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Penelope Niven

Page 98

by Thornton Wilder


  Keller, Ruth, 102

  Kennedy, John F., 653, 654, 660, 663

  Kent, Rockwell, 301

  Keppel, Frederick Paul, 429

  Kesselring, Joseph, 560

  Kierkegaard, Søren, 568, 571, 581, 597, 599, 601, 605, 606, 607, 608, 626–27, 640, 669

  Kilty, Jerome, 649

  King, Henry C., 128

  Kingsley, Sidney, 548

  Klaw, Marcus, 171

  Knowles, John, 675

  Kommer, Rudolf, 113, 114, 221–22, 284

  Kreisler, Fritz, 403

  Kuehl, Lester Martin, 560

  Kummer, Clare, 232

  Labriolle, Pierre de, 209–10

  La Bruyère, Jean de, 263

  La Farge, Oliver, 332

  La Follette, Robert M., 12, 15, 16–17

  Lake Sunapee Summer School and Camp, 273, 298–99

  Landor, Walter Savage, 580

  Langner, Lawrence, 649

  Lauder, Polly (Tunney), 318, 326, 332, 348

  Laughton, Charles, 385

  Lawrence, D. H., 389

  Lawrence School, New Jersey, 202–5, 208–11, 214–15, 216, 222, 231, 238, 245, 297–98, 300–301

  Lawson, John Howard, 342

  Layton, William “Bill,” 558, 568

  Lederer, Charles, 385

  Le Grand, Roland and Eileen, 561, 570, 682, 699

  Lehmann, Lotte, 657

  Leigh, Vivien, 557, 562, 577, 627, 631, 660

  Leighton, Clare, 301

  Lenormand, Henri, 233

  Lesser, Sol, 479–80, 482–84, 488, 535, 538, 566, 694, 697

  Lewis, Sinclair, 278, 284, 313, 319, 443, 444

  Lewis, Wilmarth Sheldon “Lefty,” 70, 148, 679, 702

  Libin, Paul, 651

  Library of Congress, 507–8

  Lillie, Beatrice, 557

  Literary Guild, 300, 688

  Little Leather Library, 242, 300

  Little Women (film), 362, 363, 669

  Liveright, Horace, 242

  Livingston, Robert, 523

  Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 193–94

  Longmans, Green & Company, Ltd., 270, 278, 293, 296, 327, 479

  Lord, Pauline, 418

  Lowell, Amy, 238

  Lowrie, Walter, 581

  Lowry, Howard, 613

  Luce, Clare Boothe, 477, 481

  Luce, Henry, 43, 53, 176–77, 178, 189, 228, 278, 415–16, 454, 477, 666

  Luhan, Mabel Dodge, 293–94, 362, 385, 388–90, 395, 396, 399, 400, 403, 407–8, 412, 414, 427, 428, 429, 482, 531, 658

  Luhan, Tony, 389, 658

  Lunt, Alfred, 171, 353, 446, 530

  MacArthur, Charles, 418, 447

  MacDowell, Edward, 246, 678

  MacDowell, Marian, 233, 236

  MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, 233–34, 236–38, 272, 298, 327, 331, 425, 451, 490, 491, 630, 665, 678

