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'V* AS IN BARNUM 305 the asylum past the spot where we were shooting and we sup- posed it was used by the asylum. In that picture we had a great oriental idol more than fifty feet high, which we had made in the States and shipped in pieces to the Island. Well, it was as- sembled right there and it looked pretty grotesque, sitting in the jungle before a small clearing. Matter of fact it was outright eerie. The idol was put up and we shot our scenes, and then we all left for a location a few miles away. That evening two in- mates came strolling down. They saw the idol and froze in their tracks. Where had this monstrous thing with a face like a gar- goyle come from? They did not approach it but turned and fled. When they reached the asylum they hurried to the office of the superintendent with the news. The superintendent received the story with a dubious shake of his head. A few days before he had given these two men the freedom of the area, thinking their minds were back to normal, but now it appeared he had made a mistake. Certainly anyone who sees a giant idol in this remote jungle ought to be checked a little closer. The inmates insisted they weren't nuts, that there really was an idol out there and they could prove it if he would follow them. The superintendent nodded his head, obviously humoring them, and promised he would go with them in the morning, as it was getting dark. "That very evening Roy Burns and his crew returned to the location, dismantled the idol and placed it aboard a boat'for our new location. We had promised the local government not to destroy trees in the area, so Roy and his men were careful to clean up the spot and remove all debris. The next morning the two inmates, now plainly worried about whether they really had seen an idol, returned to the spot with the superintendent at their heels. They rushed here and there, but no idol! And the more they talked, the more the superintendent shook his head. There was only one thing he could do, revoke their right to move around the area and confine them to the asylum." Mr. DeMille said he had learned the story from one of the Paramount people who had talked to the superintendent of the