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 #:
000124
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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io6 THE HOUSE THAT SHADOWS BUILT mastery of the English language. Perhaps that defect served him in this argument so vital to his future career. An inarticulate man, struggling for expression while he talks common sense, achieves an impression of sincerity which no glib man can imitate. “All right,” said Brady at length, “go ahead and have your try. But don’t get us further into the hole, and don’t bother me with details.” Silently, persistently — as was his way — Adolph Zukor went to work. He made Brady’s office his uptown headquarters. Busy with a hundred other things, Brady paid this small, unsuccessful venture very little attention, except to satisfy himself that it was not losing any more money. At the end of two years, Adolph Zukor entered his office and laid a balance sheet on the desk. Brady ran through the papers, and whistled. The transformed Hale’s Tours had begun to return a profit in its first year; now, at the beginning of the third, it had paid off the whole debt; and in the bank lay a small but encouraging dividend ! That, however, is going a little ahead of the story.