Provincetown, Massachusetts, 127
Quakers see Friends, Society of
Queen Elizabeth (ship), 89, 116, 149
Radebaugh, Roy (Richard Cromwell), 170–1
Rainey, Ford, 207–8, 229
Rains, Claude, 31n
Ramakrishna: C.I.’s biography of, xxii, xxvii; birthday celebrations, 23, 179; C.I. follows, 186
Ramakrishna and His Disciples (C.I.), xxii
Random House (publishers), 119, 188, 196, 276
Rapper, Irving, 31n, 208
Rassine, Alexis, 84n, 96, 115, 143, 148, 271
Rattigan, (Sir) Terence: The Winslow Boy, 102
Ravagli, Angelo, 253, 254n
Rawlings, Margaret, 113n
Razor’s Edge, The (film), 37, 38n
Red Badge of Courage, The (film), 268–70
Reed, John, 255n
Reinhardt, Gottfried: and C.I.’s meeting Wolfgang, 28; C.I. works with on films, 146, 150–3, 168, 177; C.I. attends party, 221
Reinhardt, Wolfgang: C.I. dines with, 28; C.I. works with, 34–5, 36n
Reis, Irving, 91[n]
Reis, Meta, 91 & [n]
Renaldo, Tito: friendship with C.I., 153 & n, 217; meets Swami, 188; leaves Trabuco, 217
Repton Letters, The (C.I.; ed. George Ramsden), xxxi n
Richardson, (Sir) Ralph, 91
Richardson, Tony, 150, 175n
Rickles, Don, 235[n]
Rimbaud, Arthur: A Season in Hell, 182
Rinser, Luise: Die Stärkeren, 192
Rio de Janeiro, 141 & n
Robertson, David, 212
Robeson, Paul, 17
Robinsons department store, 15
Robson-Scott, William, 83n, 98
Rod see Owens, Rodney
Rodd, Marcel, 8
Roder, Hellmut, 126 & n
Roditi, Edouard, xix
Rodman, Selden, 125
Roerick, Bill, 121
Rolfe, Frederick William (Baron Corvo), xx
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano: death, 30–1
Rose Garden Apartments, Hollywood, 38
Ross, Alan, 83n
Ross, Jean, 108, 110
Ross, Lillian, 270–1
Roth, Sanford (Sandy), 74
Rueda, Victor, 212n
Rügen Island (Germany), 138
Russell, John, 38n
Russia see Soviet Russia
Sachs, David, xix, n197
Sachs, Maurice: Le Sabbat, 175n
Sadler’s Wells Ballet, 271
St. Edmund’s school, Hindhead, Surrey, 57 & n
Salka see Viertel, Salka
Sally Bowles (proposed stage adaptation by Lamkin and Field), 265–6, 273, 277, 284–5
Samuels, Lesser: C.I. works with, 81, 91, 167, 195, 198, 206–7, 229–30; friendship with C.I., 153
Sansom, William, 83n
Santa Barbara, California, 10, 13, 197
Santa Monica, California, 6, 9, 13–14, 198
Santa Paula (ship), 139
Sarada (Folling), 209
Saroyan, William, 267
Sartre, Jean-Paul, xvi, 66; No Exit, 175–6n
Saurin, Brad (pseud.): affair with Jay de Laval, 172, 177; described, 172; serves in Korean War, 241; relations with C.I., 258–9; attachment to Jim Charlton, 259
Scheuer, Philip K., 49
Schindler, Mr. and Mrs. (Haverford refugees), 121
Schlee, George, 130–1
Schoenberg, Arnold: Pierrot lunaire, 264
School of Tragedy, The (C.I.) see World in the Evening, The
Scobie, W.I., xi n
Scott-Kilvert, Derek, 103n
Scott-Kilvert, Elizabeth, 106
Scott-Kilvert, Ian, 103–7 & n, 113
Scott Moncrieff, C.K., 66[n]
Search, The (film), 149, 174
Searle, Ronald, 97n
Sequoia National Park, California, 185n, 243
Shakespeare, William: Othello, 17
Shankara: The Crest–Jewel of Discrimination, 72n
Shaw, George Bernard: Androcles and the Lion, 18
Shearer, Moira, 271
Shepherd, Amos, 212n
Shivananda, Swami, 207
“Shore, The” (C.I.; earlier “California Story”), 74
Sinatra, Frank, 66
Single Man, A (C.I.), xii, xxv–xxvi, 44n, 167n, 217
Sintra (Portugal), 114n
Siodmak, Robert, 168, 187n
