Lost Years: A Memoir 1945 - 1951

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by Christopher Isherwood


  Churchill, (Sir) Winston S., 25n

  Cienega, La, Boulevard (Los Angeles), 15

  Clift, Montgomery, 149, 174

  Clock Symphony, The (ballet), 147n

  Clore, Andrew, 235[n]

  Coble, Jack, 123

  Cockburn, Claud, 108

  Cockburn, Jean see Ross, Jean

  Cockburn, Sarah (Sarah Caudwell), 108

  Cocteau, Jean: praises Fireworks, 212; Le Livre blanc (attrib.), 140n

  Collier, John: amused by C.I.’s gonorrhea, 7; enthusiasm for Proust, 21, 26; works on film scripts, 23, 25, 31 & n; at Warner Brothers, 24–5; described, 24–5; wins bet on 1945 British election result, 25n; alimony payments, 31 & n; witnesses C.I.’s homosexual activities, 32–3; and plot of Up at the Villa, 36n; describes Caskey, 42; His Monkey Wife, 52n

  Collins, Wilkie: The Moonstone, 25; The Woman in White, 23–4

  “Coming to London” (C.I.; earlier “Letter from England”; article), 83, 85–6, 88, 89n, 113n

  Committee on Un-American Activities, 191

  Compton–Burnett, (Dame) Ivy: Manservant and Maidservant, 140n; Two Worlds and Their Ways, 224n

  Condor and the Cows, The (C.I.): writing, xxxiv, 170, 172–3, 177–8, 183, 187; as autobiography, 3; on Caskey’s hitting C.I., 52n; on Berthold Szczesny and Tota, 133n; ghost story in, 133n; Victoria Ocampo in, 136; and C.I.’s visit to South America, 141; manuscript sent to publishers, 188; dedications, 194; publication, 196; Bob Craft praises, 203n

  Conklin, Groff (ed.): A Treasury of Science Fiction, 175–6n

  Connolly, Cyril: in USA, 81; C.I. meets in London, 96, 143; The Rock Pool, 140–1n; The Unquiet Grave, 51n, 275n

  Connolly, Lys (formerly Lubbock; née Dunlap), 96 & [n], 143

  Connor, Whitfield, 235[n]

  Conrad, Joseph: Nostromo, 175n; The Shadow Line, 140n

  Cooley, Steve (pseud.): C.I.’s relations with, 32–8, 41; arrested and released, 39–40; takes drama classes, 39; interrupts C.I.’s lovemaking, 279; and Jack Garber, 279

  Coombs, Don: on de Laval’s seducing, 29n; relations with C.I., 218–19, 221, 230, 258, 260–1

  Cooper, William: Scenes from Provincial Life, 275n

  Cornell, Ed, 213n

  Corvo, Baron see Rolfe, Frederick William

  Cowan, John, 50–1, 76

  Cowan, Rita, 51, 191

  Coward, Noël, 130–1

  Cowper, William, xxvii

  Craft, Robert, 198–200, 201n, 202–3, 222, 241, 243, 264 & [n]; Dialogues and a Diary (with Stravinsky), 201n; Retrospectives and Conclusions, 198

  Creixell, Luis, 133

  Cromwell, Richard see Radebaugh, Roy

  Cuevas de Vera, Tota, 133, 134–5n

  Cukor, George, 37–8, 40

  Culbrow, Leonard, 277

  “Curly” (pseud.), 17, 40

  Curry, Phil, 167–8

  Curtiss, Mina, 135

  Dahl, Ingolf, 264 & [n]

  Dakar (West Africa), 141

  Daniehan, Leon, 50n

  Danilova, Alexandra, 50n

  Dantine, Helmut, 32

  Darms, Peter (pseud.), 242–3, 246, 258, 282

  Darnell, Linda, 207n

  Darrow, John, 14

  Davies, Marion, 63–4, 234, 273

  Davis, Bette, 31n, 37

  Davis, Richard E., 235[n]

  Day–Lewis, Cecil (ed.): The Mind in Chains: Socialism and the Cultural Revolution, xiii n

  Deception (film), 31 & n

  Defoe, Daniel, xxvii

  de la Mare, Walter: Memoirs of a Midget, 140n

  de Laval, Jay: friendship with C.I., 28–9, 81, 153, 195, 208; and C.I.’s relations with Caskey, 34–5, 67, 233; runs restaurant, 43–5, 171; C.I. entertains, 50; encourages Michael Hall to approach C.I., 67; relations with Lennie Newman, 67; at Vernon Old’s wedding, 170; affair with Brad Saurin, 172, 177; organizes new restaurant in Virgin Islands, 177; at Caskey trial, 209; introduces C.I. and Coombs, 218; Caskey travels to Baja California with, 248

