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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While he had been a furrier Zukor had known another furrier named Marcus Loew and had invested in Loew's subsequent theatre business. The consolidation of Loew's vaudeville houses, solidifying Zukor's investment, had made his fortune, for the time being, secure. He and Loew found that they had common interests. Neither owned enough houses to keep a "feature" busy the whole year. In the new Loew Co. Loew was president and Zukor nominal treasurer. Into it Zukor threw all his cinema theatres except the three he owned with Brady. Zukor said, "I could have cashed in then...
...oaken door of the Franciscan monastery at Gorheim, in the principality of Hohenzollern, faltered one morning a timid knock. The monk who answered found a cringing wretch there, broken with years of suffering: He identified himself as a onetime Colonel of the Kaiser's armies, personal friend of the Crown Prince, who had led his regiment gallantly to France. But a sense of guilt for his part in war obsessed him, and now he sought to make penitential amends, following the example of the gentle St. Francis of Assisi...
Back home at Smith College, President William Allan Neilson found his mail doubled over night. The extra letters were from alumnae, begging him to drop Jolter Barnes...
Once, taking a dislike to the music critic's hair, he cabled: "Tell Meltzer to cut his hair." Further exchanges of cables found Meltzer with hair still uncut. Bennett cabled: "Send him to St. Petersburg...
Until they found poor Marion, her body cold in death...