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Herbert Brenon — the last named began as scenario editor — had at their disposal such now famous stars of the screen as Mary Pickford, King Baggot, Owen Moore, WilUam Robert Daly, William Shay, Vivian Prescott, and Frank Crane. The photoplays released by the "Imp" Company in 1910-1911 quickly gave to that brand of film an individuality which was the real foundation of what the Universal Film Company represents to-day, and yet those mainly responsible for the success artistically v/ere men and women who achieved nothing notable in the theatrical field. It is true that King Baggot had quite a vogue in stock organizations. In fact, it was his popularity as leading man with one of Corse Payton's Brooklyn organizations that induced the "Imp" people to negotiate for his services. Mr. Baggot has been with "Imp" four years, increasing in influence and popularity steadily, until at this writing he is one of the six most idolized favorites of the screen. Mr. Baggot is quite as celebrated as a director as he is as a photoplayer, and he writes many scenarios of the productions in which he appears and others in which he does not personally act. On the theatrical Rialto the career of King Baggot is discussed as being of the Arabian Nights order. As usual, there is little cognizance taken of the fact that this man is what he is to-day because of the seriousness with which he invests his work, because he is a prodigious worker, and finally because he has remained steadfast to the organization which he joined as an experiment, and as he contributed materially to the growth of that organization, his constancy and capacity have been rev/arded so rapidly that his annual earnings now are said to be 2000 per cent greater than four years ago.