Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy, A Lost Generation Love Story

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]–[>], [>]; and anti-Communist hysteria, [>]–[>]; circle of friends, [>]–[>]; Villa America sold, [>]–[>]; grandchildren, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]; rift with MacLeish, [>]; Tomkins New Yorker profile, [>]–[>], [>], [>]; retrospective dinner, [>]–[>]; Cheer Hall emptied, [>], [>]; house built (La Petite Hutte), [>]–[>]; and A Moveable Feast, [>]–[>]; GCM’s illness and death, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]; SWM’s final years, [>]–[>]

  Museum of Modern Art: GCM’s work in, [>], [>]; Léger exhibit planned for, [>]

  Myers (Alice Lee and Richard):

  AS COUPLE: and MacLeish, [>]; and Scottie Fitzgerald, [>]; valedictory visits from, [>]; Barrys’ cottage lent to, [>]; Murphy financial help to, [>]; at post-recital party, [>]; on Weatherbird cruise, [>]; in New York, [>]; at Winter Olympics, [>]; at Camp Adeline, [>], [>]; on SWM’s sadness, [>]; with Murphys in New York, [>]; car given to, [>]; in 1939 France, [>], [>]

  ALICE LEE: Fitzgerald confidence to, [>]; note of concern for Patrick, [>]; as Mark Cross buyer, [>], [>]; with Baoth in hospital, [>], [>]; packs Patricks belongings, [>]; on European trip, [>]; SWM birthday with, [>]; retrieves GCM’s paintings, [>]

  RICHARD: Ada MacLeish performs song of, [>]; unemployed, [>]; on GCM’s sinus operation, [>]–[>]; doggerel for SWM, [>]; death of, [>]

  Myers, Fanny, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Nabokov, Nicholas, [>], [>]

  Namara, Marguerite, [>]

  Natanson, Misia. See Sert, Marie Godebska Natanson Edwards), [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Nemchinova, Vera, [>], [>]

  New School for Social Research, GCM at, [>]–[>]

  New York City: as Wiborg destination, [>]–[>], [>]; Murphys’ visit to, [>]–[>]; as postwar cultural center, [>]

  Nijinska, Bronislava, [>], [>], [>]

  Noces, Les (Stravinsky ballet), [>]–[>]; party for company of, [>]–[>]; and Within the Quota, [>]; and Murphys at concert, [>]

  Nordquist, Olive, [>]

  Nugent, Dan, [>]

  Nyberg, Lillie, [>]

  Ober, Harold, [>], [>]

  O’Brien, Esmond, [>]

  O’Hara, John, [>]–[>]

  Oppenheim, E. Phillips, [>]

  Ordóñez, Antonio, [>]

  Orlando, Vittorio, [>]

  Orloff, Vladimir, [>]; as GCM’s studio assistant, [>], [>]; at Villa America, [>]; sailing Picaflor, [>]; Honoria designed by, [>]; and treasure expedition, [>]; in ocean race, [>]; and California trip, [>], [>]; and Weatherbird, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]; on Côte d’Azur as spoiled, [>]; and GCM’s paintings, [>], [>]

  Ortiz de Zarate, Manuel, [>]

  Osborne, Dorothy, [>]

  Our Town (Wilder), [>]

  Pamplona: Murphys urged to visit, [>], [>]; Hemingway and company at, [>], [>], [>]; Murphy-Hemingway visit to, [>], [>]–[>]; GCM’s reaction to, [>], [>]; Harpo Marx’s inquiry on, [>]; memories of, [>]

  Paris: Murphys living in, [>]–[>], [>]–[>] (see also under Murphys); 1920s brilliance of, [>]–[>]; Mary Hoyt Wiborg in, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]; costume parties in, [>]–[>]; Salon des Indépendents in, [>]–[>]; rush of Americans to, [>]

