The House That Shadows Built (1928)

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274 the house that SHADOWS BUILT chased the films, generally managed the enterprise; Sam Katz played the piano and Abe Baliban sang for the song-slides. So, they saved the hire of two employees. By the end of Sam’s sophomore year in high school, Baliban and Katz had made so much money that they were branching out. They added another show, another, and still another. This last — modest enough by modern standards — was perhaps the most pretentious motionpicture theatre of its period. Sam Katz had recruited ushers from his fellow students in high school, and dressed them in flashy uniforms. Out of the high-school orchestra he selected a pianist, a violinist, and a ’cellist to play incidental music; began even the daring innovation of rehearsing them with the film. ... A d5mamic boy, this, also, beyond his abilities and energies he had the unfair gift of personality. As that spruce little figure and that ever-smiling face entered a room the atmosphere seemed to brighten. All men of his kind liked him on sight. When Sam Katz marched across the platform to get his high-school diploma, he was earning $400 a week; and his skeptical father had long since closed the barber shop and gone to managing one of the Baliban and Katz houses. Sam had found his affairs so pressing that he must needs now and then drop out of school for a term. But he was still steering for his major objective: the law. He had his programme laid out; he would take two years at Northwestern and the full course at law school.