277
Stockport, Cheshire (England): C.I.
Sorokine, Natasha see Moffat,
visits (1947), 86–7, 89, 111;
Natasha
Caskey photographs viaduct at,
South America: C.I. and Caskey
144
travel in, xxxiv, 119, 123, 133,
Stokowski, Leopold, 254n
139
Stonewall riot (New York, 1962),
South Pacific (stage musical), 224–6
xii
Soviet Russia: and Los Angeles
Strang, Les (pseud.), 166
conference on world peace,
Strasberg, Lee, 167
189–90
Strasberg, Paula, 167, 183–4, 272
Speaight, Robert, 144
Stravinsky, Igor: in C.I.’s circle,
Spender, Humphrey, 138
xvii; likes Caskey, 42; on C.I.’s
Spender, Natasha (Lady; née Litvin),
capacity for friendships, 94;
91
C.I. lunches and sups with,
Spender, (Sir) Stephen: meets
198, 200–1, 222, 230; C.I.’s
Caskey, xvii; C.I. stays with in
attitude to, 201–3;
London, 91–2; and Tony
avariciousness, 202; visits
Hyndman, 113, 114–15n;
Sequoia with C.I., 243 & n;
marriage (first) to Inez Pearn,
The Flood, 264[n]; The Rake’s
114n; affair with Helmuth
Progress, 202, 243
Roder, 126n; in USA, 134,
Stravinsky, Vera: in C.I.’s circle,
138–9, 168, 194, 195; bisexual
xvii, 198, 200–2, 222, 230; visits
posture, 169–70; depicted in A
Sequoia with C.I., 243
Meeting by the River, 170; asks
Streetcar Named Desire, A (film), 267
C.I. for obituary article on
Streeter, Mitchell (pseud.), 258–9
Dylan Thomas, 233; “The
Sudhira (Helen Kennedy): enlists in
Burning Cactus”, 126n; World
navy, 9; C.I. entertains, 50;
Within World, 275n, 277
attends C.I. in hospital, 62–3
Stafford, Jean, 135, 137
Sumac, Yma, 242
Stagg, Bob, 65, 122n, 123
Sutherland, Graham, 148
Starcke, Walter, 81, 123n, 197n,
Swami see Prabhavananda, Swami
284
Swanson, Gloria, 216
Starkey, Walter see Starcke, Walter
Sykes, Gerald: The Nice American,
Steffens, Lincoln: Autobiography,
275n
175n
Symonds (Isherwood family lawyer),
Steffens, Pete, 175n
111
Stern, James, 117–18, 122–3, 137,
Szczesny, Berthold, 133–5 & n,
176 & n
136–9
Index
385
Tallchief, Maria, 50n
Valley Theatre, 74; friendship
Tamara (van Druten’s housekeeper),
with C.I., 81, 208; reports
21
C.I.’s misbehavior at Chaplins’,
Taos, New Mexico, 253, 255n
199n; drives back from
Tauch, Ed, 123–4, 139
Trabuco with C.I., 207; and
Taxman, Barry, 258, 260–3
C.I.’s sense of guilt, 227; adapts
Taylor, Frank: C.I. meets, 134, 136;
and plays in Ethan Frome, 229;
described, 169; film–making,
attends Yma Sumac
169–70; depicted in The World
performance at Salka Viertel’s,
in the Evening, 170; entertains,
242; attends Sadler’s Wells
195; friendship with C.I., 208,
Ballet with C.I., 271; and
263–4, 281; on Dylan Thomas’s
C.I.’s Anglia car, 276
visit to Chaplin, 233; visits
Trilling, Diana, 48
Hartfords with C.I., 246;
Trotti, Lamarr, 38n
accompanies C.I. to John
Trottiscliffe, Kent (England)), 148
Huston film set, 268
Truman, Harry S., 172, 240
Taylor, Harold, 135, 137
Turville-Petre, Francis, 134n
Taylor, Nan, 134, 136, 169, 195,
Twentieth Century-Fox Film
208, 263
Corporation, 191
Tepoztlán, Mexico, 78
Tyrrell, G.N.M.: Science and Psychical
Than, Joseph, 31n
Phenomena, 51n
Theatre Arts (magazine), 74
Thomas, Dylan: C.I. entertains in
United States of America: C.I.
