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Authors: Christopher Isherwood

Lihencron, Detlev von, 26n

Lions and Shadows
(C.I.), vii–viii, 98, 103n, 108

Litvak, Anatole, 23

Lives of a Bengal Lancer
(film), 171n

Lodge, Carter: and C.I.'s life at Vedanta Center, 7; at Beesleys, 11–12; entertains C.I., 11; disapproves of C.I.'s lovemaking, 12n; relations with C.I., 12n; at AJC Ranch, 21, 220; C.I. visits with Caskey, 47, 196; C.I. entertains, 50; relations with Dick Foote, 196n; loathes Starcke, 197n

Logan, Joshua, 225–6

London: C.I. visits (1947), 83–6, 91–107, 113–16; C.I. visits with Caskey (1948), 143, 145–8

Long Beach Veterans Hospital, 236, 239–40

Loos, Anita, 27n

Los Alamos, New Mexico, 250

Los Angeles: conference on world peace (1949), 189–90

Los Angeles Times, The
: C.I.
interviewed in, 49; quotes C.I. on
Ethan Frome
, 229n

Lubbock, Lys
see
Connolly, Lys

Luhan, Mabel Dodge, 254, 255n

Lupino, Ida, 31n

Lyme Hall, Cheshire (England), 185n

Lyndon, Andrew, 126–7, 131–2

Lynes, George Platt, 65

MacArthur, General Douglas, 273

Macaulay, (Dame) Rose, 113, 143

McCarthy, Senator Joseph, 190, 209

McCarthy, Mary:
The Oasis
, 223n, 225n

McClendon, Carlos, 59n, 65–6, 153, 184, 238

McCullers, Carson:
The Member of the Wedding
, 140n;
Reflections in a Golden Eye
, 140n

McDowall, Roddy, 17

Mace, John, 81

McGrath, Earle, 28 & [n]

Maclean, Donald, 100

MacNeice, Louis, 83n

Maddox, Tom (pseud.), 17

Madge, Charles, 114n

Magallanes, Nicholas, 50n

Maher, Fern, xix, 24n

Mailer, Norman, 228

Malaparte, Curzio:
Kaputt
, 140n

Maltz, Albert:
The Journey of Simon McKeever
, 191

Manchester (England), 89

Mangeot, Olive, 91, 107–8, 110

Mangeot, Sylvain, 91

Mankiewicz, Joseph, 207n

Mann, Erika, 155, 215

Mann, Katia (Thomas's wife): defends unnamed friend of Klaus, 168;
Unwritten Memoirs
, 77n

Mann, Klaus: friendship with C.I., 153; recovers after suicide attempt, 155; relations with Harold Fairbanks, 155–6; visits friend in jail, 168; co-writes film outline with C.I., 170; suicide, 191–2; memorial volume, 210n; C.I. writes article on, 212, 215

Mann, Thomas: and Stefan Brecht, 14n; makes no mention of Salka Viertel in letters, 71; C.I. visits, 77, 179; operation on lung, 77 & n; letter to Adorno on Klaus's suicide attempt, 155; Caskey photographs, 189; reads C.I.'s article on Klaus, 215;
Dr. Faustus
, 77;
Letters
, 170

Mansfield, Katherine, 68, 282n

March, Fredric, 67

Markova, (Dame) Alicia, 147

Marple Hall, Cheshire (England), 144, 185

Martinez, José (Pete), 5

Masefield, John:
Multitude and Solitude
, 275n

Masselink, Ben: Jo meets, 44n; and Jim Charlton, 156n; friendship with C.I., 195, 208, 230, 280–1; and Fechin, 222; and Korean War, 240n, 241; marriage relations, 241n; helps clear up C.I.'s apartment, 256; and C.I.'s break with Caskey, 282

Masselink, Jo
(formerly
Lathwood): meets Ben, 44n; and Jim Charlton, 156n; friendship with C.I., 195, 208, 230, 280–1; and Fechin, 222; and Korean War, 24on; marriage relations, 241n; helps clear up C.I.'s apartment, 256; and C.I.'s break with Caskey, 282

Matta Echaurren, Roberto Sebastián, xvi, 124

Matty's Cell House, New York, 58 & n

Maugham, Robin:
The Servant
, 225n

Maugham, William Somerset: denies Larry in
The Razor's Edge
modelled on C.I., 22; in
Hollywood, 37–8; meets Swami, 38, 40; death, 40n; warns C.I. of police watch on Denny Fouts, 40;
The Narrow Corner,
223n;
The Razor's Edge
, 22n, 37 & n, 38 & n;
Up at the Villa,
28, 35 & n, 36n

