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 #:
000300
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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276 THE HOUSE THAT SHADOWS BUILT The Baliban brothers saw the light also. Within the year — Sam Katz being still a student at Northwestern — they drew up plans and found loans for a great movingpicture palace which they called the Grand Central. Sam Katz was too young to vote, and the Baliban brothers still in their twenties. In their inexperience with big business, they made the usual mistakes. Also, the outbreak of the European war increased the prices of labour and material bevond their calculations. Only the steadily increasing revenues of their small theatres pulled them through. But early in 1917, the Grand Central, as ambitious a playhouse as the moving picture knew up to that time, opened the doors of its majestic and glittering auditorium. It was legitimate ancestor to such palaces of the moving picture as Roxy’s on Seventh Avenue; the same great auditorium, the same gaudy effects of gold and high colour, the same orchestras, scenic effects, vaudeville support. By now, Sam Katz had transferred his ambition, for it seemed foolish to renounce such opportunities. Also, he wanted to get married. In 1916, being then in his twenty-fourth year of age and his second of law school, he closed his books and entered the harbour of matrimony. Adolph Zukor came out to Chicago for the opening of the Grand Central. Ever since he saw the first Famous Players films, Sam Katz had admired this pioneer. Their