Word: simeone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Donated to San Simeon Museum in Golden Gate Park...
Soon R. K. O. officials decided to release the picture in February anyway. Of course, there was the question of a libel action. Would Publisher Hearst sue? Valhallan silence gripped the crags of San Simeon. For Publisher Hearst's dilemma, if he insisted on publicly pointing out the similarities between himself and Citizen Kane, was acute. In any case, R. K. O. lawyers decided that Hearst had no case. More probably, it was rumored, Director Welles would give Publisher Hearst a private preview, make necessary adjustments. Seldom in Hollywood history had there been such a prospective buildup. Wiseacres shook...
...spending money, Hearst had mortgaged San Simeon, his vast California estate. In 1938 it was announced that part of his $50,000,000-or-so accumulation of antiques and art objects would be offered for sale. The bulk of this vast, amorphous agglomeration reposed in warehouses-four of them in California, the fifth, a five-story, block-square structure, in The Bronx. It included collections of 504 different kinds of works of art, any one of which would have made an ordinary collector notable...
...West) where any conception of foreign policy that exists has been determined by the newspapers of William Randolph Hearst and finds expression in parrotlike repetitions of Washington's "no foreign entanglements" statement. The result of this unwitting partnership between half-cocked idealists and the sage of San Simeon is a young generation with about as much sense of world responsibility as a tribe of aborigines in the Australian bush...
...August, when the whole choir of Hearstpapers began to laud Sanity in Art. Last month he stuck his burly neck out by panning Chicago art dealers and citizenry alike, calling a WPA art show the best in town. Last week, on orders from Hearst's California castle, San Simeon, Burg was told to stick to his specialty: rape & murder...