The Tastemaker
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Barnes, Djuna
Barrymore, John
Barrymore family
Barthé, Richmond
Bartholomae, Philip
Barton, Carlotta
Barton, Ralph
Bauer, Harold
Beardsley, Aubrey
Beaton, Cecil
Beautiful and the Damned, The (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Beaverbrook, Lord
Beer, Thomas
Beethoven, Ludwig van
Belafonte, Harry
Belasco, David
Bennett, Gwendolyn
Benny, Jack
Bentley, Gladys
Berlin
Berlin, Irving
Bernard, Emily
blackface
blackness; in Nigger Heaven
Black Patti, see Jones, Sissieretta (“Black Patti”)
Black Patti Troubadours
Blake, Eubie
Blanche, Jacques-Émile; as photographer of Mabel Dodge
Bledger, Al
Blind Bow-Boy, The (CVV)
blues; of Bessie Smith; Chicago; and Hughes’s poetry
Boehmer, Edwin
Bohème, La (Puccini)
Bohemian Club
Bontemps, Arna
bootleg liquor
Bordentown Manual Training and Industrial School
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe
Bow, Clara
Bowery (New York)
boxing
Boyce, Neith
Boyd, Ernest
Bradley, Patricia
Brahms, Johannes
Brando, Marlon
Brentano’s publishing company
Brett, Dorothy
Bricktop, see Smith, Ada (“Bricktop”)
Britain
Broadway
Broadway Brevities magazine
Broadway Magazine
Brooklyn Eagle
Brooks, Van Wyck
brothels; in Chicago; theater and; see also prostitutes
Broun, Heywood
Brower, Frank
Brown, Lawrence
Brown, Olympia
Brummell, Beau
Bryan, William Jennings
Bryant, Louise
Buch, Herbert
buffet flats
Bullitt, Bill
Burke, Carolyn
Burnham and Root architectural company
Butcher, Fanny
C
Cabaret Interior (Demuth)
Cabell, James Branch
Café de Paris (Chicago)
Café Wilkins (Chicago)
Caffin, Charles
cakewalk
Camera Work magazine
Camille (movie)
Campau, Denis
Canby, Henry Seidel
Cane (Toomer)
Cantor, Eddie
Capote, Truman
Carnegie, Andrew
Caruso, Enrico
Casablanca
Case, Bertha and Frank
Casella, Alfredo
Cedar Rapids (Iowa); book inspired by CVV’s boyhood in, see Tattooed Countess, The; Bryan’s campaign stop in; CVV’s childhood and adolescence in; CVV’s 1924 visit to; facade of propriety in; father’s funeral in; vaudeville and theater in
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Cerf, Bennett
Cézanne, Paul
Chaliapin, Fyodor
Chamberlain, Wynn
Chambers, Robert W.
Champlain (ship)
Chanler, Robert Winthrop
Chaplin, Charlie
Charleston Jazz Band
Charleston Steppers dancing troupe
Chauncey, George
Cherry Sisters
Chesnutt, Charles
Chicago; African-Americans in; classical music in; Gertrude Stein in; journalism in (see also names of newspapers); nightlife in; theater in; University of; World’s Columbian Exposition in
Chicago American
Chicago Defender
Chicago Musical College
Chicago Opera
Chicago Record
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Chicago Tribune
Chopin, Frédéric
Chrysler Building (New York)
City News wire service
Civilization and Its Discontents (Freud)
Civilization in the United States (Harold Stearns)
civil rights; see also names of organizations
Civil Rights Congress
Civil War
Claire Marie publishing company
Clark, Emily
Clift, Montgomery
Cocoanut Grove (Los Angeles)
Cody, Buffalo Bill
Collins, Lottie
Color Scheme, The (McKay)
Columbia University Oral History Research Office
Committee of Fourteen
Compson, Betty
Coney Island
Confessions of a Young Man (Moore)
Confidence-Man, The (Melville)
Congregationalism
Congress, U.S.
