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Ghosh, Girish Chandra, 354
Giant (film), 618, 654
Gibraltar, 539–40
Gide, André: Journal, 849
Gielgud, (Sir) John, 392, 562–4, 566–7, 579, 593–4, 790, 798, 801
Gigi (film), 722–3, 727, 730
Gilchrist, Philip, 582
Gingold, Hermione, 708, 713, 720–5, 727, 731, 738
Giraudoux, Jean: Duel of Angels, 881, 883n; Tiger at the Gates, 678
Girl of the Golden West, The (film), 742
Girl with a Cello (film), 86
Gissing, George, 583
Glass Slipper, The (film), 501
Gleisner, Martin, 186, 206, 208
Glyn, Elinor, 263, 511
Goddard, Paulette, 70, 144, 710, 713–14, 719
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 772
Goetz, Ray, 111
Goetz, Richard, 192–3, 199, 208
Goldsmith, Joel: influence on van Druten, 457, 568, 641, 645, 649, 683, 685, 715, 748; Starcke sets up reading room, 636; Dick Foote attacks, 659; and van Druten’s heart attack, 660
Goldwyn, Frances, 749
Goldwyn, Samuel, 52–4, 84, 97, 749
Goncourt, Edmond and Jules: Journals, 96
Goodbye to Berlin (C.I.), x–xi, xxix, 384, 388; see also van Druten, John: I Am a Camera
Goodman, Jack, 686, 711, 713
Goodman, Paul, 394
Goodwin, John: friendship with Denny Fouts, 300, 349, 351; records broken at party, 370; C.I. visits ranch, 390; on European trip, 516–17; and mescaline, 517, 588, 736, 785; friendship with C.I., 518–20; in New York, 537, 801; C.I. writes to, 709
gopis (Hindu mythological figures), 30
Gordon, Cliff, 393
Gordon, Ruth, 709n
Gorfain, Dr. A. D., 384
Gort, General John Vereker, 6th Viscount, 81n
Gottschalk, Bob, 799
Goulding, Edmund, 384
Gowland, Alice, 504
Gowland, Ann, 504
Gowland, Mary Lee, 504
Gowland, Peter, 504, 635, 659, 719n
Goyen, William, 394, 676; The House of Breath, 441
Graham, Jim, 643
Grandville (i.e., Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard), 504
Grauman, Sid, 161
Graves, Robert, 639; Goodbye to All That, 831; The Greek Myths, 766; They Hanged My Saintly Billy, 714
Gray, Hugh, 866
Graziani, Bettina, 466, 564
Great Dictator, The (film), 69–70, 86
Great English Short Stories (ed. C.I.), xxxix, xlix, 464, 614, 616–17, 626, 633, 638–40, 643, 670
Great Sinner, The (film), xxv, 387, 393, 406, 585
Greatest Story Ever Told, The (film), 796, 873, 898
Green Hat, The (film), 792
Green, Adolph, 517
Green, Mr. and Mrs. Fred, 518
Green, Henry see Yorke, Henry
Green Valley Road, Hollywood, 148
Greene, Felix: Heard rejects for monastic community, 129; urges Heard to buy Trabuco, 158; at La Verne seminar, 162–4; joins Heard in West, 171; C.I. summarizes, 172; on electromagnetic waves, 179; helps design Trabuco, 234; and Chris Wood, 235; at Trabuco, 246; wartime visit to England, 264, 348; marriage, 376; on Chinese, 819
Greene, Graham, 558, 568
Greene, Hal: C.I. buys house from, 599, 601–3, 608, 629; psychotherapy, 793; friendship with C.I., 840; offers adjoining property to C.I., 843; Laughton negotiates for house from, 857, 861, 863–5, 871, 873, 892; mother’s illness and death, 892, 897
Gregory, Hoosag, 282, 284
Grenier, Madame, 507
Grey, Lita (Charlie Chaplin’s wife), 130
Grey, Mrs. (Lita’s mother), 130
Grieves, George, 546
Griffin, Howard, 426
Griffith, Dr., 711
Griggs, Philip (Buddha Chaitanya): at Trabuco, 446, 453, 496; takes brahmachari vows, 516; at Vedanta Place, 657; Vandanananda enquires into sex life, 668; and Tito Renaldo, 717, 734–5
Grilli, Elise: Sharaku, 886n
Groix (ship), 393, 394–7
Gross, Alfred A., 245
Grosz, George, 737
Gschwend, Adolph, 323
Guerriero, Henry, 479
