59 “ambitious young men”: Cyril Connolly, “Comment,” Horizon (February 1940): 68–69. In Carpenter, W. H. Auden, 290–91.
“four of our”: In Carpenter, W. H. Auden, 291.
“Mr. Auden’s brand”: George Orwell, “Inside the Whale,” March 1940. In Haffenden, W. H. Auden, 29.
Sir Jocelyn: Carpenter, W. H. Auden, 291.
very fair: Auden to Spender, [late April–early May?], Berg.
60 “pro-frog”: Drutman, Good Company, 265.
a “serious” poet: In Foote, “Auden,” Time, 113.
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62 “The house became”: Davis to Gypsy Rose Lee, “Saturday Night” [ca. December 28, 1940], BRC (Series I, b3, f2).
63 “For concentration”: Auden, “Letter to Lord Byron,” Collected Poems, 106.
“At last”: McCullers, Illumination, 23.
plywood partitions: Ibid., 20.
helped Carson pack: Carr, Lonely Hunter, 116.
64 Carson got to know: McCullers, “Brooklyn Is My Neighbourhood,” Vogue, March 1, 1941. In McCullers, Mortgaged Heart, 216.
“always gives me”: Ibid., 216–17
“The square of the hypotenuse”: Ibid., 216.
65 “Isn’t it wonderful”: Webb, Richard Wright, 196.
“had the face”: McCullers, “Brooklyn Is My Neighbourhood,” 218.
66 “multiple bridal party”: McCullers, Illumination, 23.
“lean, dark, and haggard”: McCullers, “Brooklyn Is My Neighbourhood,” 219.
Victor Guarneri: Victor Carl Guarneri interview, June 26, 2003.
Frankie Abbe: Kathryn Abbe interview, March 16, 2004.
67 “insane salads”: Auden, Dyer’s Hand, 323.
“a quarter of five”: MacNeice, Strings Are False, 23.
on the sofa: Auden, [Essays (6)], Berg.
68 “sonnie boy”: Carr, Lonely Hunter, 131.
68 canned green pea soup: Dr. Will Brantley, in “Exotic Birds of a Feather: Carson McCullers and Tennessee Williams,” Tennessee Williams Annual Review, No. 3 (2000), www.tennesseewilliamsstudies.org.
idea that “‘good’ equals”: Auden, “Mimesis and Allegory,” Complete Works, Prose, 2:85.
69 “To set in order”: Auden, “New Year Letter,” Collected Poems, 200.
“one of those”: Britten to Enid Slater, November 7, 1939, in Britten, Letters, 724.
writing table: Tony Palmer, director, “The South Bend Show: A Time There Was,” BBC broadcast 1979, BPL.
70 the Devil himself: Fuller, W. H. Auden, 326.
“a crowd of lost beings”: Auden, “The Rewards of Patience,” Complete Works, Prose, 2:154.
“George naked”: Carpenter, W. H. Auden, 304.
“They’re incredibly slow!”: Pears to his mother, October 19, 1940, in Britten, Letters, 863–64.
71 beg the assistants: Moulton, “Remembering George Davis,” 287.
“Uncle Wiz”: Carpenter, W H. Auden, 143.
“civilized meals”: Isherwood, Diaries, 13.
nearby cafeteria: Benjamin Appel, “Exiled Writers,” Saturday Review of Literature, October 19, 1940, 5.
“Dear Harry”: Auden to Harry Brown, [ca. October 1940], Berg.
72 “getting on with the job”: MacNeice, Strings Are False, 114.
dinner prepared for four: Victor Guarneri interview, June 26, 2003.
“I have the digestion”: Auden to Chester Kallman, n.d., Berg.
“There are two things”: In Carpenter, W. H. Auden, 305.
“a physician”: In Nicholas Jenkins, “Auden Out Loud: ‘A Tribute to W. H. Auden,’” The W. H. Auden Society Newsletter, 7 (October 1991): 13.
