Capote (87 page)
Authors: Gerald Clarke
page 229 “Early on opening night…”: Andrew Lyndon to GC, April 23, 1977.
page 229 “When the curtain had descended…”: William Goyen to GC, December 13, 1976.
page 230 “‘Out of good impulses…’”: Brooks Atkinson, “First Night at the Theatre,”
New York Times
, March 28, 1952, page 26.
page 230 “‘Seeing
The Grass Harp
is like…’”: Walter F. Kerr, “The Theaters,”
New York Herald Tribune
, March 28, 1952, page 12.
page 230 “Thomson blamed…”: Virgil Thomson to GC, October 27, 1976.
page 230 “Lewis faulted…”: Lewis,
Slings and Arrows
, pages 222–25.
page 230 “Saint accused…”: Saint Subber to GC, August 12, 1975:
Ibid.
page 231 “‘Well, here we are back in Taormina…’”: TC to Pearl Kazin, June 9, 1952.
page 231 “‘There are two long…’”: Jack Dunphy to Mary Louise Aswell, May 21, 1952.
page 231 “‘We could not get Fontana…’”: TC to Donald Windham, May 29, 1952.
page 231 “‘She adores Jack—but is…’”: TC to Gloria Dunphy, December 25, 1952.
page 232 “‘It seems all so much…’”: TC to Donald Windham, August 4, 1952.
page 232 “‘When one of them seizes me…’”:
Show of the Month News
, March or April 1952, page 3.
page 232 “The actors at the Martin Beck…”: Associated Press report of April 26, 1952; carried in the
Kansas City Star
, April 27, 1952, under headline, “Gals in for the Colors.”
page 232 “By the time he returned home after Christmas…”: TC to Robert Linscott, September 7, 1952.
page 232 “‘Sometimes I wish…’”: TC to Gloria Dunphy, December 25, 1952.
page 232 “‘Had a
two-page
cable…’”: TC to Cecil Beaton, July 12, 1952.
page 233 “‘I rather fear he…’”: TC to Cecil Beaton, August, 1952.
page 233 “‘We decided to spend the winter…’”: TC to Cecil Beaton, October 5, 1952.
page 233 “Mary Louise, who was still…”: TC to Mary Louise Aswell, October 14, 1952.
page 234 “Actually, Truman had been offered…”: TC to Cecil Beaton, November 8, 1952.
page 234 “‘Capote will be rich…’”: Jack Dunphy to Mary Louise Aswell, November, 1952.
page 235 “‘David absolutely adored him…’”: Jennifer Jones to GC, November 22, 1975.
page 235 “‘
Indiscretion
is, for the…’”: “Cinema,”
Time
, April 26, 1954, page 11a.
page 237 “A few weeks after Truman finished…”: M. A. Schmidt, “Battling Bogart’s Saga,”
New York Times
, September 6, 1953.
page 237 “Hearing of their dilemma, Selznick…”: Selznick,
Memo from David O. Selznick
, page 462.
page 238 “‘Nobody was prepared for the entrance…’”: John Barry Ryan to GC, January 31, 1976.
page 238 “‘He wrote it page by page…’”: Morley and Stokes,
Robert Morley
, page 231.
page 238 “‘Truman had to go back to…’”:
Ibid.
page 238 “‘I swear his face was twice…’”: John Huston to GC, December 18, 1975.
page 239 “‘When I started, only John and I…’”: Otis L. Guernsey, Jr., “Movies: Unusual Collaboration,”
New York Herald Tribune
, February 7, 1954.
page 239 “‘I always wanted to know where…’”: Jennifer Jones to GC, November 22, 1975.
page 240 “‘it was a hell of a lark…’”: Paul V. Beckley, “Nothing, Says Huston, Can Be ‘More Trivial,’ “
New York Herald Tribune
, August 30, 1953.