Guggenheim, Peggy, 553
Guilaroff, Sidney, 725
Guinness, (Sir) Alec, 610
Guinness, Murtogh David, 445
gunas, 128
Gunn, Thom, 506, 688–9, 703, 724, 771–2, 844
Gupta, Mahendranath (M.), 355, 867
Gurian, Manning, 536–8, 595–6, 649, 651, 653, 667–8, 672, 797–8
Gurian, Peter, 537, 596, 651, 668
Gurney, Joseph John, 223
Guttchen, Otto, 75, 83, 87–8, 91, 157–8, 622
Gwynn, Michael, 569, 584
Gysin, Brion, 546
Haas (botanist), 186, 202
Hackett, Albert and Frances, 786
Hagenbuehler, Hanns, 417
Hale, Senator Frederick, 17–18
Hall, Michael, 639
Hall, Mortimer, 883n
Hamilton, Bernie, 414
Hamilton, Gerald, x, 54–5, 91, 391, 511, 546, 618; Mr. Norris and I, 621, 623
Hamilton, Paul, 717
Hammarskjöld, Dag, 817n
Hammerstein, Oscar, 624
Hampden, Walter, 508
Hannek, John, 192, 199, 207
Hanstein, Katherine, 195–6
Happy see Bailey, Happy
Hardt, Etta, 56, 62
Hardwicke, Sir Cedric, 687
Hardy, Thomas, 461
Harkness, Allan, 345–6
Harlan, Christiane, 793
Harper’s Bazaar (magazine), xxiii, 415n, 442n
Harrington, Curtis, 465, 468, 652–4, 741
Harris, Bill, xix, xxi–xxii, 389–90, 395, 401, 422, 452, 537
Harris, Jed, 848–9, 851, 858, 859, 864
Harris, Julie: stars in I Am a Camera, 442n; C.I. stays with in New York, 536, 593–6, 670–2; family life, 537, 596, 672; and Costigan, 613; in film of The Member of the Wedding, 639; visits C.I. in California, 649, 651, 653; in The Lark, 650, 652; C.I. gives film to, 667–8; in The Warm Peninsula, 797–8
Harris, Paul, 207
Harris, Townsend, 638, 640, 650
Harrity, Marguerite see Lamkin, Marguerite
Harrity, Rory: marriage to Marguerite, 798, 831, 833, 860–1, 863–4, 880–1; C.I. meets, 830; TV plans, 835; and Masselinks, 836; birthday, 858; drinking, 860
Hart, Bernard, 248
Hart, Ed, 716
Hart, Max, 836
Hartford, Huntington, 503, 528
Hartshorne, Peter, 522
Harvey, Laurence, 569, 850
Harvey, W. F.: The Beast with Five Fingers, 182
Haskell, Francis, 582
Hatcher, Tom, 495, 531, 801, 825
Hatful of Rain, A (film), 675
Hatmaker, David, 832
Hauser, Amber, 385, 391
Hauser, Gayelord, 50
Hauser, Hilda, 384, 391
Hauser, Phyllis, 385
Haverford, Pennsylvania: C.I. moves to and lives in, xvi—xvii, 158, 181–230, 286; C.I. writes about, xxiii–xiv, xxxiii–xxxiv; Meeting House burned, 212–13; C.I. leaves, 230–1
Hawes, Bill, 790, 793
Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The Marble Faun, 865
Haxton, Gerald, 142, 378
Haydn, Richard, 500
Hayes, Helen, 623n
Hayne, Donald, 280–1, 289, 291–2, 294, 296, 298
Hayward, John, 590, 827
Hayward, Leland, 507
Hayworth, Rita, 687
Heard, Henry FitzGerald (Gerald): friendship and meetings with C.I., xii, 21–2, 25, 85, 89, 95, 101, 110, 146, 240, 438, 455, 481, 504, 509–10, 515, 531–2, 612, 650–1, 657, 690, 700–1, 746, 767, 769, 788, 795, 819, 828, 839, 855, 887–8; introduces C.I. to Prabhavananda, xiii; C.I.’s attitude to, xiv, 276; beliefs and ideas, xiv, 25–30, 37, 40–1, 72–3, 82, 85, 89, 95, 108, 110, 174, 247, 651, 664
, 746; takes mescaline, xli, 470–1, 481, 510, 517, 601, 622, 646, 690, 746, 799; settles in California, 14; appearance and dress, 21–4, 650–1; home and life style, 22–4; and Vedanta, 28, 89, 228; shocked by Krishna legend, 30; on provisional nature of Hollywood, 32–3; relations with Peggy Rodakiewicz (Kiskadden), 34; meditating, 37–8, 119, 746; relations with Vernon Old, 39; Auden visits, 43; and outbreak of war, 46–7; and C.I.’s political views, 48; on Krishnamurti, 50; Nicolson attacks for staying in USA, 55; at Rodakiewiczs’s party, 62; and