Mendelssohn, Felix, 683
Menotti, Gian-Carlo, 566n160
Menzies, Alan Wilfred Cranbrook, 189
Merande, Doro, 444
Meredith, George:
Evan Harrington, 156
General Ople and Lady Camper, 155
The Ordeal of Richard Feveral, 613
Mérimée, Prosper, Le Carosse du Saint-Sacrement, 220
Merman, Ethel, 618
Merrick, David, 577n176
Mexico, TNW in, 355, 363–64, 541–42, 664–65
Meyer, Conrad F., 476
Michelangelo, 503
Miles, Margaret, 11
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 195
Aria da Capo, 587
Miller, Alice Duer, 380, 591
Miller, Arthur, 560
Miller, Gilbert, 231, 256
Miller, Henry, 167
Milosz, Czeslaw, 465
Milstein, Nathan, 468
Milton, John, 597
“On His Being Arrived at the Age of 23,” 298n135
Mitchell, Donald Grant (Ik Marvel), 104
Mitford, Nancy, 591
Modern Language Association, 463–64
Moe, Henry, 493
Molière, 539, 550, 613
Amphytrion, 458
L’Avare (The Miser), 322n189, 382
Molina, Tirso de, 462
Molnár, Ferenc, 173
Monhegan Island, Maine, 76n130, 90, 92, 106, 153, 166
Monnier, Adrienne, 198
Monroe, Marilyn, 560n149, 561
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, 61
Montaigne, Michel de, 681, 694, 702
Montesquieu, Baron de la Brède et de, 381
Montgomery, James, Nothing But the Truth, 91
Moody, Dwight Lyman, 65, 111n183
Moore, George, 93–94, 667
Moore, Harry Thornton, 608
Moore, Marianne, 521
Morand, Paul, 154
Morgan, Mike, 440
Mörike, Eduard Friedrich, 258
Morini, Erika, 468
Morley, Robert, 281n103
Morton, Michael, The Fatal Alibi, 253n40
Mount Hermon School farm, Massachusetts, 6, 64n118, 72–76
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 352, 378, 416, 460, 614, 618, 621, 623n80, 667, 671, 680, 684
Mugnier, Abbé Arthur, 310
Murray, Gilbert, 301, 315
Murry, John Middleton, 509n61
Mussolini, Benito, 200, 201n128, 307
Myerberg, Michael, 389–90, 537
and The Skin of Our Teeth, 393–94, 407, 408–10, 416–18, 429, 430n114, 590
TNW letters to, 408–10, 416–18
N
Nagel, Conrad, 417
Nardi, Marcia, TNW letters to, 517–18, 525–26
National Book Award, 584, 653n142
National Book Committee, 583
National Theatre Company, 631
Naylor, George Sawyer, 162
Nazimova, Alla, 91, 119
Nepos, Cornelius, 49, 450
Nestroy, Johann, 258
Einen Jux will er sich machen, 322n189, 323–24, 331, 352
New Dramatists, 519n76
New Gulliver, The (film), 474n192
New Haven Journal-Courier, 127, 160, 230
Newman, John Henry Cardinal, 102, 104, 226, 238
New York Post, 189–90
New York Times, 381, 584
Nichols, Anne, Abie’s Irish Rose, 206
Nichols, Beverly, 365
Nichols, Robert, 194n116
Nichols, William I., TNW letters to, 202–7, 646–49
Niemoeller, Martha, TNW letter to, 588–89
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 257–58
Nikisch, Arthur, 145
Nitze, Paul, 470
Nitze, Phyllis Pratt, 470n181
Niven, Charlotte Tappan (aunt), 13n14, 21n32, 140n15, 157, 604
in Europe, 4, 126, 130, 149, 197, 357
in Florida, 552, 583, 631, 641
TNW letter to, 605–7
Niven, Elizabeth Lewis (grandmother), 4
death of, 168–69
TNW letters to, 9, 42–43, 98–100
Niven, Grace (aunt), 243, 405
Niven, Thornton MacNess III, 9, 243n17, 405
Noh plays, 588–89, 593
Norman, Ruth, 641n124
Noy, Henry, 223n175
O
Oberlin College:
Amos as student in, 5, 36–37, 43, 44–45, 46, 106
Hi-O-Hi student yearbook, 105
military instruction in, 97–98, 105
philosophy of, 5–6, 40–41, 90
TNW as student in, 5–6, 52–57, 65, 83–86, 95–96, 101, 106, 107–8
TNW’s letters from, 52–70, 76–109
