The House That Shadows Built (1928)

Record Details:

Title:
The House That Shadows Built
Date:
1928
Publisher:
New York: Doubleday
Volume:
The House That Shadows Built
Leaf #:
00059
Language:
English
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
November 16, 2023
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CHAPTER IV NOVELTY FURS Chicago, with the wild Northwest at her doors, had begun existence as a trading post for furs. It remained an important centre for the traffic in raw pelts. However, New York, fashion centre for the country, had appropriated to herself the business of working furs into coats, boas, muffs, and trimmings. Chicago was struggling to establish herself as a competitor. This budding industry stood housed in rows of old buildings along the river. When he had unpacked his trunk in a Hungarian boarding house, Adolph Zukor walked to the fur district and made the rounds, looking for a job. His stature made him seem even younger than his years. That counted against him. On the other hand, he had special goods to sell. Until a year or so before, women had dressed their throats in winter with simple boas. Then Paris or Leipzig sprung a new idea. Taking the pelt of any small, long animal — at first always a mink — the fur worker dressed it with the tail and front legs intact, and affixed a stuffed head whose beady eyes seemed to glare reproach at its murderers. That was to be one of the longest-lived fancies in modern fashion; it is going yet. 43