The Sixties: Diaries:1960-1969

by Christopher Isherwood

  Yorke, Henry (1905–73). English novelist, educated at Eton and Oxford; his pen name was Henry Green. His mother, a daughter of Lord Leconfield, was brought up at Petworth, and his father, trained as a classicist, became wealthy manufacturing brewery and plumbing equipment. Yorke worked in a factory of his father’s and rose through the firm to become a managing director. His novels draw on his experience of both working-class and upper-class life, and also on his time in the National Fire Service during World War II: Blindness (1926), Living (1929), Party Going (1939), Caught (1943), Loving (1945), Back (1946), Concluding (1948), Nothing (1950), Doting (1952). He also wrote a memoir, Pack My Bag: A Self Portrait (1940). He married Adelaide “Dig” Biddulph, daughter of 2nd Baron Biddulph, in 1929, and they had a son, Sebastian, but Yorke had a reputation as an adulterer and, during his last two decades, a heavy drinker. Isherwood first mentions him and his wife during his 1947 trip to England recorded in Lost Years; the Yorkes also appear in D.1.

  Zeigel, John (Johnny, Jack) (b. 1934). American professor of literature; a doctor’s son; educated in Sewanee, Tennessee, at Pomona College and Claremont Graduate University in California, and at Harvard. He majored in classics as an undergraduate and taught ancient Greek and Latin language and literature as well as modern literature. He also plays the violin. Zeigel was a Ph.D. candidate at Claremont and a teaching assistant at Pomona when Isherwood became friendly with him in 1961. Evidently they met in the late 1950s, probably through Zeigel’s companion, Ed Halsey, who was briefly a monk at Trabuco. Zeigel met Gerald Heard who arranged counseling with Evelyn Hooker in 1957 or 1958. Hooker certified Zeigel was homosexual so he would not be drafted to fight in the Korean War. Isherwood gave Zeigel an introduction to the poet Witter Bynner, who had known Willa Cather, and after visiting Bynner in Santa Fe, Zeigel decided to write his dissertation about Cather. He moved with Halsey to Ajijic, Mexico, to begin working on the dissertation, then in 1962 took a part-time teaching job back in Pasadena at the California Institute of Technology. Halsey was killed in a car crash that autumn, a tragedy on which Isherwood possibly drew in A Single Man. Zeigel, instead of returning to Mexico as he had planned, became an assistant professor of English and Humanities at Cal. Tech. In 1975, after the death of his father, he left California to care for his mother and to manage family investments and a cattle ranch in Colbran, Colorado where his parents lived. He was made professor of English at Mesa State College in Grand Junction, Colorado, and spent the rest of his teaching career there, until he retired in 1998.

  Index

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  Works by Isherwood appear directly under title; works by others appear under authors’ names.

  Page numbers in italic indicate entries in the Glossary (pages 601–722).

  ABC (television network) 403, 407, 408, 422, 479

  Abedha (Tony Eckstein) 240, 601

  Acebo, Eddie 133, 240, 601

  Achard, Marcel, A Shot in the Dark 145n, 148

  Ackerley, J.R. (Joe): C.I. visits and socializes with in England 76, 99 –100, 122, 447, 448, 450; at Don Bachardy’s exhibition 119; in California 172, 174–5; seeks advice from Gerald Heard 172; death 447, 449, 450, 462; obituary 448; 601

  My Father and Myself 529; We Think the World of You 76

  ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) 519, 563, 601

  Adam International Review (magazine) 73

  Adams, Henry, The Education of Henry Adams 527

  Adrian, Janet see Gaynor, Janet

  Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for

  God, The (Shaw): C.I.’s stage adaptation xxxv, 422, 428, 432, 445, 446, 457, 473, 475, 479, 492, 493, 494, 495, 496, 520; productions 529, 533, 534, 544, 546, 548, 549 –50, 551, 552, 557, 559, 563; racial issues 544, 546, 548, 559; reviews 550, 551

