Christopher Isherwood Diaries Volume 1

by Christopher Isherwood

  Paul see Sorel, Paul

  “Paul” (C.I.; section of Down There on a Visit), xvi, xlix, 861–3, 867, 869–71, 875, 877, 879–80, 882, 884, 885–8, 891–6

  Pauling, Linus, 841n

  Pavan, Marisa, 477–8, 490, 508, 535–6; baby boy, 715–16

  Pavitrananda, Swami, 775–6, 801, 890

  Paxton, Mrs. John, 876

  Peak District (England), 824–5

  Pearl, The (film), 408

  Pears, Peter, 206, 387, 391, 394, 417n

  Peck, Gregory, 387

  Peckinpah, Sam, 881n

  Pederson, Mike, 625

  Peggy see Kiskadden, Peggy

  PEN Club, New York, 11

  Pendleton, James, 668, 744, 794

  Pendleton, Mary Frances (Dodo), 881

  Percy, Esmé, 579

  Perkins, Anthony, 789

  Perlin, Bernie, 672

  Perls, Mrs.: sells house to C.I., 821, 826–7

  Peschelt, Dr., 625, 668, 679, 780, 788, 818, 842

  Pétain, Marshal Philippe, 101

  Petronius: Satyricon, 680

  Pettigrew, Christina, 671

  Peyton Place Revisited (film), 826

  Pfeiffer, Don, 441

  Philadelphia, 800–1

  Philip, Mr. (Haverford refugee), 213–15, 219

  Philipps, Cristina, 385, 391

  Philipps, Wogan, 385, 391

  Phipps, Bill, 863, 887

  Picard, Jacob, 185, 208

  Picasso, Pablo, 544, 558; Girl Reading (painting), 341n, 370

  Pickering, George, 501

  Pickett, Clarence, 221

  Pickford, Mary, 618, 859

  Pidgeon, Walter, 490

  Pien Chihlin, 403

  Pierce, Mrs.: lends typewriter to C.I., 798

  Pilates, Joseph, 392

  Pink Jungle, The (film), 850

  Pinney, Jim, 239–40

  Pitoeff, Anita, 391

  Pitoeff, Ludmilla, 391

  Pitoeff, Sasha, 409n

  Pitt-Rivers, Michael, 824n

  Pitt-Rivers, Sonia (née Brownell; then Orwell), 824

  Pius XII, Pope, 472, 550n; death, 782

  Plato, 849, 851, 871, 885, 888–92; Apology, 877; Crito, 877, 880; Gorgias, 869; Phaedo, 880; Phaedrus, 876; Republic, 871, 880, 887, 891; Timaeus, 891

  Plomer, William: C.I. meets in England, xxxv, 391, 403, 583, 594, 824; on Gerald Heard, 21; character, 407, 583; Paper Houses, 89

