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making Birth of a Nation, had started Douglas Fairbanks on his career, had gathered under its studio roof such leading actors of stage and screen as Willie Collier, De Wolf Hopper, Raymond Hitchcock, Billie Burke, Julia Dean, and that new king of the Westerns, W. S. Hart. It was creating its own system of distribution. Pile a-top Famous Players and Lasky this important firm, and you had a structure so commanding that it could, as it chose, dictate to Paramount or create its own distribution. Soon Harry E. Aitken, president of Triangle, sat in conference with Famous Players and Lasky.
The negotiations which followed involved so many factors and so many plans as to blur the memories of the high contracting parties; the course of events remains to this day a little obscure. At one period a banking syndicate, which wanted to take over the whole project, offered Zukor $1,500,000 for his interest in Famous Players. Though security for his family tempted him who had known poverty and insecurity, power and activity tempted him even more. He declined. Again, Triangle and the “Paramount firms” reached the point of drawing up a tentative agreement. Then someone in the Famous Players forces discovered that Triangle wanted virtually to reserve its foreign rights. This source of revenue had become important; must become in the future, Zukor and Goldwyn saw, more important still. The agreement went into the waste-paper basket;