fn251 Kevin O’Neal (b. 1945), his brother, also a T.V. and movie actor.
fn252 I.e., classed by the draft board as deferred from U.S. military service.
fn253 By Robinson Jeffers, who also made the adaptation of Euripides’s Medea.
fn254 Zortman, Laughton’s secretary and a disciple.
fn255 Los Angeles State College.
fn256 He settled in San Francisco, where he ran his practice and where, for a few years, Isherwood and Bachardy continued to see him whenever they were in town. Stanley Miron is not his real name.
fn257 See Glossary under Abraham Kaplan.
fn258 In Marcel Achard’s A Shot in the Dark.
fn259 Manhattan stockbroker (19[20]–1989), educated at Yale, decorated twice during W.W.II. Later, he was associate producer for two Hollywood films, wrote quiz books, and married a Palm Beach divorcée.
fn260 Protetch was diabetic, careless about treating himself, and a hard drug user; he died of pituitary cancer, evidently a consequence, in 1969 aged forty-six.
fn261 Adapted by William Morris from his best-selling 1961 novel; Emlyn Williams was in the cast.
fn262 John William Vinson (191[6]–1979), professor of microbiology at Harvard, was an authority on tropical and venereal diseases and also a poet. He was a friend of Kallman.
fn263 Jean Sorel (b. 1934), star of the film, is French-Canadian, but the film was Italian and dubbed into English.
fn264 English actress (b. 1917, in Karachi), mostly on the London stage and in British films; from the 1950s she worked in Australia where she appeared in Shine (1996).
fn265 Mary Lee Epling Hartford (191[1]–1988), former wife of A&P heir Huntington Hartford, and second wife of actor Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. (1909–2000).
fn266 Daughter of wealthy New York socialite and beauty, Mrs. William Rhinelander Stewart, Jr; Isherwood wrote “Selena.”
fn267 Presumably the young man giving away the cream tarts, who must eat any refused by the strangers he accosts.
fn268 Beerbohm Tree: His Life and Laughter (1956) and Alfred Duggan’s Family Favorites (1960).
fn269 Carl Ohm.
fn270 American actress (b. 1934), she became a Broadway star in The Unsinkable Molly Brown, which opened in November 1960 and was still running.
fn271 “The people I respect must behave as if they were immortal and as if society were eternal.” In “What I believe,” The Nation, July 16, 1938.
fn272 The thirteenth-century musical drama was edited by Noah Greenburg for the New York Pro Musica, of which he was director. Auden’s verse narration was spoken between episodes. This version was first performed in 1958.
fn273 Based on Laurence Housman’s Victoria Regina (1934), for which Harris won an Emmy; kinescope was a pre-videotape method of recording from television.
fn274 German-born actress, aristocrat, beauty (b. 1931).
fn275 Artist and illustrator, born in Boston, then in her mid-twenties; she trained in Boston and Paris, worked for Show Magazine, and became Mrs. Gordon Douglas when she married in the late 1960s.
fn276 Isherwood had been a member since 1949; see Glossary under National Institute of Arts and Letters.
fn277 Eton and Oxford-educated Welsh novelist and literary journalist (19081987), editor of The Times Literary Supplement 1948–1958.
fn278 Paul Henri Spaak (1899–1972), then Minister of Foreign Affairs for Belgium; previously Prime Minister (1938–1939, 1947–1949), top U.N. and NATO officer, and chair of signatories of the 1957 Treaty of Rome, establishing the European Economic Community.
fn279 Anne Charteris (1913–1981), also widow of 3rd Lord O’Neill and former wife of Esmond, 2nd Viscount Rothermere.
fn280 Warhol (1929–1987), worked as a commercial artist during the 1950s and drew shoe advertisements for fashion magazines; his early portraits often show only hands or feet. His pop art career took off in 1964 when he exhibited his Brillo Boxes at the Stable Gallery in New York.
fn281 Especially sacred consecrated food; see prasad in Glossary.
fn282 In Puri, Orissa, eastern India, a traditional place of pilgrimage. It houses an image identified with Krishna and his brother and sister.
fn283 California town on the Colorado River at the borders with Nevada and Arizona.
fn284 I.e., a national holiday, honoring Abraham Lincoln.
fn285 Bradley Smith, who ran a bookstore on Hollywood Boulevard, was the first to be prosecuted in Los Angeles for selling the 1961 Grove Press edition; academic colleagues and acquaintances of Isherwood testified for the defense along with the literary editor of the Los Angeles Times, Robert Kirsch. See Glossary.
