Huxley, (Sir) Julian Sorel, 57–9, 202–3, 841n
Huxley, Laura (formerly Archera; Aldous’s second wife): marriage, 598; at Stravinskys’, 600; visits Vedanta Place, 623; entertains Natasha Spender, 673; visits C.I., 688–9, 748; C.I. dislikes, 709, 867; entertains, 764; produces The Giaconda Smile, 764; Heard on, 769; absence from Aldous, 797; organizes Tecate symposium, 867–8; hostility to C.I., 893; at Selznicks’, 893
Huxley, Maria (Aldous’s first wife): settles in California, 14; and Gerald Heard, 23; on Peggy Kiskadden, 34; entertaining, 49, 57–8, 96, 109, 114, 231, 289, 333; and niece Sophie Moulaert, 73; relations with Aldous, 78; and Viertels, 92; at Starr Daily talk, 104; handprint collection, 115; and Chaplin, 144; C.I. takes motor trip with, 152–4; recommends Dr. Inglemann, 159; and son Matthew, 236; home at Llano, 237–8, 333; visits C.I., 239; anxiety over rattlesnakes, 289; friendship and meetings with C.I., 315, 338, 345, 368, 375, 390–1, 394, 455; advises C.I. on dress, 333; visits Iris Tree, 345–6; breast cancer, 452, 471, 482; on Audrey Hepburn, 458; death and funeral, 476–8, 486, 490n, 530, 682; letters to Peggy Kiskadden, 485; withholds mescaline from C.I., 518–19; in C.I. dream, 843
Huxley, Matthew (son of Aldous and Maria), 58, 96, 104, 236, 238, 264, 333, 334, 490
Hyman, Bernie, 79–80, 148
Hyndman, Tony, 77
I Am a Camera (film), 509; see also van Druten, John (for play)
“I Am Waiting” (C.I.; story), xv, 37
Ibsen, Henrik: Hedda Gabler, 858, 859, 864
In the Face of the Enemy (C.I.) see Down There on a Visit
In Which We Serve (film), 273
Inge, William, 844
Inglemann, Dr. (osteopath), 159
Ionesco, Eugene: The Chairs, 899
Ironside, Robin, 583
Isherwood, Christopher:
Finances: Hollywood earnings, xxiv, xliv, 60, 98, 118, 647, 649, 654, 658, 742; on arrival in New York, 9; savings, 31; thrift, 82; earnings from I Am a Camera, 447; bank balance, 458, 466, 569, 711, 733, 787, 808; debts owed to, 458; investments, 482, 530; admits wealth, 512, 535; economizes in England, 580; shortage after house purchase, 610; security payments, 617; applies for Chapelbrook grant, 792, 800; overpaid tax, 804, 808; income tax expenses, 831; earnings from teaching, 838
Health: impotence, xxv, xliv, 660, 664, 675, 688; urethra operation (for median bar), xxvi, 384, 391; hepatitis, xliii, 618–20, 622, 744; abdominal tumor removed, xliv, 680–3, 685–7, 744; hormone treatment, xliv, 469, 654; breaks nose in motor accident, xlv, 791; urinary problems, 71, 78; tooth problems and treatment, 83, 345, 374, 533, 536, 537–9, 548–9, 611, 653, 668, 780, 809, 818, 842; undergoes Kolisch’s regime, 91–3, 96; intestinal spasms, 121, 463, 468; throat infection, 279, 834; influenza, 287, 616; hemorrhoids, 344, 348, 696; made partly sterile, 384; gonorrhea, 390n; rectal bleeding, 410; nervous tension, 467; genito-urinary pains, 468, 825–6, 827, 830–1; overweight, 477, 519, 640, 675, 683, 700, 702, 710, 713, 743, 745, 757, 761–2, 802, 816, 820, 884; urine test, 497; head pains, 507; lump in mouth, 530; regains energy from pills, 575; mouth sore, 625; rectal pains, 660, 663, 696; polio vaccinations, 675; thumb problems, 676, 743, 746–7, 752, 765, 772, 787–8, 812, 835, 837; eyesight, 679; stomach complaints, 691–6, 698, 700–1, 704, 706–7, 711; typhus/cholera injections, 718–22; virility restored, 729; dieting, 773; internal pains, 808; loses voice, 842; injures back in fall, 869–70, 872–3, 884
