Sen, Boshi, 511
Sen, Keshab Chandra, 355
Sennett, Mack, 516
Severinghaus (Haverford Quaker), 188, 226
Shake Hands with the Devil (film), 796
Shakespeare, William: All’s Well That Ends Well, 823; Coriolanus, 822, 824; Henry V, 578; King Lear, 809–10, 812, 822, 824; Othello, 390; A Winter’s Tale, 204
Shankara: The Crest Jewel of Discrimination, xxiii, xxv, 384
Shanta (Mrs. Latham; Johnny’s mother), 338–40, 745
Sharaku (Japanese artist), 886
Sharman, Christopher, 224
Sharman, H.B., 187
Shary, Dore, 257
Shaw, George Bernard, 481; Major Barbara, 673; St. Joan, 290, 300
Shaw, Irwin, 563–4, 649n
Shearer, Norma, 63, 693, 876–7
Sheean, Vincent, 47
Sheldon, Mr. and Mrs. Karel, 192–3, 205, 207–8
Shenkel, John (Ananta), 408, 446, 453, 833
Shepherd, Amos, 417
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley: The Rivals, 591; The School for Scandal, 858, 861, 863
Sherwood, James: The Charliquinade, 689; Stradella, 689n
Sherwood, Robert: The Petrified Forest, 504
Shifrin, Arnold, 819
“Shore, The” (C.I. narrative; earlier “California Story”), 415n, 442n
Short, Claude, 822
Shovel, Sir Cloudesley, 588
Shroyer, Fred, 830, 832, 835n, 839
Shute, Nevil, 837n
Sicily, xix, 304
Siegel, Bugsy, 563
Siegel, Jerry, 863
Signer, David, 246
Signoret, Simone, 899
Silk Stockings (film), 716
Sillitoe, Alan: “The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner,” 872
Simenon, Georges: Belle, 770
Simon and Schuster (publishers), 686, 713–14, 729, 815, 828, 838, 843
Sinclair, Robert, 129, 133–4
Singer, S. Fred, 487n
Single Man, A (C.I.), x, xxx–i, xxxiii, xl, xlvii, xlix, 475n, 621n, 623n, 629n, 653n, 802n
Siodmak, Robert, 387
Sirk, Douglas, 826, 827
Sister Lalita (Carrie Mead Wykoff; “Sister”): helps found and run Ivar Avenue Vedanta Center, 149–50, 268, 277; pet dog (Dhruva), 149, 356, 371; and Vivekananda, 149, 348; on sprouting walnut tree, 279; visits Peggy, 292; patriotism, 294; looks at land at Palos Verdes, 355; on Ganna Walska, 362; at Ananda Bhavan, 364; illness, 378; death and funeral, 394, 412–13
Sitwell family, 405
Sitwell, Edith, 405
Skelton, Barbara, 513n
Smith, Dodie see Beesley, Dodie Smith
Smith, G. B., xiv, 525
Smith, R. E., 98
Smolin, Jay, 596
Sneden’s Landing, New York, 385
Socrates: proposed play on, xlviii, 847–8, 851, 863, 865, 891
Soldati, Mario, 555–6; The Capri Letters, 512
Solomon, Gladys, 563
Soma, Ricki see Huston, Ricki
Song of Bernadette, The (film), 331–2
Sons and Lovers (film), 798, 853
Sophie see Moulaert, Sophie
Sorel, Paul (born Paul Dibble): character, 232, 236–7, 370, 432; relations with Chris Wood, 232–3, 242, 261–2, 275–6, 278, 301–2, 370, 463; and Heard’s accident, 240; returns from New York, 275; threatens scandal, 292; C.I. attempts to locate, 323; leaves for New York, 370; C.I. rejects, 628; in Sunset Towers West, 862
Sorokin, Natasha, 425
Soubirous, Bernadette, 331n
Soulé, Mrs. (singer), 326
Sound and the Fury, The (film), 776
South America: C.I. and Caskey visit, xxiv, xlv, 386, 392; Stravinsky plans tour of, 849, 866, 873, 889
Southwell (Cambridge undergraduate), 583
Spectrum (magazine), 710
Speed see Lamkin, Speed
Spellman, Cardinal Francis Joseph, 550
Spencer, Roger, 245, 294, 298, 314, 322–3, 335, 361, 367
Spender, Humphrey, 676n
Spender, Margaret (“Lolly”), 676
Spender, Matthew, 802
Spender, Natasha (Lady; née Litvin): C.I. meets in London, 565–6, 594; in USA, 673–4, 676–7, 801–2, 816; Chandler admires, 676–7; recommends wallpaper to Evelyn Hooker, 730; marriage relations, 806
