The House That Shadows Built (1928)

Record Details:

Title:
The House That Shadows Built
Date:
1928
Publisher:
New York: Doubleday
Volume:
The House That Shadows Built
Leaf #:
00065
Language:
English
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
November 16, 2023
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NOVELTY FURS 49 for mink scarves continued; and Adolph Zukor — Max used to introduce him as “superintendent of our mechanical department” — made the best in Chicago. Even before the end of their first year, they had taken on extra hands. Now they employed a working force of twenty-five men. Adolph designed some fancies of his own. These sold, but nothing went so well as his mink scarves. The Novelty Fur Company, it seemed, held the world in its grasp. If they could do this in Chicago, why not elsewhere? Adolph Zukor’s native ambition sprang fully awake. He imagined a string of establishments running from coast to coast. As a beginning, the Novelty Fur Company opened a branch in Peoria. When the rush season ended, Adolph was pale and thin with work and thinking; but he had in the bank eight thousand dollars, cold cash. There was more yet to come. He and Max Schosberg had overlooked the trimmings and leavings of their pelts. Hatters buy these as raw material for the “topper.” The partners gathered up this accumulation, and Max bargained so shrewdly that they divided twelve hundred dollars. Now Max had left a mother in Hungary. Like many European mothers, she conceived of America in dimenovel terms. Cowboys, bandits, and Indians rode the streets, shooting at you. Bears and rattlesnakes bit you. Max wrote, to no avail, that Chicago was a fine orderly