Sister Lalita (Carrie Mead Wykoff; “Sister”), 9, 197, 209
Sleeping Beauty, The (ballet), 272
Sloane, Everett, 205
Smedley, Agnes, 209
Smith, Dodie see Beesley, Dodie Smith
Snow, Edgar, 195
Sorel, Paul (born Paul Dibble), 273, 277
Sorokine, Natasha see Moffat, Natasha
South America: C.I. and Caskey travel in, xxxiv, 119, 123, 133, 139
South Pacific (stage musical), 224–6
Soviet Russia: and Los Angeles conference on world peace, 189–90
Speaight, Robert, 144
Spender, Humphrey, 138
Spender, Natasha (Lady; née Litvin), 91
Spender, (Sir) Stephen: meets Caskey, xvii; C.I. stays with in London, 91–2; and Tony Hyndman, 113, 114–15n; marriage (first) to Inez Pearn, 114n; affair with Helmuth Roder, 126n; in USA, 134, 138–9, 168, 194, 195; bisexual posture, 169–70; depicted in A Meeting by the River, 170; asks C.I. for obituary article on Dylan Thomas, 233; “The Burning Cactus”, 126n; World Within World, 275n, 277
Stafford, Jean, 135, 137
Stagg, Bob, 65, 122n, 123
Starcke, Walter, 81, 123n, 197n, 284
Starkey, Walter see Starcke, Walter
Steffens, Lincoln: Autobiography, 175n
Steffens, Pete, 175n
Stern, James, 117–18, 122–3, 137, 176 & n
Stern, Josef Luitpold, 121
Stern, Tania Kurella, 117–18, 122–3, 137, 176
Steuermann, Eduard, 264
Steve (studio messenger boy) see Cooley, Steve
Stevens, George, 66
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 61, 276; Weir of Hermiston, 89n
Stieglitz, Alfred, 251 & n
Stockport, Cheshire (England): C.I. visits (1947), 86–7, 89, 111; Caskey photographs viaduct at, 144
Stokowski, Leopold, 254n
Stonewall riot (New York, 1962), xii
Strang, Les (pseud.), 166
Strasberg, Lee, 167
Strasberg, Paula, 167, 183–4, 272
Stravinsky, Igor: in C.I.’s circle, xvii; likes Caskey, 42; on C.I.’s capacity for friendships, 94; C.I. lunches and sups with, 198, 200–1, 222, 230; C.I.’s attitude to, 201–3; avariciousness, 202; visits Sequoia with C.I., 243 & n; The Flood, 264[n]; The Rake’s Progress, 202, 243
Stravinsky, Vera: in C.I.’s circle, xvii, 198, 200–2, 222, 230; visits Sequoia with C.I., 243
Streetcar Named Desire, A (film), 267
Streeter, Mitchell (pseud.), 258–9
Sudhira (Helen Kennedy): enlists in navy, 9; C.I. entertains, 50; attends C.I. in hospital, 62–3
Sutherland, Graham, 148
Swami see Prabhavananda, Swami
Swanson, Gloria, 216
Sykes, Gerald: The Nice American, 275n
Symonds (Isherwood family lawyer), 111
Szczesny, Berthold, 133–5 & n, 136–9
Tallchief, Maria, 50n
Tamara (van Druten’s housekeeper), 21
Taos, New Mexico, 253, 255n
Tauch, Ed, 123–4, 139
Taxman, Barry, 258, 260–3
Taylor, Frank: C.I. meets, 134, 136; described, 169; film-making, 169–70; depicted in The World in the Evening, 170; entertains, 195; friendship with C.I., 208, 263–4, 281; on Dylan Thomas’s visit to Chaplin, 233; visits Hartfords with C.I., 246; accompanies C.I. to John Huston film set, 268
Taylor, Harold, 135, 137
Taylor, N
an, 134, 136, 169, 195, 208, 263
Tepoztlán, Mexico, 78
Than, Joseph, 31n
Theatre Arts (magazine), 74
Thomas, Dylan: C.I. entertains in Los Angeles, 232–3; Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog, 175–6n
Time magazine, 9, 22–3; reviews Prater Violet, 48–9
Titian: “The Man with the Glove,” 198
Todd, Thelma, 28–9
Tomorrow (magazine), 241, 247, 258, 276–7
Tompkins, Willy (pseud.), 35, 48, 280
