You know it""s been a year." Arlington appreciates meeting Jane: "Even if there wasn""t any ivory, I""d be glad I made the trek, now.Plot SynopsisOvertureOpening Introductory Prologue:In the opening, producer-director Cecil B.DeMille directly addressed the film audience (after emerging from behind an ornate gold and gray theatrical stage curtain), and called his introduction "an unusual procedure speaking to you before the picture begins.When Joey resists, Jake taunts him and calls him a faggot: "Come on, don""t be a little faggot.Come on.Hit me." Goaded relentlessly, Joey wraps a towel around his hand and slams his brother repeatedly in the face, but it isn""t enough and sadistically intimates that Joey is homosexual: "You hrow a punch like you take it up the ass.Buck: Yes, I""d better, ""cause Pres isn""t gonna like it.Julie: What""s the matter, Buck? Afraid Pres would call you out?Buck: Oh, he""d do that naturally.Can""t say I""d blame him much.Where do I stand, carryin"" his lady?Julie: If I ask you to, isn""t that enough?Buck: Not this time, Miss Julie.Hundreds and thousands of people are going to listen to him over the radio.And unless he says something that""s - well, that""s sensational, it""s just no good." Her widowed, kindly mother (Spring Byington), who was married to her philanthropic father Dr.Mitchell who served he needy common people, suggests that the speech that she is writing shouldn""t be one of those "complaining political speeches.