Personal life: family background, viii–ix; dreams, ix, xlvii, 45, 91, 173–6, 295, 358, 451, 454, 458, 463, 527, 540, 747–8, 753, 780, 835, 841–3, 852; academic career, xi, xiii; remains in USA during war, xii, 99–101, 138, 364–5; views on pacifism, xii, xxxiii, 5–7, 14–16, 99–100, 366; applies for U.S. citizenship papers, xiii, 31; passes on inherited property to brother Richard, xv–xvi, 7, 9, 385; commitment and classification as conscientious objector in war, xvi, 138, 227, 240, 310, 366; with Quakers in Haverford, xvi–xvii, 181–230, 286; homosexuality, xvii, xlvii–xlviii; takes U.S. citizenship, xxiv, 384, 391, 415; homes, 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; takes drugs in Tangier, xli, 541–4, 546–7, 576; takes mescaline, xli, 586–9, 735–8, 775; imagination, xlii; acquires U.S. visas, 30–1; acquires motor cars, 31–2, 39, 390, 434, 477–8, 757; political awakening, 48; attacked for staying in USA, 55–6, 83–4; gives up smoking, 64, 151, 437, 465–6; love-making with women, 67; self-pity, 74–5, 94; need for independence, 93; renounces inheritance, 103; on Ego, 104–5, 107; reads poems at temple, 140–1; sexual abstinence, 156; vegetarianism, 199; poses for Cadmus, 208–9; draft board medical examination, 229–30; leaves Haverford, 230–1; classified 4-E by draft board, 231; bicycling, 258, 261, 297, 307, 312, 339, 356, 443; sexual longings, 293, 303, 306, 313, 328, 339, 343, 419, 447; donates blood, 295, 332; depressions, 306, 316, 349; considers joining Army Medical Corps, 316; smoking, 321, 416, 450–1, 536, 708; fortieth birthday, 358, 360; kills injured seagull, 378; books damaged by floods, 387, 393; makes will, 391; Fechin portrait of, 394; “change of life” (male menopause), 419; physical exercises, 464; fiftieth birthday, 465; drinking, 482–3, 704, 708, 713, 740, 763, 779, 781–2, 817, 828–9, 836, 841, 852, 856, 869, 873, 883, 890–1; inhales oxygen/carbon dioxide mixture, 486–7; 1955 birthday party, 527; Ayrton drawing of, 586; self-consciousness, 630; flying with Vance Breese, 655–8, 662; bouts of anger, 670; will, 675, 677; reviews life (1958), 744–5; Don Bachardy paints, 772, 796; motor accident, 789; appearance, 833; takes Biphetamine, 882
Professional activities: film script writing, xvii, xxiv–v, xxxix–xl, 51–3, 75–8, 92, 134–5, 146–7, 151, 256–9, 384, 387, 393–4, 414, 465, 467, 477, 480, 482, 491–3, 500, 502, 510, 515–16, 529, 531–2, 638, 646–8, 650, 652–5, 658, 662, 674–5, 678–9, 684, 689, 692, 694–5, 702, 710, 738, 741, 744, 755, 820, 843; teaching at L.A. State College, xlvi, xlviii, 805, 808, 827, 830, 832, 838, 841, 845–6, 849, 854–5; Santa Barbara teaching post, xlix, 854–6, 858; radio broadcasts, 42–3, 45; lectures to school students, 71; acquires agent (Leonardson and Schley), 76–7; contract with MGM, 95; leaves MGM, 152; voluntary social work, 157; teaches English at Haverford, 187; works at Paramount, 259, 262; works at Warner Brothers, 383, 390; 1948 work at MGM, 387; talks at Sawtelle hospital, 524–5; TV series for Hermione Gingold, 713, 715, 719–23; TV appearances, 746, 749, 758, 768–9, 795–6, 831, 835–6; addresses Pacific Coast Writers’ Conference, 873–4; at UCLA panel discussion, 900