  MacKaye, Percy, 86, 120

  MacLaine, Shirley, 646

  MacLeish, Archibald, 507–8, 525, 530, 539, 562, 565

  Mainzer, Ferdinand, 581

  Maney, Richard, 543

  Mann, Delbert, 652

  Mann, Ted, 651–52

  Mann, Thomas, 238, 403, 404

  March, Fredric, 532, 545, 554

  Marin, John, 389

  Marks, Nehemiah, 2

  Marquand, John P., 589

  Marsh, Sir Edward Howard, 437

  Marsh, Reginald, 174

  Martin, Mary, 636, 648

  Mason, Lawrence, 148

  Massey, Raymond, 418, 508

  Maugham, Somerset, 413

  Mayan ruins, TNW’s interest in, 579

  Maynard family, 66, 71–72

  McCarthy, Frank, 42, 53

  McClellan, Edwin, 234

  McClintic, Guthrie, 359, 360, 395, 418

  McCormick, Edith Rockefeller, 354

  McCullough, Duff, 323

  McDonell, Gordon, 534, 537

  McKay, Claude, 429

  Mediterranean Allied Armed Forces (MAAF), 559

  Meeker, Arthur, Jr., 355

  Melville, Herman, 438–39, 595, 607, 608, 609, 610, 615, 616, 632, 663

  Menander, 334

  Mencken, H. L., 430, 548

  Mendell, Clarence W., 180, 201

  Mérimée, Prosper, Le Carrosse du Saint-Sacrement, 303, 305

  Merlini, Elsa, 573

  Merrick, David, 626

  Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 198, 354

  Miller, Gilbert, 359

  Millis, Walter, 159, 176, 666

  Milton, John, 207

  Miracle in the Rain (film), 620

  Misses Masters Boarding and Day School, 4, 117, 186

  Molière, 238, 404, 461, 468, 549

  Monhegan Island, Maine, 112–13

  Moody, Dwight L., 106

  Moore, George, 112, 126, 135

  Moore, Henry, 620

  Morand, Paul, 208, 212

  Moulton, George, 357

  Mount Hermon School, 105, 106–11

  Muir, Edwin, 312

  Munnecke, Wilbur C., 599

  Munsey, Frank A., 3

  Murphy, George, 61, 76

  Murphy, Gerald, 417

  Murray, Ebenezer, 53

  Mussolini, Benito, 282, 427, 467, 584, 585

  Myerberg, Michael, 531, 532, 540, 543, 544, 554

  Nathan, George Jean, 548, 549

  National Book Award, 669, 675

  National Conference of Christians and Jews, 591

  National Medal for Literature, 666

  Nestroy, Johann, 404, 420, 456, 468

  Neville, John, 630

  New Haven:

  house on Deepwood Drive, 329–30, 365, 469, 667

  opening of Skin of Our Teeth in, 541–43

  New Haven Journal-Courier, 188, 208, 217, 323, 329

  Newman, Paul, 652

  Newport:

  and Theophilus North, 686

  TNW in, 205–6, 213, 226

  New Republic, 180, 199, 342–44

  Newton, Charles, 353

  New York Times, 286–87, 325

  Nichols, Bill, 276, 280, 281, 284, 287, 290, 292–93, 294–95, 325, 351, 353

  Nicolson, Harold, 413

  Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 359, 390, 426, 433, 601, 645, 670

  Niven, Archibald Campbell, 5

  Niven, Charlotte (aunt), 230, 331, 417, 563, 577

  early years of, 5

  in Europe, 47, 49, 55, 174, 327, 403, 526–27

  in Florida, 487, 664

  health problems of, 664–65

  and YWCA, 5, 47, 174, 200, 311, 327, 526, 561

  Niven, Elizabeth Lewis, 4, 5, 47, 49, 55, 122, 216, 222–23

  Niven, Thornton, 222, 223

  Niven, Thornton MacNess, Jr., 4, 5

  Niven, Thornton MacNess, Sr., 4

  Niven family, 4-5

  Noy, Henry, 323

  Oberlin, John Frederic, 94–95

  Oberlin College:

  ANW as student in, 73, 75, 77, 78, 83, 94, 96, 123, 147

  founding of, 6, 94

  honorary degrees from, 617

  mission of, 94–95, 345

  TNW as student in, 89, 91–92, 94–98, 99–104, 114, 116, 117–22, 123, 124–26, 131–33, 134–36

  and World War I, 128–29, 130, 133

  Oberlin Literary Magazine, 101, 103, 126, 142, 243

  Obey, André, Le viol de Lucrèce, 359–60, 468

  O’Keeffe, Georgia, 389

  Olivier, Laurence, 413, 461, 562, 577, 590, 607, 627, 631

  Oñativia, Elizabeth, 234

  O’Neil, Jim, 699

  O’Neill, Eugene, 213, 239, 643

  Ortega y Gasset, José, 600

  Our Town (TNW), 341–42, 478–80, 500, 552

  awards for, 451–52, 459, 460, 465–66

  evolution of, 382, 399–400, 402, 406, 418, 421–23, 425, 426–27, 428, 436–37, 442, 460–61, 475, 479–80, 549, 554, 559, 573, 648, 652, 667

