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of the reckless charges that had been hurled against the industry — its complete vindication in fact.
The previous year's entertainment tax had hit the trade hard indeed but it was now proposed to increase it. That horrid idea was postponed till the autumn but that was the best that could be done with it. The effect of the tax was in many cases to shift the patrons into cheaper seats, so the exhibitor was hit, without benefit to the treasury.
The inception of a trade employment bureau to provide employment for disabled soldiers, who were now beginning to come back in increasing numbers, was due to the initiative of Paul Kimberley. It was a fine idea and a considerable number of officers and men were successfully trained in various branches of the trade and found employment suited to the needs, but the lay press was still ignoring the industry, as though they feared to look at it lest it should turn out to be a rival. W. G. Faulkner's notes in the Evening News were practically the only exception. He noted, among many other things, that Alma Taylor had won through from tiny parts, boys, tomboy girls, and all sorts of things, to leading player in such important films as Pinero's Iris for instance, and now had widespread popularity.
Henry Edwards' first big part was Gabriel Oak in Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd. Larry Trimble had seen him first as the waiter in The Man Who Stayed at Home and secured him. He rejoined the Hepworth Company when Trimble and the Turner Films returned to America. Chrissie White, a contemporary of Alma Taylor and fellow conspirator in the Tilly the Tomboy series of most popular films, was also growing up to big and important things. Victor Montenore, a resident scenario writer for Hepworth films, a fine musician and a delightful personality, a gentle almost ethereal being, most obviously and utterly unsuitable for a soldier in any possible capacity, was ruthlessly called up, nevertheless, and he was dead within a week of going into camp.
I wonder whether I am managing to get over any sense of my great feeling of gratitude to all the fine people who worked with me so loyally and for so long. I do not know how to put it into words for something of the same sort is so often said without any real meaning behind it. I can only hope that some sense of my real indebtedness may seep through my words although they are applied to other things.
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