  Parker, Dorothy, [>]; as GCM schoolmate, [>]; and Fitzgerald on Zelda, [>]; party given for, [>]; in California, [>]; at Antibes, [>], [>]; helping Murphys move to Switzerland, [>]–[>]; on Murphys’ efforts with Patrick, [>]; at Montana-Vermala, [>], [>], [>], [>]; on “poor Gerald,” [>]; in New York, [>]; return to Switzerland, [>]; on “Swiss Family Murphy,” [>]; dogs of, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]; and Fitzgerald, [>]; on GCM’s depression, [>]; at La Bruyère, [>]; with SWM to Cannes, [>]; return to U.S., [>]; as U.S. friend, [>]; at Hook Pond Cottage, [>]; and GCM on Hemingway, [>]; visits Paris, [>]; at dinner party, [>]; and wordplay, [>]; travel telegram from, [>]–[>]; on Bucks County farm, [>]; political commitment of, [>], [>]; love for Murphys, [>]; with Murphys in Paris, [>]; sends food to Hemingway in Spain, [>]; at The Little Foxes opening, [>]; at The Man Who Came to Dinner opening, [>]; predicts GCM’s interest in Hopkins, [>]; and Campbell’s enlistment, [>]; and anti-Communism, [>], [>]; and GCM’s death, [>]; in SWM’s hotel, [>]

  Parzinger, Tomi, [>]

  Pell family, [>]

  Pendleton, George H., [>]

  Perdriat, Hélène, [>]

  Perkins, Maxwell, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Petite Hutte, La, [>]–[>]

  Peto, Ruby, [>]

  Pfeiffer, Jinny, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Pfeiffer, Pauline. See Hemingway, Pauline Picabia, Francis, [>], [>], [>]

  Picaflor, [>], [>], [>]

  Picasso, Olga, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Picasso, Pablo, [>], [>]; in 1921 Paris, [>]; and The Three-Cornered Hat, [>]; at Ballets Russes premiere party, [>]; and GCM’s artistic awakening, [>], [>]; atelier of, [>]; at barge party, [>]; at Antibes, [>]–[>], [>], [>]; and SWM, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]; praise for GCM from, [>], [>]; and GCM-MacLeish relation, [>]; and children’s art show, [>]; and Ortiz de Zarate, [>]; GCM in exhibit with, [>]; and Antibes inn, [>]–[>]; diminished relationship with, [>]; and Vidor perspectives, [>]; and Weatherbird flag, [>]; Pulcinella backdrops, [>]; GCM’s tales of, [>]; new wife of, [>]

  Picasso, Paulo, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Pickford, Mary, [>]

  Pickmans, [>], [>], [>], [>]; Edward, [>], [>], [>]; Hester, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]; Daisy, [>]; Jane, [>], [>]; David, [>]

  Pitz (GCM’s dog), [>]

  Platt, Charles, [>]

  Platt, Marc (also Platoff), [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Poix, Princesse de, [>]

  Polignac, Princesse Edmond de (Winaretta), [>], [>], [>]

  Pollock, Jackson, [>]

  Porter, Cole, [>]; and Antibes, [>], [>], [>]; at Yale, [>]–[>]; first musical comedy (See America First), [>], [>]; in Paris, [>], [>]; at barge party, [>]; and ballet commission (Within the Quota), [>], [>]–[>], [>]; as sexually ambiguous, [>]; Gay Divorcee, [>]; song of quoted, [>]; and ballet score (Ghost Town), [>]–[>]; as prospective guest, [>]; Kiss Me Kate, [>], [>]; death of, [>]–[>]

  Porter, Linda, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

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

  Port Said, SWM’s impressions of, [>]

  Poulenc, Francis-Jean-Marcel, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Pound, Ezra, [>], [>]

  Powell, Dawn, [>]–[>]; on Gellhorn, [>]; at SWM birthday party, [>]; as new friend, [>]; in course at New School, [>]; and Dos Passos in hospital, [>]; on life at Cheer Hall, [>]; on f.B., [>]–[>]; Hemingway remark to, [>]; GCM stories told to, [>]; GCM to on sister Esther, [>]; at farewell dinner, [>]; SWM report to, [>]; and GCM’s funeral, [>], [>]

  Prendergast, Maurice, [>]

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

  Prokofiev, Sergei, [>]

  Proust, Marcel, [>]

  Prude, Walter, [>]

  Quintanilla, Luis, [>]

  Racial violence, in Washington, D.C., [>]