  Plowright, Joan (later Lady Olivier), 895

  Poe, James, 878

  Poland, Scott, 535, 603

  Pollock, Peter, 391

  Porcaro, Vincent, 643, 773

  Porter, Elizabeth, 192–4, 200, 213–14, 219, 222, 230

  Portland Vedanta Center, Oregon, 149, 324–6, 496

  Poss, Stanley, 899

  Poulain, Augustin, 28

  Prabha (Phoebe Nixon; later Pravrajika Prabhaprana), 297

  Prabhavananda, Swami: C.I. meets, xiii, 43–4, 50; beliefs, xiii–xiv, 656, 729, 761, 791; relations with and counsel to C.I., xiv–xv, xxii–xxiii, xxv, xxviii, 82, 93, 114, 116–17, 121, 123–4, 126–7, 128–9, 132, 149, 151, 252, 257, 272, 276, 279, 303, 321, 344, 349, 352–5, 377, 390, 415, 434, 453, 478, 526, 531, 647, 657, 664, 678, 681–3, 690, 703, 725, 745, 747, 750, 789, 821, 890; initiates C.I., xvi, xxxv, 124–6, 441; translation of Gita, xviii, xxi, 240, 252, 328–9, 333, 348, 350, 354; translates Shankara with C.I., xxiii, 384; translates Patanjali with C.I., xxv, 289n, 410, 448; disapproves of drug taking, xli, 660–1, 695, 744; influences Heard, 28; lectures and teachings, 107–8, 112, 127, 137, 270, 289, 332, 357, 608; Heard on, 110; absence, 122; and Denny Fouts, 123, 125, 316; smoking, 126, 143, 240; on sex, 127; attitude to war, 133; heart attack, 140; Heard breaks with, 143–4; and Sister Lalita, 149; women devotees, 149–50; life-style, 151; disapproves of hatha yoga, 156–7; advises C.I. against joining Quakers, 210–11; and Vedanta, 228; and Trabuco, 235; and C.I.’s registration as conscientious objector, 240, 250; visits Trabuco, 240; and C.I.’s intention to become monk, 250, 261; and George Fitts, 267–8, 409; and C.I. at Ivar Avenue, 271; and Richard Thom, 272–3, 276–8; and Hayne, 281; total belief in God, 284; visits Huxleys at Llano, 289; at Peggy’s, 292; denounces patriotism, 294; irritated by jay, 296; on reincarnation, 297; leaves to attend to Akhilananda, 298; returns to California, 302; resists Ramakrishna Order regulations, 305; sickness from hemp drink, 306; C.I.’s regard for, 308; filmgoing, 331, 693; ill-health, 335, 741; directions and rules, 338; and Johnny Latham’s death, 339–40; at funerals, 341; compassion, 343; disdains novels, 343; and Sudhira’s illness, 347, 351; prospective property on Pacific Palisades, 349; and Vernon Old, 352, 359, 363; and Montecito property, 359; warns C.I. of Sudhira’s indiscretions, 362; at Ananda Bhavan, 364, 369, 371–3; and Asit’s draft problems, 368; and Maugham’s The Razor’s Edge, 383; admonishes C.I. over life-style, 388; on Sister Lalita’s final illness and funeral, 412–13; on purity as truth, 428; urges C.I. to live at Trabuco, 438–9; limits meditation period, 450; in C.I. dreams, 458, 463; consoles John Yale, 496; C.I. gives sherry to, 508; and Boshi Sen, 511n; on Gita, 531; and C.I.’s 1956 return from Europe, 598; and C.I.’s Ramakrishna book, 599, 691; visits Santa Barbara with C.I., 603, 607; visits C.I., 622, 686; accepts Don Bachardy, 623–4; visits Vedanta Place with C.I., 623; on Christ’s teaching, 624; and “The Saint” (Maugham story), 631, 634; disapproves of Starcke, 636; asks van Druten to write on Vedanta, 649; and morals charge against monk, 663, 665, 717; and Prema (Yale), 665–7; and C.I.’s trip to New York, 671; gives silk wrapper to C.I., 676; at Vivekananda’s shrine, 677; depression, 722; Prema on, 723; concern for Aldous Huxley, 747; and Jennifer Jones, 758–9, 773; bans sale of Marie Louise Burke’s book on Vivekananda, 765; holiday at Laguna, 775; and Amiya, 787; sends turkey to C.I., 790; intensity of experience, 791; invites C.I. to stay at Vedanta Place, 796; and Medora, 802; and monk wishing to marry, 817–18, 821, 828; visits India, 826, 828, 830; return to Vedanta Place, 846; on fear preceding vision, 862; Father’s Day lunch for, 866–7; Don Bachardy draws, 890

  prakriti (or maya), 128

  Prater Violet (C.I.): and Berthold Viertel, xiv, xix, 264, 291; writing, xviii–xxi, xxix, 264, 291, 307, 337, 342, 351, 356, 367, 369, 371, 374, 376; published, xxiii, 384; love and sex in, xxx; C.I. corrects proofs, 390; Chinese translation, 403; Arthur Freed praises, 512; proposed film of, 515; Upward on, 590; reception, 702

