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some sheds. The principal players
were Charles Ray, Frank Borzage,
Tom Chatterton, Sessue Hayakawa,
Gladys Brockwell, Rhea Mitchell, Enid
Markey, Louise· Glaum, Tsuro Acki,
Clara Williams, Dick Stanton, and
Walter Edwards (the last two also
directed) . The regular directors were
Reginald Barker, Raymond B. West,
Charles Giblyn, and Scott Sidney. Ince
supervised all production and released
through Mutual Film Exchanges (John
R. Freuler and Harry M. Aitkin)
under the brand names of Bison,
Domino, Kay-Bee, and Broncho.
Hart's first two films were His Hart in WILD BILL HICKOK (1923)
H our of Manhood and Jim Cameron's
tt7ife. They were two-reelers s,tarring score of two-reelers, plus several fea-
Tom Chatterton, who also directed, tures. Some of the best- Mr. Silent
with Clara Williams as the heroine Haskins, The Darkening Trail, Pinto
and Hart as the heavy. They fell far Ben, and Keno Bates Liar- had a
short of what he had hoped for and success equalling that of the films of
Hart told Ince so. Ince put him in Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks
a feature written by C. Gardner Sulli- and Charles Chaplin.
van, one of the first great scenario In the spring of 1915, after Hart
writers, called The Bargain. Reginald had completed over twenty films,
Barker, a young Scot, directed. It Harry M. Aitken formed the Tri-
was a good picture and Hart was angle Film Corporation by absorbing
pleased. It was quickly followed by the New York Motion Picture Com-
On the Night Stage, which Barker pany, Reliance-Majestic, and Key-
also directed. After it was completed stone. D. W. Griffith, Mack Sennett,
Ince released Hart, who returned to and Thomas H. Ince were the di-
New York. His sojourn had been un- rector generals.
profitable, and, he thought, unsuc- Hart's Triangle films are the most
cessful. typical of all his pic,tures, and some
But The Bargain was a hit. Ince are among his best. The Aryan and
called him back at once and put him The Return of Draw Egan are still
under contract as a director-actor at in cir,culation today. Both were writ-
$125 a week. Hart took his sister ten by C. Gardner Sullivan and di-
Mary with him, convinced he was rected by Hart. They are similar in
now going to stay in movies. form, and in both there is accurate
The first picture he directed, and reconstruction of atmosphere, meticu-
starred in, was The Passing of Two lous characteriza,tion, and a slow
Gun Hicks. It was followed by a build-up of tension rather than