Christopher Isherwood Diaries Volume 1

by Christopher Isherwood

  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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