22 “You play my music”: Antheil (1945), 40.
23 “an enormous fur coat”: Ibid., 46.
24 “I happened to be born”: Boski Antheil memoir, 9.
25 “dark, had high cheekbones”: Antheil (1945), 49.
26 “related to various”: Ibid., 50.
27 Jean Wiener: Stravinsky (1936), 110.
28 “She represented much”: Antheil (1945), 86.
29 “everybody was terribly poor”: Boski Antheil memoir, 10.
30 “When I later”: Antheil (1945), 90.
31 “We arrived in Paris”: Boski Antheil memoir, 8.
32 “which I gave up”… “none of which”: Stravinsky (1936), 104–5.
33 “In contrast to her brother”: Ibid., 102.
34 “Absolutely breathtaking”: Boski Antheil memoir, 17.
35 “When I went to school”: Ibid., 71.
36 “Paris was like a carnival”: Ibid., 8, 17.
37 “I still don’t remember”: Ibid., 18.
38 “she was kind”: Hemingway (1964), 35.
39 “threw up the job”: Walsh (2010), 87.
40 “I tried my best”: Ibid., 93.
41 “Sylvia and George immediately”: Boski Antheil memoir, 18.
42 “was on the look-out”: Imbs (1936), 23.
43 enclosed mezzanine: Ibid.
44 “consisted of one room”… “one went to the public”: Boski Antheil memoir, 20, 40.
45 “I was very shy”: Ibid., 20.
46 “the great piano warehouse”: Antheil (1945), 104.
47 “In order to prevent”: Stravinsky (1936), 101.
48 “the next day we went”: Antheil (1945), 104.
49 “Months later”: Ibid., 107.
50 “tremendously”… “for where”: Ibid., 107–8.
51 “We are done”: Antheil (1924).
52 “A dark, pretty”: Antheil (1945), 121.
53 Le coeur à barbe: See Delson (2006), 47–49.
54 “All the celebrities”: Quoted in ibid., 48.
55 “One day a tall”: Quoted in ibid., 49.
56 “Even though the idea”: Boski Antheil memoir, 6. Boski’s recollection argues against Antheil’s claim in Bad Boy of Music that he conceived his Ballet mécanique first and then “sought a motion-picture accompaniment to this piece” (134).
57 “George was writing”: Boski Antheil memoir, 32 (55).
58 “Georgette Leblanc”: Monnier (1976), 247–48.
59 “the theater, the famous”: Antheil (1945), 7.
60 “The uproar was such”: Boski Antheil memoir, 28.
61 “I now plunged”: Antheil (1945), 133.
62 “After the finish”: Quoted in Whitesitt (1983), 19.
63 “Satie came out”: “Why ‘Bad Boy of Music’?”, 1.
64 “where Antheil played”: Copland and Perlis (1984), 75.
65 “My first big work”: Quoted in Oja (2000), 80–81.
THREE: MECHANISMS
1 “Mr. George Antheil was engaged”: Quoted in Donald (2009), 44.
2 “during the winter”: Antheil (1945), 137.
3 “Kiesler liked it so well”: Boski Antheil memoir, 61, box 17, folders 1–3, Antheil Collection, Library of Congress.
4 “One night we went”: Ibid., 65.
5 “Bullitt is a striking man”: Kennan (1985), 57.
6 “a hearty, charming”: Imbs (1936), 103.
7 “And of course there was Bill”: Boski Antheil memoir, 60–62.
8 “He was furious”: Brownell and Billings (1987), 112.
9 “Bill and Louise”: Boski Antheil memoir, 60–62.
10 “We had a lovely”: Ibid., 44.
11 “One day in the future”: “The Death of Cities,” box 14, folder 3, Antheil Collection.
12 “We went to Vienna”: Boski Antheil memoir, 66–67.
13 “Fritz was immersed”: “Latin America: Double Cross?” Time, 16 April 1945.
