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278 ?es, Mr. DeMille Fatter Little tallied a quote of his own, from St. Augustine, "Hate the sin and love the sinner." As far as Miss Grahame's "suggestive" costume was concerned, he pointed out that a spectator at a regular circus performance does not get the same "intimate impression" of costuming that is provided the movie- goer by Mr, DeMille's camera close-ups! The Legion of Decency gave the picture a "B" rating. There was only one lower rating—"condemned/* reserved for films that violated the canons of marriage or morality. Most frequent of such offenders are carnal tid-bits often tagged as "art films." The "B" rating was bad enough. It meant that DeMille's happy circus picture, The Greatest Show on Earth, was "morally objectionable in part for all persons." The boss was dumf ounded. "It's a lot of hogwash. Morally objectionable to boys and girls! This is a picture with clowns, elephants, fliers in the air, horseback riders— " He shook his head wearily. "With those Catholics a little euthanasia goes a long way," he said. The two Catholic members of the staff were ready to con- cede that whatever aspirations the Catholic Church may have had toward DeMille as a convert were now dashed, irrevocably. The hurt caused by Faffaire Legion was salved to some extent in a totally unexpected manner, and from the strangest of sources—the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, donor of the annual "Oscars." No Oscar had ever been voted a DeMille picture. The Academy always passed the elder showman by, with marvelous