TNW’s plans to attend, 40–44, 46, 49
Obey, André, 258n61, 592–93
Le Viol de Lucrèce, 232, 254
Odets, Clifford, Paradise Lost, 309
O’Flaherty, Liam, Mr. Gilhooley, 308
O’Hara, John, TNW letter to, 632–33
O’Harra, Michaela, TNW letter to, 519–22
O’Keeffe, Georgia, 206n141
Olivier, Laurence, 435, 437
in Caesar and Cleopatra/Antony and Cleopatra, 501n43, 684
and National Theatre Company, 631n99
and the Old Vic, 684n186
in Othello, 631
and The Skin of Our Teeth, 429–31, 433, 533
TNW letters to, 429–31, 489–91, 575–77
TNW’s friendship with, 443, 450, 489
O’Neil, F. J., 686
O’Neill, Eugene, 367, 471, 519
Mourning Becomes Electra, 301
Oppenheimer, George, Here Today, 619
Oprescu, M., 315
Orczy, Baroness Emma, The Scarlet Pimpernel, 16
Origo, Iris, Leopardi: A Study in Solitude, 310n162
Ortega y Gasset, José, 465, 468
Osborne, Paul, 519, 576
Otto, Rudolph, 211
Ottoline, Lady Caroline, 614
Our Town (Wilder), xxxiv
Boston production of, 330 -36, 337, 528
casting of, 325n194, 328, 335–36, 444n142, 660
film of, 356, 367–71, 372, 374–76, 386
and Harris, 234, 322, 323, 324–25, 328, 332, 333, 334, 335, 336, 338, 339, 342, 348, 553
New Haven production of, 330, 339, 342
New York premiere of, 323, 325, 328–29, 330–31, 338, 528
as opera, 488n6, 587n1
other performances of, 364, 423–24, 440, 446, 479, 659–60
Princeton production of, 325n194, 330, 336, 337, 339
public response to, 337, 338
Pulitzer Prize for, xxxiii, 234, 359
radio broadcast of, 360
success of, xxxvii, 234, 235, 339
technical aspects of, 357
TNW acting in, 348, 349, 355, 444n142, 483, 490
TNW’s thoughts on, 333–35, 476–77, 501, 507–8, 638, 651–52, 654, 679
writing of, 321, 324–25
Ouspenskaya, Maria, 179n89
P
Paepcke, Elizabeth N. “Pussy,” 470n181, 475
TNW letter to, 366–67
Paepcke, Walter, 366n8, 470
Page, Thomas Nelson, In Ole Virginia, 110n181
Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi de, 352, 467, 495
Panama-Pacific International Exposition, 42
Pankhurst, Leonard Thomas, 440n129, 523–24
Panoffsky, Erwin, 542
Paris:
La Maison des Amis des Livres, 198n124 Shakespeare and Company, 192, 198n124
TNW in, 128–29, 314–16
TNW’s letters from, 146–49, 195–202
Vieux-Columbier theater, 126
Paris Review, The, 595–96
Parker, Cecil, 388n49
Parker, Dorothy, 274, 560, 561
Pascal, Blaise,
198, 681
Pensées, 89
Peabody, Rev. Harry Ernest, 56–57, 81n143
Peabody, Leonard Clough, 81
Pearn, Violet, Hush!, 91
Peck, Clara Boardman, 498
PEN, 357, 400n72, 464
Perkins, Maxwell, 472
Perse, Saint-John (Léger), 465n172, 521, 602
Peterkin, Julia, Scarlet Sister Mary, 237
Peyton, Myron, 496
Phelps, William Lyon, 7, 17, 102
Phoenix Theatre, London, 431n116
Piatagorski, Gregor, 468
Picabia, Francis, 466
Picasso, Pablo, 277, 306, 466, 681
Pickford, Mary, 259, 265–66
Pinchot, Rosamond, 336
Pinero, Arthur Wing, The Second Mrs. Tanqueray, 680n177
Pirandello, Luigi, 145
Six Characters in Search of an Author, 652
Plato, 104, 381
Plautus, Titus Maccius, Menaechmi, 82
Plowright, Joan, 577n175
Plutarch, Parallel Lives, 17
Poe, Edgar Allan, 495, 515
Poiret, Paul, 180
Poole, Ernest, 73
Porter, Cole, 258, 399
Porter, Delia Lyman, 421
Pound, Ezra, 126, 463, 465, 588, 695
Powers, Lieutenant, 403
Praskins, Leonard, 278
Pratt, John Thomas, 270–71
Preminger, Otto, 348
Preston, June, 253
Previn, André, 668, 669–70, 671, 673, 683, 684
Priestley, J. B., The Inspector Calls, 453
