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by Christopher Isherwood

Bennett, Constance, 110

  Benoit, Hubert, 434

  Benton, Walter: This Is My Beloved, 455

  Bercovici, Konrad, 673; The Volga Boatmen, 398n

  Bergen, George, 85–6

  Berger, Klaus, 186, 188, 200–1

  Berger, René, 393

  Bergman, Ingrid, 115, 134–5, 530, 533, 563, 623n

  Bergner, Elisabeth, 216, 317

  Berkman, Sylvia: Katherine Mansfield, 435n

  Berle, Milton, 147–8

  Berlin: C.I. visits (1952), 442n; 1958 crisis, 804

  Berman, Eugene, 544

  Bermuda, 444–5, 702

  Bernanos, Georges, 398, 400

  Bernard, Theos, 156

  Berns, Walter, 394

  Bernstein, Morey: The Search for Bridey Murphy, 611n

  Berthold see Viertel, Berthold

  Besant, Annie, 345, 373

  Best, Edna, 390

  Bhagavad Gita, xviii–xix, xxi, 240, 252, 305, 307, 328–9, 333, 348, 350, 352, 354

  Bhagavatam Purana, 703

  Bieler, Dr., 895

  Big Store, The (film), 130

  Bigelow, Mr. (of Haverford), 184

  Bigelow, Paul, 479

  Biggi, Andrew, 773

  Bill see Caskey, William; Kiskadden, William Sherrill

  Birmingham Hospital, San Fernando Valley, California, 388, 394

  Black, Steve, 838

  Blackwood, Lady Caroline see Freud, Lady Caroline

  Blanc-Roos, Esther, 218, 226

  Blanc-Roos, Kate: suicide, 315

  Blanc-Roos, René, 218, 226–7, 230–1, 315

  Blanch, Lesley (Mrs. Romain Gary), 727–8, 754–5, 895

  Blixen, Karen, Baroness (Isak Dinesen), 800

  Bloch, Dorothy, 210, 218

  Bloom, Claire, 721

  Blow, Emmett, 599, 671

  Blumenthal (of Columbia Pictures), 362

  Blumenthal, Mrs. (of Hollywood), 119

  Blunden, Edmund, 828

  Blunk, J.B., 728

  Bob see Craft, Robert

  Bobo, Wallace, 421, 745

  Bogart, Betty see Bacall, Lauren

  Bogart, Humphrey, 330, 498–9, 504; death, 675

  Bogotá, Colombia, 398–9

  Bok, Ben: and Peggy, 33; conjuring, 62; and Derek, 117, 238; character, 237; pet dog, 239, 251; drums, 251–3; C.I. looks after, 257–8; and mother’s divorce, 257; parties, 260; drinking, 261; on “Swamitage” (Vedanta Center), 266; and mother’s attachment to Kiskadden, 301, 322; arthritis in back, 332–3, 347; graduates from Harvard Military Academy, 347; marriage, 393

  Bok, Coral: marriage to Ben, 393

  Bok, Derek (“Dek”): and Peggy, 33; conjuring, 62; and Ben, 117, 237–8; chatter, 117; clarinet, 251; garden hut, 253; and mother’s divorce, 257; on “Swamitage” (Vedanta Center), 322; at military parade, 347; at C.I. party, 390; marriage, 486, 489

  Bok, Edward: The Americanization of Edward Bok, 33

  Bok, Sissela (née Myrdal; Derek’s wife), 486

  Bok, Judge W. Curtis, 33, 238, 347

  Bok, Welmoet (“Tis”), 33, 113, 232, 257–8, 260–1

  Boland, Bridget: The Prisoner, 610n

  Bonaparte, Miss Dicky, 30–1

  Boon, John Allen, 160–1, 178, 450

  Boone, Pat, 796

  Booth, Shirley, 596

  Booz, Donald, 166, 169, 172

  Borel, Ray, 400

  Borgnine, Ernest, 609

  Botteghe Oscura (magazine), 548, 808

  Bouverie (Alice Bouverie’s widower), 720

  Bowen, Elizabeth: The Heat of the Day, 410

  Bowen, Marjorie: Black Magic, 738

  Bower, Tony: friendship and meetings with C.I., 99–101, 118, 132, 236; at Laguna Beach, 99, 250; and Chris Wood, 119; and Denny Fouts, 123; on yoga, 140; and John Dickinson, 208–9, 236; in army, 231; Horizon article, 364–5; as model for Ronny in “Paul” (C.I.), 891

