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Lolly Parsons nearly fell out of her chair. On the preview screen before her, Orson Welles, the bearded boy, was playing Citizen Kane, a corrupt newspaper publisher, in a way that reminded Cinecolumnist Parsons irresistibly of her boss-William Randolph Hearst. The seed of suspicion had been deftly implanted in the Parsons mind a week before. She had not been included among Hollywood's journalistic elite (her rival Hedda Hopper, Timesman Douglas Churchill, Look's Jim Crow) who saw the initial preview of R. K. O.'s & Orson Welles's Citizen Kane...
...picture, Orson Welles's first movie (secret script by Orson Welles, who changed it so often on the set that even the actors could not remember the lines), is not, he claims, about William Randolph Hearst. Nevertheless, Lolly Parsons thought she detected some glaring similarities between the picture's plot and the career of her boss. It was a picture lush with the leggy beauty of Publisher Kane's teeming love life, grotesque with his wholesale grabs of Europe's artistic offscourings, memorable for the impressionistic camera work of Photographer Gregg Toland (The Grapes of Wrath...
...path that led to Mr. Heatter's present eminence was laid out by William Randolph Hearst. Born in Manhattan in 1890, Small-Fry Heatter got his first job as a combination messenger and reporter with Hearst's New York American. While he was pattering around the city room there, Publisher Hearst whooped into a Gubernatorial campaign. One of Hearst's advisers suggested that it might be a good idea to have a boy orator precede the master. The assignment fell to the juvenile Heatter, then 16. All over New York the youthful Gabriel trumpeted the virtues...
...money, a name and a flair for publicity; he had Lord Randolph Churchill's "force, caprice and charm"; and he had an incomparable gift for words. During his years of eclipse between the two World Wars he was an articulate and consistent critic of British Empire policy, the most feared politician in Britain by the narrow-minded men who made that policy. He was the one man in the British Empire most obviously equipped to lead the Empire in war, and it was small credit to Britain that he was not chosen to lead it until the Empire rocked...
...decades the art market had its ever-normal granary and his name was William Randolph Hearst...