Spender, (Sir) Stephen: C.I. sees on visits to England, xxxv, 391, 549, 564–7, 583–4, 590, 594, 824; on C.I.’s pacifism, 7; on Hellmut Roder, 25; and C.I.’s meditating, 37; in wartime England, 47; letters to C.I., 77, 369; C.I. meets in U. S. A., 386, 392, 393–4; friendship with C.I., 442, 504, 830; and Dylan Thomas’s death, 459; social life in England, 513; invites C.I. to stay with in England, 520; dissatisfaction with England, 590; fails to write to C.I., 623; Jewishness, 649; 1956 visit to New York, 660; supposed asexuality, 676; Beaton dislikes, 725; visits C.I. in California, 746–8, 801–3, 809, 812–13; reads drafts of C.I.’s Down There on a Visit, 804, 822, 851; marriage relations, 806; and views of young Americans, 813; at Evelyn Hooker’s, 816; C.I. sends “Ambrose” to, 849–50, 852; “Acts passed beyond” (poem), 282; The Burning Cactus, 538; (ed. and trans.) Great Writings of Goethe, 772; Journals, 806n
Spigelgass, Leonard, 482, 513n, 517
Sputnik (Russian satellite), 487n
Staël, Nicholas de, 735
Stage Door Canteen (film), 303
Stalin, Josef V.: death, 455
Stanley, Leonard, 836
Stapleton, Maureen, 595
Starcke, Walter: at Trabuco, 437; relations with C.I., 441, 493, 624, 636; and van Druten, 457, 508, 624–5, 636, 641; at AJC ranch, 492; Dick Foote criticizes, 522; and Joel Goldsmith, 568, 636; Speed Lamkin’s rudeness to, 625; and Joanna Merlin, 639; on Goldsmith, 645; and van Druten’s heart attack, 658–60, 662, 671–2; splits with van Druten, 683, 685, 699, 715, 894; on round-the-world trip, 894
Stars Look Down, The (film), 146
Steed, Henry Wickham, 59
Steele, Erica (Gay Vaughan; later Gayle Vaughan), 719
Steen, Mike, 770, 844, 859–60
Steere, Douglas, 211, 217, 223, 287
Steffens, Lincoln, 425n
Steinbeck, John, 408; The Grapes of Wrath, 37, 157, 408
Steiner, Rudolf, 346n
Stephens, James: “The Lonely God” (poem), 491
Stern, James and Tania, 75, 90, 385, 387, 392, 595, 596
Stern, Josef Luitpold, 192, 200, 205, 207, 222, 229, 230
Steuermann, Eduard, 307, 311
Steuermann, Margeret (Mausi), 46, 56, 62, 75, 311
Stevens, George, 618, 796, 878, 898
Stevens, George, Jr., 873, 878
Stevenson, Adlai, 645, 879
Stevenson, John, 878, 879–80
Stevenson, Robert, 103, 111–12
Stewart, Donald Ogden, 425n
Stewart, James, 783n
Stickel family, 653n, 704, 715, 732, 768, 781, 785, 793
Stieglitz, Alfred, 431
Stimson, Henry L., 228
Stokes brothers: Oscar Wilde (play), 8
Stokowski, Leopold, 50, 430
Stolen Life, A (film), 880
Stoloff (TV writer), 835
Stompanato, Johnny, 745
Stonorov, Mr. and Mrs. (Haverford refugees), 201
Storer, Laura and Sadie, 577
Storm, Hans Otto, 139
Strasberg, Mrs. (owner of East Rustic Road house), 414
Strasberg, Lee, 768
Stratford (Connecticut), 823
Stratford-upon-Avon (England), 823–4
Stravinsky, Igor: friendship and meetings with C.I., 387, 426, 477, 514, 516, 524, 527, 536, 600–1, 690, 698, 735, 748, 755, 763–4, 799, 815, 845, 853, 855, 862, 866, 872, 889; sets Dylan Thomas poem, 468; dreams music, 600–1; suffers stroke, 663; seventy-fifth birthday concert, 704–5; intestinal bleeding, 755; drinking, 763, 799; buys Don Bachardy drawing of C.I., 804; depression, 820; ageing, 845, 847, 856, 873; attends C.I. lecture on Kipling, 847; book
of conversations with Robert Craft, 848, 850; Don Bachardy draws, 848–9; South American trip, 849, 866, 873, 889; arm injured, 850; visits Gerald Heard, 855–6; birthday dinner (1960), 866; at Kabuki performance, 872, 877; The Rake’s Progress (opera), 393, 402, 404, 426n, 712, 815, 850, 889