  and Harris, 443–54, 460, 465, 472–73, 474, 475, 476, 479, 523, 559, 560, 572 />
  movies of, 479–80, 482–83, 488–89, 519, 694, 697

  production of, 443–49, 450–52, 454, 468, 489, 534, 573, 645, 646, 667

  sources of, 426–27, 440, 458–59

  structure of, 350, 422, 442, 447, 470, 475, 503, 635, 702

  success of, 342, 363, 449, 452, 453, 456, 460, 467, 554

  themes in, 185, 266, 337, 362, 384, 415, 422, 423–24, 425, 440–41, 442, 448, 535, 555, 628–29, 673, 674, 687

  TNW’s acting in, 465, 466, 469, 477, 495, 607–8, 647

  Ouspenskya, Maria, 175

  Oxenford, John, 468

  Paepcke, Walter, 599

  Palestrina, 608

  Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915), 86–87

  Panofsky, Erwin, 634

  Paris:

  American expatriates in, 198–99

  TNW in, 196–200, 216, 262, 283–84

  Paris Service, 115–16

  Parsons, Louella, 463

  Pascal, Blaise, 688

  Pauling, Linus, 321

  Pavlova, Anna, 99

  PEN International, 526–27

  Pepys, Samuel, 631

  Perichole, 305, 307, 308, 310, 311, 333, 499

  Perkins, Anthony, 646

  Phelps, William Lyon, 27, 151, 174, 216, 233, 236, 269, 294, 321

  Picasso, Pablo, 406, 409–10, 695

  Pickford, Mary, 354, 385

  Pinchot, Rosamond, 444, 449–50, 462

  Pirandello, Luigi, 192, 214, 232, 238, 254

  Plato, 407, 580, 694

  Platt, Louise, 449

  Pocket Books, 456

  Poe, Edgar Allan, 225, 607, 608, 609, 610, 615, 616, 690

  Poetry, 546

  Porter, Cole, 413, 535

  Porter family, 2

  Pound, Ezra, 192, 198, 207

  Praskins, Leonard, 386

  Pratt, John, 400

  Preminger, Otto, 465, 546

  Prescott, William H., 226

  Presidential Medal of Freedom, 660, 663

  Princeton:

  Our Town tryout in, 445, 448–49

  TNW as student in, 240, 251–52, 254, 260

  TNW’s life in, 259–60, 271, 273

  Producers’ Showcase (TV), 652

  Proust, Marcel, 199, 208, 212, 224, 238, 244, 263, 320

  Pulitzer Prize, 313, 322, 352, 459, 460, 465, 549

  Purdy, Theodore, Jr., 269

  Quebec, TNW in, 494–95, 499, 505–7

  Quintero, José, 651–52, 698

  Ray, Satyajit, 699

  Redgrave, Sir Michael, 590

  Redgrave, Vanessa, 693

  Reed, Florence, 533, 544, 552

  Reed, John, 389

  Reinhardt, Max, 113, 221, 222, 284, 290, 403, 409, 444, 465, 475, 476, 493, 497

  and Merchant, 455–56, 458, 460, 461–64, 467, 469–73

  Remarque, Erich Maria, 433

  Remisoff, Nicolai, 470

  Renan, Ernest, 263

  Rennie, Thomas, 558, 575

  Repplier, Agnes, 269

  Reville, Alma, 537

  Rexroth, Kenneth, 429

  Ribera, Andrés de, 305

  Rice, Elmer, 497

  RKO Studios, 383, 386

  Robeson, Paul, 406

  Robinson, Edward G., 463

  Robinson, Edwin Arlington, 233, 237, 240, 298, 313

  Robinson, Henry Morton, 545–48, 555–56

  Rodgers, Richard, 648

  Rogers, Ginger, 427

  Rogers, Will, 385

  Romains, Jules, 199–200

  Rome:

