fn114 Lazy. See Glossary under guna.
fn115 Earlier in April, four retired French generals led an uprising against independence for Algeria. Of the military men captured, including other generals, some were imprisoned. Others were sentenced to death in absentia and later captured and imprisoned. None was executed.
fn116 Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin orbited the earth on April 12, the first person in space.
fn117 An imaginary Cambridge contemporary who is the author of a successful light novel.
fn118 Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller, Alan Bennett, and Dudley Moore in the satirical revue they wrote for the 1960 Edinburgh Festival and which made them famous in London’s West End and on Broadway.
fn119 Released as Conquest (1937) in the U.S.
fn120 It was eventually published as “A Visit to Anselm Oakes” in Exhumations (1966).
fn121 Jacob (Jake) Schwartz, a dentist living mostly in Paris, dealt in modern literary manuscripts from, roughly, the 1940s to the 1960s.
fn122 Lady Diana Cooper (1892–1986), socialite and beauty, daughter of the 8th Duke and Duchess of Rutland, widow of politician and diplomat Alfred Duff Cooper, 1st Viscount Norwich (1890–1954); she was a longtime friend of Iris Tree.
fn123 Maria Fiore de Henriquez (1921–2004), known as Fiore, born in Trieste, raised and educated in Italy, settled in London from 1949; she sculpted hundreds of portrait busts, including the Queen Mother, Stravinsky, Olivier, and John Kennedy.
fn124 The opera by Pietro Mascagni.
fn125 The 1956 Lana Turner flop for which Isherwood wrote the screenplay, as he tells in D.1.
fn126 Never published.
fn127 Before decimal money was introduced in the U.K. in 1971, there were twenty shillings in a pound and twelve pennies in a shilling. A half-crown was two and a half shillings or two shillings and sixpence.
fn128 Premier Khrushchev and President Kennedy held talks in Vienna on June 3 and 4, reaching limited agreement on Laos but disagreeing on the future of Berlin. See Glossary under Berlin Crisis.
fn129 Penguin published the first unexpurgated English edition of D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover in 1960, was prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act, and acquitted; Forster testified for the defense.
fn130 Possibly Arnim (Mitto) Sampson, a poet and specialist in Caribbean folklore, from Trinidad; evidently Jonathan Cape never published the book.
fn131 By Peter Mayne (1908–1979).
fn132 Grindea (1909–1995) was a Romanian critic educated in Bucharest where Adam International Review (for Arts, Drama, Architecture, Music) began publication in 1929. He took over in 1938 and brought the magazine to London in 1939. (Chapter 1 of Upward’s novel, In the Thirties, appeared in The London Magazine in 1961.)
fn133 Where, evidently, he was mugged, though this is not confirmed.
fn134 Where the Beesleys lived in the 1940s; see Glossary.
fn135 A Patriot for Me, refused a license in England because of the subject and staged privately in 1965; it ran in New York in 1969.
fn136 I.e., Elegy for Young Lovers.
fn137 Weidenfeld & Nicolson was publishing Beaton’s The Wandering Years, Diaries: 1922–1939.
fn138 Al Alvarez (b. 1929), English poet, critic, novelist, educated at Oxford; he was then (1956–1966) poetry editor of the Observer, and he was about to publish The New Poetry (1962), an anthology.
fn139 Historian and, later, Conservative peer (b. 1931); his many books include The Spanish Civil War (1961).
fn140 Among his books on German and English culture and politics were translations of Lukács and Zuckmayer and The Writer and Commitment (1961).
fn141 English newspaper journalist, author, radio and television broadcaster (1:903–1990); he contributed to “Panorama,” 1953–1960, and then hosted “Appointments with Malcolm Muggeridge” in 1960 and 1961.
fn142 Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) had depression and underwent electric shock treatment before shooting himself on July 2.
fn143 Their house in the Hollywood Hills was destroyed by a brush fire on May 12; see Glossary.
fn144 British drama critic (1912–2005), for the Daily Express in the 1950s and for The Daily Telegraph from 1969 to 1986; in between, he was a literary agent at Curtis Brown.
fn145 Harvard-educated American playwright (b. 1938); his black comedy Oh, Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma’s Hung You in the Closet and I’m Feelin’ So Sad was staged in London in 1961.
fn146 My Place.
fn147 Isherwood wrote “Royal School of Art.”