Stravinsky, Vera: friendship and meetings with C.I., 387, 426, 514, 516, 524, 527, 535, 536, 600–1, 690, 698–9, 735, 748, 755, 763, 799, 815, 855, 853, 855, 862, 866, 872, 889; paintings, 477, 713, 758, 868–9; appearance and character, 705, 713, 799, 820; drinking, 763; on Robert Craft’s fatness, 816; attends C.I. lecture on Kipling, 847; South American trip, 849, 866, 873, 889; and Gerald Heard, 855–6
Stricklyn, Ray, 758
Strindberg, August: Miss Julie, 639
Strong, Lou, 489
Stroud, Bill, 597, 600–1, 611, 613, 622, 625, 628, 631, 677, 679
Stuart, Claire, 156, 159
Stürgkh, Count Carl, 227
Stuurman, Dr. Douwe, 855–6
Sudhira (Helen Kennedy): death addiction, 269; qualities and beauty, 269–70, 277, 309; C.I.’s feelings for and relationship with, 270, 277, 308–10, 323, 345, 375; at Ivar Avenue, 270, 276, 279, 296, 317, 357; treats C.I., 275, 287–8, 295; on Webster Milam, 280; delirium, 287–8; visits Huxleys at Llano, 289; on chanting, 293; on Madhabi, 302; plans to leave Ivar Avenue, 306; breakdown, 314; attacks Kolisch, 322; nurses Madhabi, 332; minds house for Peggy, 333; treats Ben Bok, 333; colonic ulcer operation, 338, 341; and Johnny Latham’s death, 339–40; on snakes, 341; returns from hospital, 343; and Al Clifton, 344; sees For Whom the Bell Tolls with C.I., 344; suspected cancer, 344–7, 348, 350, 352, 842; attends Helene Sabato, 346–7; sits with dying stranger, 346; illness at Sabatos”, 347–8, 350–1; hospitalized, 352; takes overdose, 353; and Vernon Old, 360, 367; indiscretions, 362; on Swami Yatiswarananda, 367; enlists in navy, 389; marriage, 413; at Sister Lalita’s funeral, 413; rattlesnake story, 419
Suez crisis (1956), 637, 639, 644, 658–9, 666
Sullavan, Margaret, 613
Sullivan, Maxine, 4
Sumac, Yma, 425
Sundowners, The (film), 887
Surmelian, Leon, 874
Surrey, Dr., 619
Susskind, David, 893–4
Sutherland, Graham, 387, 393
Swaddling, Leslie, 101
Switzerland, 560
Sycamore Road, Hollywood, xliii, 599, 602–3, 608, 612–13
Sycamore Trail, Hollywood, 35, 39
Symonds, John: The Great Beast, 550
Symons, A.J.A.: The Quest for Corvo, 634, 651
Syria, 666
Szczesny, Berthold, 392
Taber, Phil, 800
Tahiti, 646, 649, 655, 682, 686, 738, 820, 853
“Take It or Leave It” (C.I.; story), xvii, 230
Taliesin West, Scottsdale, Arizona, 409, 805–7
Talking to India (ed. Orwell), 364–5
tamas, 128
Tangier, xli–xlii, 539–46
Tantine see MacLeod, Josephine
Taos, 429, 712
Tarini see Nixon, Alice
Tarzan’s Fight for Life (film), 783
Tauch, Ed, 466
Taylor, Charles (“Spud”), 656, 696
Taylor, Elizabeth, 618, 647, 778, 837–8
Taylor, Frank: C.I. works with, 426; farewell scene, 440; and Dylan Thomas’s visit, 461; at Beverly Hilton, 532; in New York, 537–8; and C.I.’s short story anthology, 599, 614, 616–17, 625, 629, 640, 643, 672; on Mike Romanoff, 675; reports Jack Goodman’s death, 713; and C.I.’s Down There on a Visit, 800; and C.I.’s Berlin musical, 803, 805, 809–12; visits C.I., 814; and Marilyn Monroe, 826, 828; Don Bachardy sends specimen drawings to, 893
Taylor, Laurette, 650
Taylor, Nan, 532
Taylor, Paul, 590–1
Taylor, Robert, 761
Tchelitchev, Pavel, 697
Tecate symposium (1960), 867–8, 881
Teen-Age Caveman (film), 775
Tempest, Marie, 8
Temple, Shirley, 384
Ten Commandments, The (film), 665
Tender Is the Night (film), 738–40, 752, 792
Thales of Miletus, 248
Thatcher, Torin, 494
Theologia Germanica, 434n
Theosophists, 373
They Walk Alone (film), 92
This Is the Army (revue), 274
