Christopher Isherwood Diaries Volume 1

by Christopher Isherwood

  Sen, Boshi, 511

  Sen, Keshab Chandra, 355

  Sennett, Mack, 516

  Severinghaus (Haverford Quaker), 188, 226

  Shake Hands with the Devil (film), 796

  Shakespeare, William: All’s Well That Ends Well, 823; Coriolanus, 822, 824; Henry V, 578; King Lear, 809–10, 812, 822, 824; Othello, 390; A Winter’s Tale, 204

  Shankara: The Crest Jewel of Discrimination, xxiii, xxv, 384

  Shanta (Mrs. Latham; Johnny’s mother), 338–40, 745

  Sharaku (Japanese artist), 886

  Sharman, Christopher, 224

  Sharman, H.B., 187

  Shary, Dore, 257

  Shaw, George Bernard, 481; Major Barbara, 673; St. Joan, 290, 300

  Shaw, Irwin, 563–4, 649n

  Shearer, Norma, 63, 693, 876–7

  Sheean, Vincent, 47

  Sheldon, Mr. and Mrs. Karel, 192–3, 205, 207–8

  Shenkel, John (Ananta), 408, 446, 453, 833

  Shepherd, Amos, 417

  Sheridan, Richard Brinsley: The Rivals, 591; The School for Scandal, 858, 861, 863

  Sherwood, James: The Charliquinade, 689; Stradella, 689n

  Sherwood, Robert: The Petrified Forest, 504

  Shifrin, Arnold, 819

  “Shore, The” (C.I. narrative; earlier “California Story”), 415n, 442n

  Short, Claude, 822

  Shovel, Sir Cloudesley, 588

  Shroyer, Fred, 830, 832, 835n, 839

  Shute, Nevil, 837n

  Sicily, xix, 304

  Siegel, Bugsy, 563

  Siegel, Jerry, 863

  Signer, David, 246

  Signoret, Simone, 899

  Silk Stockings (film), 716

  Sillitoe, Alan: “The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner,” 872

  Simenon, Georges: Belle, 770

  Simon and Schuster (publishers), 686, 713–14, 729, 815, 828, 838, 843

  Sinclair, Robert, 129, 133–4

  Singer, S. Fred, 487n

  Single Man, A (C.I.), x, xxx–i, xxxiii, xl, xlvii, xlix, 475n, 621n, 623n, 629n, 653n, 802n

  Siodmak, Robert, 387

  Sirk, Douglas, 826, 827

  Sister Lalita (Carrie Mead Wykoff; “Sister”): helps found and run Ivar Avenue Vedanta Center, 149–50, 268, 277; pet dog (Dhruva), 149, 356, 371; and Vivekananda, 149, 348; on sprouting walnut tree, 279; visits Peggy, 292; patriotism, 294; looks at land at Palos Verdes, 355; on Ganna Walska, 362; at Ananda Bhavan, 364; illness, 378; death and funeral, 394, 412–13

  Sitwell family, 405

  Sitwell, Edith, 405

  Skelton, Barbara, 513n

  Smith, Dodie see Beesley, Dodie Smith

  Smith, G. B., xiv, 525

  Smith, R. E., 98

  Smolin, Jay, 596

  Sneden’s Landing, New York, 385

  Socrates: proposed play on, xlviii, 847–8, 851, 863, 865, 891

  Soldati, Mario, 555–6; The Capri Letters, 512

  Solomon, Gladys, 563

  Soma, Ricki see Huston, Ricki

  Song of Bernadette, The (film), 331–2

  Sons and Lovers (film), 798, 853

  Sophie see Moulaert, Sophie

  Sorel, Paul (born Paul Dibble): character, 232, 236–7, 370, 432; relations with Chris Wood, 232–3, 242, 261–2, 275–6, 278, 301–2, 370, 463; and Heard’s accident, 240; returns from New York, 275; threatens scandal, 292; C.I. attempts to locate, 323; leaves for New York, 370; C.I. rejects, 628; in Sunset Towers West, 862

