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employed at Walton, Mr. and Mrs. Sebastian Smith playing respectively the flirtatious soldier and the wicked old woman who stole the baby while the nurse's back was turned. They each received half-a-guinea which included their fares from London! The nurse's part was played by Mabel Clark. For some reason this quaintly simple little film has found its way into the National Film Library and has been instanced again and again, either as an example of most praiseworthy economy in cost or, alternatively, of budding genius in production. It was enormously popular and financially successful in its time and we had to make it all over again a second time and then even a third, because we wore out the negatives in the making of the four hundred prints to satisfy the demand. It was my biggest thing ever, since The Funeral of Queen Victoria. Its cost was trifling by today's standards.
Meanwhile our little company was slowly gathering to itself the sort of people who fitted in, shared our feelings and ideas, reinforced our abilities and turned out the kind of work we wanted and could be proud of. First among these, both in time and in quality, were Stanley Faithfull and, a year later, his brother Geoffrey. Never has any name been more justly worn. They came when they left school, each at the age of fourteen, about 1896 and 1897. I have known them intimately ever since and never for one second in all that long time have I known either of them to falter in the perfection of good faith.
Tom White was Stanley's school friend. His father asked me to take him on and unconsciously did me the best of good turns, for he is another of the same order of knighthood and his name also suits him to perfection. He is at this moment of writing the General Manager at the Pinewood Film Studios, and if you want to hear the highest praise that any man can win, ask anyone what they think of him there.
Lewin Fitzhamon, too, was a rattling good sort — one of the very best. He introduced the two little girls, Dolly Lupone and Gertie Potter, and made with them several bright and pleasant little films. He brought along, too, a little later on, the two little Ginger Girls whose flaming hair lighted up the roads and lanes of Walton for a considerable time. They were the protagonists in a number of 'shorts' which again were full of that gaiety and sprightly happiness which was the hall-mark of all Fitz's work. His greatest triumph was with the Tilly Girl series, with Alma Taylor and
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