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by Amanda Vaill


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  Wolff, Geoffrey. Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby. New York: Random House, 1976.

  Index

  Abbott, Berenice, [>]

  Abel, William, [>], [>]

  Acheson, Dean, [>]

  Acosta, Mercedes de, [>]

  Adorno, Theodor, [>]

  African American culture: Murphys’ interest in, [>]–[>], [>]; and Hallelujah! (Vidor film), [>], [>]–[>]; and recordings inside Weatherbird keel, [>]

  Allen, Henry T., [>]

  Allen, Ruth, [>]

  “American Letter” (MacLeish), [>]–[>], [>]

  Amilcar (Villa America farmer), [>]

  Amory, Copley, [>], [>], [>]

  Amouretti, René de, [>]

  Anderson, Sherwood, [>]

  Ansermet, Ernest, [>], [>]

  Antheil, George, [>], [>]

  Antibes, [>]; La Garoupe beach at, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]; Villa America, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>] (see also Murphys LIVING AT VILLA AMERICA; Villa America, Antibes); first visit to, [>]; second summer in, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]; Hôtel du Cap in, [>]; 1924 visit to, [>]–[>]; mass discovery of, [>]–[>], [>]; new crowd in, [>], [>]

  Anti-Communist hysteria, [>]–[>]

  Antigua, Murphys visiting MacLeishes in, [>]

  Apollinaire, Guillaume, [>]

  Aragon, Louis, [>]

  Armory Show, [>], [>]

  Arthur, Chester Alan III, [>], [>]

  Asparagus (Murphy dog), [>]

  Astor, Mrs. Waldorf, [>]

  Atkinson, Brooks, [>]

  Atterbury, Grosvenor, [>]

  Ault, Levi Addison, [>]

  Auric, Georges, [>], [>]

  “Babylon Revisited” (Fitzgerald), [>]

  Bach, Johann Sebastian, GCM’s interest in, [>], [>]

  Baker, George Pierce, [>]

  Baker, Josephine, [>]

  Balanchine, George, [>], [>], [>]

  Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, [>]

  Ballets Russes, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]; films of, [>]. See also Diaghilev, Serge

  Ballets Suédois, [>]–[>], [>] n

  Bankhead, Tallulah, [>]–[>]

  Barnes, Djuna, [>]

  Barney, Natalie, [>], [>]

  Barr, Alfred, [>]

  Barry, Ellen, [>]; on SWM’s appearance, [>]; on SWM’s attitudes toward extramarital sex, [>], [>], [>]; on SWM as Picasso model, [>]; on Hemingway and SWM, [>]; GCM takes shopping, [>], [>]; on SWM’s dress shopping, [>]; on SWM’s high heels, [>]; GCM to on New York, [>]; Murphys visit, [>]; at GCM funeral, [>]

  Barry, Philip, [>]–[>]; at Antibes, [>], [>]; play of as parallel to SWM-Picasso, [>]–[>]; on GCM preparing cocktail, [>]; GCM letter to, [>]; Holiday, [>]; off-color stories of, [>]; Bright Star, [>]; death of, [>]

  Barrys (Ellen and Philip as couple): meet Murphys in Paris, [>]–[>]; at Antibes (Villa America), [>], [>], [>]; at dinner with Fitzgerald, [>]; at Stewart party, [>]; valedictory visit from, [>]; cottage of, [>]; and barge party, [>]; with Murphys in New York, [>], [>]; Murphys see on Florida trip, [>]; lend house for Honoria’s wedding reception, [>]

  Barrymore, John, [>]

  Basil, Vassily de, [>]

  Baudoin, Edouard, [>]

  Beach, Sylvia, [>], [>], [>]

  Beatles, GCM’s recognition of, [>]

  Beats, and New York culture, [>]

  Beaumont, Comte Étienne de, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Beaumont, Comtesse Étienne de (Édith), [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Beckett, Samuel, [>]

  Bedford, Sybille, [>]

  Benchley, Gertrude, [>], [>]–[>]

  Benchley, Nathaniel (“Nat”), [>]

  Benchley, Robert, [>]; at Antibes, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]; at New York party, [>]; in California, [>]; and Parker’s decision to help Murphys, [>]; Parker letter to, [>]; financial help profferred by, [>]–[>]; in Switzerland, [>]; and GCM’s trip to New York, [>]; to Paris, [>]; in New York, [>]; Parker’s alienation from, [>]; on “Noah” bag, [>]; and Campbell’s enlistment, [>]; death of, [>]

  Benchley, Robert, Jr. (“Bub”), [>]–[>]

  Benét, Stephen Vincent, [>], [>]

  Benjamin, Walter, [>]

