Balzac, Honoré, 426
Bankhead, Tallulah, 532–33, 540, 544–45, 548–49, 552, 554, 586
Barker, Creighton, 391
Barrie, J. M., 109
Barry, Philip, 241
Barrymore, Ethel, 479
Barrymore, John, 154, 163
Bassanesi, Giovanni, 584
Bates, “Tia” Anna, 520, 672
Beach, Sylvia, 198, 262, 278
Beaumont, Hugh “Binkie,” 557, 562, 624, 625–26, 629
Beerbohm, Max, 413
Beer-Hofmann, Richard, 492
Beethoven, Ludwig van, Ninth Symphony, 284
Bel Geddes, Norman, 234, 646
Bell, Alexander Graham, 86
Benét, Rosemary, 587
Benét, Stephen Vincent, 160, 161
and S4N, 177
at Yale, 148, 149, 152, 175, 176, 177
Benét, William Rose, 149, 161, 163, 233, 236, 237, 242, 577
Bennett, Arnold, 312
Benson, Sally, 537
Bentley, Eric, 622, 634
Berea College, Kentucky, 134, 139–40, 141–44
Berenson, Bernard, 413
Bergman, Ingmar, 699
Bergner, Elisabeth, 568
Bergson, Henri, 224, 438
Bernstein, Leonard, 648
Bingham, Hiram III, 159
Bissell, Bill, 191, 243
Blaine, James G., 114
Blumer, George, 235
Bokum, Dick, 397, 400
Boleslavsky, Richard, 175, 221, 222, 233, 252–53, 272, 273, 275, 285, 287–88
Bolívar, Simón, 581
Boni, Albert, 241–43, 296, 300, 333; see also Albert & Charles Boni, Inc.
Book-of-the-Month Club, 300, 388, 394, 587, 589, 675
Booth, Shirley, 646
Bordeaux, Henry, 150
Borgese, Giuseppe Antonio, 600
Borkh, Inge, 653, 674
Boston:
Merchant tryout in, 471
Our Town film premiere in, 488–89
Our Town stage tryout in, 450–52
Boston Transcript, 168, 243
Bourdet, Édouard, 290
Brett, Dorothy, 658
Brewster, Kate, 355
Brice, Fanny, 532
Bridge of San Luis Rey, The (TNW):
characters and plot of, 185, 259, 307–12, 313, 499
evolution of, 262, 271, 272, 273, 276, 277, 278–81, 284, 291, 294, 295–96, 298, 333, 558–59, 628, 648
publication of, 275, 299–300, 301–2, 388, 456
public response to, 303–4, 312–14, 324, 408
setting of, 508, 519, 664
success of, 312–14, 324, 325, 328, 329, 330, 349
themes of, 258, 306–7, 336, 351, 569, 602, 629, 686
Brontë, Charlotte, 631
Brooke, Rupert, 127
Brown, John Mason, 240
Brown, Rollo, 514
Browne, Sir Thomas, Religio Medici, 107, 108–9
Brunauer, Dalma H., 686
Bryce, James, 224
Buber, Martin, 640
Buck, Pearl, 616
Buckwitz, Harry, 653
Bunche, Ralph, 663
Burlingham, Dorothy, 409
Burnett, Whit, 678
Burton, Richard, 630
Butcher, Fanny, 355, 396, 397, 400, 675
Bynner, [Harold] Witter, 658
Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 157
Cabala, The (TNW), 254–55, 260, 288, 299, 302, 388
as Boy Sebastian, 197, 263
characters and plot of, 259, 263–67, 271, 305, 306, 335, 342–43
errata in, 268, 270, 305, 314
evolution of, 258–59, 262–63, 271, 285
as Marcantonio, 243–44
as Memoirs/Year in Rome, 197, 219–20, 221, 225, 226, 238, 242–45, 249, 263
public response to, 268–70, 272, 278–79, 295, 408
setting of, 262, 263, 266
success of, 269–70, 286, 328
themes of, 256, 258, 265, 267, 336, 351, 589, 670, 686
as Trasteverine, 207, 208, 263
Cabell, James Branch, 278, 298, 319
Cahn, Sammy, 652
Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, 213–14
California Festival, 462–64
Campbell, Gladys, 353, 523
Campbell, Joseph, 545–48, 555–56
Campbell, Mrs. Patrick, 649
Canby, Henry Seidel, 161, 176–77, 194, 216, 300, 546
Canfield, Cass, 315, 388, 669, 674
Capra, Frank, 390, 538
Carducci, Giosuè, 27
Carey, MacDonald, 538
Carney, Art, 652
Carter, John, 161
Casals, Pablo, 663
Cather, Willa, 278, 298, 313
Catullus, 572
Century Association, 591
