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290 Yes, Mr. DeMille There were, however, a few in foreign publications. In Paris, o, a De GauUist extreme rightist paper, stated: DeMille has at the same time surpassed the Himalaya as a champion of bad taste. The conservative Hufvudstradstrladet, in Helsinki, described the film as "a Biblical luxury rigged out more expensively than tastefully," while Stockholm's Dagens Nyheter called it "a strongly colored mausoleum of DeMille's vitality and vulgar- ity/' The highly conservative London Daily Telegraph pointed to "moments of beauty," and scenes "with a deal of bad taste/' As far as the assistant was concerned, the project was pro- ceeding badly. He came into the office of a fellow assistant one afternoon. "I could be in a lot of trouble," he said. "Why?" "The boss is trying to prove he's being chased by Communists who have infiltrated the movie sections of newpapers . . ." "Well..." "Well, I don't seem to be able to prove it. Anyway I'm writing my report today and tomorrow all hell will probably break loose/' He was operating as best he could on the no-matter-what- you-think, your-troubles-are-over-if-you-please-DeMille philos- ophy, and on this basis he was in some peril. By the bungalow's standards, his report was courageous. He advised the boss that he was "unable to sense any world-wide subversive pattern in the bad reviews." He pointed out that in several of the large Eastern dailies, "the critics leave no doubt that they consider sitting through one of your pictures a major ordeal for one so sensitive to art values as a critic. These writers are a very small minority, how- ever, and ninety per cent of the criticisms run from inspired to enthusiastic. I might mention that even the two Communist papers, Daily People's World and Daily Worker, gave you