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A MARRIAGE AND A PARTNERSHIP 77
that experience, and more. His circle recognized him as the cleverest young designer in Chicago. Therefore, Morris Kohn proposed a partnership — he to furnish most of the working capital and the judgment of raw furs, Adolph Zukor to supply the technique. Contemporaneously with the wedding, they formed the firm of Kohn & Company, manufacturing furriers.
The newly married couple established themselves in a flat on the West Side. Presently, things were going so well that without taking chances on the future they could employ a maid. It was only eight years since Adolph Zukor, his apprenticeship at Szalka expired, jingled in his pocket the first silver coins that he could ever call his own. At about the same period, Lottie Kaufmann was crawling back to Chicago from that sod house in Dakota. Such is the magic of America! The future seemed to stretch ahead gloriously secure. Some day, Adolph Zukor was going to be a big man in the fur business. Imagination leaped no higher than that.
Though once, imagination seemed for a moment to pierce the mists. It was four years since Adolph Zukor, visiting the World’s Fair, breezed by that little side show which held the crude tachyscope moving picture of a walking elephant. Edison, as I have said, intended to exhibit his motion-picture machine at the Fair, but his mechanics and partners did not get the parts ready in time. In 1894, however, his company put out on the market his kinetoscope,a peep-show device. You dropped