Zelda (72 page)
Authors: Nancy Milford
373 Sometimes she got tired of making the best…: ZSF to Scottie, n.d.
373 “I always feel that Daddy was the key-note…”: ZSF to Scottie, n.d.
373 She wrote Mrs. Ober: “I used to feel desperately sad…”: ZSF to Mrs. Harold Ober. June 26, 1945.
373 She told Scottie to avoid…: ZSF to Scottie, n.d. (ca. summer? 1945).
374 At the beginning of 1946 she returned to Highland…: Landon Ray to NM, interview, July 25, 1963.
374 Immediately after the birth of Timothy…: ZSF to Scottie, n.d. (ca. late April 1946).
374 She felt dated; “it brought back our honey-moon…”: ZSF to Scottie, n.d. (ca. May 1, 1946).
374 “It is completely incredible to me…”: ZSF to Ludlow Fowler, n.d.
375 Mrs. Biggs recalls that she had picked some berries…: Mrs. Anna Biggs to NM, interview, June 9, 1963.
375 Mrs. Biggs remembers: “John mentioned that it was time…”:
Ibid.
375 “She was a marvelous woman, big…”: Mrs. Harold Ober to NM, interview, March 3, 1964.
375–6 She wrote Anne Ober that she would despair…: ZSF to Mrs. Harold Ober, October 29, 1946.
376 It kept her from sleeping half the night…: ZSF to Mrs. Harold Ober, November 5, 1946.
376 Paul McLendon met Zelda for the first time…: Paul McLendon to NM, November 6, 1965.
376 “I am not au-courrant with the affairs &…”: ZSF to Paul McLendon, May 24, 1946.
377 “…the world is fair game to the greedy…”: ZSF to Paul McLendon, October 16, 1946.
377 Paul realized that Zelda enjoyed his company…: Paul McLendon to NM, November 6 and 27, 1965.
377 Once after Paul had invited her for a day at Tuscaloosa…: ZSF to Paul McLendon, November 5, 1946.
377 But one afternoon Mrs. Sayre told him Zelda couldn’t…: Paul McLendon to NM, November 27, 1965.
378 “The time was early, early spring…”:
Ibid.
378 “He sends His angels to help…”: ZSF to Paul McLendon, March 10, 1947.
378 Henry Dan Piper was discharged from the Army…: I am especially indebted to Mr. Piper for his generosity in allowing me to draw freely from his own interview with Zelda on March 13 and 14, 1947. I interviewed MR. Piper on November 17, 1965.
381 When they were finished they returned to her little house…: It was at this point, Mr. Piper recalls, that Zelda told him about the companion portrait of Scott which she said Condé Nast had. Before giving him the self-portrait she had showed him a number of her paintings, then she said something to this effect: “Maybe you’d like something really big. Would you like a self-portrait?” Mr. Piper says that she then unrolled it. “I told her I thought it ought to be at Princeton, and she seemed quite flattered by my interest.”
382 Mrs. Sayre, Marjorie. and Livye Hart…: Mrs. Harry Ridgeway to NM, interview, June 1, 1968.
382 She wanted to get home, she said, to see “our lillies…”: ZSF to Mrs. A. D. Sayre, n.d. (ca. March 1948).
382 Zelda told her she had gained twenty pounds…: ZSF to Scottie, n.d. (postmarked March 9, 1948).
382 “Anyhow, today there is promise of spring…”: Ibid.
383 Zelda died with them…: The nurse who first discovered the fire said in a newspaper report that “on the night of the fire she had personally given sedatives to…Mrs. F. Scott Fitzgerald.” The Asheville
Times
, March 27, 1948, p. 11.
