Marchand, Leslie A.: Byron, 781
Marchant, William, 638–9
Margaret, Princess, 513, 575
Markovitz, John (Mark), 833
Marmorston, Jessie (Mrs. Larry Weingarten): treats C.I., 467, 469, 681–2, 695, 698, 707, 711, 732, 743; friendship with C.I., 487–8, 501–2; and C.I.’s homosexuality, 497; returns from Europe, 518; warns against mescaline, 526; C.I. visits, 603, 708; neglects C.I., 628; heart trouble, 654, 691; tests C.I.’s urine, 668; C.I.’s feelings for, 691; finances, 711; and Don Bachardy’s nausea, 716
Marple Hall: and C.I.’s background, viii; C.I. passes on to brother, xv–xvi, 103, 385, 392, 405; C.I. visits (1956), xliii, 574, 576–8
Marshall, General George C., 398, 399n
Martinez, Carmen, 321
Martinez, José (Pete), 12, 209–13, 215–16, 225, 320–2, 346, 700
Marx Brothers (Groucho, Chico, Harpo), 130, 142
Mary Magdalene (film), xlv, 741–3, 751, 755, 759, 769, 783, 798
Mary, Queen, 507
Masefield, John: Basilissa, 633–4
Masocco, Mirandi, 712, 849
Mason, James, 886
Masselink, Ben: friendship and meetings with C.I., xxxviii, 394, 424, 439, 451, 455, 465, 472, 475, 488, 492, 496–9, 502, 504, 510, 524, 528–30, 532, 625, 635, 653–4, 697, 699, 701–2, 704, 719, 749, 759–60, 773, 776, 790, 806, 838, 852–3, 900; travels, xl, 466, 471, 473, 475, 483, 485, 602, 609, 614–15, 668, 728, 738, 805–6, 821, 828, 860, 873; Don Bachardy and, 496–7; trip to Hawaii, 531, 533; and C.I.’s return from 1956 Europe visit, 593, 597, 601; and C.I.’s hepatitis, 619; photographs dog, 621; sends food to C.I., 621; aversion to teenagers, 631; stories accepted, 639; travels by submarine, 643; threatened with loss of home, 654–6; operation, 658–60; meets Vance Breese, 662; and Jim Charlton, 698, 702; short stories, 709; and environment, 734; cooking, 773; anecdote on snake deterrent, 783; Don Bachardy draws, 811; and Dick Foote’s Tahiti stationery, 831; Rory Harrity on, 836; and Rory Harrity’s marriage problems, 860–1; meets Bill Kidd, 897; The Crackerjack Marines, 786, 789, 842, 897n; Partly Submerged, 639n, 729
Masselink, Eugene, 806–7
Masselink, Jo (formerly Lathwood): friendship with C.I., 440, 693; back problems, 495, 512; sketching, 503; and C.I.’s hepatitis, 619; unwell, 623; and Ben’s operation, 659–60; swimming, 719; internal pains, 722, 755; dislikes Hilda Charlton, 744; sore arms, 789; attends Thanksgiving party, 790; see also Masselink, Ben (for mentions of both together)
Masteroff, Joe: The Warm Peninsula (play), 797
Matta Echaurren, Roberto Sebastián, 385, 392
Mattachine Society, 730
Maugham, Robin, 560
Maugham, William Somerset: in Hollywood, 142–3, 390; C.I. visits at Villa Mauresque, 549, 558–60, 822, 824–5; proposed anthology, 599; Cakes and Ale, 847; Home and Beauty, 82; The Hour Before Dawn, xviii, 142, 256, 262; The Narrow Corner, 631; “Rain” (story), 142; The Razor’s Edge, 305, 383; The Sacred Flame, 558; “The Saint” (story), 631–2, 634; Up at the Villa, 383, 390
Maurette, Marcelle: Anastasia (play), 623
Mauriber, Saul, 429
Maury, Mrs., 289, 409
Mausi see Steuermann, Margeret
May Company: Don Bachardy works for, 811–15
Mayer, Louis B., 67, 76, 93, 106, 146, 716
Mayes, Wendell, 731n
Maynard, Ken, 802n
Mayne, Ethel, 639, 640