Relationships: with Vernon Old, xii, xvi, xxvi, 12, 14, 16–20, 35–7, 47, 78, 93–4, 99–100, 102, 107, 109, 119–20, 122, 124, 129, 132, 145, 159, 182, 201, 347–8, 350–3, 355–6, 358–61, 363, 367–72, 374–8, 411; with Denny Fouts, xvi, 123, 125, 155–6, 231, 256, 265, 274, 297, 314, 316, 335–6, 341, 347–50, 375, 377, 384; with X. (Bill Harris), xix, xxi–xxii, 336–7, 343–4, 347–9, 351, 352, 355, 360, 362, 377, 379, 383; with William Caskey, xxii–xxviii, xxxiv–xxxv, 383–92, 394, 406, 408, 411–16, 419, 424, 429, 431–8, 440–2, 449, 451–2, 456, 466, 470–2, 489–91, 515–16; with Don Bachardy, xxxvi–xxxix, xli–xlii, xlvi, xlix, 389, 454–5, 458, 463, 465–7, 469, 472, 482–3, 489, 491, 500, 508–9, 513, 515, 519, 527–9, 533–5, 578, 603, 611, 613, 616–17, 632–3, 638, 644, 650, 664, 669–70, 680–2, 686, 688, 696–7, 699, 707–8, 720, 726–7, 742, 745, 751, 764–7, 776–7, 779–82, 790, 820, 823, 826–7, 829, 837, 841, 845–7, 852–3, 862, 884–5, 889, 901; with Heinz Neddermeyer, 4, 36, 88, 336, 341, 400, 458, 519, 789; separation from Vernon Old, 138–9, 145–6, 324; with Pete Martinez, 209–13, 215–17; with Jim Charlton, 387–8, 439, 442, 443, 448–51, 515–16; with Michael Leopold, 388; with Sam Costidy, 389, 443–50; casual and short affairs, xxv, xxxv, 385, 387–8; rejections, 628, 646–7
Spiritual ideas and practises: introspection and self-questioning, xiv, xvi, 316–17, 328, 379, 433–6, 438, 442–3, 482–3, 523–4, 630, 728–9, 885; and Prabhavananda’s teachings and counsel, xiv–xv, 44–5, 82, 93, 107, 114, 116–17, 121, 126–7, 128–
9, 132, 149, 303, 321, 344, 352–3, 377, 478, 526, 657, 664, 682–3, 747; initiated by Swami, xvi, xxxv, 124–7, 441; moves to Ivar Avenue Vedanta Center, xviii, xx–xxi, 261–3, 265–72, 275–8, 285–6, 288, 291, 296–7, 308, 376; learns of awareness from Gerald Heard, 26–3, 73, 82, 91, 95, 102, 110, 120, 174; meditation (“sits”), 37–9, 44, 117, 119, 122, 126, 129, 155, 174, 177, 188, 348–9; insights and visions, 120–1, 126, 128–9, 177; personal mantram, 125, 149, 415; all-day sits at temple, 149; learns hatha yoga, 156; at Trabuco seminar, 246–7; and prayer, 247, 306; intention to become monk, 250, 261; keeps prayer hours, 252, 306–7, 704; belief in God, 283–4, 728, 749; learns submission, 290–1; chanting, 293, 308; doubts and resentments, 305, 343; presidency of Vedanta Society, 343; plans to leave Ivar Avenue, 351; avoids moving to Trabuco, 438; sense of alienation, 439–40, 458; at Santa Barbara temple, 603, 607–8; awareness of death, 644, 680–1
Travels: in China, xi, 3, 5–6; 1947 trip to England, xxiv, 384–5, 391–2; 1951 trip to England, xxxv, 388–9, 442n; 1952 trip to Mexico, xxxvi, xl, 389; to Europe with Don Bachardy (1955–6), xli, 531, 536, 539, 544, 547–95; round-the-world trip (1957–58), xliv, 692, 695, 726, 732–3; 1959 trip to Europe, xlv, 822–5; emigrates to U.S. A., 3–5, 7–8; first transcontinental trip to California, 14, 16–20; motor trip with Huxleys, 152; 1941 trip east to see Auden, 180–1; leaves for Haverford, 182; in South America (1947–8), 386, 392–3; to Dakar and France (1948), 386–7, 393, 394–401; 1948 trip to England, 387, 393, 403; 1946 trip to Mexico, 391; 1952 visit to Berlin, 442n; to Bermuda, 444–5; in Southwest with Don Bachardy (1953), 456–7; 1954 visit to Mexico, 471–6; in Tangier, 539–47; in France (1955), 558–9; to Wyberslegh (1956), 570–6