  Advise and Consent (film) 129

  “Afterwards” (C.I.; story) 45

  Ahmanson Theater, Los Angeles 511

  Ainsworth, William Harrison: Old St Pauls 88; The Tower of London 28

  Ajax Films (Australian film studio) 585

  Akhilananda, Swami 226

  Alain-Fournier (Henri Alban-Fournier), Le Grand Meaulnes 69, 70

  Albert, Eddie 506, 601

  Albert, Edward 506, 602

  Algeria 572

  Algerian War (1954-62) 5 & n, 63n

  All the Conspirators (C.I.) 92

  Allen, Dr. Alan: recommended by Gavin Lambert 177; treats C.I. 177, 178, 180, 183, 187, 194, 199, 220, 264, 284–5, 287, 289, 336, 337, 342, 382, 396, 401, 434, 509, 510, 512, 515, 536 –7, 553; treats Don Bachardy 361–2, 373; death of wife 428, 436; remarries 509; 602 Allen, Edwin 378, 379, 579, 602

  Allen, Jiri Selma (wife of Dr. Alan Allen) 428

  Allied Artists (film studio) 585

  Allsop, Kenneth 95–6

  Alston, Ben 284, 336

  Altman, Dennis 545–6, 571, 589 –90, 602

  Alvarez, Al 77, 78, 81

  Amboen, Bill 483–4

  “Ambrose” (C.I.; section of Down There on a Visit) 64–5, 75, 126, 167, 170

  American Civil Liberties Union see ACLU American Legion (veterans’ organization) 173

  American Samoa 571, 576, 577

  Amis, Kingsley 179

  Amiya (Ella Corbin; later Countess of Sandwich) 46, 87, 103, 119, 120, 197–8, 222, 469, 602

  Amrita Bazar Patrika (newspaper) 311, 312

  Amul (Clare Street) 319

  Anamananda, Swami see Arup Chaitanya

  Anang, George 173 Anarchy (magazine) 215

  Anastasia, Grand Duchess 446, 447

  Andelson, Sheldon 357

  Andersen, Hans Christian 28

  Anderson, Judith 138, 193, 249 –50, 498, 603

  Anderson, Phil 343, 347, 603

  Andrews, Betty see Harford, Betty

  Andrews, Christopher 402

  Andrews, Oliver 29, 603

  Andrews, Robert Hardy 135

  Angeles National Forest 273

  Angell, Roger 298

  Another Sky (film) 250

  anti-Semitism 20, 141–2, 292, 335, 367

  Antonioni, Michelangelo 250, 266, 429

  APA (Association of Producing Artists) 529

  Apia, Western Samoa 571, 577–8, 580

  Apollo 8 (first manned lunar mission) 534

  Apollo 11 (moon landing) 569, 570, 577

  Approach to Vedanta, An (C.I.) 248, 510

  Apuleius, The Golden Ass 367

  Aranyananda, Swami (pseud.) 305, 310, 314, 315, 318–19, 320, 321, 322–3, 331

  Arizu, Betty 142, 341, 603

  Arkin, David 363

  Arlen, Michael 458

  Armstrong, Peg 27

  Armstrong-Jones, Antony 272, 481n

  Aronowitz, Alfred, Ernest Hemingway 138

  Arthur, Gavin (Chester Alan Arthur III) 275

  Arts Review (magazine) 120

  Arup Chaitanya (Kenneth Critchfield; later Swami Anamananda): at Laguna Beach 212; at Belur Math 303, 306, 307, 308, 310, 328, 332–3; takes sannyas 328, 330, 331; at Hollywood Vedanta Center 340, 566; 603 Asaktananda, Swami 441, 522, 537, 540, 568, 603 Ascent of F6, The (C.I. play; with Auden) 103, 209, 211, 225, 253

