Lost Years (80 page)

Heinz
see
Neddermayer, Heinz

Helpmann, (Sir) Robert, 113n

Hemingway, Ernest, 83n, 137, 270–1

Henreid, Paul, 31n

Hepburn, Katharine, 15, 40

Hersey, John, 135, 137

Heston, Charlton, 263

Hewit, Jack, xxix, 92–4, 98–100, 103, 106, 113

Heyerdahl, Thor:
The Kon–Tiki Expedition
, 275n

High Valley Theatre, Ojai (California), 74, 229

“High Valley Theatre” (C.I.; article), 74n

Hill, Ramsay, 235[n]

Hirschfeld, Magnus, xx–xxi, 56

Hitler, Adolf, xi, 31

Hollywood Code, xii

Holmes, John, 116–17

Hooker, Edward, xxi

Hooker, Evelyn (
formerly
Caldwell): at From party, xviii–xix; conducts studies on homosexual community, xix–xxii, xxiv, 197–8; friendship with From, 24n, 198 & [n]; at Benton Way Group, 197

Hopper, Hedda, 216

Horizon
(magazine), 143

Horst (i.e., Horst B. Horst, or Horst Bohrmann), 65n, 123, 125

Houseman, John, 242

Howard, Brian, 95–6, 102–3, 105n

Hoyt, Karl, 216

Hubbard, Ron, 237 & n

Hunt, Bob, 253

Huntington Hartford Foundation
see
Hartford, Huntington

Huston, John, 126n, 154n, 229, 242, 268–70

Huston, Walter, 187

Huxley, Aldous: in C.I.'s circle, xvii, 81; writes to Anita Loos on Matthew and Warner Brothers strike, 27n; C.I. lunches and sups with, 31, 198; C.I. entertains, 50; makes no mention of Salka Viertel in letters, 71; comments on C.I.'s life–style, 181; relations with Stravinsky, 201n, 222–3; Bob Craft contradicts, 203; works on
Below the Equator
film story with C.I., 207, 229–30; friendship with C.I., 208, 277; on LeCron, 230n, 235; at Vedanta Center, 277;
Ape and
Essence
, 175–6n

Huxley, (Sir) Julian, 31n

Huxley, Maria
(née
Nys; Aldous's first wife), 50, 81, 198, 208, 222

Huxley, Matthew, 23, 27, 139

Hyndman, Tony, 113–15 & n, 145

Ibsen, Henrik:
The Stranger from the Sea
, 75

Ince, Thomas, 234

Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, Berlin, xx

Isherwood, Christopher: Finances: film earnings, 23n, 91; credits accumulate in English bank account, 84–5

Health: inflamed throat, 21, 23; contracts gonorrhea (the clap), 35–7; penis trouble, 47, 61; urethra operation (for median bar), 61–3, 111; made sterile, 62–3; operation for piles, 179n; nervous strain, 183; rectal bleeding, 183; impotence, 219n; copies friends' ailments, 272; illness (1950), 272