  Pratt, Dallas, 223

  Prema see Yale, John

  Premananda, Swami, 291, 478

  Preston, Jonathan, 793–4, 875–6

  Price, Mr. and Mrs. (of Phoenix, Arizona), 807

  Pride and Prejudice (film), 88

  Priestley, J. B.: An Inspector Calls, 588

  Pringle, Aileen, 394

  Prisoner, The (film), 610

  Private Property (film), 863

  Prodigal, The (film), 468

  Prokosch, Frederic (“Fritz”), 197, 551; A Tale for Midnight, 551

  Proust, Marcel, 694; Le côté de Guermantes, 666

  Punch (magazine), 467

  Quail, Jimmy, 197

  Quakers see American Friends Service Committee; Friends, Society of

  Queen Elizabeth (ship), 385, 392, 393, 442

  Quemoy, 466n, 771, 774, 777

  Quiroga, Alex, 713

  Rabwin, Marcus (Mark), 344–5, 353, 786

  Radebaugh, Roy see Cromwell, Dick

  Radhakrishnan, Sarvepalli, 744

  Radiguet, Raymond, 416

  Rage in Heaven (film), xv, 90, 94–5, 129, 131, 133, 563

  Rahill, Bill, 166, 172, 174, 187, 224

  Rainmaker, The (film), 671

  Raintree County (film), 615, 647, 649

  Rajagopal, Rosalind Williams, 49

  Rajagopalacharya, Desikacharya, 49

  rajas, 128

  Rake’s Progress, The see Stravinsky, Igor

  Ramakrishna: influence and effect on C.I., xxviii, 122, 435, 438, 453, 456, 464; C.I. works on, xliii–xlv, 464, 599, 609, 612–13, 615–16, 621, 629, 632
, 637–8, 648, 682, 691–2, 701, 703, 733–5, 739, 741, 743, 744, 747, 752, 762, 764–5, 769, 771–4, 778–9, 781, 786–7, 789, 798, 806, 808, 811, 820–1, 826, 835, 839, 843–5, 851–3, 877, 897–8, 900; rebukes Vivekananda, 112, 291; Huxley on, 114; and Denny Fouts, 123; C.I. meditates on, 125; and Prabhavananda, 126–7; and temple rituals, 129, 292–3; and C.I.’s joining Quakers, 211; Madhabi’s play about, 309; readings from, 357; birthdays, 408, 476, 584, 738, 804; following, 478; Saradananda’s book on, 600, 620, 625, 628, 638–40, 787; Rolland’s life of, 668; The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, 813n

  Ramakrishna Math and Mission, Calcutta, 668

  Ramakrishna Mission, Hollywood, 28

  Ramakrishna Order: regulations, 305

  Rameau, Hans, 95, 116, 536

  Ramsay, Ivor, 582

  Ramsay, Louie, 584

  Ramsey, Marjorie (“Marg”), 749, 751

  Random House (publishers), 458, 691, 808, 811–12, 814

  Rapf, Harry, 146–7

  Rassine, Alexis, 393, 403–4, 564–5

  Rathbun, Jack, 855

  Rattigan, Terence, 592, 687; The Winslow Boy, 391; Separate Tables, 687

  Ravagli, Angelino, 94–5, 238, 429

  Ray, Nicholas, 770

  Reading, Bertice, 878

  Rebecca (film), 87n

  Red Badge of Courage, The (film), 450n

  Redgrave, (Sir) Michael, 596, 678

  Reed, John, 430

  Reeves, Miss (MGM secretary), 117

  Reid, Bill, 648, 650, 657, 659, 668

  Reilly, Walter, 517

  Reinhardt, Gottfried: C.I. works for, xv, xxv, 67, 76, 78, 87, 90; and outbreak of war, 46; cynicism, 66; and Salka Viertel, 73, 119; George O’Neil works for, 86; character, 87; takes U. S. citizenship, 89; entertained by Viertels, 92; and Rage in Heaven, 129, 133–4; and Robert Montgomery, 133–4; C.I. visits, 138; and Peter Viertel’s plan to enlist, 138–9; and Somerset Maugham, 142; C.I. re-encounters, 361; marriage, 361; C.I. works on The Great Sinner for, 387, 393, 406; produces The Red Badge of Courage, 450; complains about Hemingway, 451; neglects C.I., 628; in New York, 671

  Reinhardt, Max, 82, 214

  Reinhardt, Silvia, 361, 450, 671

  Reinhardt, Wolfgang, 345, 361, 368–9, 376, 383, 868–9

  Reisner, Mr. and Mrs. (Haverford refugees), 210–11, 213, 215

  Reisner, Chuck, 130–1

  Remarque, Erich Maria, 713–14

  Remick, Lee, 894

  Renaldo, Tito: at Sister Lalita’s funeral, 413; relations with C.I., 417; overstrains, 453; in Mexico, 476, 638; rejoins Prabhavananda, 665, 677; leaves Vedanta Place, 715–17; on Prema running Vedanta Society, 718; antagonism to Prabhavananda, 735; returns to Trabuco, 861; mental state, 890, 895

