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Kimberley during our mutual service in the National Motor Volunteers— afterwards R.A.S.C., M.T. (V)— both as fellow privates and later when we received our commissions together, and we had sailed together many times. I had met him first when he was in the service of my old friend, Frank Brockliss. Now he was an important film renter in Wardour Street, and, under the title of the Imperial Film Co. Ltd., had the best organised renting concern in the country. He had been suggesting for some time that we should join business forces. This would enable me to rent out my films direct through his connection instead of selling outright as was my previous practice. The advantage of having a subject like Alfs Button to give the scheme a flying start was too good to be missed. So we 'bought it in' ourselves, so to speak, and gravely disappointed some hopeful would-be purchasers. So then in 192 1 the whole building at No. 2, Denman Street, Piccadilly, was taken over and the new joint scheme inaugurated with Paul Kimberley as director-manager.
In December, 1920, we held a very successful trade show of Mrs. Errickefs Reputation, a six-reel film which I produced in the summer from the novel by Thomas Cobb. I had a very excellent script for this novel which had already been made into a play under the title of Mrs. Pomerofs Reputation. The story was a very charming one of exactly the type which appealed to me most — the type for which we had earned a considerable repute, and it was beautifully played by Alma with excellent support from Jimmy Carew, Gwynne Herbert, Eileen Dennes and Gerald Ames. As our studios were only about a hundred yards from the Thames it seems a little surprising that this was, I believe, the only picture we made with the upper Thames as its principal background. It afforded us quite a lot of delightful scenery and a considerable part of the film was set in a beautiful house-boat in which we were made very welcome and allowed to do whatever we liked. Alma Taylor was very happily suited in the part of Mrs. Erricker, the very difficult role of a sincere and genuine young widow assuming the character of a flighty and careless society woman, saving a silly married friend from disgrace by taking upon herself the other's misdeeds. This is the part which was taken by Violet Vanbrugh in the stage version written by H. A. Vachell in collaboration with the author of the novel.
Quite early in the following year we come to a story of an entirely different character, but it had a little flavour of Alfs Button
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