page 241 “‘Why, honey, what’s wrong…’”: Snow with Aswell,
The World of Carmel Snow
, page 183.
page 241 “As a demonstration of the company’s…”: Jack Clayton to GC, August 30, 1976.
page 241 “‘[It] ended with John Huston and Humphrey Bogart…’”: Jack Dunphy to Gloria Dunphy, May 14, 1953.
page 241 “‘This is such a slight, tiny picture…’”: Archer Winsten, “John Huston in Slippers,”
New York Post
, September 4, 1953.
page 241 “‘Personally if you don’t see this picture…’”: Hyams,
Bogie
, page 135.
page 242 “…Newton walked out…”: Newton Arvin’s diaries, April 5, 1954.
page 242 “‘However antic and loopy the circumstances…’”: Charles Champlin, “Look Back,”
Millimeter
, December, 1975, page 56.
page 243 “‘Fortunately,’ said Noël Coward…”: Coward,
The Noël Coward Diaries
, page 218.
page 243 “‘I
need
to write short stories…’”: TC to Robert Linscott, May 20, 1953.
page 243 “‘I wish so much I could talk…’”: TC to Robert Linscott, August 3, 1953.
page 244 “‘Naturally, my advice would be to…’”: Robert Linscott to TC, August 10, 1953.
page 244 “‘I’ve been working with zombie-like…’”: TC to Newton Arvin, October 16, 1953.
page 245 “‘You take your life into your hands…’”: Mary Louise Aswell to GC, May 7, 1977.
page 245 “‘I’ve always wanted to know him…’”: Glenway Wescott to GC, January 30, 1976.
page 246 “‘The other night Greta Garbo…’”: Jack Dunphy to Gloria Dunphy, August, 1953.
page 248 “‘Cecil’s perfect manners become…’”: Jack Dunphy to Paul Cadmus, September 14, 1962.
page 249 “‘Perhaps the world’s second worst…’”: Albin Krebs, “To Bore Was a Crime,”
New York Times
, January 19, 1980, page 28.
page 249 “‘They considered themselves small-town boys…’”: a nonattributed source to GC, May 2, 1983.
page 249 “‘I respect and trust you…’”: TC to Cecil Beaton, November 8, 1952.
page 249 “‘I admire you as a man…’”: TC to Cecil Beaton, May 15, 1956.
page 249 “‘We are now each other’s best friend…’”: This is from an August, 1953, entry in Cecil Beaton’s unpublished diaries, which his biographer, Hugo Vickers, was kind enough to show me. In most cases I have relied on Beaton’s unpublished diaries rather than those that appeared in print after much polishing and cutting. In a few instances, however, Beaton’s handwriting defied me, and I was forced to turn to the published volumes.
page 249 “‘He had very long toenails…’”: Sir John Gielgud to GC, June 23, 1983.
page 249 “‘We discussed our beliefs…’”: Beaton,
The Strenuous Years
, page 162.
page 250 “‘I am working, but not well…’”: Jack Dunphy to Mary Louise Aswell, November, 1953.
page 250 “‘stem to stern,’ as he told…”: TC to Newton Arvin, November 20, 1953.
page 251 “‘This is your friend from across…’”: TC to GC.
page 251 “At Carson’s insistence…”: Carr,
The Lonely Hunter
, page 412.
page 251 “‘My youth is gone…’”:
Ibid.
, page 413.
page 252 “In fact, the clouds had been long…”: For the background on Joe Capote’s legal problems I am indebted to his lawyer Nathan Rogers, whom I interviewed on June 21, 1978. I also relied on various New York State court documents, including Indictment No. 4195–54, December 21, 1954; Joe Capote’s plea before Judge Jacob Gould Schurman, Jr. (Court of General Sessions of the County of New York), January 5, 1955; the statement of Nathan Rogers to the Probation Office, January 27, 1955; and the record of sentencing, March 28, 1955.