fn286 Spender served in the Auxiliary Fire Service in London during the war; “visiting fireman” in American idiom is any important visitor requiring attention.
fn287 Bachardy no longer recalls what this was.
fn288 Bruce Lansbury; see Glossary.
fn289 A board member of the San Pedro Public Library and, later, librarian of the Urban School in San Francisco (1968–1976); he collected and published moon legends from Malaysia, Indonesia, and New Guinea (d. 1999).
fn290 A U.S. military veterans’ organization.
fn291 Published respectively by the homosexual advocacy groups, One, Inc. and the Mattachine Society.
fn292 A neighborhood acquaintance who did some remodelling work at 145 Adelaide Drive in 1959; he appears in D.1.
fn293 Paxton worked at the gallery, but didn’t own it; he sometimes lived in Los Angeles.
fn294 Director of Judgment at Nuremberg.
fn295 I.e., the European Economic Community (EEC), functioning from January 1958.
fn296 Nineteenth-century Hindu reformer and the non-sectarian religious and social movement which he transformed.
fn297 The 1962 Seattle World’s Fair.
fn298 He set “Little Gidding” from Four Quartets as Anthem.
fn299 Isherwood evidently identified with Teller’s colleague, Robert Oppenheimer, whose professional judgement was questioned by Teller at public security hearings in 1954. See Glossary.
fn300 The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali, translated by Prabhavananda and Isherwood.
fn301 Suspected communists were questioned in Los Angeles, April 24–28. Possibly, Isherwood meant to type, “antidesegregation crowd.” See Glossary under House Un-American Activities Committee.
fn302 U.S. Steel announced a six-dollar-a-ton price increase after pushing through a non-inflationary wage agreement with the union. On April 11, Kennedy publicly attacked the executives for their greed; privately, he threatened an IRS audit.
fn303 Welsh-born actor and, later, director (1907–1986); he won an Academy Award for The Lost Weekend (1945) and had his own T.V. show in the 1950s.
fn304 Pen and ink drawings of American fashion designer Oleg Cassini (b. 1913 in Paris, known for dressing Mrs. Kennedy as First Lady) and of Merle Oberon in a Cassini evening gown, for full-page ads in Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar.
fn305 The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824).
fn306 Les Noyers de l’Altenburg (1948) by André Malraux, translated by A.W. Fielding in 1952.
fn307 Percy Pinkerton’s 1953 translation of Zola’s novel, which includes an introduction by Angus Wilson.
fn308 Stuart Gilbert’s 1946 translation of Camus’ L’Étranger (1942).
fn309 American actor (1918–1971), educated at Columbia, on Broadway from the early 1940s. His films include The Corn Is Green (1946), Rope (1948), Gun Crazy (1950), and Spartacus (1960). He lived across the street from Parker and Campbell with his lover Clem Brace.
fn310 Happiness.
fn311 American singer and actor (b. 1928); he starred on his own radio and T.V. show until 1959 when he divorced Debbie Reynolds to marry Elizabeth Taylor.
fn312 American actor (b. 1925); he had recently starred in Sweet Smell of Success (1957), Some Like It Hot (1959), and Spartacus (1960), but his marriage to actress Janet Leigh was ending.
fn313
Blond, blue-eyed star (1936–2001) of teen T.V. series “Surfside Six” (1960–1962) and “Hawaiian Eye” (1962–1963) and of similar films with Sandra Dee and Suzanne Pleshette.
fn314 British actor (b. 1936), Romeo opposite Judi Dench in Franco Zeffirelli’s 1960 stage production. In Hollywood, he had character parts. He sometimes returned to the London stage and later developed a T.V. career.
fn315 Hudson (1925–1985) was nominated for an Academy Award for Giant (1956) and had more recently appeared in Written on the Wind (1956), The Tarnished Angels (1957), and Pillow Talk (1959).
fn316 Probably Solomon Sturges IV (b. 1941), known as “Mon,” son of the playwright, screenwriter, director (1898–1959) and his third wife, Louise Tevis.
fn317 A lecture included in Jnana Yoga and later in Vedanta: Voice of Freedom (1986) with a foreword by Isherwood.
fn318 A minimum-security correctional facility where inmates worked in the laundry, kitchen, and garden; probably the Los Angeles County Honor Farm.
fn319 According to Huxley’s biographer, Sybille Bedford, Max Cutler pronounced Maria Huxley’s cancer hopeless in 1954.