  Radiguet, Raymond, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Rambova, Natasha, [>]

  Ramsgate, Lillian, [>], [>]–[>]

  Rauschenberg, Robert, [>], [>]

  Ravel, Maurice, [>]

  Ray, Man, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

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

  Respighi, Ottorino, [>]

  Reymond, Carlos, [>]

  Richardson, Chesley, [>], [>]

  Richardson, John, [>]

  “rich, the,” Hemingway-Fitzgerald exchange on, [>]; in A Moveable Feast, [>]–[>]

  Rochester, Minnesota, GCM’s impression of, [>]–[>]

  Rodgers, Richard, [>]–[>], [>]

  Rodin, Auguste, SWM visits studios of, [>]

  Roerich, Nicholas, [>]

  Roosevelt, Franklin D., [>]

  Roosevelt, Theodore, Jr., [>], [>], [>]

  Roque, Jacqueline, [>]

  Rosenberg, Jean, [>]

  Rosenquist, James, [>]

  Ross, Cary, [>], [>]

  Rossini, Gioacchino,
[>]

  Rothko, Mark, [>]

  Rothschild, Dorothy. See Parker, Dorothy

  Roulement à Billes (Ball Bearing) (GCM painting), [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Rousseau, Gladys, [>]

  Roussel, Yvonne, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Rubin, William, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Rubinstein, Arthur, [>]

  Rubinstein, Jacques, [>]

  Ruiz, Maria, [>], [>]

  Russell, Ada, [>]

  Russell, John, [>]

  Russell, Morgan, [>]

  Rutland, duchess of, [>]

  Ryan, Anna (mother of GCM), [>]. See also Murphy, Anna Ryan

  Ryan, Sylvester, [>]

  Sacco and Vanzetti trial, [>]

  Sacre du printemps, Le, [>], [>], [>]

  Sailing: and youthful SWM, [>]; by GCM, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]; See also Honoria; Picaflor; Weatherbird

  Salon des Indépendents, [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  San Faustino, Princess Jane de, [>]–[>]

  Sanford, “Laddie,” [>]

  Saranac Lake, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Sargent, John Singer, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]

  Satie, Erik, [>], [>]

  Sayre, Zelda. See Fitzgerald, Zelda Schamberg, Morton, [>]

  Schmid-Guisan, Dr. (Jungian analyst), [>]–[>]

  School of Design and Liberal Arts, GCM attends, [>]

  Schulberg, Budd, [>]

  Seldes, Gilbert, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]

  Seldes, Marian, [>]

  Sella, Antoine, [>], [>]

  Semple, Lorenzo, [>]

  Sert, José María, [>], [>]

  Sert, Marie Godebska Natanson Edwards (“Misia”), [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Shearer, Norma, [>]

  Shelton, John, [>]

  Sherman, Adeline Moulton. See Wiborg, Adeline Moulton

  Sherman, Hoyt, [>], [>]

  Sherman, Senator John, [>]

  Sherman, Sara. See Mitchell, Sara Sherman

  Sherman, William Tecumseh, [>]

  Sickert, Walter, [>], [>], [>]

  Signac, Paul, [>]

  Singer, Winaretta, [>]. See also Polignac, Princesse Edmond de

  “Sketch for a Portrait of Mme. G——M——,” (MacLeish), [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Skiing, by Murphys and Hemingway, [>]–[>]

  Slavenska, Mia, [>]

  Smith, Bill, [>]

  Smith, Katy. See Dos Passos, Katy

  “Snows of Kilimanjaro, The” (Hemingway), [>], [>], [>]–[>] n

  “Souls,” [>]

  Soupault, Philippe, [>]

  Spanish Earth, The, [>], [>]

  Stanchfield, John B., [>], [>]

  Steams, Harold, [>]

  Steffens, Ella, [>]–[>], [>]

  Steichen, Edward, [>]

  Stein, Gertrude, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Steinmetz, Mr. (clerk at Ault and Wiborg), [>]