Writings: juvenile writings, vii; keeps diary, vii–xi, xxi, xxiv; helps translate Gita, xviii–xix, xxi, 240, 252, 305, 307, 328–9, 333, 348, 350, 354; translates Shankara with Prabhavananda, xxiii, 384; translates Patanjali, xxv, xxxvi, 289n, 410, 415, 426, 433, 437, 441, 446, 448; reviewing, xxvi, 37, 424–6, 429n, 435, 441; fictional methods and characterization, xxix–xxxiii; compiles Great English Short Stories (anthology), xxxix, xlix, 464, 614, 616–17, 626, 629, 633, 638–40, 643, 670; short monologues for Chris Wood, 242, 498; poetry and occasional verse, 299–300, 342–3, 354; parodies, 330–1; translates from Hölderlin, 331–2; film story with Huxley, 336, 345, 351, 358, 369; compiles Vivekananda selection, 351; plots, 419–20; parodied by J. McLaren Ross in Punch, 467; Prologue to Hamilton’s Mr. Norris and I, 621, 623; Introduction to Vivekananda selection, 624n; travel articles, 752, 787, 801
Isherwood, Frank Bradshaw (C.I.’s father): and soldiering, xii, xx, 5; in C.I. dream, 451
Isherwood, Henry Bradshaw (C.I.’s uncle), xv, 103, 377, 577
Isherwood, Kathleen Bradshaw (M.; C.I.’s mother): records C.I.’s infant life (“The Baby’s Progress”), vii; C.I. visits, xliii, 384, 405, 549, 562, 569–78, 822–4, 873; final illness and death, xlix, 860, 862–3, 873, 875; cries at C.I.’s emigration, 4; and C.I.’s pacifism, 7; letters from C.I. in U.S. A., 9, 629; in wartime England, 47; and C.I.’s health, 71; letters to C.I., 77, 348, 629; C.I. quarrels with, 102; and Uncle Henry’s death, 103; sends Forster pamphlet to C.I., 136; Felix Greene visits, 264; C.I. plans to visit after war, 360; London house, 435n; character and manner, 571; relations with Richard, 573; disapproves of Princess Margaret, 575; and C.I.’s 1956 departure from England, 593–4; prolapsed uterus, 593; fails to write to C.I., 623; suffers stroke, 749–50, 782, 823; dislikes sickness, 870
Isherwood, Richard (C.I.’s brother): inherits Marple and Wyberslegh through C.I., xv–xvi, 1–3, 385, 577; and C.I.’s visits, xliii, 384, 405, 562, 570–7, 823; writes to C.I., 348; C.I. plans to visit, 360; resentment of C.I., 405, 572; appearance, 570, 572, 823; behavior, 572–3, 576; and C.I.’s departure from England, 593–4; reports mother’s illness, 749–50; Amiya on, 782, 870; and mother’s final illness and death, 860, 862–3, 873
Ishwara, 127
Italy: in war, 97; C.I. visits with Don Bachardy, 531, 539, 544, 547–57
Ivan the Terrible (film), 861
Ivar Avenue, Hollywood see Vedanta Center
Ives, Burl, 479
J’Accuse (film), 81
Jackson, Steve, 441
Jacob’s Hands (film script), xx, 600, 602, 609
Jacoby, Mr. (Haverford refugee), 215–16, 220, 222, 225, 228
James, Edward, 436, 484, 646, 697–8, 857, 867
James, Henry, x, 457, 556; nephew, 220
James, William: Varieties of Religious Experience, 155
Jamestown, Rhode Island, 180–1
Jean-Christophe see Rolland, Romain
Jeanne Eagles (film), 716
Jelke, Minot (“Mickey”), 719n.
