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The Tastemaker

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by Edward White


  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

 

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