fn659 This Timeless Moment.
fn660 Nava, born in Los Angeles in 1927 to Mexican immigrant parents, became a history professor and was later ambassador to Mexico.
fn661 A nationwide movement started by Martin Luther King and Benjamin Spock in April 1967.
fn662 John Hay Whitney (1904–1982)—sportsman, financier, film producer, philanthropist, publisher, one of the richest men in America, from an old New England family—married twice but had only romantic liaisons with movie stars.
fn663 Arlen (1895–1956), British-educated, Bulgarian-Armenian novelist, playwright, and screenwriter of cosmopolitan, debauched bohemia, wrote the 1924 bestseller The Green Hat; Bankhead starred in the stage adaptation.
fn664 A police raid on a black after-hours club, July 23, triggered five days of violence and looting; 2,700 businesses were sacked, 1,300 buildings burned, 5,000 people left homeless; and there were 41 dead, 347 wounded, and 3,000 arrested.
fn665 For a sex offense; see Glossary.
fn666 “Posko Piati knows everything”; the sequence of ten letters—each appears twice—is a system for laying out twenty cards. The viewer chooses one, the cards are collected and laid out again, and the sharp can identify the card.
fn667 John Lee Thompson (1914–2002), British actor, playwright, screenwriter; he directed The Guns of Navarone (1961) and two Planet of the Apes sequels.
fn668 James Fox.
fn669 Ronald Reagan was eight months into his first term as governor of California; Bachardy had been commissioned to do portraits of twelve Los Angeles celebrities.
fn670 A comedy by Belgian playwright Michel de Ghelderode (1898–1962).
fn671 The carpenter and contractor Isherwood and Bachardy hired to improve their first house, 434 Sycamore Road; son of silent film star Wallace Reid (1891–1923); mentioned in D.1.
fn672 By George Moore.
fn673 By William Plomer.
fn674 “Tea at the Palaz of Hoon.”
fn675 A Haight-Ashbury movement providing free food and shelter. See Glossary.
fn676 I.e., Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980), Canadian-born professor of English literature and communication, author of Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (1964) and other bestsellers. San Francisco hosted the first McLuhan Festival in 1965.
fn677 Trott (b. circa 1944) had rheumatoid arthritis and ankylosis spondylolisthesis, suffered chronic degenerative joint disease, and eventually required repeated hip replacements and other surgery. He later settled in San Antonio, Texas, where he founded the first Gay and Lesbian Community Center.
fn678 I.e., Robert McNamara (1916–2009), secretary of defense under Kennedy and Johnson, 1961–1968, during the Vietnam build-up.
fn679 Literally male-male, evidently a pidgin-English formation from the Tahitian word tane for male.
fn680 Possibly formed from the Polynesian karu, referring to part of the eye, with na, of or by.
fn681 Fouts; see Glossary.
fn682 Undergraduates at UCLA; Loskota was later an anesthesiologist at USC School of Medicine, where he joined the faculty.
fn683 They had bought a house in the hills above Malibu, on Rambla Orienta.
fn684 Hunt Stromberg Jr. (1923–1986) was producing a T.V. adaptation of Charles Dickens’s novel. Isherwood worked on it until Stromberg found he could not assemble the cast he wanted.
fn685 A late-night T.V. talk show on ABC.
fn686 A direct disciple (1863–1922) of Ramakrishna; he visited America with Vivekananda in 1899 and founded Shanti Ashrama in the San Antonio Valley near San Francisco before returning to India in 1902.
fn687 English industrialist and philanthropist (1924–2005), from the Quaker chocolate-making family; he invented an oil pipeline valve and amassed a fortune which he used for other projects. He was disqualified as best man at the wedding of Princess Margaret to Antony Armstrong-Jones over a homosexual offense. He married, had four children, and divorced in 1967.
fn688 The Hotel in Amsterdam, in which the producer “K.L.” is based on Richardson. See Glossary under Osborne for their quarrel.
fn689 Nunnally Johnson’s 1954 East-West Berlin thriller starring Gregory Peck.
fn690 Franklin Murphy, an undergraduate friend of Inge’s at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, became chancellor there and encouraged Inge to return as a writer in residence, but the idea made Inge anxious.