383 Her body was identified by a charred slipper…: It was further identified by recent dental work.
383 It was St. Patrick’s Day, March 17, 1948…: Mrs. Bayard Turnbull to NM, September 30, 1965.
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Accel, 120
Addison, Mrs. Everet (Eleanor Browder), 13, 22, 45, 47, 62
Zelda, letter from, 140
Allen, Kiki, 153, 218
American Mercury, The
, 138
Anderson, Sherwood, 93
Angoff, Charles, 138, 139
Arlen, Michael, 121, 252
The Green Hat
, 121
Bakst, Léon, 105
Ballet Russe (Diaghilev Ballet), 105, 136–37, 140, 155, 157
Baltimore
Sun
, 256
Barrymore, John, 128
Beautiful and Damned, The
(F. Scott Fitzgerald; early title
The Flight of the Rocket)
, 70, 81, 87, 88, 89–90, 94, 98, 102, 183, 234, 278
Bishop, John Peale, on, 90–91
Zelda as Gloria, 83, 88, 89, 90, 92, 238
Zelda’s material used, 35, 76, 81, 89
Zelda’s review, 89, 90, 91
Bellando, 108
Benchley, Robert, 182
Benét, Stephen Vincent,
The Last Tycoon
reviewed by, 352
Biggs, Judge John, Jr., 28, 75, 131, 143, 350, 375, 376
as Scott’s literary executor, 368, 380
on Zelda’s painting, 291
Biggs, Mrs. John, Jr. (Anna), 136, 375, 376
Bishop, John Peale, 28, 67, 80, 96, 157, 182
on
The Beautiful and Damned
, 90–91,
letters: Scott, 113, 115
Zelda, 257–58
McKaig, Alexander, on, 75, 77, 80
on Scott, 90
on Zelda, 47
Bleuler, Dr. Paul Eugen, 179–80, 285
Bookman
, 88
Braque, Georges, 105
Brinson, Mrs. Marjorie (Marjorie Sayre), 6, 7, 11, 18–19, 62, 164, 198, 369, 382
Brinson, Marjorie, 18, 19
Browder, Eleanor,
see
Addison, Mrs. Everet
Bruccoli, Matthew J, 139, 172, 287
Bryant, Gordon, 91
Caesar’s Things
(Zelda Fitzgerald), 103, 234, 354–66, 372, 379–80
Jozan as French aviator, 355, 364, 366
Murphy, Gerald and Sara, in, 363
Callaghan, Morley, 148–49
on Scott, 154
on Zelda, 149
Campbell, C. Lawton, 60–61
McKaig, Alexander, on, 79
on Scott and Zelda, 61, 68, 82, 104–05
on Zelda, 78, 81
Carroll, Dr. Robert S., 309–11, 312, 313, 325, 326, 327, 328, 335, 336, 337, 343
letters: Rennie, Dr. Thomas, 312
Sayre, Mrs. Anthony D., 321–22, 337, 338
Scott, 316, 317, 318–19, 325, 332, 333, 334, 337, 338
Meyer, Dr. Adolf, on, 310
Champson, André, 250
Chanler, Mrs. Margaret Winthrop, 181
Chanler, Theodore, 249
Churchill, Lady Randolph Spencer, 83
Churchill, Winston, 83
Cobb, Buff, 348
College Bazaar
, 345
College Humor
, 149–50, 152, 176, 298
Collier’s
, 333
Conrad, Joseph, 95, 110–11
Cowley, Malcolm:
on
Save Me the Waltz
, 264
Scott, letter to, 264
on Zelda, 281–82
Crowninshield, Frank, 95
Dalmita, Lily, 198
Diaghilev Ballet (Ballet Russe), 105, 136–37, 140, 155, 157
The Dial, 97, 116
Dos Passos, John, 96, 106, 137, 370
on Scott and Zelda, 133
Three Soldiers
, 93
on Zelda, 93–94
Drew, Georgia, 5
Duncan, Isadora, 117
Egorova, Madame Lubov (Princess Troubetskoy), 135, 140
Scott, letters from and to, 166
and Zelda, 140, 141, 147–48, 158, 165–66, 169
Zelda on, 168, 250, 252
on Zelda, 166
Elgin, Dr. William, 302, 303
Eliot, T. S., on
The Great Gatsby
, 116
Ellingson case, 139
Ervine, St. John, 83
Esquire
, 2.18, 299, 301, 313, 332
Faulkner, William, 204
Sanctuary
, 193
Fitzgerald, Edward, 25–26, 185
Fitzgerald, Mrs. Edward, 268
Zelda, letters from and to, 38, 39
Fitzgerald, Frances Scott (Scottie),
see
Lanahan, Mrs. Samuel J.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott Key):
on American literature, 75
army life, 24–25, 31, 32, 35
Biggs, Judge John, Jr., as literary executor, 368, 380
Bishop, John Peale, on, 90
Callaghan, Morley, on, 154
Campbell, C. Lawton, on, 61, 68, 82, 104–05
childhood, 27
Conrad, Joseph, admired by, 110–11
death and funeral, 350
Dos Passos, John, on, 133
drinking, 27, 28, 56, 58, 70, 74, 75, 80, 81, 82, 87, 98, 100, 113, 119, 122, 133, 135, 138, 141, 152, 163, 170–72, 201, 222, 250, 251, 258, 260, 261, 266, 268, 269, 271, 272, 305, 312, 317, 318, 327