Cook, George Cram
Cooke, Beach
Copeland, Aaron
Copenhagen (New York)
Corbett, Jim
Cosmopolitan magazine
Cotton Club (Harlem)
Covarrubias, Miguel
Coward, Noël
Cowley, Malcolm
Cox, Kenyon
Crane, Stephen
Crawford, Joan
Crisis, The
Croly, Herbert
cross-dressing, see transvestism
Croton-on-Hudson (New York)
Crump, Taylor
Cruze, James
cubism
Cudjo’s Cave (Trowbridge)
Cullen, Countee
Cummings, E. E.
Cunningham, Scott
Currie, Barton W.
Czechoslovakia
D
Dalí, Salvador
dance; CVV’s photographs of; CVV’s writing on; Native American; popular forms of; of seven veils; see also ballet
Daniels, Bebe
Darktown Follies
Dasburg, Andrew
Davidson, Jo
Davis, Allison
Davis, Elizabeth Lindsay
Day, Carita, see Washington, Carrie (“Carita Day”)
Dean, James
Death in Venice (Mann)
Debussy, Claude
Defoe, Daniel
DeMille, Cecil B.
Democratic Party
Demuth, Charles
Depression
Deslys, Gaby
Dial, The
Dietrich, Marlene
Diocletian
Divine Comedy, The (Dante)
Dodge, Edwin
Dodge, John
Dodge, Mabel; correspondence of CVV and; coterie of young men of; CVV influenced by; Gertrude Stein and; in Italy; New York salon of; publication in Trend of essay by; in Taos
Dos Passos, John
Double Dealer, The
Douglas, Ann
Douglas, Lord Alfred
Dover, Cedric
drag balls
Draper, Muriel
Draper, Paul
Dreamland Café (Chicago)
Dreiser, Theodore
Dresden
Drury Lane Theatre (London)
DuBois, W.E.B.
Duchamp, Marcel
Dudley, Caroline
Duncan, Isadora
Dunne, Finley Peter
Dutton, Mahala
Dvořák, Antonín
E
Edison, Thomas Alva
Egyptian Theatre (Los Angeles)
Eight, the
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
Eksteins, Modris
Eliot, T. S.
Ellis, Havelock
Eminem
Emmett, Dan
Emperor Jones, The (Eugene O’Neill)
England, see Britain
Enormous Room, The (Cummings)<
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Epstein, Jacob
erotica; homosexual
Essex House (New York)
eugenics
evangelicals
Evans, Donald
Evans, Walker
Everleigh Club (Chicago)
Ewing, Max
Exquisites
F
Fairbanks, Douglas
Famous Players-Lasky
Farm Security Administration
Farrar, Geraldine
fascism
Faust (Gounod)
fauvism
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
female impersonation
feminism
Ficke, Arthur Davison
Field, Eugene
Fine Clothes to the Jew (Hughes)
Finland
Firbank, Ronald
Firecrackers (CVV)
Fire in the Flint (Walter White)
Fisher, Rudolph
Fisk University; Carl Van Vechten Gallery; George Gershwin Memorial Collection of Music and Musical Literature
Fitch, Charles (Uncle Charlie)
Fitch, Roy
Fitzgerald, Ella
Fitzgerald, F. Scott; death of; fictional characters based on Zelda and; in Hollywood; in Paris; photographed by CVV
Fitzgerald, Scottie
Fitzgerald, Zelda
Florence
Floyd, John
Folies Bérgère (Paris)
Foote, Mary
For and Against (Gregg)
Fort Orange (New York)
Foster, Stephen
Four Saints in Three Acts (Stein and Thomson)
Fox, Della
France; CVV with Fania Marinoff in; honeymoon of CVV and Snyder in; Mabel Dodge in; sales of Nigger Heaven in; in World War I; see also Paris
Freaks (movie)
Freedom Riders
free love
Fremstad, Olive
Freud, Sigmund
Freund, John C.
Frick, Henry Clay
Froelich, Bianca
Frost, Robert
Frye, Meda
Fuller, Loie
futurism
G
“Gaby Glide, The” (Hirsch)
Garbo, Greta
Garden, Mary
Garvey, Marcus
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.