Century of Progress Exposition, Chicago (1933), 356–57, 390
Cerf, Bennett, 242, 406, 547
Chaliapin, Boris, 623
Chandlee, Harry, 483
Chaplin, Charlie, 232, 413, 479, 508
Chekhov, Anton, 206, 253, 254, 306, 687
Cheshire, Fleming, 61
Chesterton, G. K., 314
China:
APW in Shanghai, 30–31, 32–42, 47–49, 50, 56–57, 61, 67, 75–77, 78–80
and Hong Kong, see Hong Kong
missionaries in, 29, 36–37, 41–42, 44, 46, 53–54, 62
riots in, 50, 51, 52, 54, 55, 57, 78
U.S. recognition of, 66
China Inland Mission School, Chefoo, 40–49, 50–59, 62–63, 68, 71
Cicero, 572, 580, 581, 589
Circle in the Square, New York, 651–52
Claudel, Paul, 263
Clift, Montgomery, 540, 554, 566, 619, 628, 629–30, 631
Clodius Pulcher, 572
Coast Artillery Corps, 165–66
Cocteau, Jean, 238, 477
Coffin, Catherine, 650, 658, 665, 699
Coffin, William Sloane, Jr., 699, 701
Colefax, Arthur, 413
Colefax, Sibyl:
death of, 608–9, 694
as designer, 431
and friendship, 395, 403, 413–14, 427, 553, 590, 604
and Harris, 349, 444, 445, 446
salon of, 413–14
TNW’s letters to, 332, 338–39, 344–45, 353, 360–61, 412, 418, 419, 472, 473, 474, 498, 508, 552, 565, 665
and TNW’s work: Alcestiad, 567; Heaven’s, 345, 361; Ides, 581; Merchant, 472; Our Town, 427, 442, 530; Skin, 541, 544
and war, 467, 525, 526, 529
Coleman, Ronald, 384
Collinge, Patricia, 538
Colum, Padraic, 237, 485, 549
Con, Louis, 262
Connelly, Marc, 399, 452, 497, 620
Green Pastures, 442
Cooper, Gary, 390
Copland, Aaron, 648
Cornell, Katharine “Kit,” 353, 359–60, 395, 403, 406, 418
Cosmopolitan Productions, 386
Cotten, Joseph, 537
Cousins, Norman, 547
Coward, Noël, 353, 555, 608
Coward, Tim, 574
Coward-McCann, 315, 324, 348, 349, 369, 458, 460, 514, 574
Cowl, Jane, 470, 471
Cowley, Malcolm, 177, 615, 675, 698–99
Cowper, William, 317
Cozzens, James Gould, 332
Craven, Frank, 445, 452, 465, 479, 480, 483
Crawford, Cheryl, 479, 668
Cronyn, Hume, 538
Crowther, Bosley, 489
Crozier, Eric, 453
Cukor, George, 362, 383, 444, 463, 535
cummings, e. e., 177
Dadaism, 220
Dakin, Janet Wilder, 568, 623–24
death of, 701
early years of, see Wilder, Janet Frances
wedding of, 511–13, 517
Dakin, Winthrop Saltonstall “Toby,” 508, 511–12, 568, 623
Damita, Lili, 333
Dana, J. Dwight, 315, 328–29, 333,
346–47, 352, 387, 388, 398, 400, 445, 449, 452, 453, 475, 477, 487, 509, 511, 512, 517, 518, 519, 531, 554, 555–56
Dane, Clarence, 286
Dante Alighieri, 185, 426, 459, 515
Dark Angel (film), 384
Davies, Arthur B., 112
Davies, Marion, 385, 463
Davis, Robert Frederick, 400, 403
De Bosis, Adolfo, 192
De Bosis, Lauro, 192, 238, 278, 584–85
Defense of Democracy League, 504
Defoe, Daniel, 631
De la Mare, Walter, 213
DeMott, Benjamin, 655
De Sica, Vittorio, 620, 638
DeVane, William C., 176
Dial, 208
Dickens, Tom, 213
Dickinson, Emily, 439, 607, 608, 609, 610–11, 615, 616
Dietrich, Marlene, 383
Disney, Walt, 412, 479
Dodge, Mabel, see Luhan, Mabel Dodge
Donoghue, Margaret, 11, 37, 40, 49, 51
Dos Passos, John, 342, 525
Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 663, 666
Double Dealer, 207, 243
Draper, Ruth, 447, 585
Drevenstedt, Amy, 299, 301
Drummond, Jack, 70
Dryden, John, 631
Duchamp, Marcel, 87–88
Duse, Eleonora, 232
Eddy, Nelson, 508
Edinburgh Festival, 624–25, 626, 629, 635
Edington, Harry, 383
Einstein, Albert, 468
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 556
Eldridge, Florence, 532, 544, 554
