Christopher Isherwood: A Personal memoir (20 page)

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 

Harper’s 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 Isherwood’s 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 Lehmann’s notice, 8-9
_v 
108; first meeting with Lehmann, 10-12; crucial journey to Berlin, 12-14; dream of‘German 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 Lehmann’s 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

Isherwood, Lt-Colonel Francis B. 
(father), 1, 106, 114 

Isherwood, Kathleen (mother), 16, 19, 52, 57, 68, 114, 129; artistic tastes, 1; financial aid to Isherwood, 2, 35; wartime in Wales, 48; post-war reunion with Isherwood, 72; recovery from stroke, 93; death, 104; fixation with husband as hero-figure, 106 Isherwood, Richard (brother), 48, 72 

Isherwood
,
A Biography of Christopher Isherwood
(Fryer), 136n

Jacob’s Hands
(film script), 67 

Jagger, Mick, 118 

Jewell, Derek, 133 

Journey to the Border
(Upward), 39 

Journey to a War
(Auden/Isherwood), 43, 47

Kallman, Chester, 50, 76 

Kathleen and Frank
(Isherwood), 106, 107, 114, 127, 128, 130 

Kennedy, Margaret, 19 

Keyes, Sidney, 133 

King, Francis, 133 

Kipling, Rudyard, 93 

Kiskadden, Margaret, 63 

Krishnamurti, 59

La Verne College, Southern California, 57-8, 66 

Laird, Tommy, 136, 139 

Lambert, Gavin, 135 

Lamkin, Speed, 82, 89 

Lanchester, Elsa, 87, 121 

‘Landauers, The’ (Isherwood), 29, 39 

Lane, Allen, 25 

Lane, Homer, 12

Laughton, Charles, 87, 104 

Lawrence, D.H., 93 

Lawrence & Wishart, 39 

Lear, Edward, 141 

Left Review,
24

Lehmann, Alice Marie, 8, 45, 46 

Lehmann, Beatrice (Peggy), 17, 19, 46, 47, 52, 89, 104, 121, 125; friendship with Isherwood, 13; stage performances, 41, 43, 44, 73 

Lehmann, John: as trainee manager in Hogarth Press, 7-8, 12; introduced to Isherwood’s work, 8-9, 108; first meeting, 10-12; in Vienna, 12, 
15, 20, 28, 38; visit to Isherwood in Berlin, 13-14; founding of
New Writing,
24-9; and genesis of 
Goodbye to Berlin,
28-30; his own writings, 33-4, 90, 91, 94, 107, 135, 137, 141, 142; as partner in Hogarth Press, 38-9, 41, 46, 49; extricates Isherwood from erotic tangle, 49, 57; and Isherwood’s post-war visits to England, 70, 72, 74, 83-4; founds own firm, 74; founds
London Magazine,
79, 91, 94; ‘opening of hearts’ with Isherwood, 83; life in Sussex cottage, 84, 90, 103, 139; lecturing and visiting professorships at American universities, 87, 106, 113, 120, 123-4, 128, 132; firm friendship with Isherwood, 108-9; visits Isherwood in California, 
119, 121-2, 127-31

Lehmann, John, Limited, 74, 83 

Lehmann, Rosamond, 8, 41, 43, 
125, 128

Lehmann, Rudolph Chambers, 117 

Lions and Shadows
(Isherwood), 12, 
33, 94; origin and writing of, 9, 32, 36, 39

London Magazine,
69, 79, 89, 91, 94, 107, 113

London Mercury,
24 Longmans, 94

Look Down in Mercy

(Baxter), 83

Lopokova, Lydia, 47 

Lord Byron
(Thomson), 115 

Los Angeles, 121, 122, 127, 128-9, 132-3, 138

‘Lost, The’ (Isherwood) (later
Mr Norris Changes Trains
, q.v.), 18, 
22, 25, 29, 38, 41 

Loved One, The
(film), 105 

Lucas, Major Sir Jocelyn, 54 

Luxemburg, 36-7

McBrien, William, 136, 138 

McCullers, Carson, 105 

MacNeice, Louis, 54 

Mailer, Norman, 82 

Mangeot, Olive, 73 

Mann, Heinrich, 59 

Mann, Thomas, 59 

Mansel, Philip, 134 

Mansfield, Katherine, 93 

Martin, Kenneth, 116 

Maugham, Somerset, 67, 93 

Maurice
(Forster), 119, 121, 130 

Mayne, Ethel, 93 

Meeting by the River, A
(Isherwood), 104; attempt at religious novel, 107-8; rewritten as play and film script, 108, 117, 119
n 