Gaugin, Paul
Gauthier, Eva
Genoa
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Loos)
George, George
Georgia Minstrels, The (revue)
Germany; Nazi; Weimar; in World War I
Gershwin, George; and African-American music; at CVV’s parties
Gershwin, Ira
Gibran, Khalil
Gibson Girls
Gillespie, Harriet
Gish, Dorothy
Gish, Lillian
Glaspell, Susan
Gleizes, Albert
Glyn, Elinor
Glyn, Harry
Goldman, Emma
Good Morning, Revolution (Hughes)
Gould, Joe
Gounod, Charles
Grand Rapids (Michigan)
Granny Maumee (play)
Grauman, Sid
Gray, Gilda
Great Gatsby, The (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Greece, ancient
Greene, Nathanael
Greene’s Opera House (Cedar Rapids)
Greenwich Village; gay hangouts in; Harlem and; political radicals of; salons of
Greenwich Village Theatre (New York)
Gregg, Frederick James
Gump, Frederick
Gurdjieff, George
Guyon, René
H
Haiti
Half-Caste (Dover)
Hamilton, Richard
Hamlet (Shakespeare)
Hammerstein, Oscar
Handforth, Thomas
Handy, W. C.
Hapgood, Hutchins
Harding, Warren
Harlem; CVV’s fiction about (see also Nigger Heaven); drag balls in; drug culture; evangelical churches in; Italian theater in; Native American culture in Taos compared to; nightlife in; photographs of
Harlem Renaissance
Harlow, Richard
Harmonium (Stevens)
Harper, Jack
Harper, Lucile
Harrison, Carter, Sr.
Harrison, Hubert
Hay, William
Haymarket (Chicago)
Haywood, “Big” Bill
Hearst, William Randolph
Hell’s Kitchen
Hemingway, Ernest
Henderson, Louise
Henry, Prince of Prussia
Hepburn, Katharine
Hergesheimer, Joseph
Herman Melville (Weaver)
Herrick, Robert
Hill, J. Leubrie
Himes, Chester
Hirsch, Louis A.
Hitchcock, Henry-Russell
Hitler, Adolf
Hogan, Ernest
Holiday, Billie
Holloman, Bobo
Hollywood; arrival of trade unions in; CVV’s novel about; European fascination with; Fitzgeralds in; McPherson’s condemnations of; movie premieres in; movie stars from, at CVV’s parties; novelists as screenwriters in; Vanity Fair articles about
Holmes, H. H.
Holt, Nora
Holy Jumpers
Home to Harlem (McKay)
homosexuality; codes and innuendo for; and CVV’s marriages; of CVV’s photographic subjects; FBI demonization of; in Harlem; stereotypes of; of Wilde
Hoover, J. Edgar
Hopwood, Avery; death of; drug use by; fictional character based on composite of CVV and; Mabel Dodge and; Snyder’s resentment of CVV’s relationship with
Hornblow, Arthur
House of Fantasy
Howey, Walter
“How I Listen to Four Saints in Three Acts” (CVV)
“How to Read Gertrude Stein” (CVV)
How to Study the Modern Painters (Caffin)
Hughes, Langston; birthday party for; correspondence of CVV and; CVV’s support for career of; as Mason’s protégé; and Nigger Heaven; Opportunity award presented to; photographed by CVV; publication of books of poetry by; and Scottsboro Boys trial
Huneker, James
Hungary
Hunter, Alberta
Hurlock, Madeline
Hurston, Zora Neale
Hussey, L. M.
Huysmans, Joris-Karl
Hyde, James Hazen
I
Ibsen, Henrik
“I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise” (George Gershwin)
Imbs, Bravig
immigrants
impressionism
“In Defence of Bad Taste” (CVV)
Indians, see Native Americans
Industrial Workers of the World
Ingersoll, William
“Inky Ones, The” (CVV)n
Interpreters and Interpretations (CVV)
“Interrupted Conversation, An” (CVV)
In the Garret (CVV)
Invading Cupid’s Realm (Bouguereau)
Iowa
Iroquois Theatre (Chicago)
Isherwood, Christopher
It (movie)
Italian Americans
Italy
J
Jackman, Harold
Jack the Ripper
James, C.L.R.