political involvement, 63; Berthold Viertel and, 66; recommends Dr. Kolisch, 71–2; on C.I.’s film career, 72, 75; criticized in England, 77; consciousness of reality, 95; on U.S. behavior, 99; attitude to war, 101–2, 133; and ideal communities, 102; at Starr Daily talk, 104; at Swami Prabhavananda’s lectures, 107; and Chris Wood, 110, 235, 261, 275, 301, 376, 455, 463; tempted by suicide, 110; and Prabhavananda, 113; Auden’s suspicion of, 116; and Auden’s activities, 117; on beauty, 117; plans monastic community, 120, 129, 154; talks during Swami’s absence, 122, 140, 142; and Denny Fouts, 123, 125, 129, 144, 154; and C.I.’s initiation by Swami, 124–6; holds seminar, 140; on contemplation and meditation, 142; Maugham visits, 142–3; breaks with Prabhavananda, 143–4; as C.I.’s neighbor, 148; and young neighbors, 149; austerity, 151; in desert with C.I. and Allan Hunter, 152; acquires money, 154; Fouts accepts money from, 154–5; disagreement with C.I., 155; pessimism and fault-finding, 155; rejects Blue Bird ranch, 158; and Kagawa, 160; at La Verne Seminar, 162–5, 169–72, 175, 177–80; and Felix Greene, 163–4; and Edna Acheson, 169; on electric waves, 179; on Tom Kelly, 204; Steere visits, 211; and Trabuco ranch, 217, 234–5, 238, 241–2, 245, 248; and Paul Sorel, 233, 275, 278, 301, 376, 463; Peggy resents, 238; portrait bust of, 238; on prayer, 248–50; C.I. reads story to, 262; Berthold Viertel mistrusts, 265; Richard Chase article on, 282; parodied, 342; and Allan Harkness, 346; Gamaliel novel, 376; and Dodie Smith, 379; reports Haxton’s death, 379; admonishes C.I. over life style, 388, 439; on C.I.’s change of life, 419; and UFOs, 439, 487, 510, 767, 888; lectures at Ivar Avenue, 448; health improvement, 455; on homosexuals, 455n; reads C.I.’s The World in the Evening, 463; and C.I.’s later life, 465; on lecture tour, 466; on Don Bachardy’s relations with C.I., 469; at C.I. party, 495; and Tony Duquette, 500, 523; Don Bachardy likes, 505; on changing society, 510; withholds mescaline from C.I., 519, 524; dress, 535, 764; and C.I.’s return from 1956 Europe trip, 593, 597; at Stravinskys’, 600; and C.I.’s mescaline experience, 601, 622; on talent and genius, 602; neglects C.I., 628; and Michael Barrie, 631, 828, 855; Stroud and, 677, 679; and LSD, 701, 828; on William Kiskadden’s ill-health, 733; at Vera Stravinsky’s exhibition, 758; and mushroom drugs, 769; wishes to buy Don Bachardy painting, 769; criticizes Aldous Huxley, 799; in “brains” group photograph, 841n; entertains Stravinskys, 855–6; car accident in Hawaii, 888; Explorations with Gerald Heard (record), 787; The Five Ages of Man, 651; Gerald Heard, Reflections (record), 812; Murder by Reflection, 250; Pain, Sex and Time, 36, 63
Hearst, William Randolph, 432
Heath, Neville George Clevely, 406
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (film), 693
Hecht-Lancaster production company (later Hecht-Hill-Lancaster), 631, 639, 641, 645–6, 651–2, 804–5
Heifetz, Jascha, 769n
Heinen, Miss, 281, 292, 294, 296
Heinz see Neddermeyer, Heinz
Hellman, Lillian, 767
Hellmut see Roder, Hellmut
Hellzapoppin (play), 11
Helpmann, Robert, 404, 883
Hemingway, Ernest, 423, 451, 864; “The Dangerous Summer” (article), 822n; The Sun Also Rises, xl, 475, 742, 822n, 835
Henderson, Leon, 204
Henderson, Ray, 786, 793
Hepburn, Audrey, 458, 562–3
Hepburn, Katharine, 389
Heraclitus, 248
Herbert, David, 546
Herbert, Xavier: Capricornia, 399
