on a Visit ), 7n, 142
13; excites C.I., 20; C.I. dines
Pearn, Agnes Marie (Inez; Stephen
with, 31; lives in Hollywood
Spender’s first wife), 114n
with C.I., 38; friendship with
Pears, Peter, 92, 95, 106, 144,
C.I., 45, 50, 92 & [n], 106,
212–15
153; approves C.I.’s relations
Peck, Gregory, 152, 168–9, 177,
with Caskey, 46; C.I.
187–8
entertains, 50; affair with Anita
Pell, Donald (pseud.), 258, 260,
Pitoëff, 50; C.I.’s mythic
268, 271
image of, 60–1, 159; takes C.I.
Perkins, Lynn, 49–50
to snake show, 152n; marriage
Perlin, Bernard (Bernie), 123
to Patty O’Neill, 170–1 & [n],
Philipps, Cristina, 108–9
181; on wishing to serve C.I.,
Philipps, Wogan, 108–10
181; and C.I.’s psychic
Picasso, Pablo: Denny Fouts sells
experience in Sequoia, 185n;
painting, 46n
leaves C.I., 193
Pilates, Joseph, 120 & n
382
Index
Pitoëff, Anita, 50
48–9, 107, 235
Pitoëff, Ludmilla, 50
Pringle, Aileen, 195
Pits, The (on State Beach), 63–4
Pritchett, (Sir) V.S., 113
Players Restaurant, Hollywood, 39
Proust, Marcel, xx, 21, 26;
Plomer, William, 83 & n, 86, 94n,
Remembrance of Things Past, 21,
101–2, 113, 144
51; “Seascape” (from Within a
Poitier, Sidney, 207n
Budding Grove ), 67
Pole, Rupert, 245–6
Provincetown, Massachusetts, 127
Pollock, Peter, 100
Porter, Cole, 58[n], 69, 153n, 215
Quakers see Friends, Society of
Porter, Katherine Anne, 68–9
Queen Elizabeth (ship), 89, 116, 149
Portugal, 114n
Power, Tyrone, 39n
Radebaugh, Roy (Richard
Prabha (Phoebe Nixon; later
Cromwell), 170–1
Pravrajika Prabhaprana), 209
Rainey, Ford, 207–8, 229
Prabhavananda, Swami: C.I. writes
Rains, Claude, 31n
book on, viii, xxiv, xxvii;
Ramakrishna: C.I.’s biography of,
C.I.’s relations with, ix, 7, 9,
xxii, xxvii; birthday
182, 201n, 278; C.I. introduces
celebrations, 23, 179; C.I.
Caskey to, xvii; and C.I.’s
follows, 186
proposed biography of
Ramakrishna and His Disciples (C.I.),
Ramakrishna, xxii; effect on
xxii
C.I., xxix; translates Bhagavad
Random House (publishers), 119,
Gita with C.I., 8n, 9, 22;
188, 196, 276
returns to Vedanta Center, 14;
Rapper, Irving, 31n, 208
lumbago, 18; Time magazine
Rassine, Alexis, 84n, 96, 115, 143,
article on, 22; C.I. talks to
148, 271
about leaving, 27; and C.I.’s
Rattigan, (Sir) Terence: The Winslow
gonorrhea, 36; Maugham
Boy, 102
meets, 38, 40; scorn for
Ravagli, Angelo, 253, 254n
Tyrone Power, 39n; and C.I.’s
Rawlings, Margaret, 113n
leaving Vedanta Center, 45;
Razor’s Edge, The (film), 37, 38n
translates Shankara’s The
Red Badge of Courage, The (film),
Crest–Jewel of Discrimination,
268–70
72n; initiates C.I., 78; C.I.
Reed, John, 255n
visits, 81, 183; blesses C.I. on
Reinhardt, Gottfried: and C.I.’s
trip to England, 81; Kathleen
meeting Wolfgang, 28; C.I.