and Duncan, Isadora, 117
on Europe, 83–84
fears, 72
and Graham, Sheilah, 314, 316, 317, 318, 324, 329, 347, 348–49
Beloved Infidel
, 315, 316, 327
as Kathleen in
The Last Tycoon
, 353
health, 311, 327, 329, 332, 348, 349
tuberculosis, worries about, 183, 190, 252, 305, 332
Hearne, Mrs. Laura Guthrie, on, 306, 307
and Hemingway, Ernest, 113, 114, 115, 116, 122, 153–54, 181, 211, 287
Hemingway, Ernest, on, 114, 115
on Hemingway, Ernest, 113–14, 225, 347
Hemingway, Hadley, on, 114, 115
on his family, 25, 26
in Hollywood, 127–30, 193, 195–96, 197–202, 205–06, 207, 313, 315–16, 318, 325, 328–29, 332, 333–34, 337, 341, 342–50
Infidelity
, 333
Three Comrades
, 324
homosexuality, worries about, 153–54, 211
Jozan, Edouard, on, 108–09 Jozan and Zelda, 109–10, 111–12, 114, 115, 175, 216, 222, 239–40, 349
and King, Ginevra, 28, 29, 55
and Lardner, Ring, 95–96, 103
lectures and speeches, 69, 80
letters: Bishop, John Peale, 113, 115
Carroll, Dr. Robert S., 316, 317, 318–19, 325, 332, 333, 334, 337, 338
Egorova, Madame Lubov, 166
Eliot, T.S., 116
Forel, Dr. Oscar, 162–63, 169, 170–72, 185–86, 201, 208–09
Fowler, Ludlow, 56
Hearne, Mrs. Laura Guthrie, 307
Hemingway, Ernest, 139, 155–56
Meyer, Dr. Adolf, 270–71, 272
Murphy, Gerald and Sara, 308
Murphy, Sara, 155
Ober, Harold, 150
Perkins, Maxwell, 54, 87, 94, 112, 113, 115–16, 143, 150, 154, 159, 170, 176, 208, 224–25, 225–26, 287, 305, 313
Rennie, Dr. Thomas, 261–62, 265, 282–83
Sayre, Judge Anthony D., 42, 179, 180
Sayre, Mrs. Anthony D., 41, 164, 179, 180, 321, 326, 343
Scottie, 26, 311, 315–16, 322–23, 323–24, 329, 331, 343–44, 546–47, 349
Smith, Rosalind, 326
Squires, Dr. Mildred, 213, 215–16, 222, 253–54, 257
Stein, Gertrude, 116
Wilson, Edmund, 31, 32, 54, 83–84, 87, 88–89, 102, 116
Zelda,
see
Fitzgerald, Mrs. F. Scott, letters, Scott
on love, 56
love affairs, 305, 306–07
see also Graham, Sheilah; King, Ginevra,
above;
Moran, Lois,
below
McKaig, Alexander, on, 67–68, 70, 74, 75–76, 77, 78–79, 80–81
MacLeish, Mrs. Archibald, on, 120–21
Marx read by, 258
Mencken, H. L., on, 98
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, on, 79
Mizener, Arthur, biography
(The Far Side of Paradise)
, 26, 27, 183, 314
and money, 42, 58, 79, 94, 103, 208, 214, 219, 226, 267, 313, 329, 332, 334, 341, 342
and Moran, Lois, 129–30, 131–32, 181, 211, 222
Murphy, Gerald, on, 117–18, 121, 123, 291
and Murphy, Gerald and Sara, 106–07, 111, 117, 118, 119, 123, 142, 154–55, 157, 190
on Murphy, Sara, 346–47
and Nathan, George Jean, 71, 78
newspaper and magazine publicity, 77, 96, 97, 100, 256
at Princeton, 27–31
Ruth, Leon, on, 69
Sayre, Judge Anthony D., disapproval of, 35
on Sayre, Judge Anthony D., 211
Sayre, Mrs. Anthony D., conflict with, 321
Sayre, Mrs. Anthony D., on, 40, 43, 62
on Sayre, Mrs. Anthony D., 211, 253–54
and Scottie, 214, 315, 353, 344, 346
her education, interest in, 137, 286, 333
Seldes, Gilbert, on, 97
Taylor, Cecelia, on, 136–37
on theater, 27
Thurber, James, on, 292
Turnbull, Andrew, biography
(Scott Fitzgerald)
, 314
Turn bull, Mrs. Bayard, on, 258–59
Van Vechten, Carl, on, 98–99, 314
Van Vechten, Carl, photographs by, 313–14
West, Rebecca, on, 99
and Wilson, Edmund, 28
Wilson, Edmund, on, 25, 88, 133, 291, 350–51
on Wilson, Edmund, 69
women, attitude toward, 29–31, 77, 347
writing, 29, 39, 57–58, 219, 302
“Absolution,” 196, 352
“Auction—Model 1934” (with Zelda), 296, 298, 299, 300–01
“Babes in the Woods,” 30, 49
“Babylon Revisited,” 344
The Beautiful and Damned
(early title,
The Flight of the Rocket)
, 35, 70, 76, 81, 83, 87, 88, 89–90, 90–91, 92, 94, 98, 102, 183, 234, 238, 278
as a boy, 27
“The Camels Back.” 79
“The Changing Beauty of Park Avenue” (with Zelda), 132
in
College Humor
, 150, 152