fn148 Minton (1917–1957), who appears in D.1 and Lost Years, taught painting at the RCA; “The Death of Nelson” (1952), after the 1864 wall painting of the same title by Daniel Maclise (1806–1870) in the Houses of Parliament, belongs to the RCA, but no longer hangs in the dining room.
fn149 Probably in 1936, when Isherwood and Heinz settled in Ostend for a month; Forster visited them in September, crossing the Channel from Dover where he was staying with his mother.
fn150 British journalist, critic, surrealist novelist, and mystery and humor anthologist (1907–1978).
fn151 Leftist English theater director (1914–2002); a founder of the Theatre Workshop at the Theatre Royal in London’s East End, where she was the first to produce Shelagh Delaney’s A Taste of Honey in 1958. Her productions of Brendan Behan, Frank Norman, and the musical Oh, What a Lovely War! (1963) transferred to the West End in the 1950s and 1960s.
fn152 André and Olive Mangeot’s London house, in Chelsea.
fn153 I.e., Jean Ross; see Glossary.
fn154 Hilda Hauser was Olive’s cook. Hilda’s daughter, Phyllis, was raped by a black G.I. and gave birth to Amber. See Glossary under Olive Mangeot.
fn155 She suffered continuing pain following a hysterectomy, but later recovered.
fn156 In February 1956; Isherwood tells about the visit in D.1.
fn157 41 Ladbroke Square; Grant (d. 1998), was an interior designer and collector and edited Great Interiors (1967).
fn158 As Elaine Dundy, she published “City Manners” in Queen, Oct. 12, 1960, and “Dr. Strangelove and Mr. Kubrick,” Dec. 4, 1960. No short story has been traced.
fn159 Hired by Kathleen Isherwood after her first stroke to keep house for her and Richard.
fn160 See Glossary under Wyberslegh Hall.
fn161 The Peak, Derbyshire (roughly between Buxton, Castleton, Matlock, and Ashbourne), now generally called the Peak National Park (since 1951) or the Peak District.
fn162 British government survey map, highly detailed.
fn163 Before they named it Mortmere, Isherwood and Upward called their fantasy world “the rats’ hostel”; “rats,” used as an adjective, meant spooky, weird, surreal.
fn164 I.e., The Royal Court.
fn165 Where the Inland Revenue has offices, in the east and west wings.
fn166 New only to Richard’s fingers; it was a 1939 hit for Perry Como and later for Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby, and it was the title song for the 1947 movie I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now about Joseph E. Howard, who composed it in 1909.
fn167 Elizabeth von Arnim (1866–1941), a cousin of Katherine Mansfield, published Elizabeth and Her German Garden anonymously in 1898 and twenty subsequent novels as “by the author of Elizabeth and Her German Garden” or just “by Elizabeth.”
fn168 British poet and novelist (b. 1928), then known for Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958) and a short story collection The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1959), featuring rebellious working-class heroes.
fn169 American poet Ruth Fainlight (b. 1931).
fn170 Greek-born painter (1923–2001); he trained as an architect, designed ballets, operas, and plays, and taught stage design at the Slade.
fn171 “Nothing but nonsense,” playing on bêtises, from bête for beast, fool.
fn172 “The U.S. and Berlin,” by Richard H. Rovere, Aug. 4, 1961, p. 4.
fn173 Aug. 4, 1961, p. 157.
fn174 British poet, novelist, jou
rnalist and broadcaster (1920–1973); he reported for “Tonight,” the BBC’s first evening-news magazine, and was later book critic for the London Evening News. His works include The Bootleggers (1961).
fn175 The English dust jacket drawing shows Isherwood looking at a younger self in a mirror.
fn176 The 2nd Earl of Avon (1930–1985), educated at Eton, served in the Queen’s Royal Rifles, later an ADC to the Queen and a Tory politician; he bred no sons and died of AIDS. His father, Anthony Eden—educated at Eton and Oxford, a W.W.I hero and Conservative M.P.—resigned as Prime Minister in 1957 after his use of military force to secure the Suez Canal against Egyptian nationalization provoked international condemnation.
fn177 When Isherwood first conceived of the novel in Mexico in December 1954, south of the border was to be the Inferno, where a visitor would interview the main character.
fn178 Robert Boothby (1900–1986), former Conservative M.P. and star political commentator on radio and T.V., was a life peer and a longtime advocate of homosexual law reform. In the early 1960s, he was implicated in a homosexual scandal with one of the gangster Kray twins, but won a libel action clearing his name. He professed himself heterosexual, married twice, had many affairs with women, and, reportedly, also with men.
