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 #:
000162
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
Something wrong or inaccurate about this page? Let us Know!

Thanks for helping us continually improve the quality of the Lantern search engine for all of our users! We have millions of scanned pages, so user reports are incredibly helpful for us to identify places where we can improve and update the metadata.

Please describe the issue below, and click "Submit" to send your comments to our team! If you'd prefer, you can also send us an email to mhdl@commarts.wisc.edu with your comments.




We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.

Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.

144 the house that SHADOWS BUILT $90,000. “IVe been watching that fellow,” said Zukor. “You owe him about $30,000. The rest — it’s just taking unfair advantage.” Before they went to bed, Zukor had offered to go through the books and see exactly what could be done. Working fourteen hours a day, he made a digest of the Brady affairs so acute and yet so simple that Brady asked him once where and when he learned accounting. “Nowhere and never,” replied Zukor. This statement showed that if they could adjust certain false and fancy charges, like that item of $90,000, the assets would amount to seven eighths of the liabilities. Zukor volunteered to make the adjustment. He succeeded so well that in a week Brady was going ahead with his plans for autumn productions as though nothing had happened. He had two or three successes that year. They put him onto his feet, and he never lost his balance again. “You deserve a partnership, Adolph,” said Brady one day. “You can have it if you want.” Zukor blushed. That is the one manifestation of his inner sentimentalism which his native reserve has never managed to inhibit. But he answered merely: “Much obliged, Billy. I have other plans!” Theatrical management never attracted him. His connection with Brady was only a means to an end. The focus of his activities remained that little, crowded