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 #:
000130
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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II2 THE HOUSE THAT SHADOWS BUILT such time as the pictures came into their own. Under patronage of these two men, and of the other unpretentious exhibitors whose houses were springing up all over the city, there arose a circuit of small-time vaudeville people, just graduated from the amateur class, who played all year round in New York and environs. Through this side door, Sophie Tucker, Eddie Cantor, and Lowell Sherman entered on their careers. The Comedy occupied a fortunate site, perhaps the best for the purpose in New York City. It prospered from the first. Newark and Boston did passably. Pittsburgh, twelve hours away by train, was a perplexity. Zukor found difficulty in getting competent sub-management for a concern so small and cheap. It lost money steadily. Then came a depression in the steel business, forerunner to the brief but acute hard times which struck the country in 1907. Further, the city began to instal a tramway station in the same block, rendering the site, for the time being, most undesirable. Zukor found himself juggling his payroll on Saturday nights; again he faced the imminent prospect of bankruptcy. When every month or so Brady asked carelessly, “How are the pictures going, Adolph?” Zukor replied with affected nonchalance: “Oh, fine, Billy!” As a matter of fact, he had thrown some of his own reserve funds into the venture; and Pittsburgh swal