  Bowles, Jane, 539, 545–6

  Bowles, Paul, xli, 539, 541–7, 785, 801

  Box Office (trade magazine), 80, 131

  Boyer, Charles, 25

  Brackett, Charlie: and van Druten’s relations with Dodie Smith, 457; friendship and meetings with C.I., 494, 504, 509, 521, 600, 649, 706, 794, 808–9, 880; and Harry Brown, 500, 534; shows film, 509, 518; Dodie Smith praises friendship, 568; Speed Lamkin on, 599; film of The King and I, 624; C.I. believes rejected by, 628; calls off visit to C.I., 636; requests film rights to Dodie Smith’s I Capture the Castle, 661; and van Druten’s heart attack, 661

  Brackett, Elizabeth (“Beau”), 521

  Brackett, Muff: friendship and meetings with C.I., 494–5, 504, 509, 521, 600, 649, 808–9, 880; and Don Bachardy, 518; and Harry Brown, 534; C.I. believes rejected by, 628; calls off visit to C.I., 636; and Marguerite Lamkin, 740; at Millard’s, 794

  Bradbury, Ray, 786, 868, 900

  Bradley, Alan, 574

  Bradshaw, George, 387, 394

  Bradshaw, John, ix

  Brahm, John, 503

  Brahman, 127–8

  Brahmananda Cottage, Hollywood, 263, 266, 270

  Brahmananda, Swami (Maharaj): Prabhavananda’s devotion to, 127, 253–4, 291, 294, 343–4, 478, 656–7, 703, 725, 761, 791, 811, 846; birthday, 261; Annie Besant and, 373; on grace, 664, 743; puja, 684; and Shankarananda, 729; in C.I. dream, 753–4

  Brame, Bill, 747

  Brando, Marlon, 466, 498–9, 837, 854

  Brecht, Bertolt, 90n, 312, 317–20; The Caucasian Chalk Circle, 339–40; Dreigroschenroman (Three Penny Novel), 648n; The Good Woman of Szechwan, 857; The Seven Deadly Sins, 648

  Brecht, Helene see Weigel, Helene

  Brecht, Stefan, 307, 312, 318, 320, 370

  Breen, Joseph, 478

  Breese, Eleanor (“Eleanor Buckles”), 648–9, 655–6, 659–60, 662–3, 669–71, 674, 696, 708

  Breese, Vance: takes C.I. flying, 655–9, 662; Eleanor considers remarrying, 659, 662–3, 669; C.I. visits, 662–3; Eleanor returns to, 674, 708; offers to take C.I. to Tahiti, 686; manner, 696, 708

  Brent, Geraldine, 899

  Brentano, Klemens, 312

  Brett, Dorothy, 429–30, 712; Lawrence and Brett, 113

  Brice, Fanny, 110n

  Bridges, James, 705, 853

  Brien, Donald, 219, 228

  British War Relief fund, 103, 107, 111

  Britneva, Maria, 479

  Britten, Benjamin, 206, 387, 391, 394, 403, 417n; Albert Herring, 393; Peter Grimes, 393

  Brontë, Charlotte: Jane Eyre, 325; Villette, 555

  Brontë, Emily: Wuthering Heights, 555, 824

  Brook, Peter, 594

  Brooke, Tim, 410–11, 808–9

  Brooks, Richard, 466, 492, 848n

  Brossard, Ernie, 756

  Brown, Mr. (of San Francisco Vedanta Center), 323

  Brown, David, 616, 640, 657, 663, 709, 779; The Barbarian and the Geisha, 634, 638, 650

  Brown, Edmund Gerald (Governor of California), 844–5, 854

  Brown, H. Runham, 15

  Brown, Harry: marriage to Marguerite Lamkin, 450, 480, 484, 494; and Don Bachardy, 490; behavior, 498–9, 505, 513, 518; marriage difficulties, 499–501, 505–6, 511, 513, 521; divorce, 514, 520, 524; and Henrietta Ledebur, 518; hospitalized, 525–6, 528; drunkenness, 534, 601; regrets divorce, 601; relations with June de Baum, 621, 630, 657, 659, 690, 707, 718; and C.I.’s hepatitis, 622; C.I. rejects, 628; friendship and meetings with C.I., 659, 675, 690, 707, 718; on Spender’s visit to New York, 660; gives up drink, 690; Charles Locke on, 699; at C.I. party, 740; works on Tender Is the Night, 752

