Lehmann - Christopher Isherwood : a personal memoir

Abrahams, Billy, 142

Ackerley, J.R. (Joe), 123, 124rc Address Not Known (projected Auden/ Isherwood book), 49

Adventures of the Black Girl in her Search for God (Shaw), 117

Afterwards (Isherwood), 98-100

Alfred, 65

All the Conspirators (Isherwood), 2, 8, 9, 46, 108

Ambrose (part of Down There on a Visit ) (Isherwood), 64, 96, 97

Ample Proposition, The (Lehmann), 107 Amsterdam, 20, 24-5, 26

Ascent of F. 6, The (Auden/Isherwood), 22, 32, 51 Atlanta, 113

Auden, Wystan H., 19, 61, 116,

119; early friendship with Isherwood, 1, 46; in Berlin, 8,

12, 15; description of Isherwood, 10; play writing with Isherwood, 22, 32, 47, 51; and New Writing, 25, 26; and Spanish Civil War, 35, 36, 40; in China with Isherwood, 38, 40-43, 47; in New York, 43-4, 74, 93, 142; publishing plot, 48-9; emigration to America, 48, 50; drift from Isherwood over Yoga, 53-4; vilified as deserter, 54-5, 72; continuing friendship with Isherwood, 108; early affair with Isherwood, 129

Austin (Texas), 113, 124-5, 127

Bachardy, Don, 2, 80; permanent alliance with Isherwood, 84-5, 86-7, 93, 95, 108, 120, 121, 122, 127, 128, 129, 130, 137, 138,

141; artistic career, 86, 95, 102, 106, 117; as portraitist, 86, 106, 119, 141; work on film scripts with Isherwood, 117, 129, 135

Bachardy, Ted, 84

Baxter, Walter, 83

Beesley, Alec, 51, 78

Bell, Julian, 7

Berkeley College, San Francisco,

113, 120

Berlin, 8, 9, 12-15, 47, 81, 83

Berlin of Sally Bowles, The (Isherwood), 140

Bhagavad-Gita, 63-4, 68

Blanc-Roos, Rene, 66 Bodley Head, The, 25, 39 n

Bowen, Elizabeth, 39 Bower, Tony, 35, 68

Bowles, Paul, 86, 87

Bradbury, Ray, 82

Bradshaw, John, 107

Brussels, 23, 26, 29, 31, 35, 36,

37-8, 47

Buenos Aires, 76

Byron, Lord, 115

Bubi, 12, 44, 76

Burford, Roger, 2

Cabaret (musical and film), 109,

114, 117, 134

Calcutta, 104

Cambridge, 1, 2, 47

Canary Islands, 20-22

Canton, 41

Cape, Jonathan, Limited, 2, 8

Capote, Truman, 82

Carver, David, 134

Caskey, Bill, alliance with, 67, 74, 76, 77, 78, 79, 81

Chambers, Robert, 4

Chamson, Andre, 28

Chaplin, Charlie, 59, 67

Chaplin, Oona, 67

Cheltenham, 72

Chesterton, G.K., 93

Chinese-Japanese war, 38, 40-43

Christ the Hunter (Lehmann), 104

Christopher Garland (Isherwood), 2 Christopher and His Kind (Isherwood), 12, 15, 32, 43, 129; quoted, 11, 25, 29, 47

Christopher Isherwood, A Critical Biography (Finney), 138n

City and the Pillar, The (Vidal), 77

Clark-Kerr, Sir Archibald, 42, 43

Coal-Face (film), 26

Cockburn, Claud, 16

Cocteau, Jean, 44, 79, 107

Collins, Wilkie, 67

Coming to London (Isherwood), 69-71, 73

Condor and the Cows, The (Isherwood), 67, 78

Connolly, Cyril, 35, 55, 66

Connolly, Jean, 35, 66

Conrad, Joseph, 93

Copenhagen, 22, 23

Cornelius, Henry, 92

Crowley, Alisteir, 87

Cukor, George, 131, 133

Curtis Brown, 8

Davis, George, 43

Day at La Verne, A (Isherwood), 57-8, 65

Daylight , 41

Diane de Poitiers (film script), 80, 92

Dog Beneath the Skin, The (Auden/ Isherwood), 15, 22, 32, 117

Donat, Robert, 59

Doone, Rupert, 22

Dostoevsky, Feodor, 77

Down There on a Visit (Isherwood),

48, 66, 94; origin and episodes of, 64, 81, 94, 95-7; autobiographical element, 95-6; Lehmanns opinion of, 96-7, 103; disappointing reviews, 101 Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, 93 Duras, Marguerite, 105

