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"B" AS IN BARNUM 279 unconcern for his half century in the craft as well as for the public's preference that reflected itself in his dazzling record of boxoffice championships. Three honors went to Greatest Show on the night of March 19, 1953, the occasion also observing the silver anniversary of the Academy. To Mr. DeMille went the Thalberg Award for eminence in the profession, which, coupled with the "best picture" and "best screenplay" awards, made it a memorable evening for the bungalow. The boss was moved by the gesture; how deeply it cannot be said. Perhaps it had come too late; too often he was passed by, too little had been said when the occasion called for much to be said. A numbing chill swept his critics. The award to the picture was not expected. Many who had cast their ballot for the year's top grosser were quick to make it known that it was a mere courtesy—"after all the old man has been around a long time and has done a lot of good." However DeMille may have felt inwardly, he viewed rebuffs from colleagues with devilish amusement. Profit and the masses were on his side and he saw no reason to change his belief in the ultimate judgment of the people. He liked to think that that judgment was the most intelligent, too. 4. THE sex-happy 1920's had sharply widened the powers of censorship, the natural hand maiden of public in- dignation. The screen was crowded with dancing mothers, speakeasies, petting parties, flappers, cake eaters. Censors lurked behind every corner, moving in swiftly to deliver sudden and savage attacks. Just when Hollywood felt it had proved that wolf-whistling and the ardent embrace were