church's opposition to euthanasia was well known to all of us. We were also aware of the boss's bland indifference to censors while in the process of preparing a script; he preferred to fight those battles later, should they arise. The Legion of Decency quickly spotted "the insinuation of euthanasia," as Father Thomas F. Little, an executive of the Legion, put it in his letter to Mr. DeMille. Father Little's letter dropped like a bomb in our midst. It