The Life and Adventures of Carl Laemmle (1931)

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Title:
The Life and Adventures of Carl Laemmle
Date:
1931
Author:
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Volume:
The Life and Adventures of Carl Laemmle
Leaf #:
000163
Language:
English
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
May 02, 2024
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CHAPTER IX IMP The strain of uninterrupted attack had, indeed, been enormous. There were frequent occasions when Laemmle could have been blamed by nobody if he had refused to go on with what must often have seemed a hopelessly unequal contest. It is doubtful whether the thought ever entered his head, but even his buoyant courage must sometimes have been sorely tried. And, during those years, not only was he engaged in an attack that demanded a sustained concentration of energy, he was the executive head of a young and rapidly expanding producing firm, in the success of which lay the only hope of destroying the Trust. Good management of the concern known successively as IMP and Universal was an essential part of the anti-Trust campaign, but it was a part only. It was a fulltime job, but while doing it Laemmle could never for a day relax his vigilance in other directions. For offence or defence alike he and his Allies in the Sales Company, firms such as Rex and Nestor, and men such as Herbert Miles and J. V. Ward, 131