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"In Hearst's medieval dining hall the long, narrow table
is set for dinner with antique silver and extra ketchup. Nearby, almost invisible in the elaborate parlor, is a little card
table where Hearst's beloved mistress, film star Marion Davies, worked jigsaw puzzles with gossip columnist Hedda Hopper.
Around the corner is the billiard room where actress Carole Lombard batted her eyelashes, chalked her cue stick, and beat
every man foolish enough to challenge her to a game."
Deborah Franklin
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"Cocktails were being served at one end of the room and
there was a chess game at the other end of the room. I wandered over to the chess game and with the cocktails being served
and a gramaphone going, the party was quite gay. In the midst of it all, Mr. Hearst came into the room. There was a teletype
machine just inside to the right and he stopped and he read it......he then went to an enormous table in the center of the
room and picked up a phone. It was a direct connection with the San Francisco newspaper office and he asked for the editor
and he said, "Put this in a two-column box on the front page of all the papers tomorrow morning." and without notes he dictated
an editorial which appeared the following morning on the front page.....It was quite a remarkable thing to witness." Ralph Bellamy, Actor
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