  Brown, Captain Horace, 618

  Brown, Marguerite see Lamkin, Marguerite

  Brown, Walter see Yogi

  Brown, Mrs. Walter see Yogini

  Bruce (naval air gunner), 279, 336–7

  Bruckberger, Father Raymond Leopold, 748

  Brush, Albert, 390

  Bry, Doris, 431

  Bryan, Michael, 857

  Brynner, Witter, 476

  Brynner, Yul, 653


  Buchs, Mr. (Haverford refugee), 210, 215

  Buckingham, Robert, 391, 569, 656

  Buckles, Eleanor see Breese, Eleanor

  Buddha: C.I. works on film life of, xl, 470, 477, 481–2, 492, 500, 516, 529

  Buddha Chaitanya see Griggs, Philip

  Bulganin, Nikolai A., 511

  Buñuel, Luis, 771n

  Burczinsky, Hank, 417

  Burgess, Guy, 391, 580, 584

  Burke, Marie Louise: Swami Vivekananda in America, 765

  Burke, Walter, 716

  Burnett, Don, 531

  Bums, Miss (nurse), 688

  Bums, George, 720, 724, 727, 731

  Bums, Phil, 762, 783, 793

  Bums, Ronnie, 727

  Bums, Willy, 720, 724, 727, 731

  Burra, Edward, 392

  Burton, Ivor and Gwen, 828

  Burton, Richard, 578, 592, 721, 805, 814, 828–9

  Burton, Sybil (Richard’s wife), 814n

  Bus Stop (film), 612

  Butterfield 8 (film), 838

  Bynner, Witter, 713

  Byron, George Gordon, 6th Baron, 781

  Cabaret, Gaston, 357

  Cabell, James Branch, The Cream of the Jest, 96

  Cabral, Mr. (of Adelaide Drive), 827

  Cadbury, Leah (later Furtmueller), 187, 198, 200, 207, 214, 220–1, 223, 226–7

  Cadmus, Paul, 208–9, 212, 277–8, 302, 386, 392, 537, 597, 672

  Caffery, James, 546

  Calbeck, Margaret, 166, 174

  Calder-Marshall, Arthur: Occasion of Glory, 886–7

  Caldwell, Evelyn see Hooker, Evelyn

  Calhoun, Tom, 832, 838

  California: C.I. first visits, 14, 16, 20

  “California Story” (C.I.) see “Shore, The”

  California Stylist (magazine), 816, 819

  Callas, Maria, 555, 557

  Cambridge: C.I. deliberately fails exams at, xi, xiii; C.I. visits, 581–3

  Camille (film), 761

  Camp Upton, Long Island, 209

  Campbell, Dean, 853

  Campbell, Mrs. Patrick, 110

  Campbell, Sandy, 386, 392

  Capote, Truman: C.I. visits, 386, 392; Vidal and, 401; and Marguerite Lamkin, 485; in New York, 671, 673, 801; Don Bachardy writes to, 768; C.I. seeks financial advice from, 808; C.I. hopes to visit (1959), 822