fn691 Ewing (1903–1967), Professor of English at UCLA from 1930 and head of the department 1948–1955, married a wealthy southern Californian, Carmelite Rosencrantz, whose money allowed him to endow a lecture series in his name, collect books, found the Friends of the UCLA Library, and entertain the influential. Isherwood describes the Dylan Thomas episode in D.1, in the entry for Dec. 8, 1953.
fn692 Amboen.
fn693 Bean received autographed letters, poems, books, and photographs from James Baldwin, Samuel Beckett, Malcolm Cowley, Mary Hemingway, Randall Jarrell, and Stephen Spender, which can now be found in the collections of libraries and booksellers. He was alive to correspond with Cowley as late as 1971.
fn694 Pacific Southwest Airways.
fn695 Not his real name; New York painter, about ten years older than Bachardy, with whom Bachardy had a brief sexual relationship.
fn696 Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics, in Westwood. Bachardy attended about six sessions before realizing that he read only for pleasure and preferred to read slowly.
fn697 By Chris Davidson, 1967.
fn698 Teleny or The Reverse of the Medal: A Physiological Romance of Today (1893), sometimes attributed to Oscar Wilde.
fn699 By Carl Corley, 1967.
fn700 Created under the 1964 Equal Opportunities Act. Chinatown was one of San Francisco’s five Anti-Poverty Target Areas in President Johnson’s War on Poverty.
fn701 American architect and engineer (1895–1983); he invented the geodesic dome.
fn702 From Chicago, owner of The Old Spaghetti Factory, a restaurant in North Beach.
fn703 I.e., University of California at Santa Cruz.
fn704 Kenneth Thimann (1904–1997), English botanist.
fn705 The first college at UCSC, Cowell, was founded in 1965, followed by Adlai Stevenson in 1966, Crown in 1967, and Merril (College Four) in 1968. There are now ten colleges.
fn706 Divorçons (1881) by Victorien Sardou and Emile de Najac; there was a new English version by Angela and Robert Goldsby in 1967.
fn707 F.M. Glenn Willson, professor of politics, and social sciences; he had degrees from the University of Manchester and from Oxford and had taught in Rhodesia.
fn708 Charles Page Smith (1917–1995), American historian, prize-winning biographer and columnist, author of A People’s History of the United States in eight volumes, previously at UCLA.
fn709 American actor (1909–2000), intimate with the royal family since the 1930s, decorated by them for special service in W.W.II, knighted in 1949.
fn710 “Fragment” by John Clare (1793–1864), first published 1950 in Selected Poems, edited and introduced by Geoffrey Grigson.
fn711 Probably in early 1941; see D.1, pp. 144–145.
fn712 Cambridge-educated British documentary director and producer (1907–1987); he began teaching at the University of California in 1960. Isherwood had met him during the 1930s, around the time when Wright co-directed Night Mail (1936) for the GPO Film Unit.
fn713 The 1957 German-made film of Thomas Mann’s last novel, The Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man (1954), was among his greatest roles—more than a decade before.
fn714 Jacqueline Susann’s novel was published in 1966; the film was released in 1967.
fn715 Sinatra (1915–1998) was thirty years older than actress Mia Farrow (b. 1945), his third wife, 1966–1968. In 1963, he lost his Las Vegas casino license for entertaining Sam Giancana in a casino in Lake Tahoe; his friendships with other Mafia bosses were monitored by the FBI.
fn716 Anthony Hope’s 1894 novel and its sequel, subtitled From the Memoirs of Fritz von
Tarlenheim (1898), possibly sources for the film plot in Prater Violet.
fn717 Then the T.V. Division of Columbia Pictures.
fn718 Starring as Bowles in the London premiere.
fn719 “Once there was . . from “The Faithful Hussar,” sung by Kubrick’s third wife Christiane Harlan (under the stage name Susanne Christian); the 1957 film, from Humphrey Cobb’s best-selling 1935 novel, is about W.W.I.
fn720 Not his real name, an accountant.
fn721 Not his real name.
fn722 McNally, American playwright (b. 1939), later wrote Love! Valor! Compassion! (1994), Master Class (1995), Corpus Christi (1998), and the books for the musicals Kiss of the Spider Woman (1992) and Ragtime (1997).
fn723 Evidently at the Esalen Institute.
fn724 A fashionable psychiatrist then treating her.
fn725 On March 31, President Johnson announced he would not run again because he could not spare the time when the country was so divided and Americans were fighting overseas. He halted bombing in North Vietnam and renewed calls for peace talks.