page 253 “‘We’ll come back either broke…’”: Andrew Lyndon to GC, April 23, 1977.
page 253 “‘Everything would be fine…’”: TC to Mary Louise Aswell, June 19, 1953.
page 253 “‘Odd, I seem to think about money…’”: TC to Newton Arvin, October 16, 1953.
page 253 “‘Do call her…’”: Andrew Lyndon to GC, April 23, 1977.
page 253 “Eleanor Friede, who had lunch…”: Eleanor Friede to GC, October 1, 1975.
page 253 “A few days before New Year’s…”: Seabon Faulk to GC, March 8, 1978.
page 254 “‘When the night maid came…’”: Jack Dunphy to Gloria Dunphy, January 6, 1954.
page 255 “‘Truman’s in the back…’”: Andrew Lyndon to GC, April 23, 1977.
page 255 “‘I’m a Jew…’”:
Ibid.
page 255 “‘People don’t ask for a drink…’”: Mary Ida Carter to GC, September 7, 1976.
page 256 “‘Well, I’ll eventually find out…’”: Harper Lee to GC, August 10, 1977.
page 256 “‘I don’t think Truman has ever written…’”: Phoebe Pierce Vreeland to GC, April 20, 1976.
page 256 “‘You know, Lyn, my mother loved…’”: Lyn White to GC, October 16, 1975.
page 256 “‘You’re not my father…’”: Andrew Lyndon to GC, April 23, 1977.
page 257 “‘He told me that he had been…’”: Arch Persons to GC, September 9, 1976.
page 257 “‘Truman is having a bad time…’”: Jack Dunphy to Gloria Dunphy, June 16, 1954.
page 257 “…on March 30 he entered Sing Sing…”: A letter of August 29, 1985 to GC from James E. Sullivan, Superintendent, and George McGrath, Program Coordinator, Sing Sing Correctional Facility, Ossining, New York.
page 259 “There was a setback in February…”: Jablonski,
Harold Arlen
, page 184.
page 259 “Every day when he visited Arlen…”:
Ibid.
page 260 “‘We used to work three hours…’”: Harold Arlen to GC.
page 260 “‘Brook is a very creative force…’”: Nance,
The Worlds of Truman Capote
, page 129.
page 261 “‘When he was through, it was a mambo!’”: Geoffrey Holder to GC, September 5, 1985.
page 261 “‘Tell me, how do you handle…’”: Lucia Victor to GC, September 5, 1985.
page 262 “‘What am I doing wrong?…’”:
Ibid.
page 262 “‘Before I left London, somebody…’”: John Barry Ryan to GC, January 31, 1976.
page 262 “‘When Pearl walked out, Peter…’”: Lucia Victor to GC, September 5, 1985.
page 262 “‘Peter’s ego was such that…’”: D. D. Ryan to GC, January 31, 1976.
page 263 “‘The first act was very good…’”: Harold Arlen to GC.
page 263 “‘Mr. Capote has run out of…,’”: Walter F. Kerr, “House of Flowers,”
New York Herald Tribune
, December 31, 1954.
page 263 “‘It’s one of those shows in which…’”: Hobe, “House of Flowers,”
Variety
, January 12, 1955.
page 263 “‘I don’t know what’s happening…’”: Shirley Herz to GC, September 4, 1985.
page 264 “The last show was a sellout…”: Jablonski,
Harold Arlen
, page 195.
page 267 “‘Sat on the stone wall and…’”: TC, “A Gathering of Swans,”
Harper’s Bazaar
, September, 1959, pages 122–25.
page 268 “‘He would tell me things…’”: Carol Marcus Matthau to GC, August 15, 1985.
page 268 “‘We were once in Copenhagen…’”: Lady (Nancy) Keith to GC, March 21, 1985.
page 269 “‘By the time you get this…’”: TC to Cecil Beaton, June 21, 1956.
page 271 “Andrew was present when he received his first…”: Andrew Lyndon to GC, April 23, 1977.