Mauldin, Bill, 269–70

Mauriber, Saul, 253

Maxine (Bernie Hamilton's girlfriend), 200

Medley, Robert, 83n, 116

Meeting by the River, A
(C.I.; novel and TV script), ix–x, xxv–xxvi, 170

Memorial, The
(C.I.), 203

Men, The
(film), 205, 228, 230

Menotti, Gian Carlo, 173

Merlo, Frank, 208, 267

Merton, Thomas:
The Seven-Storey Mountain
, 175–6n

Methuen (publishers), 119, 188, 196

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), 73n, 150, 168, 173–4, 176–7, 191

Mexico, 78, 88

MGM
see
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Minton, John, 143 & n

Miró, Joan, 47

“Mr. Lancaster” (C.I.; section of
Down There on a Visit
), 278

Mitchison, Naomi:
The Blood of the Martyrs
, 225n

Mitford, Nancy:
Love in a Cold Climate
, 223n, 225n

Moffat, Ivan: works on films with George Stevens, 66; imitates C.I. describing Gregory Peck, 169; reports story of C.I. misbehaving at Chaplins', 199n, 233; at Chaplins' with Caskey and Natasha, 235; at Salka Viertel's to hear Yma Sumac perform, 242; sees Sadler's Wells Ballet with C.I., 271

Moffat, Natasha (
née
Sorokine): Caskey corrects, xvi, 235; marriage, 66–7; at Chaplins', 234–5; at Sadler's Wells Ballet with C.I., 271

Monkhouse, Mrs., 89–90

Monkhouse, Allan, 89, 112

Monkhouse, Elizabeth (“Mitty”), 90, 112

Monkhouse, John, 89

Monkhouse, Patrick, 90, 277

Monkhouse, Rachel, 90, 112

Monument Valley, Arizona/Utah, 141 & n, 248, 249n, 255

Moore, George, 51n;
A Drama in Muslin
, 275n

Moraturi, Pancho, 13, 15

Morgan, Frank, 177

Morris, Phyllis, 81 & n, 214

Mortimer, Raymond, 143

Mosel, Fritz, 126

Mosley, Sir Oswald, 97

Motley, Willard:
Knock on Any Door
, xv & n, 140n; prose style, xxv–xxvii

Murphy, Audie, 268–70

Mussohni, Benito, 31

My Guru and His Disciple
(C.I.), xxiv, xxvii

Nadeau, Nicky, 81, 212n, 216

Nadelman, Elie, 132

Naeve, Lowell:
A Field of Broken Stones
, 275n

Naked and the Dead, The
(film), 228

Nanny
see
Avis, Annie

Nantucket, Massachusetts, 125–7

National Council of the Arts, Sciences and Professions, 189–91

Neddermeyer, Heinz: refused entry to England, xi, xxi; relations with C.I., xxx, 148; arrest and imprisonment, 98, 114n; in Portugal with C.I., 114n

Negri, Pola, 234

Neumann, Elisabeth (
later
Viertel), 148

Newman, Lennie: cooks at Jay de Laval's restaurant, 67, 171, 177;
described, 67; at C.I. party, 170; relations with Caskey, 171, 193, 197, 246; tried in court with Caskey, 209; visits C.I. and Caskey, 233, 238; C.I. has sex with, 279–80

New Mexico, 247–54

New World Writing,
284

New Writing
(magazine), 100[n]

New York, 117–25, 128–38

Nin, Anaïs: C.I. meets, 245–6;
Children of the Albatross,
245

No Way Out
(film), 207n

Norment, Caroline, xxxi, 121n, 125, 239

Novak, Alvin, xviii–xix, 197–8

“Nowaks, The” (C.I.; story in
Goodbye to Berlin
), 100

Obey, André:
Noé
, 74[n]