Mead, Margaret, 651
Medioli, Enrico, 551
Medley, Robert, 330, 391, 569
Medora, 802
Meeker, Ralph, 670
“Meet the Author” (radio series), 42
Meet the People (revue), 88
Meltzer (Charlie Chaplin’s friend), 69–70, 85–6
Melville, Herman: Benito Cereno, 799; Moby Dick, 696; Typee, 649
Memorial, The (C.I.), xxxiii, 410, 418
Mendelssohn, Eleonora von, 421–2
Mendelssohn, Francesco von, 421n
Mendés, Judith, 806n
Menninger Foundation, The, 848
Menninger, Dr. Karl, 848n
Mennonites, 207
Meredith, Burgess, 14, 445
Merivale, John, 883, 899
Merlin, Joanna, 639
Merlo, Frank, 537, 875
Mers-el-Kébir, 102n
Mershon, Jack, 452
Merton, Thomas: The Seven Storey Mountain, 407
mescaline: C.I. takes, xli, 519, 524, 550, 586–9, 735–8, 775; Heard takes, 470–1, 481, 510, 518, 746, 799; Huxley and, 471, 535, 748, 784, 799, 834; Knopf and Swami disapprove of, 510; John Goodwin takes, 517, 588, 736, 785; Jessie Marmorston warns against effects, 526; C.I. acquires, 537; medical experiments with, 663
Messel, Rudolf, 15
Mesta, Perle, 632, 685–6, 692
Methuen (publishers), 458, 709
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM): C.I. works for, 53, 75–7, 89, 92, 95, 115, 151, 159, 387, 393, 465, 469, 477, 497, 699, 857; lays C.I. off, 96, 124; C.I. gives notice to, 152; Speed Lamkin at, 621; salary cuts, 628
Mexico: C.I. visits with Caskey, xxxvi, 389, 391; C.I. visits with Don Bachardy, xl, xlii, 471–6; in C.I.’s The Lost, 591, 601–2
Michell, Claire, 519
Mielziner, Jo, 479
Milam, Mrs. (Webster’s mother), 322
Milam, Jean (Webster’s sister), 279–80, 298
Milam, Webster: lives at Vedanta Center, 266, 275–7, 279–81, 288–9, 291–2, 295–7, 302, 304, 338, 364, 367; described, 268; studies construction, 289; visits family, 298; Amiya mothers, 315, 322; and Vernon Old, 360; draft board classification, 368–9; at Ramakrishna puja, 408; ambitions, 409; marriage, 413; at Sister’s funeral, 413; appeals to Swami, 531
Milan (Italy), 555–7
Millard, Paul: lunches with C.I., 497; relations with Speed Lamkin, 514–15, 518, 604, 623, 633, 646, 665, 685, 692, 705, 740; and Marguerite Lamkin, 615; C.I. calls stupid, 625; gives birthday party for Don Bachardy, 752; on Marguerite’s father’s shooting, 758; Christmas party (1958), 794; and C.I.’s house sale, 819; loans studio to Don Bachardy, 820n; Don Bachardy and, 832, 882; trip to England, 855; accommodates Eddie James’s paintings, 857
Miller, Arthur, 612, 811, 899; The Crucible, 551, 800
Miller, David, 480, 499, 512, 532
Miller, Dorothy, 688–70, 740, 768, 781, 783, 851, 854–5, 870
Miller, Bill, 537
Millikan, Robert, 216
Milne, A. A.: Peace with Honour, 54
Mina see Curtiss, Mina
Minevitch, Borrah, 874n
Minevitch, Lydia, 874
Minnelli, Vincente, 730
Minton, John, 403
Miracle, The (play), 345
Miró, Juan, 544
Mirrlees, Hope: The Counterplot, 483
Misfits, The (film), 826, 893
Mishima, Yukio, 710; Five Modern No Plays, 714
Miss Lonelyhearts (film), 772
“Mr. Lancaster” (C.I.; section of Down There on a Visit), xlv, 807–12, 814, 823, 831
Mr. Norris Changes Trains (C.I.; in USA as The Last of Mr. Norris), x, xxx, 52, 275, 615–16
Mr. Skeffington (film), 652
Mitchell, Walter, 675
Mitchum, Robert, 693n