  Stewart, Beatrice (later Beatrice Tolstoy), [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Stewart, Donald Ogden, [>], [>]; introduces Murphys to Barrys, [>]; and Within the Quota humorous commentary, [>]; at Stravinsky festival, [>]; at Pamplona, [>], [>]; at Antibes, [>], [>], [>], [>]; and Hemingway, [>]; New York party given by, [>]; acting debut of, [>]; and Patrick’s tuberculosis, [>]; and Hemingway, [>]; nearby house of, [>]; political involvement of, [>]–[>]; as Red-hunt victim, [>]; at leftists’ meeting, [>]

  Stewart, Helen, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Stock market, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Stokes, Anson Phelps, [>]

  Strachey, Esther Murphy, [>], [>]. See also Murphy, Esther

  Strachey, John, [>], [>], [>]

  Stravinsky, Igor, [>]; Sacre du printemps, [>], [>], [>]; in 1921 Paris, [>]; Pulcinella, [>], [>]; on Larionov, [>]; Le Renard, [>]; and Murphys’ apartment, [>]–[>]; at barge party, [>], [>]; and Porters, [>]; GCM’s tales of, [>]

  Sun Also Rises, The (Hemingway), [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Swan Cove, [>], [>], [>]

  Sweeney, James Johnson, [>]

  Taft, Henry, [>]

  Taft, William Howard, and Frank Wiborg, [>]

  Taillefer, Germaine, [>], [>]

  Tairoff, Alexander, [>]

  Tarbell, Ida, [>]

  Taxi (GCM painting), [>]

  Tender Is the Night (Fitzgerald): and Murphys, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]; and Antibes hotel, [>]; and Sir Charles Mendl, [>]; and Velasquez, [>]–[>]; bathwater episode in, [>]; Baby Warren in, [>], [>]; effect of on Zelda, [>]; and bad parties, [>]; and J.B., [>]

  Tender Is the Night (movie), [>]

  Terry, Alice, [>]

  Thalberg, Irving, [>], [>], [>]

  Thayer, Scofield, [>]

  Theilade, Nini, [>]

  Titine (Ernestine Leray), [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]

  Thomas, Linda Lee, [>]

  Thomson, Virgil, [>], [>], [>]

  To Have and Have Not (Hemingway), [>]

  Toklas, Alice, [>]

  Tolstoy, Bea. See Stewart, Beatrice

  Tolstoy, Count Ilya, [>]

  Tomkins, Calvin, [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Torrents of Spring, The (Hemingway), [>]–[>]

  Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de, and Wiborg’s ink company, [>]–[>]

  Town and Country magazine: SWM featured in, [>], [>], [>], [>]; and Hemingway, [>]

  Trasse, Monsieur (barber), [>]

  Trudeau, Edward Livingston, [>], [>]

  Trudeau, Francis, [>]

  Tumulty, J. M., [>]

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

  Tzara, Tristan, [>], [>], [>]

  Uccello, Paolo, [>]

  Valentino, Rudolph, [>], [>], [>], [>]

  Vanderbilt, Mrs. Cornelius, [>]

  Vanderbilt, Mr. and Mrs. Reginald, [>]

  Velasquez, Eduardo, [>], [>]

  Versailles, Murphys in, [>]

  Vidor, King, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]

  Villa America, Antibes, [>], [>]–[>]; Murphys’ purchase of, [>]–[>]; GCM’s signpost for, [>], [>]; daily activities in, [>]–[>]; closing of, [>]; put on market, [>], [>];

  Honoria stays in, [>]; Patrick’s welcome at, [>]; departure from, [>]; return to, [>]; nighttime visit to by Honoria and friends, [>]; Jeanne Léger sheltered in, [>]; sale of, [>]–[>]; final viewing of, [>]. See also under Murphys

  Villa Paquita, [>]

  “Waddell Girls,” [>], [>], [>]

  Wagner, Robert F., [>]

  Walker, Hale, [>], [>]

  Waller, Fats, [>], [>]

  Walsh, Ernest, [>]

  Wanger, Walter, [>]

  Washington Crossing the Delaware: and GCM’s interest in painting, [>], [>]; and caricature drawing, [>]

  Wasp and Pear (GCM painting), [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]

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

  Weatherbird (schooner), [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]; as financial burden, [>]; Platt invited on, [>]; sale of, [>]