  Renault, Mary: The King Must Die, 779

  René see Blanc-Roos, René

  Renoir, Jean, 563n, 564

  Repton (school), 47

  Requiem (film), 875

  Reventlow, Lance, 795

  Reynolds, Debbie, 778

  Rhee, Syngman, 457

  Rhodes, Esther, 246

  Rich see Thom, Richard

  Rich, John, 207, 224, 226–7

  Rich, Mrs. John, 226

  Richard see Thom, Richard

  Richards, Jeff, 856

  Richardson, Tony, 867–9, 872, 875–6, 878–9, 881–3, 891, 893–5, 898n

  Rilke, Rainer Maria: Malte Laurids Brigge, 132

  Rimbaud, Arthur, 218, 271, 460

  Ripley, Dwight, 132

  Ritajananda, Swami, 855, 867, 890

  Ritchie, Donald, 825

  Rivkin, Allen, 505

  Roach, Hal, 799

  Robards, Jason, 899

  Robertson, David, 417

  Robertson, Gay, 858

  Robeson, Paul, 390

  Robinson, Bill, 775, 780, 872

  Robinson, Edward G., 795

  Robinson, Moritz, 191, 199, 208, 212, 286

  Robinson, Mrs. Moritz, 199, 201, 208, 212

  Robson, Flora, 86–7

  Robson-Scott, William, 391

  Rocha, Pablo, 441–2

  Rodakiewicz, Henwar: in Hollywood, 33–5, 62–3; Gerald Heard urges C.I. to work with, 89; friendship with C.I., 113; and Felix Greene, 164; in New York, 232; marriage breakdown, 237; plans return to Hollywood, 264; and Peggy’s marriage to Kiskadden, 300

  Rodakiewicz, Peggy see Kiskadden, Peggy

  Rodd, Marcel, 350, 354

  Roder, Hellmut, 21, 25, 33, 35

  Rodgers, Richard, and Hart, Lorenz: Pal Joey, 749n

  Roerick, Bill, 274, 279, 336, 364–5, 392, 495

  Rogers, Buddy, 859

  Rogers, Ginger, 850

  Rogers, Samuel, 176

  Rogers, Will, 47, 802n

  Rolfe, Frederick William (“Baron Corvo”), 634n, 651

  Rolland, Romain: Jean-Christophe, xliv, 643–4, 646–8, 650, 652, 654, 655, 657, 678, 684, 686, 689, 692, 694–5, 702, 710, 715, 738, 741, 744; The Life of Ramakrishna, 668

  Romanoff, Mike, 675

  Rome, 548–52

  Roosevelt, Franklin D., 47n, 88, 92, 124, 220, 265n

  Rose, Billy, 9

  Rose, Douglas, 260

  Rose Tattoo, The (film), xl, 469, 662

  Rosen, Al, 42

  Rosenberg, Ethel and Julius, 457

  Rosenberg, Otto, 191–3, 199, 208

  Ross, Alan, 391–3

  Ross, Jean, x, 384, 391–2

  Ross, Lillian, 450

  Ross, Sarah, 384, 391

  Rossetti, Christina: “Up-Hill,” 305n

  Roth, Sanford (“Sandy”), 442, 536

  Routledge, Norman, 581–2, 726

  Royce, Josiah, 179

  Rubin, Renée, 613, 628

  Rueda, Victor, 417

  Russell, Bertrand Arthur William, 3rd Earl, 49–50, 58–9, 202–4

  Russell, Peter, Lady, 202–4

  Russo-Nazi Pact (1939), 45

  Rustic Road see East Rustic Road

  Ruysbroeck, Jan van, 178

  Ryan, Robert, 678

  Rylands, George (“Dadie”), 582

  Sabato, Alfredo, 341, 343, 347–8, 350–1

  Sabato, Helene, 341, 346–8, 350–1

  Sacco and Vanzetti case (1927), 220

  Sadler, Kate, 445

  Sahara (film), 330

  Sahl, Mort, 878

  St. Edmund’s (school), Hindhead, Surrey, viii

  St. John, Jill, 795n

  St. Joseph, Ellis, 650; in California, 66; C.I. meets, 73; at C.I. party, 740; Passenger to Bali (play), 42, 66, 73–4

  Salinger, Conrad (Connie), 466

  Salinger, J. D., 487; “Franny” (story) and Nine Stories, 487n; “Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut” (story), 423n

