fn528 Aldous Huxley, 1894–1963: A Memorial Volume, Together with his last Essay, “Shakespeare and Religion” (1965), edited by Julian Huxley.
fn529 Bachardy had three traffic citations in one year and was therefore summoned to a hearing which he missed because he was in New York.
fn530 The 1923 play by Sutton Vane.
fn531 Bachardy had a sexual interest in Garlington, once close to Rock Hudson; Garlington’s friend was a travelling companion only.
fn532 In D.1, Isherwood expressed sorrow that Cotten was drunk at a party after his first wife died and left him alone in their house; Bachardy had just left Isherwood alone, and their house was also on the side of a steep hill above the ocean.
fn533 Loew, movie writer and producer (1925–1995)—a grandson of the founders, through his mother, of Paramount and, through his father, of MGM and Loew’s Theaters—was once linked romantically with Wood. He reportedly offered her the starring role in Penelope (1966) to pull her through emotional and professional troubles. He is mentioned in D.1.
fn534 Pencil and ink portraits of Auden, James Baldwin, Leslie Caron, Glenn Ford, Forster, Gielgud, Paulette Goddard, Geoffrey Horne, Aldous Huxley, Isherwood, Vivien Leigh, Anita Loos, Simone Signoret (featured on the announcement), Spender, the Stravinskys, Barbra Streisand, Virgil Thomson, Gore Vidal, Collin Wilcox, Natalie Wood, and others.
fn535 Hepburn (1929–1993) starred as Eliza Doolittle opposite Harrison; Isherwood first met her in New Haven in 1951 when I Am a Camera and Gigi—adapted for the stage by Anita Loos and with Hepburn in the lead—were playing at the same time before opening on Broadway. She is mentioned in D.1.
fn536 Un Chant d’Amour (1950).
fn537 Mr. Madam, Confessions of a Male Madam (1964) by Kenneth Marlowe.
fn538 Greystone, said to be the largest house ever built in Beverly Hills, was purchased and preserved by the town and continues to be used as a film location.
fn539 Tom Ferdinand, the “fer” in Banfer Gallery, ran it with Richard Bennet, the “Ban.”
fn540 Russia at War 1941–1945 (1964).
fn541 Lindsay (1921–2000) a New York City congressman since 1959, was elected mayor in November 1965; he left the Republican party during the race for his second term and then tried, unsuccessfully, for the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination.
fn542 George Murphy (1902–1992) actor, dancer, and Republican, was elected senator from California in November 1964. He beat Kennedy’s former press secretary Pierre Salinger, who was the Democratic incumbent as a result of being appointed to replace Senator Claire Engle after Engle died in office. Preminger directed and produced Advise and Consent (1962), based on the Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel set in the Senate.
fn543 Ter-Arutunian (b. 1920), Soviet-émigré set and costume designer for ballet and opera, was also designing The Loved One for Tony Richardson.
fn544 The New York City Ballet moved into the New York State Theater at Lincoln Center in 1964.
fn545 “Circus Women” (1931) and “Two Female Nudes” (1931); Kirstein introduced Isherwood to Elie Nadelman’s sculpture in 1947, when he was pushing for the 1948 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art.
fn546 American dancer (b. 1934), trained at the American School of Ballet, a versatile and long-established principal.
fn547 Connecticut, at the American Shakespeare Festival Theater, where the ballet performed in the summer. Bachardy’s portraits of the actors in the festival company (including Lillian Gish) appeared in the souvenir program, but there was no exhibition.
fn548 The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore ran for two months in New York, from January 1963, to bad reviews; Williams revised it, but the new production, in January 1964, lasted only four days.
fn549 He died January 24.
fn550 I.e., private first class; the poems were written while Kirstein was serving in W.W. II. See Glossary.
fn551 See the entry for March 6, 1953 in D.1.
fn552 I.e., One, Incorporated; see Glossary.
fn553 A committee of thirty-two academics and activists—including Todd Gitlin, Tom Hayden, Irving Howe, Dwight Macdonald, Gunnar Myrdal, Linus Pauling—published The Triple Revolution, about rapid advances in cybernation, weaponry, and human rights, and called for commensurate changes in attitudes and policies; they sent the pamphlet to President Johnson, leaders of the Senate and the House of Representatives, and the Secretary of Labor on March 22, 1964.
fn554 May 4 to May 10, 1953; see D.1.