Personal life: homosexuality, ix, xi–xvii, xx, xxiv—xxv, 32–3, 90; political ideas, xiii, 190; drinking, xvi, 53, 96, 100, 140, 183, 195, 199, 201, 276, 278; sense of identity, xviii, xxv; slow adaptation to American style, xxv; sense of guilt, xxviii–xxix, xxxiii, 6–7, 41, 55, 81, 181, 220n; learns German, xxx; preoccupation with exclusion, xxxii–xxxiii; casual sexual activities, 5, 64, 67, 116–17, 131, 147, 218, 242, 258–62, 276; visits burlesque shows, 14–15; attracted to blond men, 19 & n, 20; sexual practices, 20–1, 56–8, 219n; as supposed model for Larry in Maugham's
Razor's Edge
, 22n;
Time
magazine article on, 22
& n; reading, 23, 51, 140n, 175n, 223n, 274n; hitchhikes to work, 24; owns cars, 33, 46, 276; takes out U.S. citizenship papers, 40; sexual snobbishness, 41–2; entertaining with Caskey, 49–51; at school in England, 57 & n; exhibitionism, 64, 279–80; and songs, 66; antagonizes Katherine Anne Porter, 68–9; gives blood to accident victim, 69; occupies Salka Viertel's garage apartment, 70–1, 73–4; promiscuity, 74; jealousies, 75, 79, 166; granted U.S. citizenship, 77–8, 209; pacifism, 77–8, 100, 189–90; fear of flying, 80; plans to settle in New York on return from England (1947), 82n; homesickness for USA, 84; accent, 85–6; wears dinner jacket, 104n; attends Pilates' gymnasium, 120; photographed by Jared French, 128; photographed on Fire Island, 138–9; returns to Los Angeles (1948), 149–50; bicycling, 150n; moves into East Rustic Road with Caskey, 167, 183; hospital visiting, 183, 200, 204–5, 219, 236, 239–40; psychic sensitivity, 185–7 & n; attends Benton Way Group meeting, 197–8; gives up smoking, 211–12; resumes smoking, 215n; detained in raid on homosexual club, 216–17; Fechin portrait of, 222; hypnotized by LeCron, 230–1; driving, 231; practises autosuggestion, 236; attitude to Jews, 262, 266; encounter with psychotic neighbor, 264–5; leaves Los Angeles for Laguna Beach, 273–5; painted by Sorel, 276; play–acts drowning, 278; moves into Huntington Hartford Foundation, 282

Professional activities: film script writing, 23–5, 28, 32–5, 46, 150–3, 167, 176–7, 191, 195, 207 & n, 229; film outline of ghost story, 49; works for MGM, 73n; works with Lesser Samuels, 81, 91, 167, 195, 198, 206, 229; speaks lines for Christ's voice in
The Great Sinner
, 177–8; membership of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 188; as trustee of Hartford Foundation, 245–6, 264

Relationships: with Don Bachardy, ix–x, xxi, xxiii, xxvii, xxxii; with Heinz Neddermayer, xi, xxi, xxx; with Bill Caskey, xv–xvii, xxv, xxvii, 20, 34–5, 41–9, 52–6, 59–61, 66, 69, 73–5, 79, 117–18, 163, 166–7, 175, 182, 193–4, 208, 233, 241n, 257–8, 277–8; with Jim Charlton, xv, 156–66, 183, 208, 210–11, 213–14, 216, 230, 248, 280n; with Jack Hewit, xxix, 92–4, 98–100, 103; with Bill Harris, 4–7, 9–20; with Carter Lodge, 12n; with Steve Cooley, 32–7, 41–2; with Vernon Old, 45, 50, 92, 106, 193; with Auden, 58; friendship with Denny Fouts ends, 70; with John Cowan, 76; with Ian Scott–Kilvert, 103–7 & n; with Tony Hyndman, 114–15n, 145; difficulties with Caskey, 179–83, 197, 210, 220, 250n, 278; considers leaving Caskey, 192–3, 199–200; Caskey breaks with, 195, 282–3; with Don Coombs, 218–19, 221, 258, 260–1; with Michael Leopold, 220–2, 230, 258, 277; with Peter Darms, 242–3, 258, 282;
with Brad Saurin, 258–9; with Lennie Newman, 279–80

Spiritual ideas and practices: takes up Vedanta, xxvii, xxix; meditation, xxix; enjoys Vedanta Center ceremonies, 9, 14, 59, 81, 179; has doubts over monastic life, 27–8; consults clairvoyants, 39, 51n; finally moves from Vedanta Center, 45–6; initiation by Prabhavananda, 78, 209; makes japam, 171, 183

Travels: in South America with Caskey, xxxiv, 119, 123, 133, 139, 141; hitchhiking with Bill Harris, 13; hobo trip with Vernon Old, 13; motor trip with Caskey, 47; in China, 61, 82; to Mexico with Caskey, 78, 79; to England (1947), 80–117; in Portugal (1935–6), 114n; return to New York (1947), 117–19; in Berlin, 133–4n; in Amsterdam, 134n; to France with Caskey, 141–3; in England with Caskey (1948), 143–7; returns to New York with Caskey (1948), 149; to New Mexico with Peggy Kiskadden, 247–54