  Sorokin, Natasha, 425

  Soubirous, Bernadette, 331n

  Soulé, Mrs. (singer), 326

  Sound and the Fury, The (film), 776

  South America: C.I. and Caskey visit, xxiv, xlv, 386, 392; Stravinsky plans tour of, 849, 866, 873, 889

  Southwell (Cambridge undergraduate), 583

  Spectrum (magazine), 710

  Speed see Lamkin, Speed

  Spellman, Cardinal Francis Joseph, 550

  Spencer, Roger, 245, 294, 298, 314, 322–3, 335, 361, 367

  Spender, Humphrey, 676n

  Spender, Margaret (“Lolly”), 676

  Spender, Matthew, 802

  Spender, Natasha (Lady; née Litvin): C.I. meets in London, 565–6, 594; in USA, 673–4, 676–7, 801–2, 816; Chandler admires, 676–7; recommends wallpaper to Evelyn Hooker, 730; marriage relations, 806

  Spender, (Sir) Stephen: C.I. sees on visits to England, xxxv, 391, 549, 564–7, 583–4, 590, 594, 824; on C.I.’s pacifism, 7; on Hellmut Roder, 25; and C.I.’s meditating, 37; in wartime England, 47; letters to C.I., 77, 369; C.I. meets in U. S. A., 386, 392, 393–4; friendship with C.I., 442, 504, 830; and Dylan Thomas’s death, 459; social life in England, 513; invites C.I. to stay with in England, 520; dissatisfaction with England, 590; fails to write to C.I., 623; Jewishness, 649; 1956 visit to New York, 660; supposed asexuality, 676; Beaton dislikes, 725; visits C.I. in California, 746–8, 801–3, 809, 812–13; reads drafts of C.I.’s Down There on a Visit, 804, 822, 851; marriage relations, 806; and views of young Americans, 813; at Evelyn Hooker’s, 816; C.I. sends “Ambrose” to, 849–50, 852; “Acts passed beyond” (poem), 282; The Burning Cactus, 538; (ed. and trans.) Great Writings of Goethe, 772; Journals, 806n

  Spigelgass, Leonard, 482, 513n, 517

  Sputnik (Russian satellite), 487n

  Staël, Nicholas de, 735

  Stage Door Canteen (film), 303

  Stalin, Josef V.: death, 455

  Stanley, Leonard, 836

  Stapleton, Maureen, 595

  Starcke, Walter: at Trabuco, 437; relations with C.I., 441, 493, 624, 636; and van Druten, 457, 508, 624–5, 636, 641; at AJC ranch, 492; Dick Foote criticizes, 522; and Joel Goldsmith, 568, 636; Speed Lamkin’s rudeness to, 625; and Joanna Merlin, 639; on Goldsmith, 645; and van Druten’s heart attack, 658–60, 662, 671–2; splits with van Druten, 683, 685, 699, 715, 894; on round-the-world trip, 894