Princeton, New Jersey, Our Town
performed in, 325n194, 330, 336, 337, 339
Princeton University, 127, 128
TNW at graduate school, 175–76
TNW’s letters from, 182–90
Private Life of Henry VIII, The (film), 280–81
Proust, Marcel, 154, 310n165, 316, 443, 681
Ptushko, Aleksandr, 474n192
Punch magazine, 203
Purcell, Henry, 467
R
Rabelais, François, Gargantua and Pantagruel, 144
Racine, Jean, 198, 539
Raeburn, Henzie, 660
Raimu (Jules-Auguste Muraire), 280
Raimund, Ferdinand, 258
Rains, Claude, 455
Raphael, 211, 618, 694
Rauschenbush, Walter, 49–50
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan, 551
Ray, Satyajit, 703, 704
Read, Sir Herbert, 518
Récamier, Jeanne Françoise, 60, 61n111
Reed, Florence, 406, 407, 408n85
Reeves, Ruth, 388n49
Régnier, Henri de, 316
Reinhardt, Karl, Die Ilias und ihr Dichter, 601
Reinhardt, Max, 167, 168, 201, 251, 254n41, 258, 282, 321
and The Alcestiad, 327, 364n3
and The Blue Bird, 346
and Faust, 298, 299
and The Merchant of Yonkers, 235, 323, 325, 330, 342, 346–47, 350, 352–54, 353, 553
at Monhegan, 76n130, 166
and The Skin of Our Teeth, 393, 408
TNW letter to, 323–24
Réjane, Gabrielle, 308
Remarque, Erich Maria, 320
Renaud, Madeleine, 458
Rennie, Tom, 423
Ribicoff, Abraham, 602, 603
Ricci, Renzo, 613
Rice, Elmer, 384
Rice, John A., 274n92
Rich, Daniel, 277
Richardson, Lee, 600n34
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 492
Rimbaud, Arthur, 516
RKO Pictures, 232, 275
Robbins, Jerome, 698n218
Robinson, Edwin Arlington, 192, 222, 492
at MacDowell Colony, 192n113, 237, 507n55
Tristram, 237
Robinson, Graham, 307
Robinson, Henry Morton, 412n91
Rockefeller, John D., 207n144, 500n42
Rogers, Emmett, 437
Rogers, William G., 702
Romains, Jules, 315
Rome, TNW’s letters from, 133–45
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 380n35, 384, 627
Roosevelt, Franklin D.:
election campaign of, 380–81
and Hutchins, 284, 289, 381
inauguration of, 357, 383–84
Roosevelt, Sara Delano, 384
Rorem, Ned, TNW letter to, 587–88
Rose, Sir Francis, 373n20, 591
Rosebery, Lord, Napoleon: The Last Phase, 378
Rose, Leonard, 603
Rosenstock-Huessy, Eugen, 442
Ross, Thomas W., 334n208, 335
Rossini, Giocchino, 684
“Stabat Mater,” 44–45
Rostand, Edmond, L’Aiglon, 119
Rostova, Mira, 498
Royal Shakespeare Company, 670
Royce, Josiah, 206
Roycroft Community, East Aurora, New York, 108n179
Rubinstein, Artur, 468
Rubirosa, Porfirio, 598
Ruggles of Red Gap (film), 281n104
Ruiz de Alarcón, Juan, 462
Russell, Bertrand, 614
Rutherford, Margaret, 388
S
S4N1, 240n10
Sackville-West, Vita, 591
Sagawatha Lodge, Connecticut, 170, 171
Saint, Eva Marie, 650n132
Saint-Denis, Michel, 258n61, 593
Saint-Gaudens, Augusta Homer, 155
Saint-Gaudens, Homer, 155, 178n88
Saint-Saens, Charles-Camille, 11
Saint-Simon, Memoirs, 164, 238, 247
Sallust (Gaius Sallustius Crispus), 49
Salzburg Festival, 234, 297, 299
Sankey, Ira, 110, 111n183
Santayana, George, 177
Character and Opinion in the United States, 206
Sargent, Franklin H., 179n90
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 359, 440
Mort sans sépulture, 360, 361, 441n131
No Exit, 638
Saint Genet: Actor and Martyr, 502n45
Sassoon, Sir Philip, 258
The Third Route, 238n5
Saturday Review of Literature, The, 358–59, 412–15
Schiller, Friedrich von, 539
Die Jungfrau von Orleans, 274n91
Wilhelm Tell, 44
Schneider, Alan, 537–38
TNW letter to, 532–33
Schnitzler, Arthur, Anatol, 94
