The House That Shadows Built (1928)

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62 THE HOUSE THAT SHADOWS BUILT Mountains and, sleeping in tepees or in the wagonbed, trafficked with the Indians and the half-breed trappers. He bought red fox pelt, muskrat hides, bearskins. His modest profits helped in the purchase of ploughs, harrows, tools, and domestic supplies. This transaction is like the first moment of impulse in a drama. Unconsciously, Morris Kohn had entered the fur business. That would lead as by magic guidance to his meeting with Adolph Zukor, to the Penny Arcade in New York and the transformation of the moving picture. . . .