Van Dyke, Woody, 133
Van Fleet, Jo, 512
van Haren, Chuck, 766, 862, 865
Van Meegeren, Han, 430
Van Pelt (architect), 234
van Vechten, Carl, 429, 839
Variety (gay bar), Pacific Coast Highway, 388, 394, 418n
Varner, Van, 440
Varsi, Diane, 724n, 772
Vasari, Giorgio: Lives of the Painters, 766
Vaughan, Keith, 391, 403
Vaughan Williams, Ralph: Flos Campi, 452
Vecht, Mary, 869
Vedanta: C.I.’s recognition of, xv, 228; Gerald Heard studies, 28, 89; C.I.’s initial antipathy to, 29; on universe, 127; C.I.’s history of, 694–5
Vedanta Center, Hollywood (Ivar Avenue): C.I. moves to, xviii, xx, 261–3, 265–72, 275–8, 285–6, 288, 296–7, 308, 376; devotees, 149–51, 266–9, 408–9; rituals at, 274, 278, 291, 322, 348; C.I. describes, 285
Vedanta Kesari (magazine), 334
Vedanta Society, Hollywood, 266, 304, 343, 359, 608, 674–5
Vedanta and the West (magazine), 262
Vedanta for the Western World (anthology; ed. C.I.), xxi, 374
Vega Carpio, Lope Felix de, 92
Venice, 551–4
Vernon see Old, Vernon
Versailles, 402
Vesuvius, Mount, 547
Vidal, Eugene L., 517
Vidal, Gore: C.I. meets in Paris, 386, 393, 401–2; in England, 406; at Cat on a Hot Tin Roof opening, 479; visits Harry and Marguerite Brown, 498; on Gerald Hamilton’s posing for body of Churchill statue, 511; takes job at MGM, 511; friendship and meetings with C.I., 513, 518, 520–1, 532–3, 700, 720–1, 777, 883–4; unhappiness, 514, 533; and father, 517; takes exercise, 521, 526; Harry Brown threatens, 524; announces marriage, 527; Don Bachardy and, 530; film script on Dreyfus case, 531; visits C.I., 694, 858–60; on Tennessee Williams, 695; character, 777, 859; C.I. visits in New York, 825; runs for Congress, 858–9, 884; on Mary Pickford, 859; Don Bachardy draws, 860; on J. F. Kennedy, 883–4; The Best Man, 859, 884; Messiah, 521; On the March to the Sea (play), 777; Visit to a Small Planet, 798
Vidor, Florence, 769
Vidor, King, 555–6
Viertel, Berthold: C.I. works with in London, xii; in C.I.’s Prater Violet, xiv, 264, 291; as guru to C.I., xiv; film script writing, xv, 41–2, 51–2; returns to Hollywood, 39–40; qualities, 40–1, 57, 63, 312–13; and war threat, 45–6, 82; at Huxleys’ parties, 50–1, 58–9; and Samuel Goldwyn, 53–4; and conduct of war, 55; extravagance, 56; gives parties, 62; friendship and meetings with C.I., 65–7, 73, 75, 90, 265, 290, 307, 311, 312, 317–19, 391, 451, 512, 513; and Heard, 66; and Guttchen, 87–8, 91; sees Valeska Gert, 90–1; political views, 92, 265, 307; and Frieda Lawrence, 95; visits New York, 95; writes to C.I. from New York, 96; unhappiness, 118–19; C.I. visits in New York, 199, 208; financial problems, 300; resents C.I.’s move to Ivar Avenue, 300; and Peggy’s marriage to Kiskadden, 301; affair with Liesl Neumann, 311; and Brecht, 312, 318–19; poetry, 312; at Carousel, 816
Viertel, Christine (Peter’s daughter), 528, 758, 761
Viertel, Hans, 46, 56–7, 90, 307, 311, 590, 593
Viertel, Peter: Etta Hardt bosses, 56; escorts C.I. home after party, 67; C.I.’s fondness for, 73; argues for U.S. entry into war, 82; and C.I.’s wartime presence in USA, 88; seeks to enlist in Canada, 138–9; war service, 236, 307; marries Jigee Schulberg, 333; C.I. meets in England, 391; at C.I. parties, 391, 495; and Bettina Graziani, 466; escorts Lauren Bacall, 467; entertains C.I., 490; and Deborah Kerr, 757, 819–20; divorce, 815, 819–20; knowledge of Lorca, 820; film-making, 847–8; The Canyon, 62; Love Lies Bleeding, 821