  Salka see Viertel, Salka

  Sally Bowles (proposed musical), 785

  Salmi, Albert, 720

  Salt, Waldo, 84–5

  Sammet family (neighbors), 710, 715, 741, 785

  Samuels, Helene, 299, 801

  Samuels, Lesser: C.I. works with on films, xxiv–xxvi, 256, 259, 262, 384, 387, 391, 394, 412, 414, 788n; writes screenplay of A Woman’s Face, 115, 120; Victor Saville quarrels with, 119, 121; hedonism, 120; on Robert Montgomery, 133; on Hollywood virility, 257; on C.I.’s cycling, 261; friendship with C.I., 299, 477; meets C.I. in New York, 801

  Sanctuary (film), 893

  Sand, George, 94–5

  Sandburg, Carl, 898

  Sanders, George, 135, 281

  San Dimas camp, 138, 140–1, 152, 159, 274, 298

  Sandwich, Ella, Countess of see Amiya

  Sandwich, George Montagu, 9th Earl of (Amiya’s husband), 566

  San Francisco, 120, 771–3

  San Francisco (film), 569

  San Francisco Vedanta Center, 323

  Sanjust, Filippo, 552

  Sankarananda, Swami, 729, 799

  Sanskrit language: C.I. learns, 29

  Santa Barbara, 603, 607, 614, 657, 684; University of California at, xlix, 854, 855n, 856, 858; Museum, 778

  Santa
Fe, 711–12

  Santa Monica, xxxvi, 266, 274, 307, 341–2, 349, 352, 367, 377

  Santa Paula (ship), 392

  Sarada (Folling): at Ivar Avenue, 150–1, 268, 272–4, 278, 281, 292, 296, 298, 314, 353; illness, 306; on Garbo, 308; and Kolisch’s syphilis theory, 322; sees The Song of Bernadette, 331–2; and C.I.’s absence, 338; and Johnny Latham’s death, 340; on Tremblay, 368; at Ananda Bhavan, 371–2; C.I. revisits, 684; saintliness, 717; leaves Vedanta, 818

  Sarada Devi (Holy Mother), xvi, 761

  Sarada Math, Santa Barbara, 684

  Saradananda, Swami, 664; Sri Ramakrishna the Great Master, 600, 620, 625, 628, 638–40, 787

  Sassoon, Siegfried, 5

  Satprakashananda, Swami, 717

  sattva, 128

  Saturday Evening Post, The, 784

  Saturnia (ship), 538–40

  Saunders, Brad, 535–6, 615, 640–4

  Saville, Kenley, 687

  Saville, Victor, 94–5, 115, 119, 121, 257, 261

  Sawtelle (hospital), 524–5

  Scala, Gia, 792

  Scallon, Joe, 532

  Schallert, Edwin, 647

  Schary, Dore, 469, 506, 508, 772

  Scheffler, Johann see Angelus Silesius

  Scheler, Max, 556, 561–2, 644–5, 647

  Schindler, Mr. and Mrs. (Haverford refugees), 214, 221–2, 229

  Schindler, Andy (son of above), 229

  Schley, Edna (Leonardson), 76–7, 124, 159, 301, 376–7

  Schloss, Betty, 191, 208

  School of Tragedy, The (C.I.) see World in the Evening, The

  Schreiber, Taft, 890

  Schubert, Bob, 822

  Schulberg, Budd, 333

  Schultz, Ted, 631

  Schwed, Peter, 729

  Scofield, Paul, 594

  Scott, Winfield, 712

  Scott, Zachary and Ruth, 800

  Scott-Kilvert, Ian, 391, 562

  Screen Writers’ Guild, 846

  Searle, Alan, 558–60, 823–5

  Seattle, 327

  Seidemann, Alfred, 191–2, 199, 208, 221, 224

  Sellars, Dr., 507–8, 532, 611, 613, 618, 620, 622, 663, 680

  Selznick, David O.: C.I. works with, xlv, 88, 142, 341, 738–43, 747, 750–1, 754–4, 756–7, 779; abandons Mary Magdalene, xlv, 759; friendship with C.I., 745–6, 747, 749–50, 755, 765–6, 856, 858, 876–7, 892; Father Bruckberger threatens to sue, 748; gives parties, 749, 762; and George Koniaris, 751; visits New York, 756; snubs Lesley Blanch (Gary), 757; political interests, 766; revives Mary Magdalene, 783; and Tender Is the Night; political views, 856–7; entertains Tony Richardson and Mary Ure, 876, 877

  Selznick, Jennifer see Jones, Jennifer

  Selznick, Mary Jennifer (David and Jennifer’s daughter), 745, 755, 863