fn555 Filmways, an independent production company where John Calley was an executive, was co-producing with MGM.
fn556 A Beverly Hills lawyer; in D.1 Isherwood mentions that Andelson arranged bail for Ted Bachardy in 1957.
fn557 Rolf Leibermann (1910–1999), a Swiss composer, then General Manager of the Hamburg State Opera; his film was A Stravinsky Portrait (1966).
fn558 “Aldous Huxley does not surprise us in this admirable communication.…”
fn559 Reynolds, W.W.II correspondent and author, successfully sued Pegler, right-wing Hearst columnist and once a W.W.I correspondent, for calling him a coward, a liar, and a degenerate in a 1949 column. Louis Nizer was one of Reynolds’s laywers.
fn560 Diane Johnson (b. 1934), then married to a professor of medicine with whom she had four children before divorcing, was writing a dissertation on George Meredith’s poetry for a UCLA Ph.D. in English. She published her first novel Fair Game in 1965. Later novels include Persian Nights (1987) and Le Divorce (1997). She co-wrote the screenplay for The Shining (1980) with Stanley Kubrick.
fn561 A Dartmouth graduate studying finance and theater history at UCLA. He had small roles in Billy Wilder’s films in the 1960s, including Irma La Douce (1963), acted and wrote for T.V., and directed The Penitent (1988). He also taught acting.
fn562 Novelist, poet, playwright, essayist; she later became a healer and popular public speaker.
fn563 Professor Iyer Ramaswamy taught genetics; he later returned to India.
fn564 Not her real name.
fn565 Siporin (1942–2001) had polio in childhood. He soon started law school at UCLA, got his degree in 1968, and later worked for the American Indian Movement.
fn566 Gunderson had a Princeton Ph.D. and was an Assistant Professor; his poems appeared from a small press in 1976, followed by a book set partly in Santa Monica, and he also published academic work. He later taught at the University of Minnesota.
fn567 Not her real name.
fn568 Professional name of Allan Carter, aspiring actor and a protégé of Bill Inge. He played a film scene opposite Joanne Woodward in The Stripper (1963), adapted from Inge’s play A Loss of Roses. Isherwood typed, “Shawn.”
fn569 The drawings were published—on separate loose sheets assembled in a souvenir portfolio—but they were never sold at the ballet; see Glossary under Kirstein.
fn570 Isherwood mistakenly wrote July.
fn571 Kiskadden.
fn572 American actress( 1907–2003). Selznick produced her first film, A Bill of Divorcement (1932), and her fourth, Little Women (1933). Both were directed by Cukor and were among her greatest successes.
fn573 U.K. title; in the U.S., the film was called Harper (1966).
fn574 The 1939 film directed by Mitchell Leisen; Charlie Brackett and Billy Wilder wrote the screenplay, from Edwin Justus Meyer’s story.
fn575 Which Tony Richardson hired for filming.
fn576 Named after two Japanese astronomers who discovered it on September 18; it was nearest the sun and supposedly brightest on October 21.
fn577 When his relationship with Vernon Old failed; see Nov. 16, 1944 in D.1.
fn578 Isherwood never knew his name, but thought he looked Icelandic or like Peter O’Toole’s T.E. Lawrence—slim, lanky, with pale blond hair, small clear blue eyes, a sharp jaw, and a strong chin. He, too, was sometimes with a friend, an older, heavier man with a moustache and goatee.
fn579 Nina, Axelrod’s daughter with his second wife, Joan Stanton. A
xelrod (1922–2003) became famous for his plays The Seven Year Itch (1952) and Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1955); his screen adaptations include Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961) and The Manchurian Candidate (1962).
fn580 “With Aldous Huxley,” Nov. 25, 1965, five diary entries, 1949–1963, presented Huxley as solitary and overworked after his first wife died and said that Huxley’s second marriage separated Craft from him. Juliette Huxley was the wife of Aldous’s brother Julian.
fn581 Subconscious imprints made by past actions or thoughts and forming the character.
fn582 The Appaloosa (1966).
fn583 German film producer and screenwriter (1917–1989); in 1949, he founded Berliner Synchron, foremost dubbing studio in Germany.
fn584 Military activity in Vietnam was escalating amid fears of war with China; see Glossary under International Situation.
fn585 During the Christmas bombing pause, Johnson launched a diplomatic initiative for peace talks, but it was viewed as an obligatory last effort before broadening the war.