Herbold, Mrs. (of Allan Hunter’s church), 304, 332, 468, 677
Herlihy, James Leo, 894
Herschel, William, 848, 851
Hertz, David: The Miles of Heaven, 848
Hewit, Jack, 4, 39, 385, 403
Hickey, William (Daily Express columnist), 54, 83
Hill, James, 687
Hillmer, Jack, 599
Hilton, James: Rage in Heaven, 77
Himmel ist nie ausverkauft, Der (film), 561
Hinduism, 127–8
Hine, Frank, 621, 626, 653n, 704, 714–15, 760, 772, 781, 793
Hine, Mrs. Frank, 629, 710, 732, 793
Hine, Greg, 629, 741, 814
Hirschfeld, Dr. Magnus, 551
Hitchcock, Alfred, 877
Hitler, Adolf, 7, 10, 105, 107–8, 132, 136
Hoerner, Mr. and Mrs. (C.I.’s neighbors), 480, 503, 628
Hoerner, Griff, 480, 503
Hoetis, Themistocles, 751
Hoffman, Heinrich, 186n
Hoffman, Malvina, 437
Hokanson, Hans, 626
Holcomb, Ted, 666
Hölderlin, Johann Christian Friedrich, 312, 331
Hollywood: C.I.’s homes in, xxxvi, xliii, xlv, 35, 46, 119, 148, 387–9, 406, 432–3, 435–6, 465, 599, 602–3, 608–10, 612–13, 662, 664, 666–8, 815–21, 826–7, 829–32, 871, 873; C.I. takes first apartment in, 20–1; social life in, 24–5; buildings and architecture, 32
Hollywood Antiwar League, 81
Hollywood High School, 268, 272–3
Hollywood Reporter, The, 877
Holman, Libby, 518
Holmes, Dr., 766
Holmes, John, 385, 392
Holy Cross Monastery, New York, 225, 244–5
Holy Mother see Sarada Devi
Homolka, Florence, 713–14
Homolka, Oscar, 95, 134
Hooker, Edward: fears scandal over C.I.–Don Bachardy relationship, xxxvii; marriage, 439; C.I. occupies garden house, 449; and house fire, 454; on Jim Charlton’s overcharging, 516; C.I. collects bed from, 598; and Evelyn’s homosexual research, 669; Spenders stay with, 673; death and funeral, 674–6
Hooker, Evelyn (formerly Caldwell): C.I. occupies garden house, xxxvi, 389, 449; C.I. leaves garden house, xxxvii; C.I. meets at Froms’s party, 387, 394, 424; friendship with C.I., 424, 669, 704, 730, 797, 870–1; marriage, 439; and house fire, 454; and C.I.’s trip to Key West, 469; on Charlton’s overcharging, 516; and Don Bachardy’s problems, 585, 603, 609; research on homosexuals, 637, 669, 684, 704, 730, 870; delivers paper at Chicago, 651; Spenders stay with, 673, 802, 813, 816; and husband’s death and funeral, 674, 676–7, 684; and Rod Owens, 674; at Sarada Math with C.I., 684; on Spenders’ marriage relations, 806; visits sex offenders’ institution, 871; Don Bachardy draws, 888
Hoover, Bill, 794
Hoover, Bob, 529, 535, 610, 624, 630
Hoover, Lamar, 794n
Hope, Robin, 789
Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 803
Hopper, Dennis, 724n
Hopper, Dick, 701, 720
Hopper, Hedda, 633
Hore-Belisha, Leslie (later Baron), 81
Horizon (magazine), 77, 364–5, 393, 404
Home, Lena, 297, 709
“Horst” (i.e., B. Hurst; fashion photographer), 386, 392
Houseman, John, 425, 900
Houser, Lionel, 384
Housman, A. E., 404; “Additional Poems,” 706n
How to Make a Monster (film), 775
Howard see Austen, Howard
Howard, Brian, 391, 403–4
Hoyer Millar, Frederick Robert (later Baron Inchyra), 56
Hoyningen-Huene, George, Baron, 386, 471, 611, 657, 767
Hoyt, Karl, 265, 275
Hubble, Grace, 481, 485
Hudson, Rock, 749
Huene, George see Hoyningen-Huene, George
Hughes, Rupert, 98
Hugo, Victor, 806
Hull, Harold Stone, 165–6, 172, 177
Hume, Benita, 57
Humoresque (film), 701
Hunt, Martita, 566
Hunt, Robert, 713
