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 #:
00090
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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74 THE HOUSE THAT SHADOWS BUILT my hands and keeping Adolph off by kicking backward with my feet. I didn’t know what Adolph might do if I let him in.”. When Morris Kohn at last relaxed his hold, the broker was glad to draw a check for three hundred and eightyfive dollars. Then Morris stood guard over him while Adolph ran to the bank and got the money in spot cash. So much for that ! One Sunday afternoon in the period when he was struggling back to a small solvency, Adolph Zukor went out Cottage Grove Avenue to see Morris Kohn on business. Morris, the maid informed him, had gone driving with a niece who was visiting at the house. In the meantime, Adolph spied a scrub game of baseball in a vacant lot next door. He vaulted the fence, begged a job at second base, took off his coat, and plunged into the fray. Presently, Morris came along with the second daughter of Herman Kaufmann — his brother-in-law and his partner in the adventure of the North Dakota homestead. Lottie Kaufmann had fulfilled that promise of beauty which was one consideration drawing her parents back to Chicago. Slender, dark-eyed, with an exquisite skin and a pleasant wit, she had suitors a-plenty. When first she set eyes on her future husband, he was fielding a grounder. Between innings, Morris introduced them. The incident made so little impression upon Adolph Zukor that he has forgotten it; and to Lottie Kauf