fn179 English poet, biographer, editor, critic (1887–1964); eccentric, upper-class hero of the avant-garde in Isherwood’s youth.
fn180 Nigel Kneale’s six-part science-fiction T.V. play, first broadcast in 1955, and published by Penguin in 1960.
fn181 Soviet cosmonaut German Titov completed a twenty-five-hour flight, August 6 and 7, aboard Vostok 2.
fn182 Preparing for press interest in his show at the Redfern.
fn183 For “Tonight.”
fn184 Georges Duthuit (1891–1973), a Byzantinist married to Matisse’s daughter Marguerite; he helped Ackerley find pieces for The Listener and was a former lover of Ackerley’s sister, Nancy West.
fn185 “A Life,” referring to Maupassant’s novel Une Vie (1883) about the trivial sorrows of an unhappily married woman.
fn186 English film and photography critic, travel writer, novelist, poet (19071:985); his real name was Henry Joseph Hasslacher. He was once a camera boy at Gaumont British, where he possibly first met Isherwood.
fn187 Osborne’s “A Letter to My Fellow Countrymen” appeared in the Tribune, August 18; on August 20, The Sunday Times ran a page of commentary on it. See Glossary under Osborne.
fn188 The Daily Express, without permission, quoted a letter from Isherwood to Gerald Hamilton at the start of W.W.II; this sparked public criticism of Isherwood and Auden for remaining in the U.S. See Glossary under Hamilton.
fn189 I.e., grinning fixedly, like the proverbial Cheshire cat.
fn190 Peter Stern, one of two younger brothers, acted with the St. Pancras People’s Theatre in Camden Town, north London, during the 1930s.
fn191 International Galerie D’Art Contemporain in the Rue Saint-Honoré.
fn192 Dr. C.B.M. McBurney of Cambridge University, author of The Stone Age of Northern Africa (1960).
fn193 The USSR, U.S., and U.K. had observed a moratorium on nuclear tests since late 1958; following their August 31 announcement, the Soviets carried out the first of ten explosions on September 1.
fn194 I.e., the Munich crisis, August—September 1938; see August 31 in “Waldemar,” Down There on a Visit.
fn195 Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington was sold to an American millionaire by the Duke of Leeds in mid-June, but a public outcry elicited a £100,000 donation from Isaac Wolfson to buy it back for the nation; when it went on display at the National Gallery in August, it was stolen.
fn196 Ure’s son was born August 31; she was still married to Osborne, but he was living with Rickards and beginning an affair with Penelope Gilliatt at the Venice Film Festival. See Glossary.
fn197 English novelist and short story writer (1905–1974), author of The Darling Buds of May (1958).
fn198 An Italian motor scooter.
fn199 Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 film which tells about a rape and murder from four different points of view.
fn200 In 1946, during an operation to remove a median bar from his urethra, Isherwood’s sperm tubes were tied, making him sterile. See D.1.
fn201 Ivar Krueger (1880–1932), Swedish engineer and match tycoon; he was involved in European financial reconstruction after W.W.I—borrowing in New York and relending to Germany and France; he shot himself in 1932, and huge irregularities were exposed in his companies.
fn202 I.e., “As Long as He Needs Me” from Oliver (1960) and “I Enjoy Being a Girl” from Flower Drum Song (1959).
fn203 “Carla,” September 11, 1961, one of the worst to hit Texas in modern times.
fn204 Bertrand Russell’s Committee of 100 was planning a mass sit-down in Trafalgar square on September 17. Some had been summonsed and sentenced in advance. See Glossary under Russell.
fn205 “Madame cried.”
fn206 I.e., The Odeon, Leicester Square, the movie theater showing A Taste of Honey.
fn207 Philip Burton.
fn208 Whistle Down the Wind (1961).
fn209 Dag Hammarskjöld, Secretary General of the U.N. since 1953 and a friend through Lincoln Kirstein, died in a plane crash in Northern Rhodesia on the night of September 17–18; rumors suggested he was assassinated by Soviet or international mining interests for trying to restore order to the wealthy mining province of Katanga which had seceded from the new Republic of Congo.
fn210 British actor and, later, stage director (1931–1994); he starred in Osborne’s Epitaph for George Dillon at the Royal Court in 1958 and appeared in the film A Taste of Honey. First husband (1967–1975) of actress Maggie Smith.
fn211 Fashion photographer, once a boyfriend of Rickards.