Viertel, Salka: helps C.I. find work, xv; C.I. lives over garage, xxiii, 384, 391; in France, 45; and Garbo, 49–50, 68, 115, 300, 308, 761; at Huxleys’ parties, 49, 58; qualities, 56–7; work at MGM, 56, 119; and Maria Huxley, 58; entertaining, 62, 92, 102, 425; views and opinions, 66; friendship and meetings with C.I., 67, 73, 115, 290, 307, 311, 317, 407, 466, 490, 495, 518, 524, 528, 758, 761; on Louis B. Mayer, 67, 106; coaches Mausi Steuermann, 75; diet, 83; and Gottfried Reinhardt, 92; and son Peter’s leaving to enlist in Canada, 138; dogs, 239; and Lesser Samuels, 257; belief in God, 290; leaves MGM, 300; on 1948 election, 407; on Eleonora von Mendelssohn, 421–2; mother’s death, 452; loneliness, 467; C.I. disagrees with, 536; in Munich, 590; C.I. sees in London, 593; absent from 1958 Christmas party, 794; on son Peter’s divorce from Jigee, 820; filmmaking, 826
Viertel, Tommy, 56, 290, 307, 311, 333
Viertel, Virginia (formerly Schulberg; Peter’s first wife; “Jigee”): marriage to Peter, 333; visits C.I., 490; C.I. meets at Salka’s, 518; C.I. neglects, 628; divorce, 758, 815, 819–20; death, 844
View from Pompey’s Head, The (film), 508
Virgil, 579–80
Virgin Queen, The (film), 518, 521
Visconti, Luchino, 551
Vishwananda, Swami: moves to California, 302, 304–5, 306, 307–8, 310, 314; moves to Portland, 315, 324–6
“Visit to Anselm Oakes, A” (C.I.; story), xlii
Vitz, Mary, 716
Vivekananda, Swami: ambition, 112; on jnana yoga, 133; in USA, 149; and Brahmananda, 253–4; photograph, 271, 295, 315; retains doubts, 291; C.I. reads life of, 293; C.I. selects writings of, 351, 624; in C.I. poem, 354; attitude to life, 376; van Druten reads, 424; statue dedicated, 437; pujas, 676, 842; Californian shrine, 677; Marie Louise Burke’s book on, 765; and Mahendra Gupta, 867; Letters, 376n; “The Real Nature of Man” (lecture), 133, 168; What Religion Is (selection), 624n, 861–2, 869–72
Vividishananda, Swami, 324, 326–7
Vogel, Bob, 626
Voice of India, The (magazine), 29
Volga Boatmen, The (novel) 398n (film), 590
von Alvensleben, Werner see Alvensleben, Werner von
Voss, Lukas, 516
Vronsky, Vitya, 713
Waddell, Helen: The Desert Fathers, 175
Wagner, Robert, 723
“Wagon Train” (TV program), 889–92
Walcher, Hertha, 192, 212
Walcher, Jacob, 192, 212
Wald, Jerry: C.I. hopes to work with, 629, 638, 640; and Jean-Christophe project, 643–4, 646–8, 650, 652–3, 655, 662, 701, 738; buys No Down Payment, 654–5; and Gore Vidal, 694; makes The Long Hot Summer, 741; Gavin Lambert works for, 798; Don Bachardy draws, 848n; and Leslie Fiedler, 865
“Waldemar” (C.I.; section of Down There on a Visit; earlier “The Others”), xlix, 811, 856–7, 861
Waley, Arthur, 287, 403
Walker, Allen, 476
Walker, H. O., 17n
Wallace, Etta Mae, 166, 177, 246
Walska, Ganna, 362
War and Peace (film), 555–6, 641
War Resisters’ International, 15
Warner Brothers: C.I. works at, 383, 390; buys Ben Masselink’s The Crackerjack Marines, 842
Washington, D.C., 17–18
Wasson, Ken, 696
Watson, Mr. and Mrs. (of Haverford College), 197, 206
Watson, Peter: part-owns Picasso, 341; C.I. meets in London, 403–4, 565, 580, 584, 594; visits Gala (bar) in Hollywood, 409; death, 616, 618, 623; Beaton and, 725
Watson-Gandy, Tony, 420n
Watts, Alan: “Beat Zen, Square Zen, and Zen,” 780–1; The Wisdom of Insecurity, 847
Waugh, Evelyn, 405, 568; Vile Bodies, 585n
Waugh, Joan, 674
Waxman, Franz, 81
Waye, John, 157–8
Wayfarer, The (C.I.; film script), xl, 470n, 477, 482, 502, 506, 515–16, 521, 529, 531–2, 533n
Weaver, Bill, 548, 550–1
Web see Milam, Webster
Webb, Clifton, 758
Webster, John: The Duchess of Malfi, 317; The White Devil, 392
Webster, William, 844
Weigel, Helene (Frau Bertolt Brecht), 312, 317–18, 320
Weingarten, Lawrence (Larry), 467, 487–8, 501, 603, 711
Welles, Orson, 4, 173; Five Kings, 12, 14n
Wells, Dr. Phil, 274
Wells, H. G., First Men in the Moon, 132
Wells, Kady, 466
Welmoet see Bok, Welmoet
Werfel, Franz, 331n
Wescott, Glenway, 393, 504, 559, 596, 672