73 a word game: In Carpenter, W. H. Auden, 301.
“with inarticulates”: Auden to Mina Kirstein Curtiss, n.d., Berg.
Emerson, Hawthorne: Appel, “Exiled Writers,” 5.
he learned from: Auden to Spender, 1940, Berg.
Chester, on the other hand: Auden, “To Chester Kallman, b. Jan. 7, 1921,” in Farnan, Auden in Love, 25–27.
74 insufficient weaning: Norse, Memoirs, 71.
bad breath: Farnan, Auden in Love, 36.
weakness lay: Norse, Memoirs, 63.
“I am not”: Ibid., 70.
he fell in love: Farnan, Auden in Love, 45.
75 with his pinky: Jenkins, “Auden Out Loud,” 13.
“Wystan is like”: Kallman, notebook, ca. 1939–40, Berg.
76 Tania noted: Carpenter, W. H. Auden, 312.
“portrait of pure pride”: Farnan, Auden in Love, 19.
“came away”: MacNeice, Strings Are False, 114.
Mary Tucker: Carr, Lonely Hunter, 92–93.
77 sister, baby-child: McCullers [article on Georgia], n.d., HRHRC (Series 1, b1, f2).
“if I hadn’t”: Ibid.
“gobble and gossip”: Drutman, Good Company, 261.
77 Naval officers: Christine Evans interview, April 25, 2001.
discreet assignations: Chauncey, Gay New York, 162.
Brooklyn’s docks served: Frank Reil, “Brooklyn Waterfront,” Brooklyn Eagle (November 4, 1940), 25.
78 Tony’s Square Bar: Christine Evans interview.
“vivid old dowagers”: McCullers, “Brooklyn Is My Neighbourhood,” 219.
79 paid her $4,000: Laura Jacobs, “Taking It All Off,” Vanity Fair (March 2003), 210.
“larger than Stalin’s”: Preminger, Gypsy and Me, 56.
“sepia Gypsy”: Lee, Gypsy, 309.
“Gypsy Voga Lee”: Nat Lefkowitz to A. Robert Mizzy, March 9, 1939, Gypsy Rose Lee Papers, BRC (Series III, b23, f4).
“Our Very Own”: Lee, Gypsy, 309.
Billy Herrero: Unidentified newspaper clippings, Gypsy Rose Lee Papers, BRC.
“Gypsy Rose Flea”: Drutman, Good Company, 78.
“Money in the bank”: Havoc, More Havoc, 225.
Turkish cigarettes: Ibid., 228.
80 just after Gigolo: Lee, Gypsy, 91.
“almost alike”: Ibid., 93.
81 “In the candle-lighted”: Ibid., 94.
“These are poems”: Ibid., 95.
“You don’t dump”: Ibid., 54.
82 freshly scrubbed and blooming: Drutman: Good Company, 120.
“Darlings, please”: George Davis, “Gypsy Rose Lee: The Dark Young Pet of Burlesque,” Vanity Fair 45/6 (February 1936): 51.
“Make ’em beg”: In Jacobs, “Taking It All Off,” 206.
83 “Like Eve I carry round this apple”: Ibid., 207.
“Come on, Gyps”: Drutman, Good Company, 120.
“need not know”: Davis, “Gypsy Rose Lee,” 51.
“Whither the New Negro?”: Ibid., 52.
a new book “skintillating”: Drutman, Good Company, 123.
“The great thing”: Davis, “Gypsy Rose Lee.”
84 “I wasn’t naked”: Havoc, More Havoc, 102.
“Experience not necessary”: Jacobs, “Taking It All Off,” 207.
“the undisputed queen”: Davis, “Gypsy Rose Lee,” 51.
four thousand letters of protest: Jacobs, “Taking It All Off.”
Gypsy’s mother, Rose: Havoc, More Havoc, 207.
Without her famous name: Preminger, Gypsy and Me, 40.