Isherwood’s view of, 89; C.I.
works with on films, 146,
attends birthday lunch, 173;
150–3, 168, 177; C.I. attends
translates Patanjali, 179, 183,
party, 221
207; believes Caskey a bad
Reinhardt, Wolfgang: C.I. dines
influence on C.I., 181; visits
with, 28; C.I. works with,
Trabuco, 191; and Sister’s
34–5, 36n
death, 197; leaves for India,
Reis, Irving, 91[n]
209; undergoes operation, 237, Reis, Meta, 91 & [n]
239; van Druten on, 247;
Renaldo, Tito: friendship with C.I.,
meets Alan Watts, 277
153 & n, 217; meets Swami,
Prater Violet (C.I.), xiii, xxv, xxx, 4,
188; leaves Trabuco, 217
Index
383
Repton Letters, The (C.I.; ed. George
Santa Barbara, California, 10, 13,
Ramsden), xxxi n
197
Richardson, (Sir) Ralph, 91
Santa Monica, California, 6, 9,
Richardson, Tony, 150, 175n
13–14, 198
Rickles, Don, 235[n]
Santa Paula (ship), 139
Rimbaud, Arthur: A Season in Hell,
Sarada (Folling), 209
182
Saroyan, William, 267
Rinser, Luise: Die Stärkeren, 192
Sartre, Jean-Paul, xvi, 66; No Exit,
Rio de Janeiro, 141 & n
175–6n
Robertson, David, 212
Saunders, Brad: affair with Jay de
Robeson, Paul, 17
Laval, 172, 177; described,
Robinsons department store, 15
172; serves in Korean War,
Robson-Scott, William, 83n, 98
241; relations with C.I., 258–9;
Rod see Owens, Rodney
attachment to Jim Charlton,
Rodd, Marcel, 8
259
Roder, Hellmut, 126 & n
Savage, Very Revd H.E., Dean of
Roditi, Edouard, xix
Lichfield, 30n
Rodman, Selden, 125
Scheuer, Philip K., 49
Roerick, Bill, 121
Schindler, Mr. and Mrs. (Haverford
Rolfe, Frederick William (Baron
refugees), 121
Corvo), xx
Schlee, George, 130–1
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano: death,
Schoenberg, Arnold: Pierrot lunaire,
30–1
264
Rose Garden Apartments,
School of Tragedy, The (C.I.) see
Hollywood, 38
World in the Evening, The
Ross, Alan, 83n
Scobie, W.I., xi n
Ross, Jean, 108, 110
Scott-Kilvert, Derek, 103n
Ross, Lillian, 270–1
Scott-Kilvert, Elizabeth, 106
Roth, Sanford (Sandy), 74
Scott-Kilvert, Ian, 103–7 & n, 113
Rueda, Victor, 212n
Scott Moncrieff, C.K., 66[n]
Rügen Island (Germany), 138
Search, The (film), 149, 174
Russell, John, 38n
Searle, Ronald, 97n
Russia see Soviet Russia
Sequoia National Park, California,
185n, 243
Sachs, David, xix, n197
Shakespeare, William: Othello, 17
Sachs, Maurice: Le Sabbat, 175n
Shankara: The Crest–Jewel of
Sadler’s Wells Ballet, 271
Discrimination, 72n
St. Edmund’s school, Hindhead,
Shaw, George Bernard: Androcles and
Surrey, 57 & n
the Lion, 18
Salka see Viertel, Salka
Shearer, Moira, 271
Sally Bowles (proposed stage
Shepherd, Amos, 212n
adaptation by Lamkin and
Shivananda, Swami, 207
Field), 265–6, 273, 277, 284–5
“Shore, The” (C.I.; earlier
Samuels, Lesser: C.I. works with,
“California Story”), 74
81, 91, 167, 195, 198, 206–7,
Sinatra, Frank, 66
229–30; friendship with C.I.,
Single Man, A (C.I.), xii, xxv–xxvi,
153
44n, 167n, 217
Sansom, William, 83n
Sintra (Portugal), 114n
384
Index
Siodmak, Robert, 168, 187n
Stern, Josef Luitpold, 121
Sister Lalita (Carrie Mead Wykoff;
Stern, Tania Kurella, 117–18,
“Sister”), 9, 197, 209
122–3, 137, 176
Sleeping Beauty, The (ballet), 272
Steuermann, Eduard, 264
Sloane, Everett, 205
Steve (studio messenger boy) see
Smedley, Agnes, 209
Conway, Steve
Smith, Dodie see Beesley, Dodie
Stevens, George, 66
Smith
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 61, 276;
Snow, Edgar, 195
Weir of Hermiston, 89n
Sorel, Paul (born Paul Dibble), 273,
Stieglitz, Alfred, 251 & n