  Capri, 548, 559n

  Carlson, Evans, 104–5

  Caro, Frederick, 185, 191, 200, 206, 208, 221, 286

  Caron, Leslie, 533, 725

  Carroll, Earl, 180

  Carroll, John, 8

  Carter see Lodge, Carter

  Cary, Joyce, 673

  Casablanca, 257n

  Caskey, Catherine (William’s mother), 394, 413–14, 438–9, 489

  Caskey, William: relations with C.I., xxii—xxviii, xxxiv—xxxvi, 388, 390–1, 392, 394, 408, 411–16, 419, 424, 429, 431–8, 440–1, 449, 451–2, 456, 466, 470–2, 489–90, 500, 515–16, 597, 781, 789, 839; quarrels with Fouts, xxiii, 384; in New York with C.I., xxiv; photographic work, xxiv, 387–8, 397, 411; travels with C.I., xxiv, xxxvi, 376, 384, 386, 389–91, 393, 394–7, 399, 401–5, 471–2; possible drafting in Korean War, xxvi, 424, 433; behavior, xxvii, 466, 506, 520, 679; joins merchant marine, xxxv, 388, 442n, 453, 493; C.I. meets, 383; studies photography, 384, 391; in California, 393, 406–9; travelers’ checks stolen, 393; leaves for Florida, 394, 415; writes novel on Bill Harris, 395; practicality, 407; and mother, 413–14, 438; attacks Bill Kennedy, 425; and Stravinsky, 426; at Hearsts’, 432; tells story of Rio carnival, 452; owes money to C.I., 458, 812; starts business beading sweaters, 465, 489, 494; jealousy of Don Bachardy, 470; illness, 489; leaves for Italy, 506; sells pictures, 516; owns Inez Johnson painting, 522; coal mining in Montana, 525; character, 575; Don Bachardy reads C.I. letters to, 614; property, 635, 661; C.I. loses ring from, 647; in Pasadena, 666; and C.I.’s will, 675; Spender meets, 812

  Castillo, Leo, 886

  Castro, Jorge de, 393

  Céline, Louis-Ferdinand, 218, 648n

  Cerf, Bennett, 9, 11, 362

  Chakravarty, Dr., 708

  Chamberlain, Neville, 81n

  Champlain (French liner), xi, 3, 5, 7–8

  Chance, Harold, 165, 171, 181

  Chandler, Raymond, 673–4, 676–7; The Little Sister, 850

  Chantal, Jane Frances, Baroness de, 440

  Chaplin, Charlie: acts in The Great Dictator, 69–70, 86; C.I. meets, 85–6, 378, 391; and Duke of Windsor, 85–6; portrait stolen, 85–6; marriage to Lita Grey, 130; handwriting read, 144–5; and Paulette Goddard scandal, 144; meets Berle at Catalina, 147; marriage to Oona, 378; at Salka Viertel party, 425; Dylan Thomas meets, 461, 534; refuses to see C.I., 594

  Chaplin, Oona (née O’Neill), 378, 425, 461, 534

  Chaplin, Sid, 131

  Chapman, Kent, 734, 761, 795; “The End of Everything,” 710

  Chappel, Edward, 834–5

  Char, René, 735

  Charlton, Hilde, 744, 802, 809, 861, 896

  Charlton, Jim: relations with C.I., 387–8, 393, 406, 408, 410, 435, 439, 441–2, 450–1, 496, 515–16, 535, 610, 645, 647, 666, 698, 702, 743–4, 776, 798, 802, 817, 849–50, 853, 896; in police raid at Variety, 394, 418n; C.I. describes, 416–17; likes Evelyn Caldwell, 424; C.I. stays with, 427–8; drinking, 448; designs house for C.I., 449; owes money to C.I., 458, 524, 610, 742; and Bill Caskey, 489–90; Speed Lamkin on, 507; visits C.I., 531; C.I. visits, 599; as architect, 610, 625, 629, 631, 702; helps C.I. move to Sycamore Road, 613; and paper “Judas” (baseball player), 614; provokes bad luck, 625; appearance, 631; qualifies as architect, 638; and Masselinks, 698, 702; marriage, 734, 744, 798, 802, 809; children, 742, 779; at Ivan Moffat’s, 860; and Tennessee Williams, 861

  Chase, Ilka, 494–5

  Chase, Pliny, 223

  Chase, Richard: “The Huxley–Heard Paradise,” 282, 284

  Chatterton, Ruth, 14

  Chayevsky, Paddy, 518

  Chekhov, Anton, 874; The Seagull, 893n; Three Sisters, 893; Uncle Vanya, 893

  Chekhov, Michael, 346

  Chertok, Jack, 159–60

  Chessman, Caryl, 836, 844, 851, 854

  Chesterton, G. K., 629

  Chiang Kai-shek, 6, 466n

  China: C.I. visits, xi, 3, 5–6

  Chisholm, Bridget, 97–8, 107, 114–15, 137, 157

  Chisholm, Hugh, 97–8, 107, 110, 114, 137, 157, 208, 552, 611, 670

  Chisholm, Mrs. (Hugh’s mother), 173

  chitta, 112

  Chopin, Frédéric: proposed film on, 94–6

  Chouinard Art Institute: Don Bachardy attends, 600, 621, 626–8, 635, 692; costume ball, 656–8; Don Bachardy exhibits at, 810

