 After Williamson died in 1913, his company – at one time the largest theatrical firm in the world – continued to operate under various managing directors.The firm began to make films and continued to present musical comedy and operetta, including the extremely successful "The Maid of the Mountains" (1917).In 1941, Viola Hogg Wilson, a former principal soprano with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company who had toured with the Williamson company beginning in 1940, married Frank Tait, one of the company's managing directors, later becoming an artistic director of the company.