  Stars Look Down, The (film), 146

  Steed, Henry Wickham, 59

  Steele, Erica (Gay Vaughan; later Gayle Vaughan), 719

  Steen, Mike, 770, 844, 859–60

  Steere, Douglas, 211, 217, 223, 287

  Steffens, Lincoln, 425n

  Steinbeck, John, 408; The Grapes of Wrath, 37, 157, 408

  Steiner, Rudolf, 346n

  Stephens, James: “The Lonely God” (poem), 491

  Stern, James and Tania, 75, 90, 385, 387, 392, 595, 596

  Stern, Josef Luitpold, 192, 200, 205, 207, 222, 229, 230

  Steuermann, Eduard, 307, 311

  Steuermann, Margeret (Mausi), 46, 56, 62, 75, 311

  Stevens, George, 618, 796, 878, 898

  Stevens, George, Jr., 873, 878

  Stevenson, Adlai, 645, 879

  Stevenson, John, 878, 879–80

  Stevenson, Robert, 103, 111–12

  Stewart, Donald Ogden, 425n

  Stewart, James, 783n

  Stickel family, 653n, 704, 715, 732, 768, 781, 785, 793

  Stieglitz, Alfred, 431

  Stimson, Henry L., 228

  Stokes brothers: Oscar Wilde (play), 8

  Stokowski, Leopold, 50, 430

  Stolen Life, A (film), 880

  Stoloff (TV writer), 835

  Stompanato, Johnny, 745

  Stonorov, Mr. and Mrs. (Haverford refugees), 201

  Storer, Laura and Sadie, 577

  Storm, Hans Otto, 139

  Strasberg, Mrs. (owner of East Rustic Road house), 414

  Strasberg, Lee, 768

  Stratford (Connecticut), 823

  Stratford-upon-Avon (England), 823–4

  Stravinsky, Igor: friendship and meetings with C.I., 387, 426, 477, 514, 516, 524, 527, 536, 600–1, 690, 698, 735, 748, 755, 763–4, 799, 815, 845, 853, 855, 862, 866, 872, 889; sets Dylan Thomas poem, 468; dreams music, 600–1; suffers stroke, 663; seventy-fifth birthday concert, 704–5; intestinal bleeding, 755; drinking, 763, 799; buys Don Bachardy drawing of C.I., 804; depression, 820; ageing, 845, 847, 856, 873; attends C.I. lecture on Kipling, 847; book
of conversations with Robert Craft, 848, 850; Don Bachardy draws, 848–9; South American trip, 849, 866, 873, 889; arm injured, 850; visits Gerald Heard, 855–6; birthday dinner (1960), 866; at Kabuki performance, 872, 877; The Rake’s Progress (opera), 393, 402, 404, 426n, 712, 815, 850, 889

  Stravinsky, Vera: friendship and meetings with C.I., 387, 426, 514, 516, 524, 527, 535, 536, 600–1, 690, 698–9, 735, 748, 755, 763, 799, 815, 855, 853, 855, 862, 866, 872, 889; paintings, 477, 713, 758, 868–9; appearance and character, 705, 713, 799, 820; drinking, 763; on Robert Craft’s fatness, 816; attends C.I. lecture on Kipling, 847; South American trip, 849, 866, 873, 889; and Gerald Heard, 855–6

  Stricklyn, Ray, 758

  Strindberg, August: Miss Julie, 639

  Strong, Lou, 489

  Stroud, Bill, 597, 600–1, 611, 613, 622, 625, 628, 631, 677, 679

  Stuart, Claire, 156, 159

  Stürgkh, Count Carl, 227

  Stuurman, Dr. Douwe, 855–6

  Sudhira (Helen Kennedy): death addiction, 269; qualities and beauty, 269–70, 277, 309; C.I.’s feelings for and relationship with, 270, 277, 308–10, 323, 345, 375; at Ivar Avenue, 270, 276, 279, 296, 317, 357; treats C.I., 275, 287–8, 295; on Webster Milam, 280; delirium, 287–8; visits Huxleys at Llano, 289; on chanting, 293; on Madhabi, 302; plans to leave Ivar Avenue, 306; breakdown, 314; attacks Kolisch, 322; nurses Madhabi, 332; minds house for Peggy, 333; treats Ben Bok, 333; colonic ulcer operation, 338, 341; and Johnny Latham’s death, 339–40; on snakes, 341; returns from hospital, 343; and Al Clifton, 344; sees For Whom the Bell Tolls with C.I., 344; suspected cancer, 344–7, 348, 350, 352, 842; attends Helene Sabato, 346–7; sits with dying stranger, 346; illness at Sabatos”, 347–8, 350–1; hospitalized, 352; takes overdose, 353; and Vernon Old, 360, 367; indiscretions, 362; on Swami Yatiswarananda, 367; enlists in navy, 389; marriage, 413; at Sister Lalita’s funeral, 413; rattlesnake story, 419