Los Angeles, 232–3; Portrait of
emigrates to, xi, 72; relaxes
the Artist as a Young Dog,
censorship laws, xii; C.I.’s
175–6n
increasing commitment to,
Time magazine, 9, 22–3; reviews
xxx–xxxi, 19n; C.I. acquires
Prater Violet, 48–9
citizenship, 77–8, 209; C.I.’s
Titian: “The Man with the Glove”,
homesickness for in England,
198
84
Todd, Thelma, 28–9
Up at the Villa (unfinished film),
Tomorrow (magazine), 241, 247,
34–6 & n, 46
258, 276–7
Upward, Christopher, 100–2
Tompkins, Willy (pseud.), 35, 48,
Upward, Edward: and C.I.’s
280
historical training, xii; literary
Toni (Brian Howard’s lover), 95–6
theories, xii–xiv; Marxism,
Tooker, George, 127–8
xiii–xiv, xxvii; influence on
Totheroh, Dan: Moor Born (play),
C.I.’s prose, xxvii; moral effect
32, 33n
on C.I., xxix–xxx; C.I. meets
Trabuco: Franklin Knight at, 7;
in England, 100–1, 107;
proposed Vedanta monastery at,
marriage, 101; and C.I.’s World
28; official opening, 188, 207;
in the Evening, 190; In the
C.I. visits, 191, 246; van
Thirties, 101; Journey to the
Druten gives money for organ,
Border, xxvii; “Sketch for a
247
Marxist Interpretation of
Tree, Iris: C.I. sups with, 28;
Literature”, xiii n
Caskey meets, 45–6; as mother
Upward, Hilda, 100–1, 107
of Ivan Moffat, 66; runs High
Upward, Kathy, 100–1
386
Index
Vacant Room, The (screenplay),
Vedanta Society: acquires Trabuco,
229–30
188, 207
Vallentin, Antonina: H.G. Wells –
Vedanta and the West (magazine), 18
Prophet of Our Day, 258, 275n
Vedanta and the Western World
van Druten, John: and C.I.’s life at
(C.I.), 8
Vedanta Center, 7; at Beesleys,
Verlaine, Paul, 182
11; hears of C.I.’s lovemaking
Vidal, Gore: meets Caskey, xv, xvii;
with Bill Harris, 12n; lectures,
C.I. meets in Paris, 142–3; in
18; at AJC Ranch, 21, 214,
England, 145–6; quarrels with
220, 271; friendship with C.I.,
Caskey, 146; The City and the
31, 39, 50, 81, 153, 208; on
Pillar, xv, 140n, 145;
Roosevelt, 31; C.I. entertains,
Palimpsest: A Memoir, 146[n];
50; C.I. sees in New York,
The Season of Comfort, 225n;
123; absent from AJC ranch,
Williwaw, 140n, 225n
196; and Dick Foote, 196n;
Viertel family: in C.I.’s circle, xvii
and Starcke, 197n; Britten and
Viertel, Berthold: and C.I.’s fading
Pears meet, 214; at Trabuco,
interest in Germans, xxx; and
246; beliefs, 247; suffers from
Peter’s account of meeting C.I.
“senile polio”, 272; decides to
in London, 83n; in New York,
adapt C.I.’s Goodbye to Berlin as
119, 123; C.I. meets in
play, 282, 284; I Am a Camera,
London, 148; character, 148;
xxxi–xxxii, 78, 123n, 282; The
marries Elisabeth Neumann,
Mermaids Singing, 123n
148; successful career and later
van Leyden, Ernst and Karen, 81,
death, 149
207, 272
Viertel, Elisabeth see Neumann,
Van Meegeren, Han, 170, 254n
Elisabeth
van Petten, Bill, 156n
Viertel, Peter: on The Friendship
Van Trees, Don, 170
bar, 44n; C.I. entertains, 50;
Van Vechten, Carl, 253
“den” in home, 74; in
Vaughan, Keith, 83n, 96, 102, 143
London, 83 & n; The Canyon,
& n; Journal and Drawings, 143n
44n
Vedanta: C.I.’s involvement with,