Moberley, Charlotte Anne Elizabeth, and Jourdain, Eleanor Frances: An Adventure, 665–6
Moffat, Ivan: at Salka Viertel’s party, 425; gives farewell party for Boon and Henrietta Ledebur, 450; owes money to C.I., 458; meets Dylan Thomas, 461, 534; at Shelley Winters’s party, 467; plans “family” in Brazil, 468; returns from European trip, 513; on Marguerite Lamkin-Harry Brown marriage, 514; confidences with C.I., 534, 618; Marguerite Lamkin offends Don Bachardy in front of, 600; praises Giant, 618; on Kinross, 638; in Greece, 644; on Iris Tree’s mescaline experience, 663; and Caroline Freud (Blackwood), 677, 688, 699, 737, 779; depicted in C.I. novel, 736–7; and C.I.’s mescaline experience, 737; at C.I. party, 740; returns from Switzerland, 792, 798; complains of poor business, 798;
dines with C.I., 814; and Joan Elan’s pregnancy, 822; at Harritys’, 836; advises Ben Masselink on The Crackerjack Marines, 842; Don Bachardy draws, 848n, 863; on Russia’s intentions, 856; swimming party, 860; and Hope Lange, 878; and Carl Sandburg, 898
Moffat, Lorna (Ivan’s daughter), 737
Monet, Claude, 891
Mong, Bud, 59
Monkey (novel, by Cheng-en Wu), 287
Monkhouse, Mrs., 391
Monkhouse, Mitty, 391–2
Monkhouse, Patrick, 391
Monroe, Marilyn, 612, 826, 828, 856, 868, 898n
Monsters, The (C.I. and Don Bachardy; play), xlv, 785–92, 794–8, 800, 827
Montagu, Elizabeth: The Small Corner, 574
Montand, Yves, 899
Monte Carlo, 559
Montecito, California, 359
Montgomery, Robert, 106, 133–4, 148, 257
Moore, Roger, 491, 509
Moorehead, Agnes, 618, 850, 880–1, 883
Moravia, Alberto, 551
Morozzi, Eli, 327
Morris, Wright, 855
Morrison, Dr. Lester: The Low-Fat Way to Health and Longer Life, 773
Mortimer, Raymond, 54, 405
Mortmere (imaginary town), viii, xiv, xlii, 177, 530n, 756
Morton, Julian, 516
Moscow Art Theater, 874
Mosel, Fritz, 21, 25, 30, 35
Moses, Robert, 265
Moss, Stanley, 548, 552
Motive (magazine), 278
Moulaert, Sophie, 73, 96, 264
Mountain, The (film), 723
Muhammad Ibn Yusuf (later King Muhammad V of Morocco), 545n
Mullican, Lee, 628
Munich, 560–2
Murphy, Bridey, 611
Murphy, Elizabeth, 762
Murray, Don: C.I. praises, 710; friendship with C.I., 724, 726, 795; gains rights to Jean-Christophe, 741; sends screenplay to Logan, 742; at Don Bachardy’s birthday party, 752; marriage to Hope Lange, 795–6; makes film in Ireland, 796; praises Don Bachardy’s drawings, 796; clowning, 822; offers C.I. work on Sardinian film, 843; offers C.I. story to Columbia, 846; projected play, 847; trial separations from Hope, 848, 879
Murray, Hope see Lange, Hope
Murrow, Edward, 65–6, 593
Musgrove, Stanley, 716
Music Corporation of America (MCA), 526
My Foolish Heart (film), 423
My Guru and His Disciple (C.I.), x, xxx
Myrdal, Gunnar and Alva, 486
Myrdal, Jan, 486n
Nabokov, Vladimir: Lolita, 827
Nadeau, Nicky, 410–11, 417, 657
Nadelman, Elie, 386, 392
Naeve, Lowell: A Field of Broken Stones, 424–5
Nagy, Imre, 777
Nash, Gene, 794
Nautilus (U.S. nuclear submarine), 767
Nazism, 7
Neddermeyer, Christian (Heinz’s son), 615
Neddermeyer, Gerda (Heinz’s wife), 615