  Suez crisis (1956), 637, 639, 644, 658–9, 666

  Sullavan, Margaret, 613

  Sullivan, Maxine, 4

  Sumac, Yma, 425

  Sundowners, The (film), 887

  Surmelian, Leon, 874

  Surrey, Dr., 619

  Susskind, David, 893–4

  Sutherland, Graham, 387, 393

  Swaddling, Leslie, 101

  Switzerland, 560

  Sycamore Road, Hollywood, xliii, 599, 602–3, 608, 612–13

  Sycamore Trail, Hollywood, 35, 39

  Symonds, John: The Great Beast, 550

  Symons, A.J.A.: The Quest for Corvo, 634, 651

  Syria, 666

  Szczesny, Berthold, 392

  Taber, Phil, 800

  Tahiti, 646, 649, 655, 682, 686, 738, 820, 853

  “Take It or Leave It” (C.I.; story), xvii, 230

  Taliesin West, Scottsdale, Arizona, 409, 805–7

  Talking to India (ed. Orwell), 364–5

  tamas, 128

  Tangier, xli–xlii, 539–46

  Tantine see MacLeod, Josephine

  Taos, 429, 712

  Tarini see Nixon, Alice

  Tarzan’s Fight for Life (film), 783

  Tauch, Ed, 466

  Taylor, Charles (“Spud”), 656, 696

  Taylor, Elizabeth, 618, 647, 778, 837–8

  Taylor, Frank: C.I. works with, 426; farewell scene, 440; and Dylan Thomas’s visit, 461; at Beverly Hilton, 532; in New York, 537–8; and C.I.’s short story anthology, 599, 614, 616–17, 625, 629, 640, 643, 672; on Mike Romanoff, 675; reports Jack Goodman’s death, 713; and C.I.’s Down There on a Visit, 800; and C.I.’s Berlin musical, 803, 805, 809–12; visits C.I., 814; and Marilyn Monroe, 826, 828; Don Bachardy sends specimen drawings to, 893

  Taylor, Laurette, 650

  Taylor, Nan, 532

  Taylor, Paul, 590–1

  Taylor, Robert, 761

  Tchelitchev, Pavel, 697

  Tecate symposium (1960), 867–8, 881

  Teen-Age Caveman (film), 775

  Tempest, Marie, 8

  Temple, Shirley, 384

  Ten Commandments, The (film), 665

  Tender Is the Night (film), 738–40, 752, 792

  Thales of Miletus, 248

  Thatcher, Torin, 494

  Theologia Germanica, 434n

  Theosophists, 373

  They Walk Alone (film), 92

  This Is the Army (revue), 274

  This Property Is Condemned (film), 900n

  Thling, Ralph, 530

  Thoeren, Robert, 67, 78–9, 81–2, 87, 89–90, 109, 129, 131, 134–5

  Thoeren, Mrs. Robert, 109

  Thom, Mr. (Richard’s father), 276–7, 334

  Thom, Mrs. (Richard’s mother), 326, 334

  Thom, Richard (Rich), 266, 268, 271–3, 276–80, 299, 302, 304–5, 325–6, 334–5, 446

  Thomas, Caitlin, 462; Leftover Life to Kill, 724

  Thomas, Dylan: C.I. meets, 458–63, 534; memorial concert for, 468; reading, 579; in C.I.’s short story anthology, 639, 640, 671; Emlyn Williams’s recital of, 805, 808; Richard Burton recites, 805