Wesker, Arnold: Roots, 825
West, (Dame) Rebecca, 640
“What Vedanta Means to Me” (C.I.), 437
Wheeler, Hugh, 537, 671, 801
Whelan, Miss (nurse), 109
White, Alan, 458
White, David, 166–7, 174
White, T. H., 612; Mistress Masham’s Repose, 612, 617, 621
Whiteman, Martin, 250
Whitman, Walt, 780, 852
Whymper, Edward, 452; Scrambles Amongst the Alps, 723
Wider Quaker Fellowship, 165
Wigram, Mary, 746
Wildeblood, Peter, 584
Wilder, Billy, 851
Wilder, Thornton: The Matchmaker, 709; Our Town, 274
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (film), 690
Willard, Frances Emma, 225
Willfort, Rita, 193
Williams, Dakin (Tennessee Williams’s brother), 859
Williams, Edwina (Tennessee Williams’s mother), 859
Williams, Emlyn, 568–9, 804–5, 808–9, 814
Williams, John, 485
Williams, Joyce (Dakin’s wife), 859
Williams, Molly (Emlyn’s wife), 569, 809
Williams, Oscar, 405
Williams, Tennessee: C.I. meets, 290; friendship with C.I., 311–12, 469, 829, 859–60, 862; and Andrew Lyndon, 392n; in England, 393, 406; and filming of The Rose Tattoo, 469–70; writing, 480; at Philadelphia play, 538, 801; absent from New York, 671; Gore Vidal on ambitions of, 695; undergoes operation, 702; at preview of On the Beach, 837; swimming, 838; gives fern to C.I., 840, 859; with family, 859; buys portrait by Don Bachardy, 860, 862–3; stays with Jim Charlton, 861; sends condolences on death of C.I.’s mother, 875; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, 470, 477, 479, 484–5, 859; The Glass Menagerie, 650n, 780, 859; The Kingdom of Earth with Hard Candy, 537; Orpheus Descending, 685–6, 863; Sweet Bird of Youth, 604, 615, 798, 800–1, 900; This Property Is Condemned, 899; see also Rose Tattoo, The (film)
Williams, Wirt, 855; The Enemy, 895
Willkie, Wendell, 98, 119, 857
Willson, Dora, 187
Wilson (Martinez’s friend), 217
Wilson, Dr., 222
Wilson, (Sir) Angus, 583
Wilson, Colin, 824; The Outsider, 651–2
Wilson, Helene, 225
Wilson, Sandy, 824
Wilson, Scotty, 404
Winchester, Harold, 168, 171
Windham, Donald, 386, 392; The Dog Star, 441
Windsor, Edward, Duke of, 85–6, 308, 807
Winter, Ella (later Stewart), 425
Winters, Marian, 595–6, 680
Winters, Shelley, 461, 467–8, 498–9, 596, 638, 767–8, 847–8, 894
“Wishing Tree, The” (C.I.; story), xviii, 262
Wittgenstein, Paul, 206n
Wolas, Eva, 625
Woman’s Face, A (film), 115, 120, 142
Wood, Chris: C.I. stays with on return from Haverford, xviii, 232; settles in California, 14; and C.I.’s arrival, 20–2; appearance, 21; home and life-style, 22–4; piano playing, 24; gives financial support, 25; and Peggy Rodakiewicz (Kiskadden), 33; at Huxleys’ party, 57; at Rodakiewiczs’, 62–3, 113; friendship and meetings with C.I., 79, 132, 301–2, 370, 375, 379, 394, 438, 439, 455, 463, 481, 531–2, 887–8; and Starr Daily, 108; and Heard, 110, 235, 301, 376, 455, 463; in San Francisco, 119; neurotic behavior, 125; sulks over Denny Fouts, 154; Laguna Beach home, 232, 234, 238, 240–3, 250, 261, 275, 278, 281; and Paul Sorel, 232–3, 276, 278, 292, 301–2, 370, 376, 463; qualities and character, 235–6, 360, 376, 463; and Trabuco, 235, 241–2; C.I. writes short monologues for, 242, 498; writing, 242; bicycle, 258; C.I. reads story to, 262; and Karl Hoyt, 265; C.I.’s attitude to, 276; friendship with Beesleys, 360; C.I. meets in New York, 392; C.I. entertains, 448; depression, 463; at Kiskaddens’, 485; visits C.I., 531, 622; visits New York, 535, 537; and C.I.’s 1956 return from Europe, 597; on Bill Stroud, 600; intercedes between C.I. and Michael Barrie, 628; C.I. loses ring from, 647; takes LSD, 660; at Stravinskys’, 735; C.I. buys car from, 757; comments on “Mr. Lancaster” (C.I.), 815
Wood, Walter, 843
Woodcock, Patrick, 569, 575, 585, 719–20