Toni (Brian Howard’s lover), 95–6
Tooker, George, 127–8
Totheroh, Dan: Moor Born (play), 32, 33n
Trabuco: Franklin Knight at, 7; proposed Vedanta monastery at, 28; official opening, 188, 207; C.I. visits, 191, 246; van Druten gives money for organ, 247
Tree, Iris: C.I. sups with, 28; Caskey meets, 45–6; as mother of Ivan Moffat, 66; runs High Valley Theatre, 74; friendship with C.I., 81, 208; reports C.I.’s misbehavior at Chaplins’, 199n; drives back from Trabuco with C.I., 207; and C.I.’s sense of guilt, 227; adapts and plays in Ethan Frome, 229; attends Yma Sumac performance at Salka Viertel’s, 242; attends Sadler’s Wells Ballet with C.I., 271; and C.I.’s Anglia car, 276
Trilling, Diana, 48
Trotti, Lamarr, 38n
Trottiscliffe, Kent (England)), 148
Truman, Harry S., 172, 240
Turville-Petre, Francis, 134n
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, 191
Tyrrell, G.N.M.: Science and Psychical Phenomena, 51n
United States of America: C.I. emigrates to, xi, 72; relaxes censorship laws, xii; C.I.’s increasing commitment to, xxx–xxxi, 19n; C.I. acquires citizenship, 77–8, 209; C.I.’s homesickness for in England, 84
Up at the Villa (unfinished film), 34–6 & n, 46
Upward, Christopher, 100–2
Upward, Edward: and C.I.’s historical training, xii; literary theories, xii–xiv; Marxism, xiii–xiv, xxvii; influence on C.I.’s prose, xxvii; moral effect on C.I., xxix–xxx; C.I. meets in England, 100–1, 107; marriage, 101; and C.I.’s World in the Evening, 190; In the Thirties, 101; Journey to the Border, xxvii; “Sketch for a Marxist Interpretation of Literature”, xiii n
Upward, Hilda, 100–1, 107
Upward, Kathy, 100–1
Vacant Room, The (screenplay), 229–30
Vallentin, Antonina: H. G. Wells – Prophet of Our Day, 258, 275n
van Druten, John: and C.I.’s life at Vedanta Center, 7; at Beesleys, 11; hears of C.I.’s lovemaking with Bill Harris, 12n; lectures, 18; at AJC Ranch, 21, 214, 241, 220, 271; friendship with C.I., 31, 39, 50, 81, 153, 208; on Roosevelt, 31; C.I. entertains, 50; C.I. sees in New York, 123; absent from AJC ranch, 196; and Dick Foote, 196n; and Starcke, 197n; Britten and Pears meet, 214; at Trabuco, 246; beliefs, 247; suffers from “senile polio”, 272; decides to adapt C.I.’s Goodbye to Berlin as play, 282, 284; I Am a Camera, xxxi–xxxii, 78, 123n, 282; The Mermaids Singing, 123n
van Leyden, Ernst and Karen, 81, 207, 272
Van Meegeren, Han, 170, 254n
van Petten, Bill, 156n
Van Trees, Don, 170
Van Vechten, Carl, 253
Vaughan, Keith, 83n, 96, 102, 143
& n; Journal and Drawings, 143n
Vedanta: C.I.’s involvement with, ix, xxvii, xxix, 72
Vedanta Center (Ivar Avenue, Hollywood): C.I. attempts celibacy at, xvii; C.I. leaves, 4, 6–7, 13, 15, 27, 39, 45–6; and Marcel Rodd, 8; ceremonies at, 9, 14, 59n, 81, 179; bathroom facilities, 12; Time magazine article on, 22; Maugham visits, 40; C.I. first moves to, 72; Swami’s birthday lunch at, 173; C.I. resumes visits to, 181, 277; C.I. gives reading at, 239–40
Vedanta for Modern Man (anthology),
Vedanta Society: acquires Trabuco, 188, 207
Vedanta and the West (magazine), 18
Vedanta and the Western World (C.I.), 8
Verlaine, Paul, 182
Vidal, Gore: meets Caskey, xv, xvii; C.I. meets in Paris, 142–3; in England, 145–6; quarrels with Caskey, 146; The City and the Pillar, xv, I40n, 145; Palimpsest: A Memoir, 146[n]; The Season of Comfort, 225n; Williwaw, 140n, 225n