Memorial, The
(Isherwood), 11, 18, 36, 96; his first novel published by Hogarth Press, 8, 9, 108 

Menuhin, Yehudi, 104 

Methuen and Co., 32, 76, 80, 103n, 105

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 58, 59-60, 77, 78, 80

Minnelli, Liza, 79, 134 

‘Mr. Lancaster’ (Isherwood) (part of 

Down There on a Visit),
94, 95-6, 97 

Mr Norris Changes Trains
(Isherwood), 21, 22, 36, 108

Modern Languages Association, 143 

Moore, George, 93 

Mortal Storm, The
(film), 59 

Mourning Becomes Electra
(O’Neill), 
41, 43

Munich Agreement (1938), 47, 48, 54 

‘My Enemy’ (Chamson), 28 

My Guru and his Disciple
(Isherwood), 63, 66, 85, 141 

Mystery of Edwin Drood, The 
(Dickens), 103

Neddermayer, Heinz, 27, 52, 54, 64, 95; liaison with Isherwood, 15-17; attempt to get into England,

19- 20; European wanderings, 
20- 22, 23-4, 31, 32, 35, 46; attempts to change nationality, 
23, 34-5, 37; trouble with French police, 36; arrest for draft-evasion and moral offences, 37-8; marriage, 47, 83; Berlin reunion with Isherwood, 83

New Country,
24 

New English Library, 136rz 

N
ew Signatures,
24 

New Soundings,
81-2 

New World Writing,
90 

New Writing,
38-9, 41, 46, 108, 113, 138; founding of, 24-9; Isherwood contributions, 33, 36, 52 

New York, 43-4, 50-51, 74-5 

New York Times,
97 

No More Music
(R. Lehmann), 41, 43 

‘North-West Passage’ (Isherwood), 36, 38; see also
Lions and Shadows 

‘Nowaks, The’ (Isherwood), 27, 36, 56, 108

O’Neill, Eugene, 43

Observer,
82, 83

Ocampo, Victoria, 76

On the Frontier
(Auden/Isherwood), 
22, 38, 47

‘Other Boat, The’ (Forster), 121 

Otto, 15 

Oxford, 39

Oxford Poetry Society, 133 

Paris, 35, 76

Passing of the Third Floor Back, The
(film), 19

‘Paul is Alone’ (Isherwood), 32, 46, 64 

Penguin New Writing,
56, 57, 65, 74, 76

Plomer, William, 28, 93, 115 

Prabhavananda, Swami, 55, 63, 64, 66, 104;  
Isherwood’s book on, 141

Prater Violet
(Isherwood), 19, 64, 66, 79, 97, 109 

Pritchett, V.S., 93 

Pro Helvetia Foundation, 103 

‘Problems of the Religious Novel’ (Isherwood), 54, 80 

Proust, Marcel, 21 

Put Out More Flags
(Waugh), 55

Quartet Books, 143n 

Quennell, Peter, 107

Rage in Heaven
(film), 59 

‘Railway Accident, The’ (Upward), 2, 28, 119

Ramakrishna, 92, 102 

Ramakrishna and His Disciples 
(Isherwood), 102, 104, 105 

Random House, 40, 76, 80, 90, 92 

Rassine, Alexis, 84, 89, 90, 103, 125, 136, 139, 142 

Reflections in a Golden Eye
(film), 105 

Reinhardt, Gottfried, 59 Repton, 1, 2, 46
n 

Richardson, Tony, 105, 118 

Roberts, Michael, 24n 

Roberts, Warren, 124 

Ross, Jean, 73; original of Sally Bowles, 18, 27, 29 

Russell, Bertrand, 59 

Rylands, George, 7

Sacco, Nicola, 77

Sailor from Gibraltar, The
(film), 105 

St Nicholas (Greek island), 15-16 

Sally Bowles (Isherwood), 41, 42; genesis of, 27; publication, 28-9; incorporated in
Goodbye to Berlin, 
29; dramatic and film versions, 78-9, 108;
see also Cabaret; I am a Camera

San Diego (California), 113, 119, 130-1

San Francisco, 113 

Santa Barbara, 102, 106, 122 

Santa Monica (California), Isherwood’s last home in, 70, 77, 87, 95, 
119, 120, 121, 130, 135

Sassoon, Sir Victor, 42 

Schorer, Mark, 120 

‘Seascape with Figures’-see
All the Conspirators