Writings: autobiographical memoir, vii; diaries, vii, ix, xii, xxiv, xxvi–xxvii, 3; considers giving up fiction, ix–x; translates Bhagavad Gita with Swami, 8n, 9, 22; helps Prabhavananda with translation of Shankara, 72n; makes typescript of diaries, 72; translates Patanjali aphorisms, 179, 207, 210, 212, 258, 278; foreword to Rinser's
Die Stärkerer
, 192; depiction of self in fiction, 200; writes foreword to Vividishananda's
A Man of God
, 207; occasional writings, 210n; ideas for stories, 221n; invited to contribute to
Tomorrow
magazine, 241–2; reviewing, 247, 258, 275–6, 282n

Isherwood, Frank Bradshaw (C.I.'s father), viii, 238

Isherwood, Henry Bradshaw (C.I.'s uncle): death, 90n

Isherwood, Kathleen Bradshaw (M; C.I.'s mother): C.I. writes on, viii; C.I.'s relations with, x; C.I. visits, 87–9, 185n; death, 87; and ownership of Wyberslegh, 90n, 111; and C.I.'s relations with Ian Scott–Kilvert, 104n; reaction to C.I.'s sterility operation, 111; and Richard's jealousy of C.I., 144;
The Condor and the Cows
(British ed.) dedicated to, 194

Isherwood, Richard Graham Bradshaw (C.I.'s brother): and C.I.'s 1947 visit to Wyberslegh, 87–8, 112; appearance and behavior, 87; meets Felix Greene, 89; inherits Wyberslegh through C.I., 90n, 111; and C.I.'s 1948 visit, 144, 185n; jealousy of C.I., 144

Ivar Avenue, Hollywood
see
Vedanta Center

Jackson, Shirley:
The Lottery
, 223n, 225n

Jacobs, William, 29, 32

James, Henry: C.I. admires, 52n; “The Author of Baltraffio”, 52n;
The Bostonians
, 175n; “Lady Barberina”, 52n; “The Pupil”, 103n

Japan: surrenders (1945), 45

Jarrico, Paul, 191

Jay
see
de Laval, Jay

Jeff (pseud.), 17, 40

Jennings, Isa, 123, 130

Jennings, Ollie, 123–4, 133, 138

Job
(ballet), 147

John, Augustus, 91

Johnson, Celia, 144

Jones, Jennifer, 154n

Jonson, Ben:
The Alchemist
, 91

Journey to a War
(C.I.; with Auden), 22n, 209

Judgement Day in Pittsburgh
(film), 81, 91

Juenger, Ernst:
On the Marble Cliffs
, 140n

Julius Caesar
(film), 263

Jung, Carl Gustav, xi, xx

Jurado, Arthur, 205

Kahn, Gordon, 25

Kallman, Chester, 82, 117, 129, 142

Kanin, Garson:
Remembering Mr. Maugham
, 37n

Katha Upanishad, 9

Kathleen and Frank
(C.I.), viii, x, xxi–xxii

Kaufman, Robert, 237n

Kazan, Elia, 267

Keate, Richard (Dick), 65–6

Kelley, Howard, 17–18, 50, 81, 227–8

Kennedy, Arthur, 31n

Kennedy, Bill, 192, 241–2, 245

Kennedy, Helen
see
Sudhira

Kennedy, (Sir) Ludovic, 272

Kennington, Eric, 94

Keohane, Jack (pseud.), 75

Kidd, David, 188

King, Mackenzie, 116

King-Page, Neville, 115

Kinsey, Alfred:
Sexual Behavior in the Human Male
, xv

Kirstein, Lincoln: meets Caskey, xvii; hostility to C.I., 69; in New York, 119, 123, 129–30; admires Nadelman sculptures, 132; art cult, 132–3; admires Burns's
The Gallery
, 137; visits Fire Island, 138