Viertel family: in C.I.’s circle, xvii
Viertel, Berthold: and C.I.’s fading interest in Germans, xxx; and Peter’s account of meeting C.I. in London, 83n; in New York, 119, 123; C.I. meets in London, 148; character, 148; marries Elisabeth Neumann, 148; successful career and later death, 149
Viertel, Elisabeth see Neumann, Elisabeth
Viertel, Peter: on The Friendship bar, 44n; C.I. entertains, 50; “den” in home, 74; in London, 83 & n; The Canyon, 44n
Viertel, Salka: Steve Cooley not introduced to, 41; C.I. entertains, 50; C.I. and Caskey occupy garage apartment, 70–1, 73–4; entertaining and “salon,” 71, 174, 221; and C.I.’s departure for England (1947), 81–2; entertains Garbo, 131; C.I.’s friendship with. 153, 208; and Vernon Old’s wedding, 171[n]; and C.I.’s attempted reconciliation with Chaplin, 199n; meets Mailer with C.I., 228; Yma Sumac performs at home, 242; The Kindness of Strangers, 71n
Viertel, Tommy, 50
Viertel, Virginia (formerly Schulberg; Peter’s first wife; “Jigee”), 83 & n
Vivekananda, Swami: puja, 9, 81
Vividishananda, Swami: A Man of God, 207
Waldeck, Countess (G.R. Waldeck), 135, 137; Athene Palace Bucharest, 137 & [n]
Waley, Arthur, 143
Walker, Alan, 173
Wallace, Roger (pseud.), 208–9
Walter, Bruno, 155
Warner Brothers (film corporation): C.I. works for, 23–5, 28, 34–5; strike, 26–7; C.I. leaves, 27, 46; and film of The Glass Menagerie, 208
Warner, Jack, 24, 27
Warren, Robert Penn, 195
Watson, Peter, 179
Watson-Gandy, Anthony Blethwyn (Tony), 173 & n, 222n
Watts, Alan, 277–8
Waugh, Evelyn: Brideshead Revisited, 51n; The Loved One, 175n
We Were Strangers (film), 154n
Webb, Jack, 205
Webster, David, 146–7
Webster, John: The White Devil, 113
Wescott, Glenway, 187
West, Nathanael: Miss Lonelyhearts, 275n
West, Rebecca: The Thinking Reed, 140n
Whales, James, 211–12
White, J. Alan, 101
Whitman, Walt: influence on C.I., xxiii; and travel, 13; homosexual wrestling, 57n, 59, 60n; and idea of The American Boy, 159, 161, 164, 248
Widmark, Richard, 207n
Wilde, Oscar: Lady Windermere’s Fan, 243 & [n]
Wilder, Thornton: The Ides of March, 223–4n
Wiley, Grace, 152n
Williams, Dr., 46, 61
Williams, Emlyn, 102, 233
Williams, Molly, 233
Williams, Sophia, 238–9
Williams, Tennessee (Thomas Lanier Williams): meets Caskey, xvii; in England, 145–6 & [n]; in Los Angeles, 208, 267; relations with Frank Merlo, 208, 267; The Glass Menagerie, 208; The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, 275n; A Streetcar Named Desire, 267
Willingham, Calder: End as a Man, xv & n, 176n; Geraldine Bradshaw, 275n
Wilson, Edmund: The Wound and the Bow, 51n
Windham, Donald, 127; The Dog Star, 275n
Winter, Ella, 175n, 242
Winter, Keith, 31n, 39
Wolfe, Thomas: Of Time and the River, 160n
Woman in White, The (film), 23–4, 28–9, 34
Wood, Christopher (Chris): and Denny Fouts party, 13; C.I. visits, 47, 258; C.I. entertains, 50; friendship with C.I., 81, 153, 163–4, 208; in New York, 133; visits Fire Island, 138–9; sees C.I. and Caskey off to South America, 139; Britten and Pears visit, 214
Woolf, Virginia, 68
Woolley, Monty, 58[n]
World in the Evening, The (earlier The School of Tragedy; C.I.): on emigration and pacifism, xiii; homosexuality in, xiv–xv; Jim Charlton depicted in, xv, 122n, 159, 174; writing and synopsis, xxv, 121–2 & n, 190, 195, 227, 236–8, 244–5n, 2
