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266 THE HOUSE THAT SHADOWS BUILT
with heads of departments; here for week-ends come such lords of finance and politics as have high business with the screen. The guest book is almost a roster of American eminence. Perhaps the atmosphere is most characteristic, however, on those off-weeks when there are no celebrities in the guest house and the clans of Zukor, Kaufmann, and Kohn gather. On his relatives by marriage, Zukor exercises his complex for the bloodrelationships of which fate robbed him. Sometimes he sits at the head of the great table in the dining room with forty relatives-in-law strung out before him. There is, too, the nursery, where play the four babies presented to him by those satisfactory children, Eugene and Mildred. A delegation of European moving-picture producers, coming to Zukor for a conference of international importance, found him on the lawn, fifth member to a game of tag. . . . His studios and offices have sensed the growth of this paternal and patriarchal quality; and his office nickname — behind his back — is “Papa Zukor.”
Father to Ricse also! When the war ended, when Bela Kuhn’s impermanent government fell, when the Treaty of Sevres tore Hungary from her Austrian alliance on one side and her rich Transylvanian provinces on the other, the triangle of grain-fields and vineyards between Ricse, Szanto, and Szalka knew hard, uncertain distress. An economic system had been torn limb from limb ; the wounds bled. Ricse had food, perhaps, but little else.