  American Academy in, 180, 186, 236–37, 437, 580

  TNW in, 180, 184–92, 193–94, 196, 216, 262, 278, 423–24, 441, 579

  in TNW’s writings, 197, 262, 263, 362, 363, 426, 580, 601

  Roosevelt, Eleanor, 453–54, 497–98, 508

  Roosevelt, Franklin D., 427, 467, 496, 497, 498–99, 503, 505, 507, 564

  Roosevelt, Theodore, 15, 17, 115

  Rorem, Ned, 648

  Rouault, Georges, 620

  Rubinstein, Arthur, 354

  S4N, 177–78, 220, 243, 245

  Sackville-West, Vita, 312, 413

  Saint, Eva Marie, 652

  Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, Duc de, 263

  Salzburg Music Festival, 403, 433

  Sandburg, Carl, 224, 343

  San Francisco Chronicle, 468

  Sankey, Ira D., 143

  Saroyan, William, 643

  Sartre, Jean-Paul, 571–72, 667

  Morts sans sépulture, 572, 581, 590

  Saturday Review of Literature, 161, 176, 545–49, 555–56

  Saurat, Denis, 526

  Scherman, Harry, 300

  Schweitzer, Albert, 205, 600, 612, 640, 644

  Scott, Evelyn, 411, 515, 517, 557–58, 576

  Scott, Geoffrey, 515

  Scott, Martha, 452, 697, 698

  Selznick, David O., 444, 463

  Sergeant, Elizabeth Shepley, 298, 621

  Service, Robert, “The Shooting of Dan McGrew,” 301

  Sévigné, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Mme de, 213, 224, 230, 263, 272, 308, 311, 317

  Shackleton, Sir Ernest, 316

  Shadow of a Doubt (film), 534–36, 537–38

  Shakespeare, William, 101, 321, 322, 408, 597, 607, 631, 638

  Shakespeare and Company, Paris, 198, 262, 278

  Shanghai, see China

  Sharpe, John C., 201

  Shaw, George Bernard, 419, 612, 649

  Shaw, Robert, 693

  Sheldon, Edward “Ned,” 239, 353, 421, 427, 443, 447–48, 532, 544, 553, 578, 584, 585

  Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 584

  Sherrill, Charles Hitchcock, 294

  Sherrill, Gibbs, 294

  Sherwood, Robert, 497, 504

  Shikibu, Murasaki, The Tale of Genji, 666

  Shore, Dinah, 652

  Shumlin, Herman, 469

  Simonds, Bruce, 246, 329

  Sinatra, Frank, 652

  Sinclair, Upton, 313

  Skin of Our Teeth, The (TNW), 551

  characters and plot of, 185, 439, 500–503, 513–14, 535, 542–43

  evolution of, 428, 491, 492–94, 507, 509, 522, 523, 528, 529, 530–31, 543, 648

  and Finnegans Wake, 545–49, 555, 641, 642

  production of, 529, 530–33, 540, 541–42, 544–45, 552, 554, 562, 636, 645, 648–49, 698

  success of, 543, 545, 573, 574, 645

  themes in, 503–5, 641, 642

  and war, 492–93, 504–5, 528, 529, 542, 548, 574

  Skirball, Jack, 535

  Smith, Frederick James, 333

  social revolutionary writers, 342–43

  Sophocles, 476, 695

  Sousa, John Philip, 7

  South America, goodwill tour of, 507–8, 509, 510, 511–12, 519–20, 581, 598, 614

  Spooner, John Coit, 12, 15, 16

  Squirrel Island, Maine, 111–12

  Stanislavsky, Konstantin, 253

  Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, 316

  Steichen, Edward, 663

  Stein, Gertrude, 354, 389, 395–97, 410, 414, 418, 472, 484, 519–20, 529, 552, 599