Eliot, T. S., 6–8, 321, 515, 590, 627, 644
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 343, 615–16
English Book Society, 394
Ercolano, Dario, 184
Erickson, Leif, 649
Erlanger, Abraham Lincoln, 171
Estabrook, Howard, 558
Euripides, 334, 605, 627
Ewell, Tom, 471
Fadiman, Clifton, 312, 675
Fairbanks, Douglas, Jr., 508
Farquhar, George, The Beaux’ Stratagem, 479
Farrar, John, 269
Faulkner, William, 207, 313
Fay, Larry, 352
FBI investigation of TNW, 495–97
Fee, John G., 143
Fenton, Charles, 177
Ferber, Edna, 389, 497
Fielding, Henry, 631
Findley, Timothy, 631, 650, 674
Fisher, Lola, 233
Fiske, Minnie Maddern, 226
Fitts, Norman, 177, 178, 220–21, 238, 245
FitzGerald, Edward, 317
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 199, 284, 318–20, 323, 326
Fitzgerald, Zelda, 199, 284, 319–21
Flaubert, Gustave, 212, 494
Florida:
Army basic training in, 538–40
TNW in, 302, 303, 487–88, 538, 616, 693
Fonda, Henry, 447
Fontaine, Joan, 535
Fontanne, Lynn, 171, 353, 446, 530
Forbes, Mrs. J. Malcolm, 250–51
Foresman, Edwin Clyde “Tubby,” 204–5, 240, 297
Foresman, Grace, 298, 378, 379, 385
Forster, E. M., 238, 526
Fowler, John, 431
Franck, César, 238
Frankfurter, Felix, 508
Franklin, Benjamin, 609
Freedman, Harold, 359, 447, 533, 545, 562, 566, 660
French, Samuel, 288, 359, 460, 624
French, Warren, 675
Frenz, Horst, 645
Freud, Anna, 408, 477, 632
Freud, Sigmund, 404, 408–9, 427, 438, 467, 475, 477, 491, 500, 637, 671, 694–95
Friedmann, Ernestine, 411, 515
Frost, Robert, 141, 634
Gable, Clark, 539
Gale, Zona, 232
Galloway, David, 675
Gallup, Donald, 679, 696
Gammon, Agnes, 156
Garbo, Greta, 383, 385
Garrison, William Lloyd, 6
Gaston, William “Big Bill,” 444
George, Grace, 103, 104, 109
Germany, TNW’s speech in, 643–45
Gershwin, George, 298, 354, 413
Gielgud, John, 417, 650
Gilbert and Sullivan, 560
Gish, Lillian, 354, 590, 643
Glasheen, Adaline, 647, 648
Glenn, Leslie, 297, 353, 366, 392, 395, 396, 397, 508
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 404, 426, 581, 587, 601–3, 605, 607, 608, 645, 694
Goethe Festival, 599–603
Goethe University, 645
Gold, Michael, 342–44, 350, 435
Goldoni, Carlo, 404
Goldsmith, Oliver, 603, 631, 685
Goldstein, Malcolm, 310
Goldstone, Richard H., 679–80
Goldwyn, Samuel, 384, 386, 389
González Ochoa, Fernando, 519
Goodliffe, Michael, 630
Goodspeed, Bobsy (Mrs. Charles), 354, 393, 395, 403, 417, 469
Gordon, David J., 675
Gordon, Ruth:
and acting, 241, 385, 406, 417, 419, 532, 537, 545
in A Doll’s House, 443, 445, 462
and friendship, 353, 395, 418, 553, 631
and Jed Harris, 349, 443–45, 446, 447, 462
and Merchant/Matchmaker, 469–70, 532, 621, 624–26
TNW’s letters to, 354, 356, 360, 395, 519, 520, 572, 581, 658, 663, 665, 666, 678, 689, 693
and TNW’s memorial service, 702
Goucher College, Baltimore, 243
Goyette, A. Erland, 451
Grant, Cary, 535, 603, 604
Great Depression, 352, 358, 383, 386, 391, 419, 427, 463
Green, Paul, 385, 386
Greenbaum, Anita, 449
Grillparzer, Franz, 404
Guinan, Texas, 352, 356–57
Guthrie, Ramon, 177
Guthrie, Tyrone, 419, 621, 624–25, 629–30
Guynemer, Georges, 150, 154, 167
Haberman, Donald, 177
Hadden, Briton, 176–77, 228
Hadley, Arthur Twining, 149
Hamilton, David, 355
Hammerstein, Oscar I, 463
Handel, George Frideric, Xerxes, 393–94, 398
Harding, Ann, 419
Hardy, Robert, 630
Harkness, Edward S., 239
Harper & Brothers/Harper & Row, 315, 388, 472, 580, 584, 669, 684