fn726 I.e., Robert Hutchins, who founded the center in 1959; see Glossary.
fn727 German political scientist (1918–2002), fifth child of Thomas Mann; executive secretary to Hutchins’s Board of Editors at the Encyclopaedia Britannica, subsequently a Senior Fellow at the center and an expert in peaceful management of the world ocean. Later nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.
fn728 In reaction to King’s assassination.
fn729 Spender, his daughter.
fn730 Leftist intellectual, novelist, theater critic, political journalist (1912–1989), author of The Group (1963).
fn731 De Maria (b. 1935), educated at Berkeley, once a drummer for Lou Reed and John Cale, made Mile Long Drawing that year, two parallel chalk lines twelve feet apart running for two miles through the Mojave Desert. He also installed his first Earth Room, a room filled with dirt, in a Munich gallery.
fn732 Broadway stage manager and producer, in partnership briefly with Edgar Bronfman Jr., whose father was one of his backers.
fn733 Eugene McCarthy (b. 1916), Democratic senator from Minnesota since 1959, ran for president in 1968 calling for a negotiated peace in Vietnam.
fn734 By Chris Davidson (1967).
fn735 In a note, Isherwood corrected this to “Barclift.” Edgar Nelson Barclift (circa 1917–1993), dancer and choreographer, was lead dancer in Irving Berlin’s This Is the Army (1942) and afterwards worked in T.V. and films. He was a companion of Cole Porter, like Renaldo, and reportedly the subject of “Night and Day.”
fn736 See The Complete Works of Vivekananda, vol. 7, pp. 498–499.
fn737 American director and producer (1920–1997), on Broadway and in movies, but mostly for T.V., notably “Hallmark Hall of Fame.”
fn738 Auden was to be awarded the Gold Medal for Poetry by the National Institute of Arts and Letters on May 28, 1968.
fn739 Never published; see Glossary under Hoopes.
fn740 Bob Hulter, Laughton’s road man; he managed travel, hotel, and other arrangements on tour.
fn741 Time Present, opening at the Royal Court, May 23.
fn742 Atropine, to reduce secretions and relieve spasm in the digestive tract.
fn743 Auden did not attend either. Isherwood’s citation was read out by Glenway Wescott.
fn744 Selections from the Bhagavad-Gita (The Song of God), A New Translation in Prose and Poetry by Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood. Caedmon TC 1249 (1968). Isherwood read from the Gita translation made with Prabhavananda in 1944.
fn745 Probably his commonplace book.
fn746 Draper (1923–2003) recorded gold-selling singles throughout the 1950s, had stage roles in Oklahoma and Annie Get Your Gun, and appeared on T.V. in “Rawhide” and “Laramie.”
fn747 The Hotel in Amsterdam opening July 3 at the Royal Court.
fn748 The Old Globe.
fn749 She played the role on Broadway in 1969, had a few small movie parts in the 1970s, and appeared in ABC T.V.’s “One Life to Live.”
fn750 Robert Kennedy was assassinated June 5 at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles after winning the California Democratic presidential primary.
fn751 Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian, was arrested and convicted after confessing to the murder.
fn752 Actors’ Equity struck June 17–21, mostly over pay, foreign actors, and chorus sizes. Nineteen Broadway shows and nine touring shows closed. Cabaret was then in Los Angeles.
fn753 Both were novels to be adapted as films.
fn754 American Civil Liberties Union; see Glossary.
fn755 California State University, Los Angeles, where Isherwood taught when it was still Los Angeles State College.
fn756 Noël Coward’s 1931 play (filmed in 1933) chronicling the first decades of the twentieth century through the eyes of a well-to-do English family and their servants; widely regarded as a sell-out to middle-class values.
fn757 The 1923 play also by Shaw.
fn758 It appeared only in 1973 from Faber, and from Octagon books in New York in 1972.
fn759 Not his real name.
fn760 See Glossary under Buckley.
fn761 American film critic and arts columnist (b. 1938), he wrote for The New York Post, The New York Daily News, The New York Observer, Vogue, and GQ and published a number of books.
fn762 Irish-born actor, singer, film star (1930–2002) made famous in This Sporting Life (1963) and as King Arthur in the screen musical Camelot (1967). Later, he played Dumbledore in two Harry Potter films.
fn763 Third wife, 1960–1971, of film director Vincente Minnelli (1903–1986).
fn764 William M. Glavin, paid companion to Williams from 1965 to 1970.
