HEARST and MARION
The
Santa
Monica
Connection
Acknowledgments
v
Foreword by John Porter
viii
Introduction
x
chapter 1—Beginnings, Precedents, Patterns
1
chapter 2—Ladies First, 1925–1928
19
chapter 3—Ledger Domain and Other Spheres, 1928–1930
60
chapter 4—Home Sweet home, 1931
108
chapter 5—Shell Game at the Seashore, 1932–1936
142
chapter 6—We Three Kings of 415, 1936–1938
179
chapter 7—Playing It Fast and Luce, 1938–1939
224
chapter 8—Absentee Hollywoodians, 1939
272
chapter 9—Better Gone with the Wind, 1940
310
chapter 10—The Unknown Hearst and Marion, 1941
359
chapter 11—Queen of the State Guard, 1942
414
chapter 12—The Way to Solvency, 1942–1944
470
chapter 13—Buyer's Market, 1945–1947
517
appendix i—Julia Morgan's Distribution
of Expenses Sheets, 1924–1940
533
appendix ii—Julia Morgan's Ledgers for the
Beach House and Other Hearst-related Jobs
in Greater Los Angeles, 1925–1939
563
appendix iii—Inventory of 415 Palisades
Beach Road, Santa Monica, 1938
616
appendix iv—Santa Monica City Directory
for Palisades Beach Road, 1947–1948
620
appendix v—The Beach House-Ocean House
and the Press, 1947–1960
623
appendix vi—George S. Merritt
to W. A. Swanberg, 1959
(from Citizen Hearst, 1961)
638
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