Lost Years (82 page)

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

Savage, Very Revd H.E., Dean of Lichfield, 30n

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

Sumac, Yma, 242

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, Nan, 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, 278, 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