fn320 Carl Jung coined the term and lectured and wrote about it several times, including a long essay, “Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle” (1952).
fn321 American actor (1914–1965), on stage in England and on Broadway; he became a movie star with The Mask of Dimitrios (1944) and The Southerner (1945).
fn322 American movie producer, son of Sol Lesser (1890–1980) who produced Tarzan and Dick Tracy movies and Westerns.
fn323 Hearn (1850–1904), born in Greece and educated in England, was a journalist in America, then, in 1890, settled in Japan with a Japanese wife and taught English literature at the Imperial University, Tokyo.
fn324 Marlene Laurence (d. circa 1980), an eccentric Hollywood devotee with an unpredictable temper; she worked at Kodak.
fn325 Novelist and literary critic; she published work in English and in Serbo-Croat.
fn326 American poet, novelist, critic (b. 1919); her books include Paul Valéry: The Mind in the Mirror (1952) and Signs and Cities (1968) with a Bachardy drawing of her on the cover.
fn327 A professor of English at L.A. State from 1960 to 1984.
fn328 American stage actor (191[4]–1989), Roerick’s longtime companion; he appears in D.1.
fn329 Harvard-educated American actor (b. 1931); he starred in Tea and Sympathy on Broadway (1953) and in Hollywood (1956), played a T.V. lawyer in “Arrest and Trial” (1963) and “Peyton Place” (1965–1966), then became a real-life lawyer.
fn330 Tree was married to Brad Fuller, and they had a child, but Fuller was companion to American poet and translator Hugh Chisolm; Fuller and Chisolm appear in D.1.
fn331 Stanwyck played a lesbian bordello mistress in the film.
fn332 Bachardy drew her half a dozen times on two different occasions and later drew her son and daughter, but she never bought a portrait from him, so the check was for something else.
fn333 Andreas Voutsinas; see Glossary under Fonda.
fn334 Claudine à l’école (1900) and Claudine à Paris (1901).
fn335 Chauffeur and helper.
fn336 Caroline Bouvier (b. 1933), socialite sister of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy; then married to her second husband, Prince Stanislaus Radziwill (1914–1976).
fn337 I.e., Cheltenham literary festival.
fn338 “Jesus” in Nicholas Ray’s 1961 remake of the Cecil B. DeMille silent movie about Christ.
fn339 He had been a tightrope walker; see Glossary.
fn340 Independent production company.
fn341 Lawyer-accountant for Carter Lodge, who recommended him to Isherwood.
fn342 A friend of the Laughtons and of Jay de Laval; Isherwood met him in 1945. He is mentioned in D.1 and Lost Years.
fn343 Not his real name.
fn344 Welsh-born psychoanalyst (1878–1958), biographer of Freud, author and broadcaster. President for many years of the British and the International Psychoanalytical Societies.
fn345 English character actor and playwright (1908–1992); he was married to Cooper’s daughter, Joan Buckmaster.
fn346 English stage star (1888–1982), also in character roles; she appeared in a few movies and in “Upstairs Downstairs” on T.V.
fn347 Evidently William Masters and his research assistant, later wife, Virginia Johnson. They worked together from 1957 and founded the Reproductive Biology Research Foundation in St. Louis in 1964. Their bestsellers include Human Sexual Response (1966) and Human Sexual Inadequacy (1970).
fn348 Ben’s older brother, Eugene, an artist and architect, helped Frank Lloyd Wright run Taliesin in Spring Green, Wisconsin (which Isherwood calls Taliesin East) and Taliesin West in Scottsdale, Arizona. He appears in D.1.
fn349 Made of thin wood strips spaced to let in light and air.
fn350 He was married himself at the time. See Glossary.
fn351 Luis Miguel Dominguín (1926–1995), Spanish bullfighter; in D.1 Isherwood mentions his deadly rivalry with Antonio Ordóñes.
fn352 Arthur Michael Ramsey (1904–1988), Bishop of Durham (1952–1956), Archbishop of York (1956–1961), Archbishop of Canterbury (1961–1974), and afterwards life peer. The Rev. James B. Simpson’s book was The Hundredth Archbishop of Canterbury (1962). The Mitre and the Hall are boarding houses at Isherwoods’ public school, Repton.