Kiskadden, Peggy (
formerly
Bok;
then
Rodakiewicz): Steve Cooley not introduced to, 41; C.I. meets, 45; C.I. entertains, 50–1; accompanies C.I. when made U.S. citizen, 78; friendship with C.I., 81, 153–4, 208, 230, 281; Kathleen Isherwood's idea of, 89; on C.I.'s Peter Pan qualities, 101; in New York, 135; disapproves of C.I.'s boyfriends, 154, 283; attends Vernon Old's marriage, 170; disapproves of Ben Bok's marriage, 173; dislikes Huxley's
Ape and Essence
, 176n; C.I. travels to New Mexico with, 247–56; idea of self, 249n; relations with Georgia O'Keeffe, 250; C.I. ceases close relations with, 256–7

Kiskadden, William Sherrill (Bill): C.I. entertains, 50; friendship with C.I., 81, 153, 230; in New York, 135; C.I. witnesses operation by, 178; supposed sadism, 179 & n

Kiskadden, William Sherrill, Jr. (Bill and Peggy's son; “Bull”), 247, 249, 252, 254–6

Kittredge, Bob and Mary, 248–9, 255

Knight, Franklin, 7

Kolisch, Dr. Joseph, 23, 63, 272

Korean War (1950–53), 240, 243

Kramer, Stanley, 205

Küsel, Otto, 134n

Lady from the Land of the Dead, The
(C.I.; TV script), ix

Laguna Beach: C.I. and Caskey settle in (Monterey Street), 273–5

Lamarr, Hedy, 242

Lamkin, Speed: advises C.I. on
The World in the Evening
, xxix–xxxii, 281, 283–4; character, xxx, 232, 273, 283; co–adapts C.I.'s
Goodbye to Berlin
for stage (as
Sally Bowles
), xxxi, 265–6, 273, 277,
284; C.I. meets, 232; affair with Bertrand Cambus, 260; cultivates C.I.'s friendship, 278, 281; accepts C.I.'s withdrawal of
Sally Bowles
adaptation, 285; admires Alec Beesley, 285;
The Easter Egg Hunt
, 283;
Tiger in the Garden
, 232

Lang, Mrs. (Ian Scott-Kilvert's mother), 103–6n

Langford, Sam, 95–6, 102

LaPan, Dick, 50, 277

Lathwood, Jo
see
Masselink, Jo

Laughton, Charles, 45, 195

Laval, Jay de
see
de Laval, Jay

Law, Doc, 44n

Lawrence, D.H., 253, 255n;
St. Mawr
, 254n

Lawrence, Frieda, 253, 254n

Lawrence, T.E.:
The Mind
, 175n;
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
, 94

LeCron, Leslie, 230–1, 235–8

Leddick, David:
Naked Men: Pioneering Male Nudes 1935–1955
, 128[n]

Ledebur, Count Friedrich, 242

Lehmann, Beatrix, 110, 111n, 148n

Lehmann, John: C.I. visits on 1947 trip to England, 83–4, 95–6, 102, 113; edits
New Writing
, 100[n]; and Neville King-Page, 115; on grounding of
Queen Elizabeth
, 116; C.I. and Caskey stay with in London (1948), 143, 148; entertains Gore Vidal and Tennessee Williams, 145, 146[n]; Paul Almond meets, 194–5;
The Ample Proposition
, 83, 85

Lehmann, Rosamond, 108, 113 & n

Leigh, Vivien, 153, 267

Leopold, Michael, 220–2, 230, 258, 277

Lerman, Leo, 126–7

Letter from an Unknown Woman
(film), 153

“Letter from England, A”
see
“Coming to London”

Letter, The
(film), 37

Lewis, David, 211

Lewis, Hayden: relations with Caskey, 34, 43; loses civilian job with Navy, 43; and C.I.'s relations with Caskey, 45, 48, 52–3, 119n, 233; C.I. gives Packard car to, 46n; on Caskey and Keohane, 75; relations with Rodney Owens, 76–7, 81, 149–50, 153, 167; and C.I.'s 1947 departure for England, 82; meets C.I. on return from England (1948), 149; improved relations with C.I., 150, 153, 167, 208, 238; meets Jim Charlton, 163; at Vernon Old's wedding, 170; visits C.I. in Monterey Street house, 274

Libman, Lillian:
And Music at the Close
, 201n