page 272 “He liked to show off the detective…”: Bradlee,
Conversations with Kennedy
, page 106.
page 272 “‘I keep thinking what power…’”: Jacqueline Kennedy to TC, August 26, 1963.
page 272 “‘Dear Truman, thank you for thinking…’”: Jacqueline Kennedy to TC, December 12, 1964.
page 272 “‘All the times of insouciance…’”: Jacqueline Kennedy to TC, June 22, 1968.
page 279 “‘The beautiful darling!’ her father…”: Thomson,
Harvey Cushing
, page 227.
page 279 “‘So great is her beauty that…’”: Baldwin,
Billy Baldwin Remembers
, page 142.
page 279 “Her mother was no less ambitious…”: “The Cushing Sisters,”
Life
, August 11, 1947, pages 41–44; Graham,
How to Marry Super Rich
, pages 224–33.
page 279 “‘society’s three fabulous Cushing sisters…’”: Nancy Randolph, “It’s a CBS Heir at Bill Paley’s,” New York
Daily News
, March 31, 1948.
page 280 “‘immaculate quality and immense serenity’”: Enid Nemy, “Barbara Cushing Paley Dies at 63, Style Pace-Setter in Three Decades,”
New York Times
, July 7, 1978.
page 281 “He met the Paleys…”: Jennifer Jones to GC, November 22, 1975.
page 281 “‘There’s great beauty in his face…’”: “‘In Cold Blood’… An American Tragedy,”
Newsweek
, January 24, 1966, page 63.
page 282 “‘He had a passion to identify…’”: Oliver Smith to GC, December 18, 1985.
page 282 “‘[Truman’s] opened up avenues…’”: “‘In Cold Blood’…,”
Newsweek, op. cit.
page 283 “When he created the little park…”: Tony Schwartz, “An Intimate Talk with William Paley,”
New York Times
, December 18, 1980, page 14.
page 284 “From early manhood…”: Halberstam,
The Powers That Be
, page 421.
page 284 “‘I don’t think I am a very easy…’”: Paley,
As It Happened: A Memoir
, page 2.
page 284 “Once, recalled Christopher Isherwood…”: Christopher Isherwood to GC, November 21, 1975.
page 287 “‘Babe made a mistake…’”: Interview with a friend of the Paleys.
page 288 “‘Greedy for happiness, I asked nothing…’”: Proust,
Remembrance of Things Past
, Volume I,
Swann’s Way
, page 140.
page 289 “‘How many of you would be…’”: Irving Drutman to GC, February 8, 1978.
page 289 “‘Dear Mr. Jack,’ he said…”: Jack Dunphy to Gloria Dunphy, June, 1955.
page 289 “‘Now, true to my word…’”: TC to Robert Linscott, July 10, 1955.
page 290 “All bundled up, ‘he looked…’”: Marilyn Putnam to GC, January 8, 1986.
page 290 “Writing later, he said that he imagined…”: TC,
The Dogs Bark
, preface, page xvii.
page 291 “When she had read
Other Voices
…”: Nancy Ryan Brien to GC, September 8, 1977.
page 292 “‘I think it only fair to point out…’”: Kenneth Tynan, “Elfin Eavesdropper,”
The Observer
(London), June 23, 1957.
page 292 “‘Laugh, you dreary people…’”: Leonard Lyons, “The Lyons Den,”
New York Post
, July 16, 1966
page 292 “One day Breen was talking…”: Wilva Breen to GC, January 3, 1986.
page 292 “That night Nancy found them sprawled…”: Nancy Ryan Brien to GC, September 8, 1977.
page 293 “Describing Boris to Newton…”: TC to Newton Arvin, August 14, 1958.
page 293 “In Moscow he addressed the Soviet…”: Bernard D. Nossiter, “Author Capote Finds Russia…, “
New York Herald Tribune
, February 26, 1956.