fn586 Producer of Bardot’s first films and of Moderato Cantabile (1960) and Marco the Magnificent (1965).
fn587 The Tibetan Book of the Dead, containing Buddhist instructions for the dying.
fn588 I.e., the University of California at Riverside.
fn589 Then in his twenties; he often posed for Bachardy. Later he moved to San Francisco.
fn590 Kanin (1912–1999), American actor, novelist, playwright, screenwriter, theater and film director, described his friendship with Maugham in Remembering Mr. Maugham (1966); Gordon (1896–1985), American actress, playwright, and screenwriter, was Kanin’s wife and collaborator, for example, on A Double Life (1947), Adam’s Rib (1949), Pat and Mike (1952), and The Marrying Kind (1952).
fn591 I.e., Balanchine.
fn592 Satori is the moment of illumination, like samadhi in Vedanta; koans, given by the Zen master, are sayings—typically fragmentary or puzzling—on which the disciple meditates in order to reach satori.
fn593 American actor and director (b. 1935), best known for directing Where Eagles Dare (1968).
fn594 Sean was the passenger in a friend’s small sports car. The back of his head was torn open, and he had to lie absolutely still so the wound would drain. The friend was not injured.
fn595 American film and T.V. director (b. 1926); he produced the 1968 film.
fn596 And from The Sound of Music.
fn597 In the preface to the final section “Stories”; see Glossary under Wintle.
fn598 American poet and art critic Frank O’Hara (1926–1966) died in a sand buggy accident on Fire Island; Joe LeSueur (192[4]–2001), aspiring playwright, screenwriter, and critic, originally from California, had been his companion since 1955.
fn599 “Silent Night” was first performed in the church of St. Nicholas in Oberndorf, Austria, near Salzburg; the melody was composed by the church organist, Franz Gruber, for words by the priest, Joseph Mohr.
fn600 The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings (1963), edited by John D. Rosenberg.
fn601 Madeleine, or Et Nunc Manet in Te (And Now Dwells in Thee) was the title of Justin O’Brien’s 1952 English translation. So Be It, or The Chips Are Down, was O’Brien’s 1959 translation of Ainsi soit-il, ou les jeux sont faits (1952).
fn602 The Portable Nietzsche (1954), selected and translated by Walter Kaufmann.
fn603 Alban Berg’s 1922 opera.
fn604 Requiem Canticles for alto and bass soloists, chorus and orchestra; completed August 13 and performed at McCarter Theater in Princeton October 8. It was also performed at his own funeral.
fn605 Where he was continuing to recover from the car accident.
fn606 Buddhi is the discriminating, classifying intelligence; ahamkar or ahamkara, the sense of self or individuality, lays claim to impressions as personal knowledge.
fn607 I.e. Lufthansa as it is known now.
fn608 Himalayan location of the Advaita Ashrama of the Ramakrishna Order; usually spelled Mayavati.
fn609 End of typescript; Isherwood labelled the next one, “Sep 21 1966—Jan 30 1970.”
fn610 She was an aspiring actress and played bit parts in several films, including My Fair Lady.
fn611 Goose liver paté.
fn612 Several Austrian towns have this name, including one near Salzburg.
fn613 Horse pond, to wash and water the royal horses once stabled nearby.
fn614 Hostess.
fn615 “I’m only an American.” “Only!”
fn616 Fortress.
fn617 I.e., Frank Isherwood’s father, John Bradshaw Isherwood.
fn618 Belgium, northeast of Ypres.
fn619 Sir Graham Greene, Permanent Secretary of the Admiralty through most of the war, a favorite cousin of Kathleen’s on her mother’s side; his nephew, the writer Graham Greene, was named after him. Their Majesties were then King George V and Queen Mary.
fn620 Isherwood used all of these passages, with minor changes, in Kathleen and Frank, where they can be found by date.
fn621 A sixteenth-century tower built as a hunting lodge in the 1,400-acre medieval deer park around Lyme Hall.
fn622 The Mark Taper Forum.
fn623 Cabaret—book by Joe Masteroff, music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb—opened November 20 at the Broadhurst Theater; British actress Jill Haworth (b. 1945) starred as Sally Bowles.
fn624 Eiger Direct (1966) by Haskell and Peter Gillman.
fn625 The Ascent of the Matterhorn (1880) by Edward Whymper.
