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decided to let it appear as a sort of 'unfinished symphony.* It was in fact a great success even in that truncated form, and with its 'stage presentation,' its specially selected music, and an orchestra of twenty-eight musicians, it attracted enthusiastic attention.
Shayle Gardner recovered in due course, to the very great and thankful relief of everybody, and came back to the studio to complete the picture, though not until December. It all fitted well at last and showed no untidy joins.
It is strange to recall that, apart from this, one of our greatest difficulties was to make a footpath through our rye-field which would not look at all artificial. People walking along the selected route seemed to make no difference at all. What was trampled down one day grew up again in the night. So we filled a wooden box with heavy stones and towed that behind the procession of walkers and after a while that produced the effect in the end. The rye scenes were, of course, taken at various times during the summer so that the age of the crop should correspond with the time-development of the story.
Everybody worked to the very best of his or her ability in this picture and I put all that I have in me into it. I did not know at the time that it was going to be my 'swan song,' but so it proved, for it was the last of the Hep worth Picture Plays.
Now I must pick up the main story again at the point where the receiver was appointed to sell or realise the assets of the company and repay to the debenture holders the amount of their holdings, £35,500 in all. It appeared that this should not be at all difficult for the assets of the company were then conservatively valued at between three and four times that amount. He was a kindly man, friendly disposed and probably very skilful in his own particular line but without special knowledge of the film business, not that that was necessarily needful. He told me that in his last receivership he had not only repaid the debentures in full but had realised a considerable sum in addition that he had been able to hand back to the company, and with which they were able to restart their undertaking. Receivers don't have to do that. Their only concern is to realise enough to pay off the debentures in full. After that they have no further duties or interest in the matter. They have no concern with shareholders or creditors.
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