fn765 The House of Representatives decides a tie in the presidential race; see Glossary under Presidential Election 1968.
fn766 The Practice of the Presence of God: The Best Rule of a Holy Life, Being Conversations and Letters of Brother Lawrence (English translation, 1855); Frère Laurent (1611–1691) was a lay brother of the barefoot Carmelites in Paris.
fn767 In “Twilight (1901),” chptr. XXVI.
fn768 He discovered Tab Hunter and Rock Hudson, who was strategically married to Willson’s secretary, Phyllis Gates, from 1955 to 1958.
fn769 Clusters of five cell types in the pancreas; each type secretes a different hormone to break down food; they are named after the German scientist, Paul Langerhans, who discovered them in 1869 and described the clusters as islets.
fn770 Association of Producing Artists; see Glossary under Ellis Rabb.
fn771 Where Davidson was Artistic Director; see Glossary.
fn772 Tyson (b. 1933, in Harlem) and Keach (b. 1941, in Savannah, Georgia) had appeared together in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968), his first film.
fn773 A present from Fräulein Thurau and described in Goodbye to Berlin: “a brass dolphin holding on the end of its tail a small broken clock” (p. 15). Finkelstein was a neighbor in the house directly below Isherwood.
fn774 Jaqueline Kennedy married Greek shipping tycoon Artistotle Onassis on October 20, 1968.
fn775 Vitamin B complex with trace minerals and a mild stimulant.
fn776 Grinnich was an actor who occasionally spent weekends with Lanchester.
fn777 The first manned lunar mission was launched December 21 and returned December 27; the crew read Genesis 1.1–12 to conclude their live T.V. broadcast from lunar orbit on Christmas Eve.
fn778 Referring to the characters in Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows (1908).
fn779 Hideki Takami, houseboy and cook for the Stravinskys from 1967 until Stravinsky’s death in 1971; later he opened a Japanese restaurant in Manhattan.
fn780 American journalist (b. 1928) for The New York Times, Washington Post, and others; on T.V., he was Diplomatic Correspondent for ABC and a longtime White House Correspondent for NBC.
fn781 I.e., televised.
fn782 Order of Merit, for exceptional service, espe
cially to the arts, learning, literature, and science. There are only twenty-four members at one time.
fn783 Leonard was writing a Ph.D. thesis in linguistics at Lancaster University; she later published The Interpretation of English Noun Sequences on the Computer (1984).
fn784 The 1967 play was by Canadian playwright John Herbert. Mineo (1939–1976), a movie star since appearing in Rebel Without a Cause (1955), directed it, launching Johnson’s (b. 1949) film and, later, T.V. career, which culminated in “Miami Vice” during the 1980s.
fn785 Prolific Hollywood journalist and biographer (b. 1922), his Selznick appeared in 1970.
fn786 Fisher, clinical psychologist and professor at the UCLA School of Public Health, treated schizophrenics, autistic children, and cancer patients; he published a number of articles on LSD and psilocybin therapy.
fn787 Perry (1930–1995) directed David and Lisa (1962), The Swimmer (1968), Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970), Play It as It Lays (1972), Mommie Dearest (1981), and worked on Broadway; he was to split in 1970 from his first wife, Ellen Perry (1916–1981), who wrote his screenplays.
fn788 In Answered Prayers.
fn789 George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood (b. 1923), a grandson of George V and first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, then director of the Royal Opera House; his publications include Kobbé’s Complete Opera Book. His second wife was Patricia Tuckwell (b. 1926), an Australian violinist.
fn790 Paul Bogart (b. 1919), American director of T.V.—“The Defenders,” “Get Smart,” “All in the Family,” “Golden Girls”—and movies—Marlowe (1969), Cancel My Reservation (1972), Torch Song Trilogy (1988).
fn791 Spencer was an architect. He designed and built the house himself. Eventually it broke in half and had to be removed.
fn792 Michael Laughlin.
fn793 Where she lived in her own house; see Glossary.
fn794 Probably “Losers Weepers” (1967) and “Deadlock” (1969); see Glossary.
fn795 Dr. Mabuse der Spieler (the Gambler), first of the two-part 1922 film.
fn796 Probably Frances Inglis (b. 1910), a Stanford graduate, once concert manager and director of the Writers Guild of America West, who ran the Committee on Fine Art Productions and helped with the Professional Theater Group.
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