  Benrimo, Tom, [>]

  Berlin, Irving, [>], [>]

  Bernstein, Leonard, [>]

  Bethune, Mary McLeod, [>]–[>], [>]

  Bibliothèque (GCM painting), [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Bierstadt, Albert, [>]

  Bigelow, Josephine Rotch, [>]

  Big Money, The (Dos Passos), [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Bird, William, [>]

  Bishop, John Peale, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Bishop, Margaret, [>]

  Black culture. See African American culture

  Blacklisting, in postwar U.S., [>]

  Blake, William, [>]

  Blaue Engel, Der, GCM’s liking for, [>]

  Blesh, Rudi, [>]–[>]

  Blitzstein, Marc, [>]

  Boatdeck (GCM painting), [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Bonnard, Pierre, [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Boote, Rosie. See Headfort, marquess and marchioness of

  Börlin, Jean, [>]

  Boston, end-of-century stagnation of, [>]–[>]

  Bowers, Lloyd, [>]–[>]

  Brackett, Charles, [>], [>], [>]

  Brancusi, Constantin, [>]

  Braque, Georges, [>], [>], [>]

  Brecht, Bertholt, [>], [>]

  Brennan, Francis (Hank), [>], [>]

  Breton, André, [>]

  Bricktop, [>]

  Browder, Earl, [>]

  Brown, Honey, [>]

  Buehler, Huber, [>]–[>]

  Butler, Dorothy, [>]

  Cage, John, [>]

  Calder, Alexander, [>]

  Callaghan, Morley, [>]

  Camoys, Lord, [>]

  Camp Adeline, [>]–[>], [>]

  Campbell, Alan, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Campbell, Lady Marjorie, [>]

  Campbell, Lady Violet, [>]

  Campbell, Stella (Mrs. Patrick), [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Cap d’Antibes. See Antibes

  Caraman-Chimay, Princesse de, [>]

  Carhart, Harold, [>]

  Carnavel, L. T., [>]

  Carpenter, Ginny, [>], [>]

  Carpenter, John Alden, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Carpenter, Rue, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Celestine (cook),
[>], [>]

  Cendrars, Blaise, [>], [>], [>]

  Chalêt des Nielles, Murphys purchase, [>]–[>]. See also Villa America, Antibes

  Chaliapin, Fyodor, [>]

  Chanel, Coco, [>]

  Chanler, Hester, [>]. See also Pickmans

  Chanler, Mrs. Winthrop, [>]

  Chaplin, Charlie, [>]

  Chase, William Merritt, [>], [>]

  Cheer Hall, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Cheney, Ward, [>]

  Chirico, Giorgio de, [>]

  Church, Frederick, [>]

  Claire, Ina, [>]

  Clancy, Menefee, [>]

  Claudius, Agnes, [>]

  Clement (chauffeur), [>]

  Cocktail (GCM painting), [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

  Cocteau, Jean, [>], [>], [>]; and Radiguet, [>]; at barge party, [>]; Parade, [>]–[>]; as sexually ambiguous, [>]; and Oedipe Roi, [>]; and GCM’s milieu, [>]

  Cohn, Roy, [>]

  Colonna, Prince, [>]

  Contemporary Historians, [>], [>]

  Coonen, Alice, [>]–[>]

  Copland, Aaron, [>], [>]

  Cornell, Katharine, [>]

  Cornwall, Larry, [>]

  Côte d’Azur, [>], [>]

  Course Croisère de la Méditerranée, GCM enters, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Covert, John, [>]

  Cowley, Malcolm, [>], [>]

  Crosby, Caresse (formerly Polly Jacob), [>], [>], [>]

  Crosby, Harry, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Crystaux (GCM drawing), [>]

  Cubism: of Goncharova, [>]; in GCM’s studies of machinery, [>]; and GCM’s Razor and Watch, [>]; and GCM’s work after Boatdeck, [>]

  Cullen, Countee, [>]

  cummings, e. e., [>], [>]

  Cunard, Lady, [>]

  Cunard, Nancy, [>]

  Dada, [>]; and typo on Turbines, [>]; and barge party, [>]; and Within the Quota set, [>]

  Damrosch, Walter, [>]

  Danilova, Alexandra, [>]

  Davies, Marion, [>], [>]

  Davis, Richard Harding, [>]

  Davis, Stuart, [>]

  Death of a Salesman, GCM riveted by, [>]

  Debussy, Claude, [>]

  Delaunay, Sonia, [>]

  De Lille, Armand, [>]

  Dell, Floyd, [>]

  de Maré, Rolf, [>]–[>], [>]

  de Mille, Agnes, [>]