Hunter, Allan: and Heard, 23, 376; discusses “ultraclay” new force, 102; and Starr Daily, 104; congregation, 107; Heard speaks at church, 140; gives automobile ride to drunk, 141; and Heard’s break with Prabhavananda, 143; accompanies C.I. on picnic, 148; in desert with C.I. and Heard, 152; helps Vernon Old, 159; and Kagawa, 160; at La Verne Seminar, 162, 164, 171–2, 176–8; qualities and character, 162; attitude to Chris Wood, 235; on Trimble, 239; at Trabuco seminar, 246; and C.I.’s living at Ivar Avenue Temple, 261; visits C.I., 274; officiates at Old wedding, 407; address at Hooker’s funeral, 676; Secretly Armed, 167
Hunter, Cora Belle, 167–8, 172
Hunter, Elizabeth, 23, 122, 148, 162–3, 172–3, 246
Hunter, Ian, 802n
Huntington Hartford Foundation, The, Los Angeles, xxviii, 388, 436, 751
Husserl, Edmund, 191
Hussey, Ruth, 148
Huston, John, 423, 425, 468n, 585, 649, 693n
Huston, Ricki (Ricki Soma), 468
Huston, Walter, 66
Hutton, Barbara, 157, 795n
Hutton, Betty, 673
Huxley, Aldous: friendship and meetings with C.I., xii, 77, 80, 88, 260, 315, 338, 368, 375, 390–1, 394, 455, 481, 490, 530, 688–9, 744, 764, 796–7, 834, 841; film writing, xx, 45, 72, 88; takes hallucinogenic drugs, xli, 471, 535, 601, 622, 660, 744, 748, 834; settles in California, 14; and Gerald Heard, 23; shocked by legend of Krishna and gopis, 30; and Peggy Kiskadden, 34, 255, 440; Hollywood homes, 46, 673; on war threat, 46; entertaining, 49–50, 57, 96, 109, 114, 231, 289, 333; Nicolson attacks for staying in USA, 55; C.I. criticizes novels, 62, 74, 483; and Viertels, 73, 91; criticized in England, 77; views and opinions, 77–8; on U.S. innocence, 85; writing difficulties, 88–9, 114; criticizes great writers, 92; fever, 96; and pacifism, 100; on ideal communities, 102; on Ego, 104–5; at Starr Daily talk, 104; and Chaplin, 144; on Heard’s break with Prabhavananda, 144; C.I. takes motor trip with, 152–4; on musk plant losing perfume, 182; sees C.I. off for Haverford, 182; religious inclinations, 202; and son Matthew, 236; home at Llano, 237–8, 333; visits C.I., 239; visits Trabuco, 245; on prayer, 247; and van Druten, 260; at Laguna Beach, 275; Richard Chase article on, 282; pet dog, 289; allergy, 315; Bertolt Brecht attacks, 318–19; and C.I.’s Gita translation, 329; works on film story with C.I., 336, 345, 351, 358, 369; writes introduction to Gita translation, 350; on Blumenthal, 362; on Christianity and Marxism, 362; admonishes C.I. over life-style, 388, 439; at Sister Lalita’s funeral, 413; on cynicism, 421; on James Joyce, 423; eyesight, 471, 834; and Maria’s death, 477, 481; on cancer-inducing radiation, 491; 1955 birthday, 515; withholds mescaline from C.I., 518–19, 524; finances, 535; and C.I.’s 1956 return from Europe, 598; marriage to Laura Archera, 598; at Stravinskys’, 600; and C.I.’s mescaline experience, 601, 622; visits Vedanta Place, 623; neglects C.I., 628; Natasha Spender visits, 673; praises Stravinsky’s music, 704; attends Wilder’s The Matchmaker, 709; ageing, 744, 797, 805, 819, 834, 893; Prabhavananda’s concern for, 747; Heard on, 769, 799; writes on mescaline, 784, 799; criticizes academics at Santa Barbara, 820; pleads clemency for Chessman, 836n, 844; at Life magazine “brains” lunch, 841; in C.I. dream, 843; proposed TV show, 847; lectures at Menninger Foundation, 848; growth removed from tongue, 867, 869; at Selznicks’, 893; After Many a Summer, 74, 80, 834; Brave New World, 78; The Devils of Loudun, 440; The Doors of Perception, xli; The Genius and the Goddess, 530; The Giaconda Smile, 558, 764; Grey Eminence, 202; Island, 834, 843; Point Counter Point, 843; Texts and Pretexts, 693; Time Must Have a Stop, 332–3