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148 THE HOUSE THAT SHADOWS BUILT
in doubt of his own powers. If he began producing longer and better films let it be with some established firm which knew the ropes.
In 1910, the Loew consolidation having rendered his affairs temporarily secure, Zukor took his family for another vacation in Europe. Carl Laemmle abode that summer in Wiesbaden. He, with his “Imp” Company, was one of the leading and progressive independents. For the time had come when these free lances, entrenched behind a barrier of legal points, were rising to order and respectability. Zukor travelled from Paris to Wiesbaden in order to unload his idea. Laemmle listened, and half agreed. But the time, he felt, had not yet come. Before attempting anything so large and expensive, they must establish more firmly their legal position.
Refused by the independents, Zukor tried the Trust. When he returned to New York he managed by persuasion and diplomacy to get an appointment with J. J. Kennedy, its genius and driving spirit. Banker, engineer, and fine old Irish gentleman, Kennedy had found himself in a position where it was necessary to fight. And fight he did, with fists and teeth and toenails, until the independents regarded him as a sinister menace and the regulars as a crowned hero. He bestrode the movingpicture world like a colossus. Zukor, himself only a tiny, insignificant figure in the business, felt properly thrilled and awed. As when he found it necessary to persuade