The House That Shadows Built (1928)

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ZUKOR BECOMES A SHOWMAN 95 Let me finish here with some of the careers which flowed from troubled sources to pleasant lands through the channel of the Penny Arcade on Union Square. Mitchell Mark never again associated himself directly with his old partners. He “got into pictures” nevertheless. It was he who built later the Strand Theatre in Broadway, at the time the most important movingpicture palace in the world. Morris Kohn, after he took over Adolph Zukor’s share in the Penny Arcade, formed the Automatic Vaudeville Company; the name explains its purpose. By negotiations whose details do not concern us, he acquired control and began to spot the community with penny arcades. At once, he drew Emil Shauer into the combination. Here comes another of those alliances by matrimony — already so complex that I cannot blame the reader for growing confused. This one is a double link. Emil Shauer, born in America of a Bohemian couple, married Julia Kaufmann, sister-in-law to Adolph Zukor, and niece to Morris Kohn; she was born in that sod house of North Dakota. And Emil Shauer’s sister had married Morris Kohn. Though not Hungarian, the Shauer family has a native taste for showmanship. Emil’s brother, a chess player just below the championship class, served until his early death as the brains of the Automatic Turkish Chess Master in Chicago’s Eden Musee. However, Shauer began life in a Chicago department store, and worked up to a buyer’s job.