  Ashley, Maurice 448

  Ashokananda, Swami 258, 279, 539 –40, 604

  Ashton, Frederick (Freddy) 63, 567, 604

  Ashworth, Dr. (hand surgeon) 556, 567

  Association of Producing Artists (APA) 529

  Aubrey, James 499, 500, 604

  Auckland 571, 582–4

  Auden, W.H. (Wystan): and C.I.’s proposed Berlin musical x, xxxiii, 34, 76, 77, 79, 80, 82, 85; Don Bachardy’s drawings of xiii, 75, 119, 120, 264, 444, 548, 552; praises C.I.’s Down There on a Visit xiii, 166; taught by John Layard xxiii; and landscape 28; and Spender 60, 349, 444, 505; C.I. meets during London visit (1961) 67–8, 80, 81, 82; and British television show about thirties 73, 77; C
.I.’s relations with 77, 84–5, 141, 443; at Glyndebourne 84; recommends Angus Wilson’s The Middle Age of Mrs. Eliot 93; in New York (1961) 147, 148–9, 153, 155–6; verse for Play of Daniel 152; on the French 155–6; recommends Georg Groddeck 235; Bouché portrait 264; proposed Time cover article on 264; in Tokyo with C.I. (1938) 302; comments on C.I.’s A Single Man 335; on homosexuality 335, 443; on opera 335; visits C.I. in California (1963) 269; (1967) 442–4; drinking 444; on vice of modern journalism 444; comments on C.I.’s A Meeting by the River 445; and proposed musical version of The Dog Beneath the Skin 458, 505; awarded Gold Medal for Poetry by National Institute of Arts and Letters 512n, 515–16; in New York (1969) 594; 604

  The Ascent of F6 (with C.I.) 103, 209, 211, 225, 253; The Dyer’s Hand xi, 265; Elegy for Young Lovers 69, 70, 77n, 84, 102; Journey to a War 521; “The Platonic Blow” 443; see also Dog Beneath the Skin, The

  Aufderheide, Charles 437, 493, 597, 604–5

  Austen, Howard 146, 148, 149, 334, 605

  Australia: C.I. visits with Don Bachardy (1969) xxxv, 532, 541, 546, 554, 568, 571, 578, 585–90; possibility of lecture tour for C.I. 236, 243; popularity of emigration to 483