  Thomas, Edward, 828–9

  Thomas, Evan, 246

  Thompson, Dorothy, 11

  Thorndike, Dame Sybil, 672–3

  Thorpe, Richard, 134, 468

  Three Faces of Eve, The (film), 687, 749

  Thumbs (play), 95

  Thurau, Fräulein, 442n; death, 816

  Thurber, James, 444–5

  Thurlow family, 759–60

  Tiedemann, Father, 244

  Timbres, Rebecca, 195–6, 206

  Time (magazine), 97, 283, 763, 811

  Tinker see Austen, Howard

  Tis see Bok, Welmoet

  Tito see Renaldo, Tito

  Tittle, Tommy, 390

  Todd, Michael, 838n

  Todd, Thelma, 140, 510

  Todi, Jacopone da, 179

  Together (film), 593

  To Have and Have Not (film), 495

  Toller, Christiane, 67

  Toller, Ernst: “No More Peace,” 54

  Tolotshko, Nicolas, 619

  Tolstoy, Count Leo: A Confession, 228, 285

  Tomorrow (magazine), xxvi, 425–6, 429n, 435n

  Tondelayo, Gaby, 475

  Tony see Bower, Tony; Duquette, Tony; Richardson, Tony

  Tooker, George, 386, 392

  Toomey, Brendan, 513

  Totter (painter), 819

  Toulmin, Alice, 519

  Toynbee, Philip, 513

  Trabuco: C.I. visits, xxxvi, 233–4, 240–2, 245, 437–9, 446, 448, 452–3, 496, 510–11, 708; Heard buys, 158, 234–5; Steere visits, 211, 217; dedicated as Ramakrishna Monastery, 394; Prabhavananda on, 657; discontent in, 765

  Tracey, Spencer, 723

  Traherne, Thomas, 118

  Trancas, California, 528, 617

  Travers, Robert, 731n

  Treanor, Tom, 132

  Tree, Iris: in California, 345–6, 373, 422, 440, 450, 513, 860; in Rome, 548–50, 552, 554; divorce from Friedrich Ledebur, 552; takes mescaline, 663; Carl Sandburg compliments, 898

  Tremblay, Ed, 367–8, 378

  Trevor-Roper, Patrick, 586, 735

  Trigunatita, Swami, 323

  Trilling, Lionel: E. M. Forster, 833; The Opposing Self, 524

  Trimble, Larry, 160, 239

  Trocchi, Alexander, 864

  Trotti, Lamarr, 383

  Truman, Harry S., 407n

  Trumbo, Dalton, 81

  Tugend, Harry, 673

  Tully, Red, 832

  Turgenev, Ivan: First Love, 631

  Turkey, 666

  Turner, Charles, 551, 553–5

  Turner, Lana: in film Diane, xxxix, 480, 491, 494, 508, 512, 530, 535, 611; as sexual idol, 61; C.I. invites to party, 497–9; signs of tiredness, 502; boyfriend stabbed, 745; turns down Isherwood as writer for Valadon film, 827; new film (1960), 876

  Turner, W. J., 90

  Turville-Petre, Francis (“Franni”), xxiii, xxxix, 408, 464

  Tutin, Dorothy, 465n, 569, 584, 594

  Two-Faced
Woman (film), 209

  Tynan, Elaine (Dundy), 850–1

  Tynan, Kenneth, 567, 584–5, 850–1

  U-2 spy plane incident (1960), 856n, 885

  Uhse, Bodo, 41–2, 62, 65, 67, 88

  Ujjvala, 478

  United Services Organisation (USO) Center, Hollywood, 254

  United States of America: enters war (1941), xvii, 199; C.I. takes citizenship, xxiv, 384, 391, 415; C.I. emigrates to, 3–5, 7–8; C.I.’s attitude to, 94; and war threat, 98, 132–3; in C.I.’s The Lost, 591

  University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), 900

  University of California at Santa Barbara see Santa Barbara

  Upanishads, 108, 153

  Uplifters’ Club, Los Angeles, 57, 68, 96

  Upward, Edward: keeps diary with C.I., viii; fiction, x; at Cambridge, xi, 582, 756; relations with C.I., xiii–xiv, xxiii, 3–4, 47–8, 277, 442, 529–30; and Mortmere, xlii, 177, 530n, 756; on C.I.’s lack of capacity for abstract ideas, 7; on C.I.’s pacifism, 7; antipathy to religion, 29; and C.I.’s meditating, 37; C.I. sees on trips to England, 391, 403, 590; on self-consciousness, 630; C.I. sends draft of novel to, 758; reads “Mr Lancaster” (C.I.), 814, 816; reads “Ambrose” (C.I.), 852, 854; In the Thirties, 590, 783–4; “A Marxist Interpretation of Literature” (essay), x; The Spiral Ascent, viiin, xlii