fn626 At UCLA.
fn627 Not his real name.
fn628 Around 1948, at MGM, as Isherwood tells in Lost Years. Brooks (1912–1992) was a novelist, screenwriter, director, and producer; his other films include The Blackboard Jungle (1955), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), Elmer Gantry (1960), Sweet Bird of Youth (1964), and Lord Jim (1965).
fn629 Here Isherwood added by hand the names of Y. and Z., close friends.
fn630 Blow-up (1966).
fn631 I.e., Blow-up.
fn632 Both quotes are from Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale.”
fn633 As the Russians advanced on Berlin in early 1945, Walther Wenck (1900-1982), the youngest German general, initiated the counterattack, February 15–16, then was ordered to Berlin to update Hitler. Returning to the fighting at dawn, he fell asleep and had a spectacular crash. The attack was called off.
fn634 Emlyn Williams’s 1936 play about a violent rural killer; it was twice adapted as a film.
fn635 Hemmings, the British actor (1941–2003), was appearing in Joshua Logan’s film musical Camelot (1967) with Redgrave and Franco Nero, the Italian actor (b. 1941) who became her lover. Hemmings had just appeared in Blowup with Redgrave.
fn636 Norman’s Letter (1966).
fn637 Religion in Practice (1968).
fn638 American character actor (1905–1991), W.W.II veteran and former teacher; he appeared in Julius Caesar (1953), The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (1955), Spartacus (1960), and others.
fn639 Black Baptist preacher (circa 1880–1965), founder of a non-sectarian Christian movement, Peace Mission, which aimed to establish an interracial paradise on earth and attracted large sums of money. He claimed he was God.
fn640 Leary (1920–1996), former Harvard psychology professor, was sentenced to thirty years when he took responsibility for his daughter possessing marijuana in 1965. He appealed, on grounds of self-incrimination, and won in 1969, but meanwhile was arrested again for possession in 1968.
fn641 American hairdresser; longtime companion of John Goodwin.
fn642 Auden was writing about The Lord of the Rings (1954–1955) for an Erdman series, “Contemporary Writers in Christian Perspective.” He destroyed the 1966 pamphlet, possibly already completed, because Tolkien angrily objected to it after Auden criticized the appearance of Tolkien’s house.
fn643 The pornographic poem, beginning “It was a Spring day, a day for a lay…,” appeared in Ed Sanders’s arts magazine Fuck You,
March 1965; it was untitled but headed “A gobble poem snatched from the notebooks of W.H. Auden.”
fn644 A Los Angeles acquaintance, about Bachardy’s age, who sat for him several times, once with his identical twin brother.
fn645 Towns in Yorkshire, Surrey, and Ireland, where Isherwood lived in childhood while following his father’s regiment before W.W.I.
fn646 I.e., youngest daughter (1901–1918) of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, rumored to have escaped execution with her family at Ekaterinburg. Ingrid Bergman had starred in the 1956 film, Anastasia.
fn647 I.e., the back sides of the seven Cambridge colleges along the River Cam, with rear lawns running down to the water’s edge and up the opposite banks.
fn648 Isherwood’s college, also attended by Marlowe.
fn649 Mood.
fn650 Henry Heckford’s book was never published.
fn651 Patrick Leigh Fermor (b. 1915), British travel writer.
fn652 Two waist-high columnar stone markers on the Gritstone Trail, probably the shafts of a pair of Anglo-Saxon crosses destroyed during the Reformation.
fn653 From “The Child’s Grave” by Edmund Blunden.
fn654 French painter (1865–1938), model and friend of Renoir, Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec and others. Salka Viertel had asked Isherwood to work on a Valadon film with her in 1958; see D.1.
fn655 The Charge of the Light Brigade was filmed in Turkey, where Neil Hartley was assisting Richardson.
fn656 For years, leftist friends warned Spender that the CIA secretly funded Encounter. He resigned as co-editor May 7, 1967, telling The New York Times he had been unable to confirm the allegations until a month before. Patrick Woodcock’s dinner party was May 8. See Glossary.
fn657 Trilling (1905–1975), prolific literary critic and professor of literature at Columbia, wrote E.M. Forster (1943), which Isherwood read in November 1959. See D.1.
fn658 Diana Trilling (1905–1996), also a literary critic. She reviewed Prater Violet with enthusiasm, as Isherwood tells in Lost Years.
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