Neddermeyer, Heinz: and C.I.’s pacifism, xii; relations with C.I., xxiii, 4, 36, 288, 336, 341, 400, 458, 519, 789; C.I. visits in Berlin (1952), xxxv, 442n; depicted in “Waldemar” (C.I.), xlix; arrested by Nazis, 7, 290, 423; in wartime, 47, 228; in Gibraltar with C.I., 540; in Paris with C.I., 562, 564; seeks immigration to USA, 615, 626; flees East Berlin, 661; sends condolences on death of C.I.’s mother, 890
Nelson, Ozzie and family, 815
Neumann, Liesl, 311
Neutra, Richard, 425, 841n
Neville-Willing, Donald, 8
New, George, 278
Newman, Lennie, 432, 643, 704, 713
Newman, Paul, 721, 801
New Orleans, 18
New Republic, The (magazine), 303
Newsweek (magazine), 763
Newton, Caroline, 181, 229
Newton, Edward, 181, 222
New Writing (magazine), xxix
New York: C.I. visits on returns from England (1947/1948), xxiv, 385, 387, 392, 393; C.I. visits with Don Bachardy, xxxvii, 536–8, 671–3, 799–801, 825; C.I. arrives in by sea, 3, 8–9; C.I. describes, 10–11; C.I.’s 1939–40 apartment in, 12–13; Dylan Thomas in, 462; C.I. spends 1953 Christmas with Don Bachardy in, 463–4; C.I. visits on 1956 return from Europe, 595–6; Don Bachardy visits alone, 696–7, 702, 705–8, 756–9, 762
New Yorker, The (magazine), 37n, 230, 450, 811
Nibley, Richard, 363
Nice (France), 557
Nichols, Dudley, 81
Nichols, Robert, 115
Nicolson, Sir Harold, 55
Night Must Fall (film), 134
Nikhilananda, Swami, 813
Nin, Anaïs, 521
Nivedita, Sister (Margaret Noble), 341
Niven, David, 70, 485
Nixon, Alice (Tarini), 297, 607, 614, 621
Nixon, Lucille, 162–4, 246
Nixon, Phoebe see Prabha
Nixon, Richard M., 752n, 766
No Down Payment (film), 732
Norment, Caroline: depicted in The World in the Evening, xxxiii; at Haverford, xxxiii, 183–5, 190–1, 193–201, 205–8, 210–16, 224, 226; interview with C.I., 181; described, 183, 194; matchmaking, 207, 225; and outbreak of fires at Haverford, 212–14; jealousies, 220, 222; and C.I.’s departure from Haverford, 230; C.I. writes to, 284–5; C.I. meets on 1947 return from England, 392
Norris, Grady, 773
Norway: Germans invade, 95
Notorious (film), 533
Novak, Alvin, 387, 394
Novak, Kim, 783n
Novalis (i.e., Friedrich von Hardenberg), 309–10
Novarro, Ramon, 544
Novello, Ivor, 148
Oakie, Jack, 86
Oberon, Merle, 466
Observer, The (newspaper), 441
O’Casey, Ronan, 584
Odets, Clifford, 378, 805; Golden Boy, 479
Ogawa (Kagawa’s secretary), 160
Ogle, Jerry, 773
O’Hara, John, 527, 839
Ohge, Ray, 528–9, 563, 674, 689
Ohrt, Hanns, 24, 258, 297
O’Keeffe, Georgia, 427–31
Old, Patty (formerly O’Neill; Vernon’s wife), 393, 407, 411, 639
Old, Vernon: relations and activities with C.I., xii, xvi, xxvi, 78, 93–4, 99–100, 102, 107, 109, 119, 120, 122, 124, 129, 132, 145, 159, 181–2, 225, 288, 324, 347–8, 350–3, 355–6, 358–61, 363, 367–72, 374–8, 411; in New York, xxvi, 201, 315; meets C.I. on arrival in USA, 8–9; types poems for Auden, 11; shares New York apartment with C.I. and Auden, 12; trip to California with C.I., 14, 16–20; and Dicky Bonaparte, 30; attends art school, 31, 75; shares Hollywood houses with C.I., 35–7, 46–7, 107, 119–20; and C.I.’s meditating, 38–9; relations with Gerald Heard, 39, 85, 89, 143; depression, 46, 116, 124, 226; pottery, 47; at Huxleys’, 57, 59, 115; in Palm Springs, 60; pets, 61, 145, 371–3, 378; qualities, 63, 372, 523, 639; and Garbo, 68; crew cut, 84; piano playing, 