The House That Shadows Built (1928)

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THE MAN AND THE MIND 285 Zukor had purchased outright Charles Frohman Inc., a firm left orphaned by Frohman’s death on the Lusitania. At the moment, it stood unsurpassed for prestige. This was a notice of a counter-invasion. With some difficulty, Brady got Zukor and Lee Shubert, next evening, into a private dining room of Claridge’s. They talked nearly all night. None but they knows exactly what happened; but though Shubert kept his motionpicture stock and Zukor owns Charles Frohman Inc. to this day, invasion and counter-invasion stopped there. Temperamentally, he is a creator, an artist — perhaps in the last analysis those two words are synonyms. He shows that in his very habits of work. Like an artist, he gives himself forth in bursts; periods when what he is doing absorbs all his waking hours, varied with periods of indolent relaxation. In American business, these creative spirits always plough and seldom reap. They set afoot new movements or methods, but usually their temperament unfits them for that second stage, when siege and fruition demand stable organization. Zukor made the transition painlessly; showed himself equally able as an originator and an administrator. His abilities, indeed, seem marvellously fluid. I have told how he astonished Brady with his self-taught expertness at accounting. And no one associated with him in production of moving pictures doubts that, had not circumstances intervened, he might have fulfilled his ambition to become a high artistic director of motion pictures — a