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"B" AS IN BARNUM 281 "It doesn't make any difference who spoke it. It means that God would forsake someone and it has to come out" One of the ministers intervened. "My dear lady," he said "I wonder whether you are aware that those words were said by Jesus on the cross!" As a matter of fact, those words of Jesus are a quotation of the first line of Psalm 21, which is a prophecy concerning His own passion, thus placing the woman censor in a not too im- plausible position. There were times when DeMille found the edicts of censor- ship tiresome, refusing to pause in his labors even long enough to challenge them. But hotly contested points drew him and the staff into lengthy dispute. Some years back Jean Arthur did a portrayal of the swash- buckling frontier gal, Calamity Jane, in one of the best of the DeMille horse operas, "The Plainsman." In the course of a scene DeMille has Calamity reviling a female rival Calamity calls her a "mopsy." The Hays office, checking the script prior to filming, sent word to DeMille that he couldn't use the word "mopsy" because it meant "prostitute." "Mopsy" did not mean that at all, DeMille retorted, and set his office to work searching for definitions. The staff came up with a few—"term of fondness applied to a little girl," "a pet appellation for a lap dog." But there was evidence it also could be applied to a "slattern." It appeared DeMille was losing the battle of dictionaries, when his researcher chanced upon a popular child's book en- titled Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail and Peter. It was all about four rabbits of unquestioned virtue scampering in the woods. DeMille was ecstatic. He asked the Hays office to designate which rabbit was of ill repute. Hays was not willing to put the brand of shame on this Mopsy, and withdrew his objection.