  Austria, C.I. visits for television special xxxiii, 403, 407, 408, 411–16

  Autobiography of My Books (C.I. proposed work) 284, 335, 371, 372, 373

  Avant Garde (magazine) 446, 591

  Axelrod, George 378

  Axelrod, Nina 378

  Ayer, A.J. (Freddie/Freddy) 146, 153–4, 605

  Babymaker, The (film) 563, 599n

  Bachardy, Don: studies painting at Slade in London xiii, xiv, 35–6, 38, 39, 41, 42, 43, 45, 58, 62; becomes disciple of Swami Prabhavananda xv, 194, 205, 245–6, 248, 251, 254, 255, 257; suggestions for C.I.’s A Single Man xvii, xviii, 223, 246, 248, 264, 282, 283, 289, 296; hashish experience in Tangier (1955) xx, 256, 257; depressions xxi, 31–2, 87, 120, 235, 236, 237, 274, 362, 445; sees Cabaret in New York (1966) xxxiii, 422, 423–4, 425; collaboration on draft screenplay of I, Claudius xxxv, xxxvi, 561, 563, 572, 577, 581, 588, 591, 592, 593, 594, 595; collaboration on dramatization of A Meeting by the River xxxv, 475, 520–21, 522, 526, 528, 529, 533, 576 –7; visits Tahiti and Australia with C.I. (1969) xxxv–xxxvi, 532, 541, 546, 554, 568, 569, 570–71, 573–8, 579 –81, 582–4, 585–90; reading of C.I.’s Down There on a Visit 5, 64, 66; stays with Julie Harris in New York (1960) 14, 16, 44; meets Cecil Beaton 14, 16; and Tennessee Williams 16, 17, 18; tonsilitis 16, 17; relations with mother 17, 87, 172, 177; letters to C.I. 21, 46, 125, 132, 143, 158–9, 274, 355, 510, 531; vagus nerve spasms 24; stomach complaints 25, 147, 170, 225, 537; keeps journal 39; leaves for England (1961) 44–5; C.I. joins in England 58–124; twenty-seventh birthday 65; dislike of Spender 68, 84, 122, 167, 168–9; happiest when drawing 78; relations with brother Ted 87, 379, 485, 535, 541; dreams 102, 174, 283, 445, 543; travels to South of France with C.I. 107–113; C.I. joins in New York after return from England 145–57; building of studio in Santa Monica house 159, 168, 178, 189, 195, 201, 215, 216, 219; earnings 159, 194, 215, 352; returns to California (1962) 166, 167, 168; problems about painting 170, 172, 176, 234, 263, 362, 370, 371, 372, 565, 566; income tax 174; drinking 177, 270, 362, 480, 482; spiritual reading 179, 185; coin stolen in burglary 185; twenty-eighth birthday 189; plans to spend summer in San Francisco 194; merger of finances with C.I.’s 201, 211; in New York for Cassini drawings (1962) 201, 202, 204, 205, 206, 207; visits moon rocket plant with C.I. 213–14; buys new car 220, 223; turns down NASA sketching project 221; bruises leg in fall 222; dancing 225–6; sore throat 225; visits circus with C.I. 228–9; stops taking Dexamyl 235; students in studio 237; weight 242; relationship with Bill Bopp 253, 256, 259, 260, 264–5, 266, 272; car stolen 254; making japam 255, 283; trip to Phoenix to draw Clare Boothe Luce 255–6, 257; relationship with “Henry Kraft” 269, 277, 280, 282, 283, 286 –7, 289, 291, 295, 296, 298, 455; twenty-ninth birthday 276 –7; sees psychotherapist 277, 279, 281, 283, 285, 288, 343; shares studio with Bill Brown and Paul Wonner 280, 283, 289; suggestions for C.I.’s Ramakrishna book 285, 289; reaction to Kennedy assassination 297, 298; in New York during C.I.’s India trip (1963-64) 299, 334, 335; driver’s license suspended 336, 337, 338; joins gym 337; thirtieth birthday 338–9; trip to Europe (1964) 338–9; in New York for Banfer Gallery show and City Ballet commission (1964, 1966) 343, 344, 347, 348–9, 350, 351–3, 360, 365–6, 368, 370, 388, 390, 391, 392, 393; liver problem 361–2; recalls childhood movie-going 365; reading of drafts of C.I.’s A Meeting by the River 367, 370, 371, 386, 390–91, 396 –7; chest pains 373, 374; devotion to Ramakrishna 373; presents for C.I.’s sixty-second birthday 406; discusses drug-taking with C.I. 407, 542; drawings “made under stress” 408; suggestions for C.I.’s Kathleen and Frank 422, 440–41; at Timothy Leary show 439, 440; stays with Anthony Russo in Santa Fe 441; at Elysian Park “Love-in” 444; declines possible show at Mercury Gallery, London 446, 447; gets traffic ticket 458; Harper’s Bazaar assignment of celebrity portraits 463; visits Reagans 463; trip to New York (1967) 464–5, 467, 472–3; presents for C.I.’s sixty-third birthday 466 –7; row with John Rechy over portrayal in Numbers 482–3; classes in dynamic reading 484; C.I. makes poetry tapes for 494, 497, 578, 581; visits Truman Capote at Palm Springs with C.I. 497, 540, 542–3; purchase of duplex buildings with C.I. 499 –500, 519, 596; loans car to Ronnie Knox 502; stays in David Hockney’s flat in London (1968) 502, 503, 506, 509, 514, 518; commission for Royal Court Theatre 509, 516; thirty-fourth birthday 514; trip to New York (September 1968) 526, 528; trip to England (October-November 1968) 529, 530–31; selected for inclusion in Who’s Who in the West 530; recalls LSD experience 542; trip to England (1969) 543, 544, 550, 554, 555, 556, 558, 559; watches home movies with C.I. 547; collaboration on treatment for Cabaret film 551, 556, 560, 564, 566; sees Nureyev and Fonteyn dance 567; trip to London and North Africa (August-September 1969) 572, 576 –7, 578, 581, 590, 591; 605–6