Obin, Philomé, 125

Ocampo, Victoria, 134, 136, 175n

O'Casey, Sean:
Juno and the Paycock
, 189

O'Donnell, Lawrence: “Vintage Season”, 176n

O'Hara, John, 82n

O'Keeffe, Georgia, 247, 249–53, 254n

Old, Vernon (pseud.): and C.I.'s relations with Bill Harris, 6; and Marcel Rodd, 8; practical jokes on, 10; travels with C.I., 13; excites C.I., 20; C.I. dines with, 31; lives in Hollywood with C.I., 38; friendship with C.I., 45, 50, 92 & [n], 106, 153; approves C.I.'s relations with Caskey, 46; C.I. entertains, 50; goes out with Anita Pitoeff, 50; C.I.'s mythic image of, 60–1, 159; takes C.I. to snake show, 152n; marriage to Patty O'Neill, 170–1 & [n], 181; on wishing to serve C.I., 181; and C.I.'s psychic experience in Sequoia, 185n; leaves C.I., 193

Oliver, Maria Rosa, 137

O'Neill, Patty (pseud.): marriage to Vernon Old, 170–1, 181

Ophuls, Max, 153

Orwell, George:
Homage to Catalonia
, 275n;
Nineteen Eighty-four
, 225n

Osborne, John:
Look Back in Anger
, 60n

Ouspenskaya, Maria, 39

Owens, Rodney: relations with Hayden Lewis, 76–7, 81, 149–50, 153, 167; in business, 77; friendship with C.I., 81, 150, 153, 167, 170, 208, 233, 238; at C.I.'s 1947 departure for England, 82; meets C.I. on return, 149; meets Jim Charlton, 163; Radebaugh's infatuation with, 171; spends Christmas and New Year (1950–51) with C.I., 274

Paris, 142

Pascal, Natalia, 50

Pastoral Symphony
(film), 84n

Patanjali:
How to Know God
(translated aphorisms), 179, 183, 207, 210, 212, 258, 278

Paton, Alan:
Cry, the Beloved Country
, 175–6n

“Paul” (C.I.; section of
Down There on a Visit
), 7n, 142

Pearn, Agnes Marie (Inez; Stephen Spender's first wife), 114n

Pears, Peter, 92, 95, 106, 144, 212–15

Peck, Gregory, 152, 168–9, 177, 187–8

Pell, Donald (pseud.), 258, 260, 268, 271

Perkins, Lynn, 49–50

Perlin, Bernard (Bernie), 123

Philipps, Cristina, 108–9

Philipps, Wogan, 108–10

Picasso, Pablo: Denny Fouts sells painting, 46n

Pilates, Joseph, 120 & n

Pitoëff, Anita, 50

Pitoëff, Ludmilla, 50

Pits, The (on State Beach), 63–4

Players Restaurant, Hollywood, 39

Plomer, William, 83 & n, 86, 94n, 101–2, 113, 144

Poitier, Sidney, 207n

Pole, Rupert, 245–6

Pollock, Peter, 100

Porter, Cole, 58[n], 69, 153n, 215

Porter, Katherine Anne, 68–9

Portugal, 114n

Power, Tyrone, 39n

Prabha (Phoebe Nixon;
later
Pravrajika Prabhaprana), 209

Prabhavananda, Swami: C.I. writes book on, viii, xxiv, xxvii; C.I.'s relations with, ix, 7, 9, 182, 201n, 278; C.I. introduces Caskey to, xvii; and C.I.'s proposed biography of Ramakrishna, xxii; effect on C.I., xxix; translates Bhagavad Gita with C.I., 8n, 9, 22; returns to Vedanta Center, 14; lumbago, 18;
Time
magazine article on, 22; C.I. talks to about leaving, 27; and C.I.'s gonorrhea, 36; Maugham meets, 38, 40; scorn for Tyrone Power, 39n; and C.I.'s leaving Vedanta Center, 45; translates Shankara's
The Crest–Jewel of Discrimination
, 72n; initiates C.I., 78; C.I. visits, 81, 183; blesses C.I. on trip to England, 81; Kathleen Isherwood's view of, 89; C.I. attends birthday lunch, 173; translates Patanjah, 179, 183, 207; believes Caskey a bad influence on C.I., 181; visits Trabuco, 191; and Sister's death, 197; leaves for India, 209; undergoes operation, 237, 239; van Druten on, 247; meets Alan Watts, 277

Prater Violet
(C.I.), xiii, xxv, xxx, 4, 48–9, 107, 235

Pringle, Aileen, 195

Pritchett, (Sir) V.S., 113

Proust, Marcel, xx, 21, 26;
Remembrance of Things Past
, 21, 51; “Seascape” (from
Within a Budding Grove
), 67

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

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