This Property Is Condemned (film), 900n
Thling, Ralph, 530
Thoeren, Robert, 67, 78–9, 81–2, 87, 89–90, 109, 129, 131, 134–5
Thoeren, Mrs. Robert, 109
Thom, Mr. (Richard’s father), 276–7, 334
Thom, Mrs. (Richard’s mother), 326, 334
Thom, Richard (Rich), 266, 268, 271–3, 276–80, 299, 302, 304–5, 325–6, 334–5, 446
Thomas, Caitlin, 462; Leftover Life to Kill, 724
Thomas, Dylan: C.I. meets, 458–63, 534; memorial concert for, 468; reading, 579; in C.I.’s short story anthology, 639, 640, 671; Emlyn Williams’s recital of, 805, 808; Richard Burton recites, 805
Thomas, Edward, 828–9
Thomas, Evan, 246
Thompson, Dorothy, 11
Thorndike, Dame Sybil, 672–3
Thorpe, Richard, 134, 468
Three Faces of Eve, The (film), 687, 749
Thumbs (play), 95
Thurau, Fräulein, 442n; death, 816
Thurber, James, 444–5
Thurlow family, 759–60
Tiedemann, Father, 244
Timbres, Rebecca, 195–6, 206
Time (magazine), 97, 283, 763, 811
Tinker see Austen, Howard
Tis see Bok, Welmoet
Tito see Renaldo, Tito
Tittle, Tommy, 390
Todd, Michael, 838n
Todd, Thelma, 140, 510
Todi, Jacopone da, 179
Together (film), 593
To Have and Have Not (film), 495
Toller, Christiane, 67
Toller, Ernst: “No More Peace,” 54
Tolotshko, Nicolas, 619
Tolstoy, Count Leo: A Confession, 228, 285
Tomorrow (magazine), xxvi, 425–6, 429n, 435n
Tondelayo, Gaby, 475
Tony see Bower, Tony; Duquette, Tony; Richardson, Tony
Tooker, George, 386, 392
Toomey, Brendan, 513
Totter (painter), 819
Toulmin, Alice, 519
Toynbee, Philip, 513
Trabuco: C.I. visits, xxxvi, 233–4, 240–2, 245, 437–9, 446, 448, 452–3, 496, 510–11, 708; Heard buys, 158, 234–5; Steere visits, 211, 217; dedicated as Ramakrishna Monastery, 394; Prabhavananda on, 657; discontent in, 765
Tracey, Spencer, 723
Traherne, Thomas, 118
Trancas, California, 528, 617
Travers, Robert, 731n
Treanor, Tom, 132
Tree, Iris: in California, 345–6, 373, 422, 440, 450, 513, 860; in Rome, 548–50, 552, 554; divorce from Friedrich Ledebur, 552; takes mescaline, 663; Carl Sandburg compliments, 898
Tremblay, Ed, 367–8, 378
Trevor-Roper, Patrick, 586, 735
Trigunatita, Swami, 323
Trilling, Lionel: E. M. Forster, 833; The Opposing Self, 524
Trimble, Larry, 160, 239
Trocchi, Alexander, 864
Trotti, Lamarr, 383
Truman, Harry S., 407n
Trumbo, Dalton, 81
Tugend, Harry, 673
Tully, Red, 832
Turgenev, Ivan: First Love, 631
Turkey, 666
Turner, Charles, 551, 553–5
Turner, Lana: in film Diane, xxxix, 480, 491, 494, 508, 512, 530, 535, 611; as sexual idol, 61; C.I. invites to party, 497–9; signs of tiredness, 502; boyfriend stabbed, 745; turns down Isherwood as writer for Valadon film, 827; new film (1960), 876
Turner, W. J., 90
Turville-Petre, Francis (“Franni”), xxiii, xxxix, 408, 464
Tutin, Dorothy, 465n, 569, 584, 594
Two-Faced
Woman (film), 209
Tynan, Elaine (Dundy), 850–1
Tynan, Kenneth, 567, 584–5, 850–1
U-2 spy plane incident (1960), 856n, 885
Uhse, Bodo, 41–2, 62, 65, 67, 88
Ujjvala, 478
United Services Organisation (USO) Center, Hollywood, 254
United States of America: enters war (1941), xvii, 199; C.I. takes citizenship, xxiv, 384, 391, 415; C.I. emigrates to, 3–5, 7–8; C.I.’s attitude to, 94; and war threat, 98, 132–3; in C.I.’s The Lost, 591
University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), 900
University of California at Santa Barbara see Santa Barbara
Upanishads, 108, 153
Uplifters’ Club, Los Angeles, 57, 68, 96