Woodward, Joanne, 721
Woolf, Virginia, x, 269; Mrs. Dalloway, xxxi; A Room of One’s Own, xxxi
Woolley, Monty, 506
Wordsworth, William: “Immortality” ode, 889
Works Progress Adminstration (WPA), 47
World in the Evening, The (C.I.; earlier The School of Tragedy): C.I.’s diary used as source, x; writing and planning, xii, xxiv–v, xxxv–xxxvii, 387, 412n, 414–15, 418, 420–2, 426, 441, 446, 448–50, 453–4, 456, 458, 464, 721; publication and reception, xxviii, xxxix, 465, 728; homosexuality in, xxxi; characterization and themes, xxxii–xxxiv, xxxvii–xxxviii, xliii; pacifism in, xxxiii; self-portrait in, 414; Heard reads, 463; C.I. considers as play, 538, 599; Edward Upward on, 590; pocket edition, 616; Speed Lamkin praises, 650; film rights, 663; Charles Locke reads, 694; C.I.’s view of, 788, 896; Norma Shearer’s doll’s house in, 877
World War II: begins, xvii, 46; conduct and progress of, xvii–xix, xxi, 54, 92, 95, 107, 114, 118, 257, 304, 346; ends, xxii, 390; and U.S. expectations of involvement, 132–3
World’s Fair, San Francisco, (1940), 120
Worsley, Cuthbert, 393, 406, 592
Wright, Mrs. (Swami’s disciple), 607
Wright, Cobina, 518
Wright, Emily, 786
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 409, 805–7, 810; death, 809
Wright, Olgivanna, 806–7
Wright, Tom: and Costidy, 447, 450; friendship and meetings with C.I., 535, 604, 786, 890; accuses Michael Barrie of overcharging rent, 599; helps C.I. move, 613; and George Burns’s assistant, 731; recovers stolen car, 734; father’s death and mother’s cancer, 757; lends car to C.I., 839; buys portrait by Don Bachardy, 880
Wright, Will, 886
Wyberslegh Hall, Cheshire, xxiv, xliii, 384–5, 387, 391–3, 405, 567, 570–8, 823
Wykoff, Carrie Mead see Sister Lalita
Wyler, William, 881
Yacoubi, Ahmed, 541–3, 545
Yale, John (Prema): visits Trabuco with C.I., 496; takes brahmachari vows, 516, 531; on Tarini’s illness, 607, 614; visits C.I., 622, 624; edits Vivekananda selection, 624; resents C.I.’s offer to help monk arrested on morals charge, 661; and Prabhavananda’s objections to arrested monk, 665; relations with Prabhavananda, 666–7, 725; mistrusts Vandanananda, 668; wariness over Tito, 717, 734; as prospective successor to Prabhavananda, 718; position in Vedanta Society, 723; stories of Santa Barbara congregation, 739; on Prabhavananda’s condition, 741; at Laguna, 765, 890, 895; loneliness, 791; practical joking, 804; Prabhavananda on, 818; inspects C.I.’s Adelaide Drive house, 832; manages Vedanta Place, 833; troubled state, 855; What Vedanta Means to Me, 437n, 579n, 657
Yarnall, William, 184–5, 210, 212, 214, 219, 221, 230
Yarnall, Mrs. William, 184–5, 204, 210, 212–14, 221, 223, 225, 230
Yatiswarananda, Swami, 367
Yeats, W. B.: death, 11; “All things can tempt me” (poem), 709; “From Oedipus at Colonus” (poem), 275
Yogi (Walter Brown), 268, 280, 315, 322, 373
Yogini (Mrs. Walter Brown), 268–9, 272, 277, 291–2, 295, 304, 315, 322, 331, 354, 373
Yorke, Adelaide (“Dig”), 404
Yorke, Henry (“Henry Green”), 391, 404, 568, 595; Loving, 405
Young, Collier, 762, 767–8
Young Lions, The (film), 706
Young, Loretta, 533
Young, Robert, 384
Yourcenar, Marguerite: Memoirs of Hadrian, 479, 481, 487
Yow, Jensen, 700
Yucca Loma (dude ranch), 94
Zanuck, Darryl, 636
Zan
uck, Richard, 878
Zeiler, Dr., 390
Zeininger, Russ, 388, 394, 417
Zimbalist, Sam, 700
Zinnemann, Fred: and Peggy Kiskadden’s marriage, 301; fails to call C.I., 628; telephones C.I., 629; C.I. hopes to work with, 631–2, 634; commissions Jim Charlton, 631; appearance, 632; relations with C.I., 675; makes The Sundowners, 887
Zinnemann, Renée, 675, 678
Zuckmayer, Carl, 67
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