The House That Shadows Built (1928)

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268 THE HOUSE THAT SHADOWS BUILT which his uncle Ignatz was still main owner — and the winery; showed them the way to find regular markets. Now, half of Ricse corresponds with Adolph Zukor; one transatlantic mail brings him sometimes forty or fifty letters. He keeps for his Ricse correspondence a special drawer of his desk; sometimes when Eugene Zukor bounces into the office with the announcement that the car is waiting, he finds his father running over the naiVe and pathetic epistles, and has to call him back four thousand miles to the Broadway of reality. . . . And when he goes to Budapest nowadays, the lively, attractive Hungarian world of art and letters hails him like a crowned monarch.^