James, Henry
Jannings, Emil
jazz; in Europe; in Harlem
Jazz Age
Jazz Singer, The (movie)
Jennifer Lorn (Wylie)
jeunes gens assortis
Jews
Jim Crow laws
Johnson, Charles S.
Johnson, Grace Nail
Johnson, Jack
Johnson, James Weldon; at CVV’s parties; death of; Memorial Committee for; Nigger Heaven supported by; writing of
Jolson, Al
Jones, James Earl
Jones, Laurence Clifton
Jones, Robert Edmond
Jones, Sissieretta (“Black Patti”)
Joplin, Scott
Jorgensen, Christine
Juan les Pins (France)
Julian, Hubert
Jurgen (Cabell)
K
Kahlo, Frida
Kahn, Otto
Kalamazoo College
Kandinsky, Wassily
Kazin, Alfred
Keith, B. F.
Kellner, Bruce
Kennedy, John
Kenton, Edna
Kern, Jerome
Kerouac, Jack
Keystone Kops
King of Kings (movie)
Kirstein, Lincoln
Kitt, Eartha
Knights Templar
Knopf, Alfred, Jr.
Knopf, Alfred A.; publishing company of
Knopf, Blanche
L
Labatie, Jean
Ladies Library Association
Lafayette Theatre (New York)
Laing, Hugh
Lait, Jack
Lang, Fritz
Lange, Dorothea
Langner, Armina
Langner, Lawrence
Larsen, Nella
Lasky, Jesse
Last Puritan, The (Santayana)
Lawrence, D. H.
Lawrenson, Helen
Lead Belly, see Ledbetter, Huddie William (“Lead Belly”)
Lectures in America (Gertrude Stein)
“Leda and the Swan” (Yeats)
Ledbetter, Huddie William (“Lead Belly”)
Lemmon, Jack
Leone’s speakeasy
Lewis, Sinclair
Life magazine
Lincoln, Abraham
Lincoln Gardens (Chicago)
Lindbergh, Charles
Lindsay, Vachel
Lipstick (movie)
Liveright, Horace
Locke, Alain
London; the Drapers’ salon in; Fania Marinoff in; marriage of CVV and Snyder in; Paul Robeson in Showboat in; during World War I
Loos, Anita
Los Angeles; see also Hollywood
Los Angeles Herald
Love Among the Ladies (Loy)
“Love Songs of a Philanderer” (CVV)
Loy, Mina
Ludlow Street Jail (New York)
Luhan, Mabel Dodge, see Dodge, Mabel
Lujan, Tony
Lulu Bell (Belasco)
Lutz, Mark
Lynes, George Platt
Lyric Theatre (New York)
M
Macbeth Gallery (New York)
Madison Square Garden (New York)
Madrid
Mailer, Norman
Maison Favre
Majestic Theatre (Cedar Rapids)
Make It Snappy (revue)
Making of Americans, The (Gertrude Stein)
Malin, Gene
Mallorca
Manby, Arthur
Manhattan; acceptable behavior in, versus Taos and Hollywood; African-Americans in (see also Harlem); art establishment in; Block Beautiful in; cosmopolitanism of; CVV’s books about (see also titles of books); dance performances in; ethnic diversity of; first desegregated performance venue in; Fitzgeralds in; gays in; Gertrude Stein in; jail in; literary depictions of Jazz Age in; Lower East Side of; modern art in; nightlife in; opera in, (see also Metropolitan Opera); parties in; Paterson strike benefit pageant in; photographic exhibitions in; during Prohibition; salons in; shopping in; skyscrapers in; and stock market crash; Upper West Side of; vice districts of; see also Broadway; Greenwich Village; Harlem