During the run of the Ziegfeld Follies of 1917, a man in his mid-50s kept reappearing in the audience night after nightalways buying two tickets, one for himself, one for his hatto stare at a blonde chorine named Marion Davies. He already had a wife, five sons, a gold mine, seven magazines, ten newspapers, more than a million acres of landand now he wanted the chorine. Getting her was as easy for William Randolph Hearst as hailing a taxicab. Remarkably, she remained his mistress for 34 years.
Hearst made plans to build Marion into the...
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