  Weir, Miss (drawing instructor), [>]

  Welsh, Mary. See Hemingway, Mary

  Wemyss, countess of, [>]

  Westminster, duchess of, [>]

  Westminster, duke of, [>]

  Wharton, Edith, [>], [>], [>]; and GCM’s life as child, [>]

  White, William Allen, [>]

  Whitney, Cornelius Vanderbilt, [>]

  Whitney, Gertrude Vanderbilt, [>]

  Whitney, Marie Norton, [>]

  Wiborg, Adeline Moulton (mother of SWM), [>], [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]; illnesses of, [>], [>], [>]; on trip to Europe, [>]–[>]; GCM’s impression on, [>]; and Fred Murphy, [>]; and Sara’s coming-out party, [>]; and Sherman-Mitchell wedding, [>]; and London pageant, [>]; and Titanic sinking, [>]; and Sara with Fred and GCM, [>]; on trip to Europe (1913), [>]; smuggling indictment against, [>]–[>]; on trip to London, [>]; and Sara’s relationship with GCM, [>]; and Sara’s engagement, [>], [>]; and Olga’s engagement, [>], [>]; and Sara’s wedding, [>]; and Olga�
��s wedding, [>]; and Sara’s cold, [>]; death of, [>], [>]

  Wiborg, Baoth. See Murphy, Baoth

  Wiborg, Frank Bestow (father of SWM), [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>]; on around-the-world trip, [>]; East Hampton purchases of, [>]–[>]; and daughters’ celebrity, [>]; and ShermanMitchell marriage, [>]; and Mrs. Patrick Campbell, [>]–[>]; as Republican delegate, [>]; as chaperon, [>], [>]; as GCM’s companion, [>], [>], [>]; and Adeline’s smuggling indictment, [>]–[>], [>]; and trip to India, [>], [>]; and Sara’s relationship with GCM, [>], [>]; and Sara’s engagement, [>]; and Olga’s engagement, [>]; and Sara’s dowry, [>]; and birth of Honoria, [>]; W. nth St. home given by, [>]; on WWI dangers, [>]; and GCM’s army service, [>]; and birth of Baoth, [>]; as host, [>]; daughters receive property from, [>], [>]; on Tariff Commission, [>]; as luncheon guest in Paris, [>]; and Sara’s taste in men, [>]; in New York with Murphys, [>]; on Frenchified upbringing of grandchildren, [>], [>]; and stock market, [>]; death of, [>]

  Wiborg, Henry Paulinus (grandfather of SWM), [>]

  Wiborg, Mary Hoyt (“Hoytie”; sister of SWM), [>], [>], [>]; trips to Europe, [>]–[>], [>], [>]; and Sara, [>]; and GCM in school years, [>], [>], [>]; in musical burlesque, [>]; presented at Buckingham Palace, [>]; as socially advanced, [>]; and romantic attachments, [>]; and Stella Campbell, [>]; at Republican convention, [>]; trip to London, [>], [>]; and Olga’s engagement, [>]; as WWI nurse, [>]–[>], [>]; and GCM’s try for overseas service, [>]; and birth of Baoth, [>]; and birthday-party argument, [>]–[>]; and Mary McLeod Bethune, [>]; in Paris, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>]; and Within the Quota characters, [>]; alienation of, [>]; and Murphys in New York, [>]; report to on Patrick II, [>]; party given by, [>]; as coexecutor of Frank Wiborg estate, [>]; Ramgut visit of, [>]–[>]; anti-Semitism of, [>]; as Baby Warren, [>], [>]; financial vicissitudes of, [>]–[>]; and Sara’s purchase of the Dunes, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]; and ballet project, [>]; and “curse” against SWM’s sons, [>], [>], [>]; absent from Baoth’s sickbed, [>]; Paris behavior of, [>]; in 1939 Paris, [>]; death of, [>]

  Wiborg, Olga Marie (sister of SWM; later Olga Fish), [>], [>], [>]; trips to Europe, [>]–[>], [>], [>]; and Sara, [>]; in musical burlesque, [>]; presented at Buckingham Palace, [>]; in tableaux, [>]; and romantic attachments, [>]; and Stella Campbell, [>

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