  Derain, André, 244n

  Devotion (film), 31 & n

  Dewey, Thomas, 172

  Dianetics, 237

  Diehl, Digby, 247

  D.J. (pseud.), 259

  Dolin, Anton, 147

  Doone, Rupert, 83n, 116

  Doré, Gustave, 99n

  Dostoevsky, Fedor: depicted in film (The Great Sinner), 146, 150–2, 177; Crime and Punishment, 151; The Gambler, 150–1

  Douglas, Melvyn, 187

  Down There on a Visit (C.I.), xiii, xxv, 7[n], 46n, 49, 271

  Dreiser, Theodore: An American Tragedy, 84

  Duchamp, Marcel, 29

  Dunphy, Jack, 125

  Durant, Tim, 271

  Easiest Thing in the World, The (film), 167, 195, 198, 206, 207n

  East Rustic Road (No.3 33), Santa Monica, 167, 183–6, 238, 272

  Eberhardt, Dave (pseud.): C.I.’s friendship with, 11, 31, 50; at AJC Ranch, 220

  Edelman, Louis, 23–4, 29, 32

  Edens, Roger, 170

  Edman, Irwin, 235[n]

  Ehrenburg, Ilya, 135n

  Eliot, T.S., 98; The Cocktail Party, 275n

  Enfants du paradis, Les (film), 95

  England: C.I. visits (1947), 80–116; 1947 prices, 89n; C.I. visits with Caskey (1948), 143–9

  Erdman, Richard, 205

  Erdmann, Charles, 101–2

  Ernst, Max, 158

  Erskine, Eileen, 235[n]

  Ethan Frome (stage adaptation), 229

  Evans, Rex, 37

  Ewing, Majal, 233

  Exhumations (C.I.), 83, 282n

  Fairbanks, Douglas, Jr., 223n

  Fairbanks, Harold, 155–6, 192, 263n

  Falk, Eric, 107

  Falkenburg, Eugenia (Jinx), 135, 137

  Farrell, James T., 48

  Faulkner, William, 140n

  Fechin, Nicolai, 222

  Felton, James, 9

  Ferrer, José, 17

  Field, Fritz, 235[n]

  Field, Gus: co–adapts C.I.’s Goodbye to Berlin for stage (as Sally Bowles), xxxi, 265–6, 273, 277; C.I. excludes, xxxii-xxxiii, 285; accepts C.I.’s withdrawal of Sally Bowles adaptation, 285

  Fire Island, New York, 129 & [n], 138

  Fireworks (film), 212

  Flint (pseud.), 5

  Fodor, Ladislas, 150–3, 168n, 188

  Fontan, Jack, 224–6

  Foote, Dick, 196 & n

  Forbes, Don, 11, 31, 50, 220

  Ford, Ford Madox: The Good Soldier, 140n; Parade’s End, 250n, 275n

  Foreman, Carl, 205

  Forster, Edward Morgan: meets and likes Caskey, xvii, 42, 121, 143; influence on C.I., xxviii–xxx, 201n; and Katherine Anne Porter, 68; C.I. visits in England (1947), 83 & n, 92, 94–5; on C.I.’s accent, 86; and Burgess’s intercession for Jack Hewit, 93, 99n; on C.I.’s capacity for friendships, 94; character, 94–5; on C.I.’s extravagance, 99n; visits USA, 99n, 121; lectures at Aldeburgh festival, 144; Vidal and Tennessee Williams visit, 146; C.I. and Caskey visit (1948), 148; on T.E. Lawrence, 175n; Maurice, xxviii

  Fouts, Denham (Denny): introduces Bill Harris to C.I., 4–6, 19; C.I. depicts in writing, 7, 121n; and C.I.’s life at Vedanta Center, 7; and Marcel Rodd, 8; and kite incident, 9–10; and C.I.’s travels with Bill Harris, 13; starts composing cycling song, 13n; friendship with C.I., 17, 28, 31, 34, 45; and Bobo and Kelley, 18; and C.I.’s relations with Caskey, 20, 34–5, 52, 69; on Thelma Todd’s, 29; on Steve Cooley, 32; Tompkins’s exhibitionism at party, 35, 48, 279; death, 40n, 142, 172–3; Maugham warns C.I. of police watch on, 40; in Mexico, 41; leaves for New York, 46; sells Picasso picture, 46n; quarrels with Caskey and leaves Los Angeles, 69–70; C.I.’s friendship ends, 70; C.I. and Caskey visit in Paris, 142; and Watson–Gandy, 173, 222n; and Ken Anger, 212