Jenkins, Terry, 857, 861, 877, 885–7, 892, 897–8, 900
Jennings, Ollie, 385, 392
Jessie see Marmorston, Jessie
Johansson, Ingemar, 869
John, Augustus, 707
John of the Cross, St., 28
Johnson, Graham, 496
Johnson, Hall, 254
Johnson, Inez, 522
Jones, Bill, 896
Jones, Ernest, 525
Jones, Jennifer (Mrs. David O. Selznick): Capote escorts, 485; C.I. meets, 687; and Tender Is the Night, 738; trip to India, 749–50, 755; meets Prabhavananda, 758, 773; interest in Tantra, 759; son plays drums, 762; dines with C.I., 765–6; C.I. visits, 856, 858, 877, 892
Jones, Maxwell, 839
Jones, Nell: “In Santa Monica Canyon,” 409–10
Jones, Rufus, 186, 198, 204, 207, 221, 227
Jonson, Ben: The Alchemist, 391; “An Ode to Himself’ (poem), 801
Jourdan, Louis, 749, 757, 762
Journey to a War (C.I.; with Auden), xi, 3
Joyce, James, 423
Joyful Beggar, The (film), 880
Judgement Day in Pittsburgh see Adventure in Baltimore
Judkyn, John, 223
Jung, Carl Gustav, 767, 892
Jurkat, Ernst, xix, 190–1, 200, 205, 207–8, 218
Kabuki (Japanese drama), 872, 877
Kafka, Franz, xlii
Kagawa, Toyohiko, 160, 172
Kahn, David, 845
Kalf, Willem, 778
Kallman, Chester: visits California with Auden, 43; with Auden in Jamestown, 180–1; C.I. visits, 386, 392, 595; in Paris, 393, 402; in Italy, 547; sells poems to C.I., 595; agrees to write lyrics for C.I.’s Berlin musical, 803, 811; and The Rake’s Progress libretto, 850
Kaplan, Simon, 191, 206
Katha Upanishad, 305, 348, 676, 842
Katz, Rolf, 5
Kaufman, George S., and Hart, Moss: The American Way (play), 9
Kaufman, Len, 828, 854, 868, 881
Kazan, Elia, 470, 479, 512, 602, 604, 686
Kearsarge (aircraft carrier), 511
Keate, Richard, 496
Keating, Joan, 135, 304
Kelley, Howard, 421, 745
Kellog, Mr. (owner of Ananda Bhavan), 359, 372–3; death, 378
Kellog, Mrs., 372–3
Kelly, Grace, 468
Kelly, Jack, 497
Kelly, Lael, 204
Kelly, Quentin, 530
Kelly, Thomas Raymond, 204
Kennedy, Bill, 425
Kennedy, Helen see Sudhira
Kennedy, John F., 766, 859, 878n, 883–4
Kennedy, Paul, 853
Kenyon Review, The, 37n
Kerouac, Jack, 777, 781
Kerr, Deborah, 626, 693n, 757, 819–20
Kerr, John, 533
Khrushchev, Nikita S., 511, 828, 856
Kidd, Kapp, 896
King and I, The (film), 624, (film and play), 626
King, Marcia, 848
King-Page, Neville, 385, 392
King’s Thief, The (film), 494
Kingsley, Charles, 29
Kinross, Patrick Balfour, 3rd Baron, 638
Kinsey, Dr. Alfred, 640, 797
Kinsley, Yvette, 443
Kinstler, Leonard, 31
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Kipscombe, W.P., 111
Kirby, Dr., 619
Kirk, David, 141–2
Kirk, Phyllis, 844, 854, 884