85; painting and drawing, 93, 104, 375; visits mother in New York, 95; at Viertels’ party, 102; at Starr Daily talk, 105; at Swami’s lectures, 107; at Rodakiewiczs’, 113; and Derek Bok, 117; ill-health, 124; absence, 129; meditates, 129, 361, 375; violin playing, 132; separation from C.I., 138–9, 145, 153; and Chaplin, 144; accompanies C.I. on social work visits, 158; hates Denny Fouts, 158, 360; life-style, 159; in C.I. dream, 173; in Haverford, 201–2; plans to enter Holy Cross Monastery, 225–6, 230, 244–5; visits C.I. at Haverford, 230; elects to be conscientious objector, 244–5; marriage, 303, 387, 407, 411; Prabhavananda and, 352, 359, 363; stays at Ivar Avenue, 359, 362; expertise on art, 362; at Ananda Bhavan, 363–4, 367, 370–1, 373; grows beard, 363; and Nibleys, 363; renews contact with C.I., 639, 661, 701, 734, 776; appearance, 701; Don Bachardy takes classes with, 734, 739–40, 744, 751; at Santa Barbara exhibition, 778; Don Bachardy discontinues studies with, 782; exhibition (1959), 819
Olier, Jean-Jacques, 249
Oliver, Maria Rosa, 357
Olivier, Laurence (later Baron), 795, 804–5, 809, 814, 822, 824, 851, 872, 883
Ollie (boy
neighbor), 710, 715
Olvidados, Los (film), 771n
Omala (Vividishananda’s disciple), 326–7
On the Beach (film), 837
On the Waterfront (film), 466
O’Neil, Barbara, 86–7
O’Neil, George, 86–7, 92
O’Neill, Donna, 863, 873
O’Neill, Eugene: All God’s Chillun, 611; Long Day’s Journey Into Night, 673, 744
O’Neill, Patty see Old, Patty
Ooka, Shohei: Fires on the Plain, 698
Oppenheim, Mr. (Haverford refugee), 214
Oppenheimer, Robert, 593
Oran: French fleet attacked by British, 96, 101, 102n
Ordóez, Antonio, 822
Orpheus (film), 437
Orpheus Descending (film), 863
Orwell, George, 364
Orwell, Sonia (George Orwell’s wife) see Pitt-Rivers, Sonia
Osborne, John, 891, 894–5, 899; Epitaph for George Dillon (play; with Anthony Creighton), 800; Luther, 899
Oshinomi, Mr. (gardener), 768
Osmond, Dr. Humphry, 471, 622, 663
“Others, The” (C.I.) see “Waldemar”
Ottonini, Duilio, 687
Ouspenskaya, Maria, 79
Owen, Wilfred, 5, 303
Owens, Rodney: gives canaries to C.I., 406; and Hayden Lewis, 406, 451, 703; visits C.I., 465, 679; business, 506; illness, 613; C.I. rejects, 628; house, 635, 674; near-breakdowns, 674, 679; entertains C.I., 703; and Caskey, 812; and C.I.’s gold watch gift for Don Bachardy, 813
“Ozzie and Harriet” (TV programme), 815n
Paalens, Luchita, 481
Pacific Coast Writers’ Conference (1960), 873–4
Pagan, Isabelle M.: From Pioneer to Poet, 858
Page, Geraldine, 801
Paget, R. T., 406
Pakula, Alan, 755
Palmer, Mark, 275
Palos Verdes, California, 355
Pan, Hermes, 770
Paramount film studios, 259, 262–3
Paris, 386, 400–1, 562–4
Paris Review, The, 848
Parker, Eleanor, 692
Parkes, Wayne, 625
Parkes, Zena, 774
Parks, Don, 785–6
Parness, Sandy, 129
Parrish, Robert and Kathy, 495, 506
Parry, Roy, 631, 741
Parsons, Louella O., 886n
Partisan Review, The, 282
Pasternak, Boris, 824
Pasternak, Joe, 507, 848n
Patanjali: How to Know God, xxv, xxvii, xxxvi, 289 & n, 410, 415, 426, 433, 437, 441, 446, 448
Paton, Alan, 673
Patrick, Nigel, 649
Patterson, Floyd, 869
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