“I’m a Hollywood floppo”: Havoc, More Havoc, 195.
85 “money at first sight”: Ibid., 198.
“There’s a no-talent broad”: Ibid.
Schiaparelli sheath: Vreeland, D.V., 95.
“Robert the Roué”: Gypsy Rose Lee Papers, BRC (Series VII, Sub-series 3, b53, f20).
“I like my men”: Lee to Charlotte Seitlin, July 7, 1941, BRC (Series VI, b45, f18).
86 “a classic paradox”: Richard E. Lauterback, Life, December 4, 1942, 93.
three-inch fingernails: Havoc, Pure Havoc, 144.
fifteen-page description: Scrapbook, 1940, Gypsy Rose Lee Papers, BRC (Series X, vol. 1).
87 hardly finish reading: Ibid.
“strange, wonderful places”: Lee, Gypsy, 93.
> 88 Two hundred dollars: Dorothy Wheelock Edson interview, March 16, 2004.
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89 “I wrote it”: Lee, in Flanner, G-String Murders, flap copy.
“That’s admirable”: Janet Flanner interview, March 1, 1972, in Carr, The Lonely Hunter, 123.
persuaded him: Davis to Lee, “Saturday Night,” [ca. December 28, 1940], BRC (Series I, b3, f2).
90 complete set of Balzac: Drutman, Good Company, 23.
Eva Morcur: Gypsy Rose Lee Papers, BRC (Series VI, Sub-series 1, b24, f1).
engaging a backstage lady’s maid: Havoc, More Havoc, 143.
“You got your”: Ibid. flambé: Ibid., 101.
91 “Now, Victor”: Donald Spoto, “Victor Carl Guarneri: An Oral History Interview,” October 20, 1985, WLRC (Series 60).
lectures on Kierkegaard: McCullers, Illumination, 23.
Sophie and Boy: Davis to Lee, “Saturday night.”
one square: Carpenter, W. H. Auden, 304.
“ever so Bohemian”: MacNeice, Strings Are False, 35.
92 American draft number: “First Draft Number Is 158,” New York Times, October 30, 1940, 1.
“conspiracy against our peace”: Verne Marshall, “America Always,” New York, WABC, January 1, 1941, MTR.
“the uproar”: Mann, Turning Point, 337.
“Aren’t we happy?”: Ibid.
93 half-dressed strangers: Edward R. Murrow, “A Reporter Remembers, Part 1,” CBS Radio broadcast (February 24, 1946; original broadcast, August 24, 1940), R85055, MTR.
harrowing mountain crossing: Marino, Quiet American, 167–69.
“like a great flag”: Ibid., 168.
Mahler’s music: Ibid., 164.
“flat-footed peace hyena”: In Mann, Turning Point, 241.
“If they want”: Ibid.
94 “the prince of the Manns”: Carr, Lonely Hunter, 123.
“subordinate Klaus”: Arthur Lubow, “Third Wheel,” New York Times Magazine, December 28, 2003, 50.
Klaus’s father: Reich-Ranicki, Thomas Mann, 166.
“Curiously, I can’t”: Mann, Turning Point, 338.
95 “after all, the [Fascist] dictators”: Klaus Mann, “Two Confessions,” Decision 1/1 (January 1941): 56.
“stimulating each other”: Klaus Mann, “Issues at Stake: Decision,” ibid., 8.
“Do you think”: “Symposium,” ibid., 45.
“intellectuals” separate from: Ibid., 44–45.
96 “as far as writers”: Ibid., 45.
“very cagey”: Isherwood, Diaries, Vol. I, 99.
press coverage: Seebohm, “Conscripts to an Age,” 5–6, BPL.
97 “alarmist jealousy”: Ibid., 5.
“Poète, why are you doing nothing?”: MacNeice, Strings Are False, 27.
“Just a little statement”: In Isherwood, Diaries, Vol. 1,99.
98 “black stone on which”: Auden, “The Sea and the Mirror,” Collected Poems, 441.
