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 #:
00086
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 VII A MARRIAGE AND A PARTNERSHIP Generally, his male acquaintances of old years cannot remember when or where they first met Adolph Zukor. He was so insignificant of stature, so reserved of manner, that the beholder paid him only passive attention— until some flash of shrewd insight or of common sense awoke the realization that here stood a man. With women, I fancy, it was different. For his face was virile but comely; now, when he has passed fifty, it retains in some aspects a great beauty. Even his cameo of a figure must have appealed to the mother in them. However, Adolph Zukor, in the year when he stood to his neck in debts of the vanished Novelty Fur Company, was not interested in the ladies. He still held the attitude of the Tompkins Square gang. After a hard week of struggle with his perplexities, he spent Saturday and Sunday hopping round second base; on one side of his nature prematurely a man of affairs and on the other, still a boy. The first meeting between him and Morris Kohn remains an exception to this rule. Morris remembers it vividly. Keeping touch with the gossip of the fur busi 70