Glossary
Taliesin Fellowship, supported both centers.
Wyberslegh Hall. The fifteenth-century manor house where Isherwood was born and where his mother lived with his brother, Richard, after the war; it was part of the Bradshaw Isherwood estate.
Yogi and Yogini. Disciples of Swami Prabhavananda. His real name was Walter Brown, and he was in the army briefly during the war. Isherwood met him in April 1943 when Brown visited the Hollywood Vedanta Center where Mrs. Brown, Yogini, was already a probationer nun. Yogi and Yogini both lived at the center for a time, but eventually Yogi left and Yogini remained there alone as a nun.
Yorke, Henry. See Green, Henry.
Zinnemann, Fred (1907–1997) . Viennese-born director; son of a physician.
He studied at the Technical School of Cinema in Paris in 1927 and 1928, briefly worked as an assistant cameraman in Berlin, and arrived in the autumn of 1929 in Hollywood, where he was employed as an extra in All Quiet on the Western Front and then became Berthold Viertel’s personal assistant. He learned about documentary filmmaking from Robert Flaherty during an otherwise fruitless movie project back in Berlin, then filled in for his friend Henwar Rodakiewicz directing a documentary for the Mexican government, The Wave (1934). Two years later he was hired to direct shorts at MGM and eventually went on to other major studios, still using the semi-realistic style shaped by his documentary experience. By the early 1940s, when Isherwood met him, Zinnemann was living with his English wife, Renée Bartlett, on Mabery Road, near the Viertels, and Isherwood mentions them both in D 1. He directed a great many successful films––High Noon (1952), The Member of the Wedding (1953), From Here to Eternity (1953), Oklahoma (1955), A Hatful of Rain (1957), The Sundowners (1960), A Man for All Seasons (1966), The Day of the Jackal (1973), Julia (1977), and others.
Index
NOTE: Works by Isherwood appear directly under title; works by others appear under authors’ names.
Aarons, Chester, 277
Arvin, Newton, 120, 125
Abiquiu, New Mexico, 249, 252–5
Ashton, (Sir) Frederick, 271–2
Ackerley, Joe Randolph, 83 & n;
Asit (Prabhavananda’s nephew) see
Hindoo Holiday, 175–6n
Ghosh, Asit
Act of the Heart (film), 195
Auden, Wystan Hugh: meets
Adorno, Theodor, 155
Caskey, xvii; homosexual
Agee, James, 268, 270
practices, xx, 58; poetic style,
Ainsworth, William Harrison: The
xxvii; on sex relationships, 20;
Tower of London, 223n
C.I. writes article on, 31;
AJC Ranch, Coachella Valley
sexual relations with C.I., 58;
(California), 21, 196, 214, 220,
arrival in USA, 72, 82; C.I.
271
stays with in New York, 82; in
Aldeburgh festival (1948), 144–5
China with C.I., 82; mocks
Alderson, Nik, 104–5n, 107
Lehmann, 84; approves of Jack
Allen, John Edward, 144
Hewit as C.I.’s lover, 93n; in
Allgood, Sara, 188–9
Brussels with C.I., 93n, 106;
Almond, Paul, 194–5
friendship with Hayward, 98;
“Ambrose” (C.I.; section of Down
departs for USA, 105n;
There on a Visit ), 7
proposed visit to Spain, 105n;
Amsterdam, 134–5n
shocked at Sterns’ rental charge
Anderson, Ted and Mrs., 228
to C.I., 117; in New York,
Andersson, John, 128[n]
119, 123, 129; in Berlin,
Andrews, Oliver, 229
133–4n; in Amsterdam,
Angelo, Waldo, 212n
134–5n; on Fire Island, 138; in
Angermeyer, Ken (Kenneth Anger),
Paris, 142; on Stravinsky’s
212
avariciousness, 202; Agnes
Anna Karenina (film), 153
Smedley meets, 209
Arensberg, Walter, 29–30
Aufderheide, Charles: friendship
Argo, Leif, 195, 212
with From, xviii–xix, 24n; at
Arnold, Kenneth, 263n
Benton Way Group, 197
366
Index
Avery, Stephen Morehouse, 34n
49; and C.I.’s departure for
Avis, Annie (C.I.’s nanny), 87–8
England, 81; Kathleen
Isherwood’s idea of, 89;
Bachardy, Don: C.I. meets, ix,
Gielgud disparages, 135;
xxxii, 213n; C.I.’s relations
recommends Ivy
with, x, xxiv, xxvii; moves
Compton–Burnett, 140n;
into garden house with C.I.,
approves C.I.’s wish to be
xxi; C.I. takes notes on private
waited on, 181; moves to
behavior patterns, xxiii; uses
Cove Way, 191; on Dick
Stravinsky’s first name, 202n
Foote, 196n; and C.I.’s break
Bachardy, Ted (Don’s brother),
with Caskey, 283; and C.I.’s
212n
The World in the Evening, 284;
Bacon, Francis (painter), 116
Lamkin admires, 285
Bacon, Francis (Viscount St. Albans),
Beesley, Dodie Smith: dislikes Field
29–30 & n
and Lamkin’s adaptation of
Bailey, Bill, 123, 170
Goodbye to Berlin, xxxi–xxxii,
Balanchine, George, 50n
277, 284–5; and C.I.’s life at
Balchin, Nigeclass="underline" The Small Back
Vedanta Center, 7; C.I. visits,
Room, 52n
11–12, 15, 18, 23, 208, 214,
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, 50n
244, 277, 281; home above
Barada (Doris Ludwig), 209
Tower Road, 12; moves to
Barnett, Jimmie, 7
new house, 18, 23; Steve
Barr, James: Quatrefoil, 275n
Conway not introduced to, 41;
Barrie, Michael, 208, 230, 238, 247,
likes Caskey and Fouts, 45;
263
dalmatian dogs, 49–50; moves
Barrymore, Ethel, 37, 40, 187
to Malibu Road, 49; and C.I.’s
Barrymore, John: house, 11–12
departure for England, 81;
Barton–Brown, Monsignor, 107
Kathleen Isherwood’s idea of,
Baz, Ben, 123–4, 133, 138
89; mocks van Druten’s The
Baz, Emilio, 124, 133, 138
Mermaids Singing, 123n;
Beat the Devil (film), 126n
Gielgud on, 135; recommends
Beaton, Cecil, 65n, 95, 113
Ivy Compton–Burnett, 140n;
Beautiful and Damned, The (C.I.; TV
approves C.I.’s wish to be
script), ix
waited on, 181; moves to
Beauvoir, Simone de, xvi, 67 & n
Cove Way, 191; encourages
Beesley, Alec: dislikes Field and
and advises on C.I.’s writing,
Lamkin’s adaptation of Goodbye
217, 244–5; Caskey visits with
to Berlin, xxxi–xxxii, 284–5;
C.I., 233; and C.I.’s break
and C.I.’s life at Vedanta
with Caskey, 283; and C.I.’s
Center, 7; C.I. visits, 11–12,
The World in the Evening, 284; I
15, 18, 23, 244, 277; moves to
Capture the Castle, 175–6n
new house, 18, 23; C.I.’s
Below the Horizon (earlier Below the
friendship with, 23, 28, 49–50,
Equator ; film), 207n, 229–30,