14 “are unintelligible”: Sedgwick (1939), 282.
15 “The only serious problem”: Ford (1987), 42–43.
16 “This is the first edition”: Quoted in Whitesitt (1983), 22.
17 “The idea of [sixteen] pianos”: George Antheil, “My Ballet mécanique,” 10 June 1951, box 14, folder 8, Antheil Collection.
18 “There was a great deal”: Imbs (1936), 100–2.
19 “We shall see”: Quoted in Lehrman (1999). Translation corrected from the original German version in De Stijl, 8 June 1924, 101–2.
20 two thousand player pianos: Mick Hamer, “Don’t Shoot the Pianola,” New Scientist, no. 1435/1436, 20–27 Dec. 1984, 52.
21 “And what will the music”: George Antheil, “An Introduction to the Actuality of My Present Music,” Ezra Pound file, box 1, folder 88, Antheil Collection.
22 “When I first came”: Boski Antheil memoir, 110.
23 “The eleven grand pianos”: Friede (1948), 52.
24 “Everybody wanted to meet”: Ibid., 55.
25 “The trouble was”: Ibid., 56.
26 “When it reached”: Ibid., 60–61.
27 “The unheard-of viciousness”: Antheil to Bok, [April 1927], box 2, folder 1.17, Antheil Collection.
28 “This year I made”: Ibid.
29 “heartsick and broke”: Antheil (1945), 197.
30 “America has received”: Antheil to Bok, [April 1927], box 2, folder 1.17, Antheil Collection.
31 “I changed my musical style”: Antheil, “Autobiographical Notes,” box 14, folder 5, Antheil Collection.
32 “The place was well calculated”: Antheil (1945), 265.
FOUR: BETWEEN TIMES
1 armed with surplus weapons: Mötz (2010), 56.
2 “The Heimwehr and its principals”: Newton (1986), 545.
3 “Austria may be assured”: Quoted in Johnson (1934), 126.
4 “Mandl also sold arms”: Newton (1986), 545.
5 armed both sides in the Spanish Civil War: Ibid.
6 “He would often ask”… “Sometimes he would get”: Hall (1938), 75–76.
7 “Soon I knew”… “and in these blue violets”: Ibid., 75.
8 “we entertained”: Ibid.
9 “the Jew, Mandl”: Joseph Goebbels, speech delivered at National Socialist Party Congress, Nuremberg, 1937.
10 “I did not do more”: Hall (1938), 75.
11 “Any girl can be”: Schickel (1962), 212.
12 “There were times”: Hall (1938), 75.
13 “My husband would sit there”: Ibid.
14 “but both times”: Ibid., 76.
15 “But still he did not”… “I was out driving”: Ibid.
16 “in his last agony”: Ibid.
17 “I wore black”: Ibid.
18 “From the moment”: Ibid., 76–77.
19 It might even take blackmaiclass="underline" As Lamarr recounted in a conversation with the engineer and inventor Carmelo “Nino” Amarena in 1997. Nino Amarena interview with author, 5 Jan. 2011.
20 She would have to be a sponge: Nino Amarena: “Hedy told me: ‘I was being a sponge because I had to find a way to escape Mandl—even blackmail if necessary. And all I had to do was pose and listen.’” Ibid.
21 “Things were pretty tough”… “We also had the roof”: Boski Antheil memoir, 99, box 17, folders 1–3, Antheil Collection, Library of Congress.
22 “We are around”: George Antheil, “My Father,” June 1945, box 14, folder 8, Antheil Collection.
23 “Bill told me”: Antheil (1945), 270.
24 “a whole coterie”: Ibid. On the premiere of Helen Retires, see invitation in MS 112, box 3, folder 42, William C. Bullitt Papers, Yale University Library.
25 “Bewildered, I stopped composing”: Autobiographical notes, box 14, folder 5, Antheil Collection.
26 “pure Paris”… “an American ballet”: Antheil (1945), 276.