  Denham, Serge, [>]–[>]

  Derain, André, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  De Wolfe, Elsie, [>], [>], [>]

  Diaghilev, Serge, [>]; Le Sacre du printemps produced by, [>], [>]; at Ballets Russes premiere party, [>]; Murphys paint sets for, [>]–[>]; Les Noces produced by, [>]; at barge party, [>]; and de Mare, [>]; death of, [>]; and Ballets Russes reputation, [>]; GCM’s tales of, [>]

  Dial, The, [>]

  Dickson, Mrs. (friend of Adeline Wiborg), [>]–[>]

  Dickson, Roland, [>]–[>]

  Dietrich, Marlene, [>], [>]

  Dolin, Anton, [>]

  Dolly, Rosie, [>]

  Dominguín, Luis Miguel, [>]

  Donnelly, Honoria (daughter of SWM). See Murphy, Honoria Adeline

  Donnelly, John Charles Baoth (grandson of Murphys), [>], [>]

  Donnelly, Laura Sara (granddaughter of Murphys), [>]

  Donnelly, William, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Donnelly, William Sherman (grandson of Murphys), [>], [>], [>]

  Dos Passos, Elizabeth (formerly Elizabeth Holdridge), [>]–[>], [>]

  Dos Passos, John, [>], [>]; at Antibes, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]; The Big Money, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]; in Paris of 1920s, [>]; and Les Noces work, [>]; in ballet audience, [>]; and Fitzgeralds, [>]–[>]; and “Dow-dow” nickname, [>]; as summertime expatriate, [>]; on Murphys’ hors d’oeuvres, [>]; and Hemingway, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]; and ski trip, [>], [>], [>], [>]; as sailor, [>]; GCM letters to, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]; Hemingway letter to, [>]; marriage of, [>]; financial and health problems of, [>], [>], [>]; plays of, [>]; on GCM at Mark Cross, [>]; imprisoned Spanish friend of, [>]; and Hemingway on filming of tuna fishing, [>]; visits Saranac, [>]; and Patrick’s death, [>]; as political activist, [>]; and The Spanish Earth, [>]; offered ballet-librettist job, [>]; on Murphys’ guest room, [>]; GCM to on people being themselves, [>]; eye lost in accident, [>]; postwar connection to, [>]; remarriage of, [>]–[>]; Hemingway messages through, [>]–[>]; SWM letter to, [>]; farewell dinner for, [>]; report on GCM funeral to, [>]; The Best Times, [>]; visits SWM in New York, [>]

  AND KATY DOS PASSOS: at Swiss health resort, [>]; as U.S. friends, [>]; at Hook Pond Cottage, [>]; on Mediterranean tour, [>]; in Key West, [>], [>]; financial help to, [>], [>], [>]; and Hemingway’s concern about SWM, [>]; with Hemingway in Cuba, [>]; in meeting with SWM and Pauline, [>]; on Cape Cod, [>]; visit Patrick at Christmas, [>]; on trip to Europe, [>], [>]; GCM letter to, [>]; in farewell to MacLeish, [>]; on visit to Pauline Hemingway, [>]; New Year’s 1942 with, [>]

  Dos Passos, Katy (formerly Katherine Smith), [>]; and Patrick’s illness, [>]; and Baoth’s death, [>]; on Swan Cove, [>]; on Hitler’s success, [>]; on Cape Cod, [>]; death of, [>]; flowers on grave of, [>]; letters from in Cheer Hall, [>]; Chosen Country descriptions from, [>]

  Dos Passos, Lucy, [>]

  Doves (GCM painting), [>], [>], [>]

  Dowdney, Louise, [>]

  Draper, Muriel, [>], [>]

  Draper, Paul, [>]

  DuBois, Raoul Pène, [>], [>]

  Duchamp, Marcel, [>]

  du Maurier, Gerald, [>]

  Duncan, Isadora, [>], [>]

  Dunes, the (Wiborg mansion), [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  Dunne, Finley Peter, [>]

  Durey, Louis, [>]

  East Hampton, Long Island, [>]–[>], [>]; musical burlesque staged in, [>]–[>]; farmer’s cottage for remodeling in, [>]

  Eastman, Chrystal, [>]

  Eastman, Max, [>]

  Egorova, Lubov, [>]

  Einstein, Albert, [>]

  Eliot, T. S., [>], [>], [>]

  Engine Room (Pression/Pressure; GCM painting) [>], [>], [>]

  Ernst, Max, [>]

  Falla, Manuel de, [>]

  Farewell to Arms, A (Hemingway), [>], [>]

  Far Side of Paradise, The (Mizener), [>]