Schubert, Franz, “Erlkönig,” 20
Schuman, William, 653
Schweitzer, Albert, 465, 468–69, 469
Scott, Lizabeth, 417n96
Scott, Martha, 336
Scott, Sir Walter, 19
Scott, Winfield Townley, 508
“Our Town and the Golden Veil,” 507n56
Scott (Metcalfe), Evelyn, TNW letter to, 422–23
Scribner’s magazine, 239
Serato, Arr igo, 45
Sergeant, Elizabeth Shepley:
Robert Frost: The Trial by Existence, 596, 642
TNW letters to, 503–5, 608–9
Willa Cather: A Memoir, 505n50
Sévigné, Marie de, xxxiv, 174, 220, 250
Shadow of a Doubt (film), 357, 358, 395n63, 396n67, 399, 401
Shairp, Mordaunt, The Green Bay Tree, 262, 269n81
Shakespeare, William, 285, 302, 306, 416, 595, 597, 615, 635, 636–37
Hamlet, 458, 680
King Lear, 443, 540
Measure for Measure, 540
Midsummer Night’s Dream, 683, 684
The Merchant of Venice, 345–46
Shakespeare and Company, Paris, 192, 198n124
Shaw, Charlotte Payne-Townshend, 641n122
Shaw, George Bernard, 520
Getting Married, 91
Saint Joan, 308n154
You Never Can Tell, 27
Shaw, Mary, 77
Shaw, Robert (actor), 693
Shaw, Robert (conductor), 467, 496, 676
Shearer, Norma, 281, 311
&
nbsp; Sheldon, Edward, 257, 337, 338, 554
TNW letter to, 262–66
Shelley, Carole, 691
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 144, 160
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 135, 161
The Cenci, 144
Epipsychidion, 144n20
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 520
Sherman, Hiram, 546n125
Sherman, Stuart, 189
Sherrill, Gibbs, 213
Sherwood, Madeleine, 384
Sherwood, Robert E., 380
Shields, Francis X., 286
Shikibu, Murasaki, The Tale of Genji, 635
Shortall, Harrington, 27
Sidgwick, Ethel, 83
Sill, Edward Rowland, 116
Simenon, Georges, Le Fils, 558
Simon, Neil, The Odd Couple, 691
Simonds, Bruce T., 7, 198
TNW letter to, 117–19
Sims, Mrs. Admiral, 156
Sixties generation, TNW’s thoughts on, 584–85
Skinner, Cornelia Otis, 253, 590
Skin of Our Teeth, The (Wilder): casting of, 406
European productions of, 429–31, 691–92
film of, 395, 691
and Harris, 389n52, 391–93, 408
and Lunt/Fontanne, 391–93, 568
Myerberg as producer of, 393–94, 407, 408–10, 416–18, 429, 430n114, 590
and Olivier/Leigh, 429–31, 433, 533
as opera, 698
premiere of, 358
reviews of, 358–59, 409, 412–15, 528
revivals of, 532–33, 537n106
TNW acting in, 360, 444n142
TNW’s thoughts on, 378, 391–93, 477, 508, 532–33, 697
writing of, 356–57, 392
Skirball, Jack H., 396, 399
Smilin’ Through (film), 369
Smith, Walter, 65–66
Smythe, Dame Ethel, 599
Socrates, 687
Sophocles, 245, 301, 416, 571
Oedipus Rex (TNW’s introd.), 356
Speiden, Jack, 614
Spengler, Oswald, 206
The Decline of the West, 188
Spore, Harold, 116
Sprigge, Elizabeth, 642
Squire, J. C., 209
Stallman, Robert W., xxxvii
TNW letters to, 492–93
Stanislavski, Konstantin, 167
Stanley, Mrs. Charles A., 115n195
Stanwyck, Barbara, 445
Stein, Gertrude, 319, 553
biographies of, 642
death of, 447n145
described in TNW letters, 294, 306, 307, 446–48
estate of, 448, 499n39
in Europe, 233, 297, 299, 377, 402, 438
Four in America, 360, 448
The Geographical History of America or the Relation of Human Nature to the Human Mind, 234, 306, 663n156
and her dogs, 466
The Making of Americans, 372
Narration, 234
quotations from, 315, 420, 428, 501, 650, 663, 681, 700, 702
TNW letters to, xxxvii, 302–4, 319–20, 371–74
TNW’s friendship with, xxxvi, 233, 234, 292, 297, 299, 304, 306, 495, 503, 542, 560, 591–92