  Fowler, Norman, 179

  Fox, Paul, 13, 242

  Fragment of Speaking (film), 212

  France: C.I. visits with Caskey, 141–2

  Francis, Anne, 220

  Frankenstein (C.I.;
TV script, with Bachardy), ix

  Fred (pseud.; friend of Coombs), 260–1

  French, Jared, 127–8

  Freud, Lucian, 143

  Freud, Sigmund, xx

  Friends, Society of (Quakers): C.I. works with, 7, 72; in The World in the Evening, 121–2 & n, 244n; C.I. attends meeting, 125; and Los Angeles world peace conference (1949), 189

  Friendship, The (Santa Monica bar), 43–4 & n

  From, Eddie (Isadore), xix, 24n

  From, Sam: C.I. attends party, xviii–xix; appearance, 24n; friendship with C.I., 24, 264; at Benton Way Group, 197; answers Evelyn Hooker’s questionnaire, 198; motor accident, 264

  Fry, Christopher: Venus Observed, 275n

  Fueloep–Miller, René, 150

  Furtmueller, Carl, 121n

  Gage, Margaret, 238

  Garber, Jack (pseud.), 279–80

  Garbo, Greta: in C.I.’s circle, xvii, 81, 101; seeks company of C.I. and Caskey, 71–2; C.I. rebukes, 130–1; in New York, 130; Foote claims to have propositioned, 196n

  Gardner, Ava, 168, 187 & n

  Garrett, Eileen, 241

  Gaszynski, Michael, 264

  Geller, James, 23–4, 230

  Germany: C.I.’s fading interest in, xxx–xxxi, 19n; C.I.’s sexual experiences in, 57–8

  Ghosh, Asit, 8 & n

  Gide, André, xx; Lafcadio’s Adventures, 52n; Pastoral Symphony, 84n

  Gielgud, (Sir) John, 134–6

  Gissing, George, xxvii

  Goldsmith, Joel, 247

  Goodbye to Berlin (C.I.): stage adaptation (as I Am a Camera), xxxi, 78, 282; Vernon Old reads, 181; see also Sally Bowles

  Goodman, Paul: at From party, xviii–xix; at Benton Way Group, 197; The Breakup of Our Camp, 197; Making Do, 197

  Goodwin, John: at Fouts party, 14; friendship with C.I., 45; C.I. entertains, 50; and death of Fouts, 172–3; C.I. visits at ranch, 457–8

  Gordon, Cliff, 147

  Gordon, Ruth, 229

  Gorer, Geoffrey: The American People, 175–6n

  Gorfain, Dr. A.D., 61–3, 111

  Goring, Hermann, 133

  Gottfried see Reinhardt, Gottfried

  Goulding, Edmund, 38n

  Goyen, William, 194; The House of Breath, 275n

  Grant, Alexander, 147n

  Great Sinner, The (film), 146, 150, 153, 167–8, 174, 176, 187–8

  Green, Henry see Yorke, Henry

  Greene, Felix, 89

  Greene, Graham: The Quiet American, 265n

  Groddeck, Georg, xx

  Groix (French ship), 141, 170

  Hagen, Uta, 17

  Hagenbuehler, Hanns, 212n

  Hall, Michael, 67

  Halliburton, Richard, 274

  Halma, Harold, 126–7, 131–2

  Hamilton, Bernie, 200

  Hamilton, Gerald, 96–8, 107–8, 115n; Mr. Norris and I, 97

  Hamlin, John and Mrs., 228

  Hanna, Len, 34, 43, 53

  Harford, Betty (later Andrews), 229

  Harkness, Alan, 74

  Harper’s Bazaar (magazine), 74n, 78, 83, 210n

  Harrington, Curtis, 212, 229

  Harris, Bill: relations with C.I., 4 & n, 5–7, 9–20, 76; painting, 16; leaves for New York, 21; admires John Cowan, 50; sees figure at East Rustic Road, 184–5; and Jack Fontan, 224–6; stays with C.I., 224, 226, 229

  Hartford, Connecticut, 78

  Hartford, Huntington, 245–6; Foundation, 245–6, 264, 277–8, 281–3

  Hatfield, Hurd, 170

  Hauser, Amber, 108

  Hauser, Hilda, 107–8

  Hauser, Phyllis, 108

  Haverford, Pennsylvania, xvii, xxix–xxxi, 7, 49, 121; see also Friends, Society of

