The House That Shadows Built (1928)

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i8 THE HOUSE THAT SHADOWS BUILT — and a few trimmings, thrown in not because Adolph really expected them but because they furnished a margin for pruning. The list went first to his uncle Ignatz Zukor at Ricse; for he, and not the philanthropic but impractical Kalman Liebermann, stood as official guardian to Arthur and Adolph. Ignatz Zukor inspected the list and cut it down according to his ideas of what was good for a growing boy. Then the banker who held the fund in trust took his turn and filed off the edges. Their system made no allowance for such frivolous luxuries as books or spending-money. Until he finished his apprenticeship at the age of fifteen, Adolph Zukor had never jingled in his pocket a single copper coin which he could call his own. The term of indenture expired early in the summer of 1888. Adolph had grown by now so valuable to the store that Herman Blau, instead of sending him out with a blessing to find a job, asked him to stay on as assistant at a salary equivalent to two American dollars a month and board. But that, the first real money he had ever earned, brought no thrill of accomplishment to young Adolph Zukor. Instead, it seemed again to mark and to symbolize the narrowness of the goal toward which he had been making for the past three years. Just as when he left grammar school, he sat down and deliberated on his present and future. By renouncing a higher education, he had only reached another impasse, bound himself to another wheel. For some years, he would receive