fn212 Left-wing, Oxford-educated British philosopher (1923–2003), then teaching at University College, London. His published work reflects his interest in psychoanalysis and aesthetics.
fn213 Née Dawson, model, waitress, and bohemian (b. 193 [7]); her second, brief marriage was to Johnnie Moynihan and her third, in 1963, to jazz musician and screenwriter George Melly.
fn214 Isherwood’s regular Los Angeles dentist.
fn215 Isherwood miswrote “Robert.”
fn216 With Heinz Neddermeyer, 1934–1935.
fn217 Directed by David Thomson with Edward de Souza, John Woodvine, and Zena Walker.
fn218 English painter and lithographer (1919–1983).
fn219 Novelist (1915–1994), friend of E.M. Forster; he wrote Look Down in Mercy (1951) and The Image and the Search (1953).
fn220 “Georgiadis, Cliffe, Bachardy,” Oct. 7-21, p. 16.
fn221 London fashion designer; from the mid-1940s she also created movie costumes.
fn222 Dirk Bogarde plays a lawyer pursuing blackmailers who caused the death of a young man with whom he is in love.
fn223 I.e., chemin defer.
fn224 From Newbolt’s poem “Vitaï Lampada” in Admirals All (1897).
fn225 Franco Zeffirelli (b. 1923) designed and directed the production.
fn226 I.e., devil’s advocate.
fn227 “‘Bonne Fête’ Monsieur Picasso from Southern California Collectors”; two hundred works loaned by fifty Californians, opened on his eightieth birthday, October 25.
fn228 A four-car pileup in July 1960 with Michael Barrie; in D.1, Isherwood says Heard was “quite badly hurt.”
fn229 The same fire that destroyed the Huxleys’ house in May; see Glossary under Pfeiffer.
fn230 Laughton was playing the southern senator Seab Cooley in Otto Preminger’s film.
fn231 Evidently one of the buildings Le Corbusier (1887–1965) designed for the new capital of Punjab, Chandigarh.
fn232 Stalin’s body was removed from the Lenin Mausoleum on October 31 and buried under the Kremlin wall after thousands of murders during his purges were exposed October 28 by the publication in the USSR of Khrushchev’s 1956 secret speech to the Comm
unist Party’s Twentieth Congress.
fn233 Davison, tall, good-looking, and wealthy.
fn234 Larmore, his daughter.
fn235 Columnist and actress (1905–1978).
fn236 Richard Chamberlain; see Glossary.
fn237 Not his real name.
fn238 Charlie Brackett’s friend had spied on and then attacked a woman playwright who was a tenant in Paul Millard’s building; the friend was arrested and eventually sent to a mental institution, the Menninger Clinic, where he recovered and married. Later he became a painter.
fn239 Evidently, Knight was still preparing to take his brahmacharya vows; see Glossary.
fn240 Others recall he was an ex-soldier; see Glossary.
fn241 Julius (1909–2000) and Philip (1909–1952) Epstein wrote screenplays together, including Casablanca (1943), with a third writer, Howard Koch. Philip died of cancer, and Julius subsequently worked alone. Richard was Philip’s son, raised thereafter by his uncle.
fn242 American reporter, newspaper editor, novelist, radio, T.V. and movie writer (1908–1976) of war and adventure films, including Tarzan Goes to India (1962).
fn243 Indira Gandhi (1917–1984), who first became India’s Prime Minister in 1966, two years after Nehru’s death.
fn244 Ariel Durant (1898–1981), co-author with historian and philosopher Will Durant (1885–1981) of the last four volumes of his eleven-volume The Story of Civilization. (They won a 1968 Pulitzer Prize for volume ten.)
fn245 Stone (1903–1989) wrote biographical novels; Lust for Life (1934) about Van Gogh and The Agony and the Ecstasy (1961) about Michaelangelo were made into films. His wife, Jean, was an editor.
fn246 American singer, comedian, Broadway and Hollywood star (1913–1987); he hosted a T.V. variety show from 1963 to 1967.
fn247 Indian spiritual leader and reformer (1896–1982), a disciple of Gandhi; he walked 40,000 miles during the 1950s asking landlords to give their land to poor farmers and villages.
fn248 I.e., her notes and questionnaires on homosexuals.
fn249 American movie actor (1921–1977), briefly a leading man in the 1950s.
fn250 Patrick Ryan O’Neal (b. 1941), stuntman and amateur boxer, later a star as Ryan O’Neal in “Peyton Place” on T.V. (1964–1969) and in Love Story (1970) and other movies.
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