78, 280–1; Lamkin advises C.I. on, xxix, 281, 283–4; German refugees removed from, xxx–xxxi, 284; kite incident in, 11; Hellmut Roder in, 126n; psychic experience described in, 164–5; Frank Taylor depicted in, 170; bar-room ducking scene in, 174; guilt in, 182; C.I.’s depiction of self in, 200; names in, 212n; narration problem, 217, 226; Brookses’ house portrayed in, 231; Caroline Norment character in, 239; Dodie Smith advises C.I. on, 244–5 & n; sent to publishers, 284
Worsley, Cuthbert, 115n, 146
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 157, 160–1n, 165
Wright, Teresa, 205, 228
Wyberslegh Hall, Cheshire (England): C.I. visits (1947), 87–8, 90n, 111–12; C.I. revisits (1948), 143–4, 147, 185n
Yeats, William Butler: “Parnell’s Funeral”, 84 & [n]; “Solomon and the Witch”, 106 & [n]
Yogi (Walter Brown), 33
Yogini (Mrs. Walter Brown), 33
Yorke, Adelaide (“Dig”), 143
Yorke, Henry (“Henry Green”), 83n, 143; Back, 140n; Doting, 275n; Living, 275n; Loving, 275n; Nothing, 275n
Zeiler, Dr., 35–6
Zeininger, Russ, 208, 212n, 220, 229, 230, 258
Zinnemann, Fred, 174, 205, 219, 223n, 228, 230
Zinnemann, Renée, 219, 230
Acknowledgements
I could not have prepared this book without the constant support and collaboration of Don Bachardy. Isherwood’s luck in finding such a partner continues to grow more evident, and I feel privileged to share some of that luck.
Many friends of Isherwood have taken a great deal of trouble to answer questions for Don Bachardy and for me, and we are extremely grateful for their tenacity and their forthrightness: George Bemberg, Walter Berns, Stefan Brecht, the late Paul Cadmus, the late Jim Charlton, Robert Craft, Jack Fontan, John Gruber, Michael Hall, Betty Harford, the late Evelyn Hooker, Richard Keate, Robert Kittredge, Gavin Lambert, Jack Larson, the late José Martinez, the late Ben Masselink, Carlos McClendon, the late Roddy McDowall, Ivan Moffat, Alvin Novak, Fern Maher O’Brien, “Vernon Old,” Bernard Perlin, Rupert Pole, Ned Rorem, Paul Sorel, Walter Starcke, Barry Taxman, Curtice Taylor, the late Frank Taylor, Edward Upward, Gore Vidal, Swami Vidyatmananda, Tom Wright, Russ Zeininger.
A number of other people have helped with challenging and sometimes eccentric queries as well as practical matters, and I thank them all: Terry Adamson, Robert Adjemian, Peter Alexander, Alan Ansen, John Appleton, Roger Berthoud, Michael Bessie, Vernon Brooks, Sally Brown (Curator of Modern Literary Manuscripts at the British Library), Peter Burton, Sheilah Cherney, Patricia Clark (The British Council), Gerald Clarke, Michael De Lisio, John D’Emilio, Renée Doolley, Philippa Foote, Christopher Gibb, Joyce Howard, Don Howarth, Nicholas Jenkins, Brian Keelan, Jim Kelly, Judy Kopec (Johns Hopkins University), Fredric Kroll, Tanya Kutchinsky, the late Lyle Leverich, Glenn Lewis, Lloyd Lewis, John Loughery, Jeffrey Meyers, Jean Morin (Directorate of History and Heritage, Ottawa, Canada), Karl Müller, Ed Parone, Susan Peck, Stuart Proffitt, Andreas Reyneke, Dean Rocco, Jennifer Ruggiero, David Salmo, Suzelle Smith, Willie Walker, Robert Weil, George Wilson (Johns Hopkins University).