  Chris see Wood, Chris

  Christians, Mady, 148

  Christopher and His Kind (C.I.), x–xii, xxix–xxx, xlvii, 423n

  Churchill, (Sir) Winston, 132, 136, 293–4, 511, 768–9

  Ciano, Count Galeazzo, 97

  Civilian Conservation Corps, 138; see also San Dimas camp

  Civilian Public Service Camp (CPS), xvi, 138, 261, 310

  Clark, Glen, 104

  Clark, Mary, 530

  Clark, Sir Kenneth (later Baron), 559

  Claxton, Bill, 798

  Clayton, Jan, 860, 865

  Clements, John, 591

  Clerc, Michel, 706

  Clerk, Bronson, 219

  Clift, Montgomery, 518, 615, 632, 647–9, 727

  Clifton, Al, 323, 344

  Clurman, Harold, 538

  Coates (upholsterer), 688

  Cockburn, Claude, 384

  Cocteau, Jean, 416, 437, 558, 560

  Cohn, Dr. Theodore, 538

  Colby, Anita, 755

  Coleman (of van company), 829

  Coleman, Martyn, 553

  Colette, 560; The Vagabond, 489

  Coley, Tom, 495

  Collier, Constance, 86

  Collier, John, 451–2, 509

  Collins, Wilkie: The Woman in White, 383, 390

  Colman, Ro
nald, 57, 390

  Columbia: unrest in, 398–9

  “Coming to London” (C.I.; article), 614

  Condor and the Cows, The (C.I.; travel book), xxiv–v, xlv, 386–7, 393, 407–8, 410

  Connolly, Cyril: co-edits Horizon, 77; and C.I.’s possible return to England, 364; C.I. meets in USA, 391; C.I. sees in England, 391, 403, 405; Barbara Skelton leaves, 513; marital troubles, 568; Enemies of Promise, 832

  Connolly, Jean, 118–19, 123, 209

  Connolly, Michael, 877

  Conrad, Joseph: Nostromo, 395; “The Secret Sharer” (story), 503, 670–1, 674

  Conrad, Ruth, 855n

  Conway, Steve, 383, 390

  Coogan, Jackie, 603

  Coolidge, Calvin, 767

  Coombs, Don, 388

  Cooper, Gladys, 86–7, 828

  Cooper, Jackie, 130

  Cooper, Wyatt, 867–8, 875, 878–9

  Cooperative College Workshop, Haverford, 181–96

  Corbin, Ella see Amiya

  Cornelius, Henry, 465n

  Cornell, Ed, 625

  Corvo, Baron see Rolfe, Frederick William

  Costidy, Sam: relations with C.I., 388, 443–9; in Bermuda with C.I., 443, 702; and Tom Wright, 450; and Lansing, 628

  Costigan, James, 613, 767

  Cotten, Joseph, 877

  Cotten, Lenore, 509, 687, 720, 757, 819, 877

  Council of Churches, 878

  Cowan, Rita, 770

  Coward, Noël, 5, 273n, 386, 392

  Cox, Betsy, 477, 492, 495, 521, 533

  Cozzens, James Gould: By Love Possessed, 720–1

  CPS camp see Civilian Public Service camp

  Craft, Robert: C.I. meets, 387; and Korean War, 426; memorial concert for Dylan Thomas, 468; visits C.I., 690, 845, 866; and Stravinsky, 698, 735, 748, 763, 820, 866; orchestral conducting, 704, 816; at Don Bachardy’s birthday party, 752; overweight, 816; hurts arm, 820; ageing, 845; proposes C.I. narrating for Stravinsky composition, 847; book of conversations with Stravinsky, 848, 850; Don Bachardy draws, 848–9; hepatitis, 849; visits Heard, 855

  Craig, Gordon, 554, 556

  Cramer, Anne, 674

  Crane (of Box Office magazine), 80–1

  Crane, Cheryl, 745

  Crankshaw, Edward, 567

  Crawford, Joan, 115, 142, 498

  Crippen, Hawley Harvey, 699

  Critchfield, Kenneth (Arup), 409, 413, 446, 453, 852

  Cromwell, Dick (Roy Radebaugh), 506

  Crosby, Bing, 795

  Crossroads (film), 151

  Crowley, Aleister, 550, 558

  Cruzeman (journalist), 825

  Cukor, George, 58, 383, 390, 520, 808

  Culver, Roland, 390

  Cummings, Robert, 148

  Cummins, Peggy, 565

  Curtiss, Mina, 139, 392, 792, 800

 

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