  Drawings and paintings: of James Fenton ix; of Auden xiii, 75, 119, 120, 121, 264, 444, 548, 552; for A Taste of Honey 3–4, 10, 12, 14, 24, 113; of Vera Stravinsky 12; for theatrical poster designs 16, 17, 18, 19, 24, 215n; nudes 31, 375, 387, 444, 519; of C.I. 59, 72, 96, 98, 103, 222–3, 544; self-portraits 59, 222; of Igor Stravinsky 67–8, 119, 215; drawing and painting techniques 70, 78, 241, 362; of Gladys Cooper 72; of Vivien Leigh 75, 344n; of Chester Kallman 82; of Albert Finney 86, 121; for dust-jacket of C.I.’s Down There on a Visit 96 & n, 101, 103, 114, 147; of Margaret Leighton 99; publication in Queen magazine 100, 114; of Count Maurice D’Arquian 104; of Lotte Lenya 104, 222; of Forster 105, 117; of Ivor Jenkins 106; of John Gielgud 106; fashion drawings 107, 116, 182, 198, 200, 334; of H.E. Bates 108; of Bryan Forbes 114; of Jocelyn Rickards 117; of Francis Bacon 118; of mother 172; of Bruce Lansbury 173; of Iris Tree 177; of Ivan and Kate Moffat 177; of Merle Oberon 182n, 215, 223; of Oleg Cassini 182, 201, 202; of Dorothy Parker 184, 189; of Charles and Muff Brackett 188; of Dorothy McGuire 194n; of Charles Boyer 215, 216; of Gloria Vanderbilt 216; of David O. Selznick 219; of Aldous Huxley 223; of Tennessee Williams 223; of Arthur Laurents 245; of Judith Anderson 249, 250; of Thomas Storke 249; of King Vidor 254; of Myron Prinzmetal 254; of Frank Wiley 255; of Clare Boothe Luce 257; of Linda Christian 263; paintings of dolls 286, 287; for dust-jacket of C.I.’s A Single Man 336; of Collin Wilcox 344n, 378–9, 426; for New York City Ballet 347, 349, 352, 366, 375, 392; of Budd Cherry 373; of Nina Axelrod 378; of Marlene Dietrich 383; of Myrna Loy 383; of Dana Woodbury 387; of Jack Larson 387; of Jim Charlton 387; of George Balanchine 392; of Larry Nichols 444; of Mike Van Horn 444; of Nancy Reagan 463; paintings from photographs of women 493; for Royal Court Theatre 509, 516; of Sharon Tate 521; of Earl and Countess of Harewood 543, 549, 554; of Leslie Caron 545; bought by National Portrait Gallery, London 548, 549, 552, 565; of Peter Schneider and Jim Gates 561

  Exhibitions and shows xiii; Redfern Gallery, London 66, 68, 72, 86, 91, 94, 95, 101, 103, 113, 116 –17, 119 –21, 445; Sagittarius Gallery, New York 135, 141, 146, 149, 151, 153; Phoe
nix Museum of Art (cancelled) 238, 266, 271, 336; Santa Barbara Museum of Art 238, 261, 265, 266n; Stanford University 266, 267, 271; Banfer Gallery, New York 343, 344, 347; Rex Evans’s Gallery, Los Angeles (1962) 172, 173, 198, 222–3, 224; (1966) 375, 382, 384, 385, 386 –7; (1967) 447; Irving Blum’s gallery, Los Angeles 565, 593, 595, 597, 598