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 #:
000313
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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THE MAN AND THE MIND 289 his old temper breaks forth. The intelligent and efficient he manages in such way as not to let them know that they are being managed. “I have worked with him for fifteen years,” says one of his veterans, “and I’ve made my serious mistakes. Never yet has Zukor reproved me. Only when the crisis is over, and I realize as well as anyone what I’ve done, he glides into my office and says, ‘ Next time do it this way. . . . These, however, are only external characteristics. Let us get at the mind underneath. The contradictory mixture of humility with confidence and over-veering ambition derives probably from some knot of consciousness tied in the early, obscure years of childhood — an inferiority complex compounded of his obscure, unhappy origins, his smallness of stature, his shadowing by a brilliant brother whose powers blossomed earlier. Such an implanted trait, developing its abnormal protective mechanism, runs in some able spirits into arrogance; as witness the comparatively mediocre Mussolini and the genius Napoleon. Zukor has avoided this defect of his qualities, and the cause, probably, lies partly in his steely will and partly in the character of his intelligence. Governing his impulses and emotions sits enthroned the diamond-hard mind of his race. It is a realistic intelligence. Almost passionately, it tries to see things as they are, whether those things concern Adolph Zukor