  Haxton, Gerald, 37

  Hayden see Lewis, Hayden

  Hayward, John, 97–8

  Heard, Henry FitzGerald (Gerald): C.I. visits with Caskey, 47; Kathleen Isherwood mistrusts, 89; on self-imputation, 132; acquaintance with Grace Wiley, 152n; believes Kiskadden a sadist, 179; comments on C.I.’s life-style, 181; arranges transfer of Trabuco to Vedanta Society, 188; relations with Stravinsky, 201n; friendship with C.I., 208, 230, 238, 263; C.I.’s proposed article for, 210n; story of film dog (Strongheart), 221n; at Sophia Williams’s. séance, 238–9; believes in flying saucers, 263n; interest in extrasensory phenomena, 264; “The Great Fog”, 176n; Is Another World Watching?, 263n

  Hearst, William Randolph, 234, 273

  Heinz see Neddermayer, Heinz

  Helpmann, (Sir) Robert, 113n

  Hemingway, Ernest, 83n, 137, 270–1

  Henreid, Paul, 31n

  Hepburn, Katharine, 15, 40

  Hersey, John, 135, 137

  Heston, Charlton, 263

  Hewit, Jack, xxix, 92–4, 98–100, 103, 106, 113

  Heyerdahl, Thor: The Kon–Tiki Expedition, 275n

  High Valley Theatre, Ojai (California), 74, 229

  “High Valley Theatre” (C.I.; article), 74n

  Hill, Ramsay, 235[n]

  Hirschfeld, Magnus, xx–xxi, 56

  Hitler, Adolf, xi, 31

  Hollywood Code, xii

  Holmes, John, 116–17

  Hooker, Edward, xxi

  Hooker, Evelyn (formerly Caldwell): at From party, xviii–xix; conducts studies on homosexual community, xix–xxii, xxiv, 197–8; friendship with From, 24n, 198 & [n]; at Benton Way Group, 197

  Hopper, Hedda, 216

  Horizon (magazine), 143

  Horst (i.e., Horst B. Horst, or Horst Bohrmann), 65n, 123, 125

  Houseman, John, 242

  Howard, Brian, 95–6, 102–3, 105n

  Hoyt, Karl, 216

  Hubbard, Ron, 237 & n

  Hunt, Bob, 253

  Huntington Hartford Foundation see Hartford, Huntington

  Huston, John, 126n, 154n, 229, 242, 268–70

  Huston, Walter, 187

  Huxley, Aldous: in C.I.’s circle, xvii, 81; writes to Anita Loos on Matthew and Warner Brothers strike, 27n; C.I. lunches and sups with, 31, 198; C.I. entertains, 50; makes no mention of Salka Viertel in letters, 71; comments on C.I.’s life–style, 181; relations with Stravinsky, 201n, 222–3; Bob Craft contradicts, 203; works on Below the Equator film story with C.I., 207, 229–30; friendship with C.I., 208, 277; on LeCron, 230n, 235; at Vedanta Center, 277; Ape and Essence, 175–6n

  Huxley, (Sir) Julian, 31n

  Huxley, Maria (née Nys; Aldous’s first wife), 50, 81, 198, 208, 222

  Huxley, Matthew, 23, 27, 139

  Hyndman, Tony, 113–15 & n, 145

  Ibsen, Henrik: The Stranger from the Sea, 75

  Ince, Thomas, 234

  Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, Berlin, xx

  Isherwood, Christopher: Finances: film earnings, 23n, 91; credits accumulate in English bank account, 84–5

  Health: inflamed throat, 21, 23; contracts gonorrhea (the clap), 35–7; penis trouble, 47, 61; urethra operation (for median bar), 61–3, 111; made sterile, 62–3; operation for piles, 179n; nervous strain, 183; rectal bleeding, 183; impotence, 219n; copies friends’ ailments, 272; illness (1950), 272