Edward Lear and his World (Lehmann), 141

Edwards, Fallon, 132

Eliot, T.S., 49

Elizabeth II, Queen, 134

Emory College, Atlanta, 113

Empson, William, 42

Encounter , 53n, 123

English-Speaking Union, 131, 133

Englishman, An, original title of A Single Man , 102

Estoril, 31, 34

Evening Standard , 78

Evil Was Abroad (Lehmann), 33-4, 72

Exhumations (Isherwood), 86, 105-6

Eyre and Spottiswoode, 107n

Faber and Faber, 40, 49

Faust (Goethe), 13

Financial Times , 130, 138, 140

Finney, Brian, 138

Fodor, Ladislas, 77

Forster, E.M., 52, 93, 101, 119, 123-4; homosexual short stories, 98,

100 , 121

Fouts, Denny, 65-6, 77, 96

Frankenstein: The True Story (film), 129, 135

Freeman, Gillian, 138

Freshwater Bay (I.o.W.), 46

Fronny, The - see Dog Beneath the Skin

Fry, Basil, 95

Fryer, Jonathan, 136, 138

Furbank, P.N., 121, 123

Gambler, The (Dostoevsky), 77

Garbo, Greta, 52, 59, 67

Gaumont British, 18, 64

George VI, King, 82

Gielgud, John, 93, 105

Giese, Karl, 15

Goodbye to Berlin (Isherwood), 33, 78, 94, 97; genesis of, 29, 136, 138,

140; failure in America, 51, 109; English success, 57.

See also I am a Camera

Goyen, William, 82

Graves, Robert, 93 Great English Short Stories (comp. Isherwood), 93 Great Sinner, The (film), 77

Green, Henry, 83, 128

Greene, Graham, 21 Grey, Joel, 134

Group Theatre, 15, 22, 36, 44

Gwynn, Michael, 90

Hamilton, Gerald, 14, 23, 35, 55; original of Mr Norris, 21

Hammersley, Violet, 7, 45

Hankow, 42

Harcourt Brace, 137

Harpers Bazaar, 41

Harris, Julie, 78

Hartford (Connecticut), 78

Haverford (Philadelphia), 66

Head of a Leader, The (Isherwood), 53n

Heard, Gerald, 51, 52, 58, 66; and Yoga, 53, 57, 62-3

Heinz - see Neddermayer,

Heinz Hilton, James, 58, 59

Hindenburg, Paul von, 13

Hitler, Adolf, 13, 48

Hockney, David, 135

Hogarth Press, 41; Lehmann as trainee manager, 7-8, 12; as Isherwoods publisher, 29, 33, 49, 108; Lehmann as partner in, 38-9, 46, 49

Hollywood, 51-68, 92, 105, 132, 138

Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 143 n

Hong Kong, 41, 42, 43 Horizon, 55, 66

Hour Before Dawn, The (Maugham), 67

Huston, John, 105

Huxley, Aldous, 64; in Hollywood, 51, 52, 53, 58, 67; death, 104

Huxley, Julian, 104

I, Claudius { film), 118 I am My Brother (Lehmann), 94 I am a Camera (van Druten):

dramatization from Goodbye to Berlin and Sally Bowles, 51, 78-9; brilliant success, 79, 80, 89-90; film and musical versions, 79, 92; see also Cabaret

In Cold Blood (Capote), 82

In the Purely Pagan Sense (Lehmann), 135

Isherwood, Christopher: his work brought to Lehmanns notice, 8-9v 108; first meeting with Lehmann, 10-12; crucial journey to Berlin, 12-14; dream ofGerman Boy, 12, 44, 76; homosexual affairs, 12, 15-17, 19-22, 43-4, 47, 52, 65-6, 67, 79, 81, 84-5, 129; escape from Berlin after Nazi control, 14-15, 19-22; worry over danger of war, 16, 23, 48, 52; introduction to film work, 18-19; work on Mr Norris Changes Trains, 21, 22; playwriting collaboration with Auden, 22, 32, 38, 47, 51; European wanderings, 23- 4, 31-6; and New Writing, 24- 30, 33, 36, 52; genesis of Sally Bowles and other Berlin stories, 27, 28-9, 38, 39; advice on Lehmanns work, 33-4, 109, 135; journey to China, 38, 40-43, 47; fantastic story-telling, 45, 47; unwritten novel, 46, 64; emigration to America, 47, 48, 50-51; publishing plot, 49; erotic tangle, 49, 57; pacifism, 51, 54, 61, 62, 109; in Hollywood, 51 et seq.\ conversion to Yoga, 53-4, 59, 62, 66; obsession with sainthood, 54, 80; vilified as deserter, 54-5; intention not to return to England, 55; and Vedanta, 55-8, 59, 62-4, 65, 84, 109; writing block, 58, 62, 64, 66, 106; writing of film scripts, 58-60, 67, 77, 78, 80, 92, 105, 117, 118, 129, 135; feeling of alienation from friends in England, 61-2,m 68; with Quakers, 66; becomes American subject, 67, 70; postwar visits to England, 69-74, 81-2, 83-5, 106; happiness in resumed friendships, 70, 72, 83, 84, 108; absorption in film-world, 72; in South America, 76, 77; finances, 78-9, 80, 114; worst novel, 80; trip to Mexico, 80; return to Berlin, 82-3; beginning of permanent alliance with Don Bachardy, 84-5, 86-7; permanent home in Santa Monica, 87; unpublishable homosexual short story, 98-100; professorship, 102, 106; bereavements, 104; book about parents, 106-7, 114, 117, 119, 121, 127, 128, 130; religious novel, 107; firm friendship with Lehmann, 108-9; Australasian trip, 117, 118; and California earthquake, 126, 129; revelation of homosexuality, 129; early affair with Auden, 129; revision of diaries, 132, 135; biographies of, 136, 138