  The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, 393

  and creativity, 406, 578, 694

  death of, 578, 609, 694

  in Europe, 399, 400–401, 402, 403, 409–10, 412, 419, 429, 430, 467, 475, 477, 478, 481, 487, 525

  Everybody’s Autobiography, 393, 396, 430–31

  Four in America, 405, 578, 591

  The Geographical History of America, 405–7, 440

  and Harris, 446, 454–55

  Ida A Novel, 430

  influence of, 407, 427, 430, 440, 441, 442, 468, 581, 601

  The Making of Americans, 425, 440, 441

  Narration, 405

  papers archived at Yale, 454

  and patriotism, 410

  and repetition, 406, 440–41

  on solitude, 506, 612

  TNW’s article about, 591

  at University of Chicago, 393, 396, 398

&n
bsp; and war, 419, 467, 478, 487

  Steinbeck, John, 466

  Sten, Anna, 384

  Stevenson, Robert Louis, 88

  Steward, Samuel, 433–38, 439, 523

  Stewart, Rosalie, 383, 398–99, 476, 534

  Stifter, Adalbert, 404

  Stokowski, Leopold, 531

  Stout, Rex, 497, 527, 552

  Stowitts, Hubert Jay, 99

  Strachey, Lytton, 207, 263

  Strand, Paul, 389

  Strobel, Mabel, 355

  Sturges, Preston, 386

  Sun Yat-sen, 52

  Taft, William Howard, 16, 38–39, 58, 66, 87

  Tal, Lucy, 433

  Talma, Louise, 634, 639, 647, 652–53, 657, 668, 674, 679

  Taos, TNW in, 388–90, 396, 658

  Tappan, Arthur, 6, 94–95

  Tappan, Lewis, 6, 94–95

  Taylor, Bill, 163

  Taylor, Deems, 447

  Taylor, Elizabeth, 619

  Taylor, H. C., 81

  Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre, 669–70, 673

  Terence, 327, 334

  Thacher, Sherman, 37, 56–57, 58, 65, 69, 73, 125, 216, 338

  Thacher School, California, 37, 52, 56, 58, 64, 66–70, 144, 338

  Thackeray, William Makepeace, 631

  Theatre Arts Monthly, 240–41, 243

  Theatre Guild, 472, 626, 649

  Thimig, Helene, 463, 467

  Thomas, Lewis, 698

  Thompson, Dorothy, 508

  Thompson, Francis, 515

  Thoreau, Henry David, 343, 607, 608, 609, 610, 616, 617

  Tiffany, Charles, 409

  Time, 177, 228, 623

  Tinker, Chauncey, 151, 176, 216, 303–4

  Toklas, Alice B., 395–96, 430–31, 578, 589, 604

  and Stein, see Stein, Gertrude

  Tolstoy, Leo, 253, 663, 666

  Toomer, Jean, 177, 207

  Torrey, Frederick Cheever, 87–88

  Toscanini, Arturo, 403

  Townson, Andrew “Andy,” 274, 275–79

  Townson, Marie, 279, 287, 298, 300, 301, 302

  Traugott, Harry J., 564

  Trego, Nina, 130, 135, 156–57, 292

  Trolley, June and Leonard, 570, 580

  Trudeau, Edward Livingston, 5

  Truman, Harry S., 608

  Tunney, Gene, 302–3, 313, 314, 317–18, 321–23, 325–26, 332, 333, 339, 343, 348, 353, 390, 691

  Tunney, Polly Lauder, 318, 325, 326, 332, 348

  Tyler, Marion, 121

  Ulrich, Dorothy (Troubetzkoy), 426

  UNESCO International Conference on the Artist in Contemporary Society, 620–21, 666

  Universal Pictures, 535

  University of Basel, 646

  University of Chicago, 331, 332, 333–34, 339, 347, 360, 390, 397

  ANW’s work at, 617

  Janet as Ph.D. candidate in, 415

  lecture program in Germany, 592, 593

  Stein’s lectures at, 393, 396, 398

  TNW’s teaching at, 341, 345–46, 355, 365, 393, 412, 414–15, 420, 522–23, 599

 

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