  Personal life: homosexuality, ix, xi–xvii, xx, xxiv—xxv, 32–3, 90; political ideas, xiii, 190; drinking, xvi, 53, 96, 100, 140, 183, 195, 199, 201, 276, 278; sense of identity, xviii, xxv; slow adaptation to American style, xxv; sense of guilt, xxviii–xxix, xxxiii, 6–7, 41, 55, 81, 181, 220n; learns German, xxx; preoccupation with exclusion, xxxii–xxxiii; casual sexual activities, 5, 64, 67, 116–17, 131, 147, 218, 242, 258–62, 276; visits burlesque shows, 14–15; attracted to blond men, 19 & n, 20; sexual practices, 20–1, 56–8, 219n; as supposed model for Larry in Maugham’s Razor’s Edge, 22n; Time magazine article on, 22 & n; reading, 23, 51, 140n, 175n, 223n, 274n; hitchhikes to work, 24; owns cars, 33, 46, 276; takes out U.S. citizenship papers, 40; sexual snobbishness, 41–2; entertaining with Caskey, 49–51; at school in England, 57 & n; exhibitionism, 64, 279–80; and songs, 66; antagonizes Katherine Anne Porter, 68–9; gives blood to accident victim, 69; occupies Salka Viertel’
s garage apartment, 70–1, 73–4; promiscuity, 74; jealousies, 75, 79, 166; granted U.S. citizenship, 77–8, 209; pacifism, 77–8, 100, 189–90; fear of flying, 80; plans to settle in New York on return from England (1947), 82n; homesickness for USA, 84; accent, 85–6; wears dinner jacket, 104n; attends Pilates’ gymnasium, 120; photographed by Jared French, 128; photographed on Fire Island, 138–9; returns to Los Angeles (1948), 149–50; bicycling, 150n; moves into East Rustic Road with Caskey, 167, 183; hospital visiting, 183, 200, 204–5, 219, 236, 239–40; psychic sensitivity, 185–7 & n; attends Benton Way Group meeting, 197–8; gives up smoking, 211–12; resumes smoking, 215n; detained in raid on homosexual club, 216–17; Fechin portrait of, 222; hypnotized by LeCron, 230–1; driving, 231; practises autosuggestion, 236; attitude to Jews, 262, 266; encounter with psychotic neighbor, 264–5; leaves Los Angeles for Laguna Beach, 273–5; painted by Sorel, 276; play–acts drowning, 278; moves into Huntington Hartford Foundation, 282

  Professional activities: film script writing, 23–5, 28, 32–5, 46, 150–3, 167, 176–7, 191, 195, 207 & n, 229; film outline of ghost story, 49; works for MGM, 73n; works with Lesser Samuels, 81, 91, 167, 195, 198, 206, 229; speaks lines for Christ’s voice in The Great Sinner, 177–8; membership of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 188; as trustee of Hartford Foundation, 245–6, 264

  Relationships: with Don Bachardy, ix–x, xxi, xxiii, xxvii, xxxii; with Heinz Neddermayer, xi, xxi, xxx; with Bill Caskey, xv–xvii, xxv, xxvii, 20, 34–5, 41–9, 52–6, 59–61, 66, 69, 73–5, 79, 117–18, 163, 166–7, 175, 182, 193–4, 208, 233, 241n, 257–8, 277–8; with Jim Charlton, xv, 156–66, 183, 208, 210–11, 213–14, 216, 230, 248, 280n; with Jack Hewit, xxix, 92–4, 98–100, 103; with Bill Harris, 4–7, 9–20; with Carter Lodge, 12n; with Steve Cooley, 32–7, 41–2; with Vernon Old, 45, 50, 92, 106, 193; with Auden, 58; friendship with Denny Fouts ends, 70; with John Cowan, 76; with Ian Scott–Kilvert, 103–7 & n; with Tony Hyndman, 114–15n, 145; difficulties with Caskey, 179–83, 197, 210, 220, 250n, 278; considers leaving Caskey, 192–3, 199–200; Caskey breaks with, 195, 282–3; with Don Coombs, 218–19, 221, 258, 260–1; with Michael Leopold, 220–2, 230, 258, 277; with Peter Darms, 242–3, 258, 282; with Brad Saurin, 258–9; with Lennie Newman, 279–80

  Spiritual ideas and practices: takes up Vedanta, xxvii, xxix; meditation, xxix; enjoys Vedanta Center ceremonies, 9, 14, 59, 81, 179; has doubts over monastic life, 27–8; consults clairvoyants, 39, 51n; finally moves from Vedanta Center, 45–6; initiation by Prabhavananda, 78, 209; makes japam, 171, 183

  Travels: in South America with Caskey, xxxiv, 119, 123, 133, 139, 141; hitchhiking with Bill Harris, 13; hobo trip with Vernon Old, 13; motor trip with Caskey, 47; in China, 61, 82; to Mexico with Caskey, 78, 79; to England (1947), 80–117; in Portugal (1935–6), 114n; return to New York (1947), 117–19; in Berlin, 133–4n; in Amsterdam, 134n; to France with Caskey, 141–3; in England with Caskey (1948), 143–7; returns to New York with Caskey (1948), 149; to New Mexico with Peggy Kiskadden, 247–54

 

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