Upward, Edward: keeps diary with C.I., viii; fiction, x; at Cambridge, xi, 582, 756; relations with C.I., xiii–xiv, xxiii, 3–4, 47–8, 277, 442, 529–30; and Mortmere, xlii, 177, 530n, 756; on C.I.’s lack of capacity for abstract ideas, 7; on C.I.’s pacifism, 7; antipathy to religion, 29; and C.I.’s meditating, 37; C.I. sees on trips to England, 391, 403, 590; on self-consciousness, 630; C.I. sends draft of novel to, 758; reads “Mr Lancaster” (C.I.), 814, 816; reads “Ambrose” (C.I.), 852, 854; In the Thirties, 590, 783–4; “A Marxist Interpretation of Literature” (essay), x; The Spiral Ascent, viiin, xlii
Upward, Dr. Harold Arthur (Edward’s father), 176
Ure, Mary: in California, 867–9, 872, 875–6, 878–9, 881, 883; and John Osborne, 891, 894–5; and Simone Signoret, 899
Usha (Ursula Bond; later Pravrajika Anandaprana), 765
Uti, Betty, 770
Vacant Room, The (screenplay), xxvi, 437, 532, 617, 788, 800–1, 820, 832, 847
Valadon, Suzanne, 826, 827
Valentine, Joe, 140–1, 236–7
Valley Forge, 222
Vandanananda, Swami: C.I. meets, 516; Prabhavananda proposes as successor, 527; with Prabhavananda at Vedanta Place, 531; likes film of The King and I, 626; enquires about Griggs’s sex life, 668; and Dick Foote, 683; visits C.I., 686; C.I.’s feelings for, 691; on killing, 699–700; character, 717; in Laguna, 765, 821, 890; lustful feelings, 855
Vandenberg, Senator Arthur Hendrick, 18
van Druten, John: C.I. meets, 14–15; and pacifism, 15–16; in Los Angeles, 48; and Goldwyn, 53; recommends agents to C.I., 76–7; visits C.I., 98; works with C.I. on Forever and a Day (film), 107, 109; and Carter Lodge, 111–12, 339, 568, 645–6, 659–60, 662, 666, 683, 685, 688, 700, 715, 731, 733, 854; friendship and meetings with C.I., 111, 260, 335, 391, 457–8, 481, 484, 624, 636, 645, 649, 650, 652, 714, 731; and Christian Science, 112; and Beesleys, 258–9; and Aldous Huxley, 260; and Bill Roerick, 274; C.I. visits, 337–8; responsibilities, 339; avoids Dan Leonardson, 377; enthusiasm for Vivekananda, 424; meditations, 457, 492; at AJC ranch, 492; verse, 507–8; character and manner, 524, 574, 624, 645, 833, 871, 876; Dodie Smith Beesley praises, 568; and Joel Goldsmith, 568, 649, 659–60, 685, 715; C.I. fantasizes about assignment to hell, 579; Costigan complains of, 613; considers dramatizing Mr. Norris, 615–16; and Marguerite Lamkin, 616; shocked by Prabhavananda, 624; at beach, 625; directs The King and I, 625n; and Starcke, 636, 641, 658–60, 662, 671–2, 683, 685, 699, 715, 894; screenplay on First Love rejected, 639; Vernon Old seeks help from, 639; praises War and Peace (film), 641; telephone calls to C.I., 647; and Montgomery Clift, 648; wins action against Hecht-Lancaster, 651–2; heart attack and recovery, 658–63, 666; C.I. visits after illness, 671–2; and Dick Foote, 688, 700, 731, 854; survival prognosis, 688; health improves, 699; rents house on Pacific Coast Highway, 709; Mishima meets, 710; on Dodie Smith Beesley’s tame thrush, 711; enquires about “blighty” (word), 718; and Howard Austen, 721; scripts Anatomy of a Murder, 731; death and will, 733; C.I. dreams of, 747–8; recorded voice, 786; diaries, 803; collaborates with C.I., 820; Dancing in the Checkered Shade, 492, 508n, 613; I Am a Camera (adapted from C.I.’s Goodbye to Berlin), xxxv, xl, xlv, 388, 437, 439, 441, 442n, 447, 451, 465n, 617, 712, 747; John van Druten, Distinguished Playwright Series (recording), 786n; Leave Her to Heaven, 14, 291; The Vicarious Years, 568; The Widening Circle (memoirs), 624–5, 640
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