  Faucigny-Lucinge, prince and princesse Jean-Louis de, [>]

  Fels, Florent, [>]

  Firouz (prince of Persia), [>]

  Fish, Olga. See Wiborg, Olga Marie

  Fish, Sidney, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Fish, Stuyvesant, [>]

  Fitzgerald, F. Scott, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]; relationship with Hemingway, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]; and Paris, [>], [>]; MacLeish introduced to, [>]; and Zelda’s behavior, [>], [>]–[>]; on Hemingway’s separation from Hadley, [>]; in Delaware, [>], [>]; return to France, [>]; on Murphys entertaining Parker, [>]; in Cannes villa, [>]–[>]; Hemingway letter to, [>]–[>]; in Paris (1930), [>]–[>]; and Zelda’s descent into madness, [>]; MacLeish letter to, [>]; and bathwater scene with Scottie, [>]; in Alabama, [>]; stresses and difficulties of, [>]; on SWM and Hemingway, [>]; on second acts, [>]; in Hollywood, [>], [>]–[>]; and Sheilah Graham, [>]–[>], [>]; death of, [>], [>]; refused burial by Catholic Church, [>], [>]; Arthur Mizener on, [>]; on Murphy descendants, [>]; and Edmund Wilson, [>]; and A Moveable Feast, [>]

  WORKS OF: Tender Is the Night, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>] (see also Tender Is the Night); This Side of Paradise, [>]; The Vegetable (play), [>]; The Beautiful and the Damned, [>]; The Great Gatsby, [>], [>]; The Crack-Up, [>], [>]; “Babylon Revisited,” [>]

  AND MURPHYS, [>]–[>]; in Tender Is the Night, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]; on SWM’s face, [>]; behavior at parties, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]; with Murphys at Antibes, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]; attracted to SWM, [>], [>]–[>], [>]; curiosity, [>], [>]–[>]; attitudes toward GCM, [>]–[>]; helps GCM get movie job, [>]; and Velasqu
ez talisman cross, [>], [>]; as confidant in GCM’s self-analysis, [>], [>]; visit to Ramgut, [>]; SWM’s rebukes, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]; GCM to on trade as drug, [>]; tribute to SWM, [>]–[>]; on SWM-GCM relationship, [>], [>]; SWM invites to Saranac, [>]; GCM letters to, [>], [>], [>]; and Patrick’s death, [>]; appeal for help and loan, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]; Zelda on, [>]; Hemingway on, [>]; letters in Cheer Hall, [>]. See also under Murphys

  Fitzgerald, Frances Scott (“Scottie”), [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Fitzgerald, Zelda, [>], [>]–[>]; in Antibes area, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]; bizarre behavior of, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]; MacLeish introduced to, [>]; on Hemingway, [>]; health problems of, [>]; in Delaware, [>], [>]; return to France, [>]; as ballet student, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]; in Cannes villa, [>]–[>]; paranoid behavior of, [>]–[>]; breakdown of, [>], [>]; recovery of, [>]; at Ramgut, [>], [>]; in U.S. [>]; in Alabama, [>]; relapse of, [>]; as Tender Is the Night model, [>]; SWM’s expression of sympathy for, [>]; instability of, [>]; paintings of, [>]–[>]; in Baltimore, [>]; and Scott in Hollywood, [>], [>]; on Murphy arrival, [>]; on death of Scott, [>]; and A Moveable Feast, [>]

  Flanner, Janet, [>], [>]

  Fogarty, Thomas, [>]

  Fontaine, Evan Burrows, [>]

  Ford, Ford Madox, [>], [>], [>]

  Forel, Oscar, [>], [>]

  Foujita, Tsuguharu-Léonard, [>], [>]

  Frank, Waldo, [>]–[>]

  Frankfurter, Felix, [>]

  Franklin, Frederic, [>], [>]

  Franklin, Sidney, [>]

  Galantière, Lewis, [>]

  Gammell, Arthur, [>]–[>]

  Garden of Eden, The (Hemingway), [>]

  Gardner, Isabella Stewart, [>]

  Gardner, Robert, [>], [>]

  Garrett, John, [>], [>]

  Gellhorn, Martha, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Genêt. See Flanner, Janet

  Géron, Henriette, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Ghost Town (ballet), [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Gielgud, John, [>]–[>]

  Gilbert, John, [>]

  Gill, Brendan, [>]

  Gillette, King, [>]

  Goelet, Robert Walton, [>], [>], [>]

  Goncharova, Natalia, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Gorey, Edward, [>]

  Gould, Jay, [>]

  Gounod house, [>]–[>]

  Gousha, Joseph, [>]

  Graham, Martha, [>]

 

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