Kirstein, Fidelma (née Cadmus), 212, 225, 597
Kirstein, Lincoln: C.I. first meets in New York, 11–12; friendship with C.I., 14, 441–2, 537, 596–7, 671, 829; C.I. buys present for, 17; and sister Mina (Curtiss), 139, 800; visits Camp Upton with C.I., 209; C.I. visits in Philadelphia, 212; C.I. stays with, 225; and Pete Martinez, 320, 322; C.I. on expeditions with, 386, 392; organizes art exhibitions, 386, 392; on Auden’s plan to settle in Italy, 407; C.I. considers living with, 439; breakdowns, 597; and Brecht, 648; reports Stravinsky’s stroke, 663; and Jensen Yow, 700; C.I. writes to, 709; dependence on Auden, 817; and Gagaku, 817; visits C.I., 817–18; C.I. visits with Don Bachardy, 823; Sleeping Beauty project, 834–5, 847–8
Kiskadden, Peggy (formerly Bok, then Rodakiewicz): C.I. stays with on return from Haverford, xviii, 231, 236, 238, 252, 262; in Hollywood, 33, 36, 62–3; qualities and character, 33–4, 150; relations with Rodakiewicz, 34–5; friendship with C.I., 113, 117, 266, 273, 292, 315, 332, 352, 368, 391, 392, 427, 439, 485, 490; and Felix Greene, 164; on Peter Russell’s kindness, 203; visits Rodakiewicz in New York, 232; on Chris Wood and Paul Sorel, 233; and Joe Valentine, 236; breakdown of marriage with Rodakiewicz, 237–8; meets Bill Kiskadden, 237–8; resentful of Heard, 238; and Jim Pinney, 239; and C.I.’s view of popular indifference, 251; dislikes son Ben’s drumming, 253; gardening, 253; and Maria Huxley, 255; in Nevada with son Derek, 257, 260; at temple for puja, 257; and C.I. at Swami’s temple, 263, 265, 292, 352; and Rodakiewicz’s proposed return to Hollywood, 264; relations with Bill Kiskadden, 264, 273; attends Prabhavananda’s classes, 270; C.I.’s attitude to, 276; and Hayne, 298; marriage to Bill Kiskadden, 300–1, 304, 306, 310–11, 322, 374–5, 834; and C.I.’s Gita translation, 328–9, 352; attends son Ben’s graduation ceremony, 347; and Vernon Old, 360; changed relations with C.I., 374–5, 529, 537, 628; and Felix Greene’s marriage, 376; and Vernon’s Old’s wedding, 407; visits Kittredges, Georgia O’Keeffe and Taos with C.I., 427–31; character, 431, 612; and Tallulah Bankhead, 436; Huxley on, 440; at Dylan Thomas memorial concert, 468; and Maria Huxley’s final illness and death, 485–6; and son Derek’s marriage, 486; and Aldous Huxley’s reference to cancer, 491; and Don Bachardy, 524, 537; C.I. dreams of, 540; C.I. attempts reconciliation with, 608, 612; C.I. sends plants to, 608; quarrels with Bill Kiskadden, 678; Bill Kiskadden returns to, 733
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