  Upward, Dr. Harold Arthur (Edward’s father), 176

  Ure, Mary: in California, 867–9, 872, 875–6, 878–9, 881, 883; and John Osborne, 891, 894–5; and Simone Signoret, 899

  Usha (Ursula Bond; later Pravrajika Anandaprana), 765

  Uti, Betty, 770

  Vacant Room, The (screenplay), xxvi, 437, 532, 617, 788, 800–1, 820, 832, 847

  Valadon, Suzanne, 826, 827

  Valentine, Joe, 140–1, 236–7

  Valley Forge, 222

  Vandanananda, Swami: C.I. meets, 516; Prabhavananda proposes as successor, 527; with Prabhavananda at Vedanta Place, 531; likes film of The King and I, 626; enquires about Griggs’s sex life, 668; and Dick Foote, 683; visits C.I., 686; C.I.’s feelings for, 691; on killing, 699–700; character, 717; in Laguna, 765, 821, 890; lustful feelings, 855

  Vandenberg, Senator Arthur Hendrick, 18

  van Druten, John: C.I. meets, 14–15; and pacifism, 15–16; in Los Angeles, 48; and Goldwyn, 53; recommends agents to C.I., 76–7; visits C.I., 98; works with C.I. on Forever and a Day (film), 107, 109; and Carter Lodge, 111–12, 339, 568, 645–6, 659–60, 662, 666, 683, 685, 688, 700, 715, 731, 733, 854; friendship and meetings with C.I., 111, 260, 335, 391, 457–8, 481, 484, 624, 636, 645, 649, 650, 652, 714, 731; and Christian Science, 112; and Beesleys, 258–9; and Aldous Huxley, 260; and Bill Roerick, 274; C.I. visits, 337–8; responsibilities, 339; avoids Dan Leonardson, 377; enthusiasm for Vivekananda, 424; meditations, 457, 492; at AJC ranch, 492; verse, 507–8; character and manner, 524, 574, 624, 645, 833, 871, 876; Dodie Smith Beesley praises, 568; and Joel Goldsmith, 568, 649, 659–60, 685, 715; C.I. fantasizes about assignment to hell, 579; Costigan complains of, 613; considers dramatizing Mr. Norris, 615–16; and Marguerite Lamkin, 616; shocked by Prabhavananda, 624; at beach, 625; directs The King and I, 625n; and Starcke, 636, 641, 658–60, 662, 671–2, 683, 685, 699, 715, 894; screenplay on First Love rejected, 639; Vernon Old seeks help from, 639; praises War and Peace (film), 641; telephone calls to C.I., 647; and Montgomery Clift, 648; wins action against Hecht-Lancaster, 651–2; heart attack and recovery, 658–63, 666; C.I. visits after illness, 671–2; and Dick Foote, 688, 700, 731, 854; survival prognosis, 688; health improves, 699; rents house on Pacific Coast Highway, 709; Mishima meets, 710; on Dodie Smith Beesley’s tame thrush, 711; enquires about “blighty” (word), 718; and Howard Austen, 721; scripts Anatomy of a Murder, 731; death and will, 733; C.I. dreams of, 747–8; recorded voice, 786; diaries, 803; collaborates with C.I., 820; Dancing in the Checkered Shade, 492, 508n, 613; I Am a Camera (adapted from C.I.’s Goodbye to Berlin), xxxv, xl, xlv, 388, 437, 439, 441, 442n, 447, 451, 465n, 617, 712, 747; John van Druten, Distinguished Playwright Series (recording), 786n; Leave Her to Heaven, 14, 291; The Vicarious Years, 568; The Widening Circle (memoirs), 624–5, 640