The House That Shadows Built (1928)

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CHAPTER XXI THE SOIL OF THE EARTH HAVE reached 1919, the year of the peace. Seven years now since Adolph Zukor took the fate of an industry into his own hands and plunged; and in the complicated story of his acts during this period I have somewhat neglected the man. As his fortunes expanded, so did his scale of living. First it was the apartment in Eighty-eighth Street, then a mansion on Riverside Drive. The urge for exercise and the habit of keeping fit persisted. But he had “slowed up” for tennis, as do most men in their forties. With equal enthusiasm he took to golf, and entered the innumerable company of those who “play around a hundred.” He found time now and then for a little bridge or poker — at which he is as proficient as one might expect — and to indulge at opera or symphony his passion for music. A sociable being, he entertained lavishly. Otherwise he worked and thought. All this time there were worrisome, perplexing private troubles. The surviving Zukors and their wide connection by marriage were feeling the tragedy of all international families in the late war. It lacked only the supreme tragedy: divided allegiance. So far as the 260