fn353 Carl T. Jackson, later a specialist in U.S. intellectual history and a professor at the University of Texas at El Paso, was writing his UCLA Ph.D. thesis, “The Swami in America: A History of the Ramakrishna Movement in the United States, 1893–1960,” published as Vedanta for the West: The Ramakrishna Movement in the United States (1994).
fn354 The Ascent of F6, Auden and Isherwood’s 1936 play, for broadcast on local radio on November 7.
fn355 Cf., Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well (II.iii), “A dark house and a detested wife.”
fn356 For Bachardy-Isherwood Enterprises.
fn357 Upward’s In the Thirties.
fn358 August 3, at the radio station KPFK.
fn359 On Camel Point Drive, the oceanfront house of a devotee, Ruth Conrad; Swami often stayed there in the summer.
fn360 Bill Bergfeldt became a monk, Atma, at the Vedanta Society of Southern California and later settled at the Hollywood Vedanta Society. Previously he was a devotee at the Kansas City Center. He does not recall serving Satprakashananda.
fn361 On August 5. Isherwood describes his several meetings with her, at parties, in D.1.
fn362 Mae West (1892–1980)—film star, playwright, sex bomb, wit—was about to have her seventieth birthday, on August 17; Monroe was thirty-six.
fn363 North American Aviation, Inc. built the Apollo spacecraft for NASA and the Saturn V rockets which launched them.
fn364 See Glossary under Rembrandt.
fn365 French stage actor (1897–1978), a Hollywood leading man in the 1930s and, during the 1950s and 1960s, a regular on a T.V. drama series he coproduced. The play was Lord Pengo by S.N. Behrman; Bachardy’s drawing was for a poster to promote the Broadway opening.
fn366 Poet, author, anarchist (1921–2000), imprisoned as a C.O. during W.W.II; he co-edited with Holley Cantine a collection by imprisoned C.O.s, Prison Etiquette, The Convict’s Compendium of Useful Information (1950), with a preface by Isherwood.
fn367 Gregory was producing Lord Pengo; Janet Gaynor, widow of Gilbert Adrian, recommended Bachardy to him. See Glossary.
fn368 German photographer, introduced by Herbert List in Munich during Isherwood and Bachardy’s 1955 European trip. He appears in D.1.
fn369 Aircraft carrier USS Princeton, then training with marines in Okinawan waters.
fn370 Reinhardt and Charles Kaufman wrote the screenplay Freud; Huston directed.
fn371 The day he delivered “A Personal Statement” as part of a lecture series “The Writer at Mid-Century: The Moral Crisis,” sponsored by the University of California at Berkeley Extension.
fn373 A blond beauty celebrated in Santa Monica Canyon during the 1940s, briefly a boyfriend of Jay de Laval; Isherwood tells of his own relationship with Cowan in Lost Years.
fn374 See Glossary under Cuban Missile Crisis.
fn375 Leonora Gershwin (d. 1991), wife of Ira Gershwin (1895–1983), the lyricist brother of composer George Gershwin.
fn376 Columnist from 1951 to 1966 for The Hollywood Reporter.
fn377 American radio and T.V. journalist (b. 1932), for CBS and, later, NBC, where he became John Chancellor’s understudy on “NBC Nightly News” in the 1970s and 1980s.
fn378 Gregory (b. 1932) became famous in 1961 for his Chicago Playboy Club skits satirizing racism; later he was a civil rights activist, anti-war protestor, anti-drug campaigner, and author.
fn379 It was Isherwood, September 30 on KNXT.
fn380 Bachardy thought the plays banal and could never bear watching professionally accomplished friends humiliated by amateur productions.
fn381 Irish stage actress (1895–1975), mother of Angela, Edgar and Bruce Lansbury. She played small character parts in Hollywood films and appeared on T.V. Bachardy drew her portrait several times.
fn382 Wright (1915–1989) was British; he guest-starred on American T.V. from the late 1950s through the 1970s.
fn383 He ran the Vedanta centers in both cities for many years.
fn384 Shraddha, a former ballerina, and her husband Bob Louis, had lived in India, where they became close to Swami Sarvagatananda. Sarvagatananda became head of the Boston and Providence centers for the next forty years. The Louises remained devotees in Santa Barbara until their deaths in the 1990s.
fn385 Later changed to George.
fn386 Possibly Soules (1935–1991), born in Canada, raised in Detroit; he was a circus star for nearly four decades. After a bad fall in 1964, he developed a dog act, “Poodles de Paree.” He was murdered in a Las Vegas hotel.
fn387 The California Institute of Technology, in Pasadena.
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