“Unless I am in love”: Auden to Caroline Newton, April 13, 1942, Berg.
“the extraneous”: In William Logan, “The Truth About Love,” New York Times Book Review, May 23, 1999.
“rummaging into”: Auden, “The Composer,” English Auden, 239.
“Traditionally, poems are”: “Poetry,” Time, March 4, 1940, 72.
“Across East River”: Auden, “New Year Letter,” Collected Poems, 220.
99 “Where am I?”: Auden, “The Maze,” Collected Poems, 303.
“Airconditioning . . . Beauticians”: Auden, notebook, Berg.
“What’s freedom”: Ibid.
first great admirer: Farnan, Auden in Love, 50.
clung to the hope: Ibid., 105.
100 open invitation: Auden to Caroline Newton, November 9 and 18, 1940, Berg. In Gopnick, “Double Man.”
powerful tool: Auden, “Criticism in a Mass Society,” Complete Works, Prose, 92–93.
“Time will say nothing”: Auden, “If I Could Tell You,” Collected Poems, 314.
“three stages”: Carpenter, W H. Auden, 286, quoting Louis Dupré, Kierkegaard as Theologian.
101 “abandon himself”: Ibid.
slipping away: Golo Mann, “A Memoir,” in Stephen Spender, ed., W. H. Auden: A Tribute (London: Faber & Faber, 1975), 102.
“at a special time, special tasks”: In Mendelson, Later Auden, 151.
102 premiere of a new act: Davis to Lee, “Saturday Night,” [ca. December 28, 1940], BRC.
103 early riser: Preminger, in Lee, Gypsy, 347.
cotton housecoat: Havoc, More Havoc, 224.
“get her ass pounded”: Lee to Lee Wright, February 2, 1941, BRC (Series VI, b45, f18).
air of authority: Moulton, “Remembering George Davis.”
104 would confess to George: Davis to Lee, “Saturday Night,” [ca. December 28, 1940], BRC (Series I, b3, f2).
“For all your”: Ibid.
“la femme”: Flanner to Lee, 1955, BRC (Series I, b3, f3).
“Fiddle fiddle”: Davis to Lee, December 26, 1940, BRC (Series I, b3, f3).
move out to her farmhouse: Ibid.
“to regard”: Flanner to Lee, 1955, BRC (Series I, b3, f3).
105 “Miss Bazaaar!”: Norse, Memoirs, 90.
“malice, callous”: Kallman, notebook, ca. 1939–40, Berg.
“Upon the porch”: Ibid.
surrounded by an admiring crowd: Farnan, Auden in Love, 48.
106 “is always right”: Norse, Memoirs of a Bastard Angel, 67.
touring with Ziegfeld’s: Lee, Gypsy, 32.
strip routines of Nudina: Ibid., 257.
Flossie, who covered: Ibid., 198.
appalled by the sight: McCullers, Illumination, 53.
Mrs. George Patton: Carr, Lonely Hunter, 91.
107 “the poetry of [her] own childhood”: Broadcast interview of Carson McCullers and Tennessee Williams, 1945, HRHRC (Series I, b2, fu).
“flowering dream”: McCullers, “The Flowering Dream: Notes on Writing,” Esquire, December 1959, 162.
worn, if the night was chilly: Havoc, More Havoc, 224.
Hats on the bed: Preminger, Gypsy and Me, 11–12.
sit together: Reeves McCullers to Carson McCullers, October 16, 1943, HRHRC (Series III, b28, f2).
108 “I will make”: McCullers, Illumination, 7.
“first love”: Ibid., 6–7.
“somewhat limpet-like”: Ibid., 53.
109 “My friend Carson”: Rowley, Richard Wright, 135.
“I had bought”: McCullers, Illumination, 32.