Harriman, Averell, 504
Harris, Jed, 317, 348–49, 353, 390, 395, 418, 419, 455, 462, 537, 567
and Our Town, 443–54, 460, 465, 472–73, 474, 475, 476, 479, 523, 559, 560, 572
and Skin, 523, 530, 531
Harris, Jones, 349, 418–19, 462
Harris, Rosemary, 630
Harris, Tom, 347
Hart, Moss, 481, 555
Harvard University:
honorary degree from, 613–14, 645
Norton lectures in, 607, 608, 609–13
“Thoughts for Our Times” address at, 613–14
TNW at, 605, 615, 622
Havoc, June, 649
Hawks, Howard, 603, 604
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 615, 663
Hayes, Helen, 171, 385, 406, 418, 447, 636, 649
Hazlitt, William, 322
Heap, Jane, 198
Hearst, William Randolph, 385, 386
Hecht, Ben, 620
Heckart, Eileen, 643
Heeney, Tom, 318, 325
Heflin, Van, 359
Heifetz, Jascha, 447
Hellman, Lillian, 483
Hemingway, Ernest, 160, 199, 278, 281–82, 283, 292, 298, 302, 313, 319, 323, 326, 332, 343, 455
Hemingway, Hadley, 281, 282
Hemingway, John “Bumby,” 281, 282
Hendrickson, George Lincoln, 180, 181
Henri, Robert, 112
Hepburn, Katharine, 362, 383, 497
Herlihy, James Leo, 675
Herlitschka, H. E., 639
Herrick, Mollie, 385
&n
bsp; Hesse, Hermann, 640
Heyward, DuBose and Dorothy, 298
Hicks, Granville, 675
Hindemith, Gertrude, 650
Hindemith, Paul, 649–50
Hirsch, Sidney, 450
Hitchcock, Alfred, 489, 534–36, 537
Hitler, Adolf, 427, 461, 481
Hobart, John, 468, 560
Hobson, George and Helen, 111
Hollywood, TNW in, 383–87, 462–64, 535–36
Homer, 246
Honegger, Arthur, 620
Hong Kong:
APW as U.S. consul general in, 15, 16, 21–23, 25, 29–30, 31
Wilder family in, 18–25
Hopkins, Arthur, 154, 163, 360, 566, 597, 605
Horgan, Paul, 538, 694
Horowitz, Vladimir, 354
Huebsch, Benjamin W., 546
Hughes, Gareth, 131, 154–56, 163
Hughes, Rupert, 385
Hull, Cordell, 507, 531
Hunter, Glenn, 171–72
Hunter, Ian, 626
Hunter, Mary (Wolfe), 590
Hu Shih, 526
Husted, L. B., 65
Hutchins, Maude, 354–55, 523–24, 526
Hutchins, Robert Maynard, 274, 331, 345–46, 354, 355, 415–16, 471, 505, 523–24, 526, 536, 592, 593, 597, 599, 600, 601, 679, 688, 702
Hutton, Barbara (Reventlow), 535
Ibsen, Henrik, 214, 243, 254
A Doll’s House, 443, 445, 451, 462, 467, 468
Indig, Otto, Die Braut von Torozko, 359
Indy, Vincent d’, 238
Institut International de Coopération Intellectuelle, Paris, 429–30
Isaacs, Edith, 221, 222, 232, 233, 236, 240–41, 242, 253
Italy, TNW in, 182–92
Jackson, Stonewall, 5
Jaffe, Sam, 359
James, Henry, 607, 609, 615, 638
The Ambassadors, 224
The Aspern Papers, 157, 158
The Awkward Age, 213
The Wings of the Dove, 191, 213
James, William, 108, 139
Jameson, Storm, 526
Jeffers, Robinson, 343, 389
John XXIII, Pope, 663
Johnson, Lady Bird, 666
Johnson, Lyndon B., 654, 660, 663
Johnson, Samuel, 207, 335, 631
Jonson, Ben, The Alchemist, 286
Jordan, Edward S., 10
Jouve, Pierre Jean, Paulina, 293, 295, 296
Jouvet, Louis, 477
Joyce, James, 216, 262, 407, 493, 556, 595, 601
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 546
death of, 546
Finnegans Wake, 478, 481, 482, 486, 490–91, 545–49, 556, 594, 596, 641, 642, 647–48, 672–73
Ulysses, 198, 246–47, 263
Jung, Carl Gustav, 438, 637, 669
Kafka, Franz, 568, 571, 605, 635, 645
Kanin, Garson, 572, 621, 624, 631, 658, 663, 666, 678, 689, 693
Kauffmann, Stanley, 675
Kaufman, George S., 447, 481, 555
Kazan, Elia, 481, 531–32, 540, 566
Keats, John, 186, 238
Keedick, Lee, 314, 316, 330, 339, 344, 386, 387, 412