110 “thought truths out”: In Davenport-Hines, Auden, 183–84.
gorgeous hunk of seafood: Norse, Memoirs, 90.
her favorite books: McCullers, “Books I Have Known,” Harper’s Bazaar, April 1941, 82.
experience-of-a-lifetime: Britten, Letters, 900–901.
111 “The evening or rather morning”: Britten to Antonio and Peggy Brosa, December 20, 1940. In Britten, Letters, 899.
“We ran for several blocks”: Carson McCullers, “The Flowering Dream” (1959), typescript, August 28, 1958, HRHRC (Series I, b8, £14).
“I caught Gypsy’s arm”: Ibid.
112 a thin dusting of snow: New York Times, November 29, 1940, 1.
wolf collar coat: Stallworthy, Louis MacNeice, 286
“it is hard to risk”: MacNeice, Strings Are False, 21.
“to a past”: Ibid., 17.
“Beloved, we are always”: Auden, “In Sickness and in Health,” Collected Poems, 317.
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113 “Here, I’m afraid”: Britten to Enid Slater, June 27, 1939, in Britten, Letters, 2: 672.
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115 “Every day”: Auden, Paul Bunyan, in Auden and Kallman, Complete Works, 46.
Snaggle-Tooth, a pimp: Drutman, Good Company, 105.
116 “like a whirlwind”: MacNeice, Strings Are False, 35.
116 she was intelligent: Marcel Vertes to Gypsy Rose Lee, [ca. 1941], BRC (Series I, b3, f2).
117
“We would not think”: Britten to Antonio and Peggy Brosa, December 20, 1940. In Britten, Letters, 899.
the sanitarium’s superintendent: Seebohm, “Conscripts to an Age,” 19.
118 “Gypsy did not strip”: In Carr, Lonely Hunter, 119.
“Underneath an abject”: Auden, “Twelve Songs, VII,” Collected Poems, 140.
“I’ve got something”: Auden to Britten, [ca. August] 1939, BPL.
“Dear Benjamin, Nothing”: Auden to Britten, 1939, BPL.
119 Aaron Copland, who: Britten, Letters, 318.
120 “I am now definitely”: Britten to Enid and Montagu Slater, December 29, 1938. In Britten, Letters, 603.
121 organize a new group: Britten, Letters, 907.
122 “Truth is always”: Britten to Ralph Hawkes, September 8, 1940. In Britten, Letters, 858.
never be allowed back in England: Britten, Letters, 870.
“If people want”: Britten to Ralph Hawkes, October 7, 1940. In Britten, Letters, 867.
123 haunted expressions: Marino, Quiet American, 90.
three hundred individuals: Ibid., 253.
“God, what a terrifying”: Isherwood, Christopher and His Kind, 338.
124 “a diffuse but lusty”: Mann, Turning Point, 272.
“focus the scattered energies”: Ibid., 273.
“Paris is now”: “Paris, Germany,” in Drutman, Janet Planner’s World, 50.
125 “Have a good journey”: Marino, Quiet American, 138.
“intellectual blitzkrieg”: In Seebohm, “Conscripts to an Age,” 10.
American Ph.D.’s: Ibid., 9.
“I like them”: Ibid.
126 “The list of”: Mann, Turning Point, 338.
“When this war began”: Klaus Mann, “Issues at Stake: The City of Man,” Decision 1/2 (February 1941): 6.
to define the moral, legal, and economic: Ibid.
127 “seen the bogus”: Auden, “Tract for the Times,” Complete Works, Prose, 109.
128 “I shan’t feel”: Auden to Isherwood, HL (CI 2991).
“Only your notes”: Auden, “The Composer,” English Auden, 239.
pompous and awkward: Mendelson, Later Auden, 162.
129 “always being out”: Auden, “Tract for the Times,” Complete Works, Prose, 109.
“A solitude”: Auden, “Leap Before You Look,” Collected Poems, 314.
“It happened”: McCullers, The Member of the Wedding, Collected Stories, 257.
130 hospitalized in a psychiatric: Carr, Lonely Hunter, 133.
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