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The name Carl Van Vechten has been abbreviated as “CVV.”
A
Abbott, Bessie
abolitionists
Academy Awards
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Adams, Franklin Pierce
Adams, Kenneth
Addams, Jane
Ade, George
Aeolian Hall (New York)
African-Americans; in Cedar Rapids; in Chicago; CVV’s championing of culture of; CVV’s comparison of Pueblo culture to; at CVV’s parties; discrimination against; in Europe; evangelical religion of; in Manhattan (see also Harlem); music of (see also blues; jazz; ragtime; spirituals; names of performers); responses to Nigger Heaven of; struggle for rights of, see civil rights; Vanity Fair articles on culture of; in vaudeville; white patrons of; and World War I; Yale collection of materials on culture of; see also blackness
African Methodist Episcopal Church
Africana (revue)
Afro American, The
Alabama
Aldrich, Richard
Alexander, Elizabeth
Alexander, John W.
Algonquin Hotel (New York); Roundtable
Allan, Maud
“All Coons Look Alike to Me” (song)
All God’s Chillun Got Wings (Eugene O’Neill)
Alvarez, Marguerite d’
Ambassador Hotel (Los Angeles)
American Beauty (show)
American Extravaganza Company
American Homes and Gardens
American Jewish Congress
American Mercury, The
American Novel, The (Van Doren)
American Photographs (Walker Evans)
American Tragedy, An (Dreiser)
Amsterdam
Anderson, Marian
Anderson, Sherwood
Angelus Temple (Los Angeles)
Angus, Donald
Antheil, George
Arensberg, Walter
Armory Show (New York, 1913)
art nouveau
Astaire, Adele
Astaire, Fred
Atlanta University
Atlantic City
Atlantic Monthly, The
Auditorium (Chicago)
Austria
Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, The (Gertrude Stein)
Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, The (James Weldon Johnson)
Auzias, Eugénie (“Nina de Montparnasse”)
avant-garde
Avon publishing company
Axel’s Castle (Wilson)
B
Babbitt (Lewis)
Bach, Johann Sebastian
Baer, Lewis
Bahamas
Baker, Josephine
Baker, Martha
Balanchine, George
Baldwin, James
“Ballad of Ludlow Street Jail, The” (CVV)
“Ballad of Reading Gaol, The” (Wilde)
ballet; see also Ballets Russes
Ballets Russes
Baltimore Afro American
Bankhead, Tallulah
Baptists
Barcelona
Barnes, Djuna
Barrymore, John
Barrymore family
Barthé, Richmond
Bartholomae, Philip
Barton, Carlotta
Barton, Ralph
Bauer, Harold
Beardsley, Aubrey
Beaton, Cecil
Beautiful and the Damned, The (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Beaverbrook, Lord
Beer, Thomas
Beethoven, Ludwig van
Belafonte, Harry
Belasco, David
Bennett, Gwendolyn
Benny, Jack
Bentley, Gladys
Berlin
Berlin, Irving
Bernard, Emily
blackface
blackness; in Nigger Heaven
Black Patti, see Jones, Sissieretta (“Black Patti”)
Black Patti Troubadours
Blake, Eubie
Blanche, Jacques-Émile; as photographer of Mabel Dodge
Bledger, Al
Blind Bow-Boy, The (CVV)
blues; of Bessie Smith; Chicago; and Hughes’s poetry
Boehmer, Edwin
Bohème, La (Puccini)
Bohemian Club
Bontemps, Arna
bootleg liquor
Bordentown Manual Training and Industrial School
Bouguereau, William-Adolphe
Bow, Clara
Bowery (New York)
boxing
Boyce, Neith
Boyd, Ernest
Bradley, Patricia
Brahms, Johannes
Brando, Marlon
Brentano’s publishing company
Brett, Dorothy
Bricktop, see Smith, Ada (“Bricktop”)
Britain
Broadway
Broadway Brevities magazine
Broadway Magazine
Brooklyn Eagle
Brooks, Van Wyck
brothels; in Chicago; theater and; see also prostitutes
Broun, Heywood
Brower, Frank
Brown, Lawrence
Brown, Olympia
Brummell, Beau
Bryan, William Jennings
Bryant, Louise
Buch, Herbert
buffet flats
Bullitt, Bill
Burke, Carolyn
Burnham and Root architectural company
Butcher, Fanny
C
Cabaret Interior (Demuth)
Cabell, James Branch
Café de Paris (Chicago)
Café Wilkins (Chicago)
Caffin, Charles
cakewalk
Camera Work magazine
Camille (movie)
Campau, Denis
Canby, Henry Seidel
Cane (Toomer)
Cantor, Eddie
Capote, Truman
Carnegie, Andrew
Caruso, Enrico
Casablanca
Case, Bertha and Frank
Casella, Alfredo
Cedar Rapids (Iowa); book inspired by CVV’s boyhood in, see Tattooed Countess, The; Bryan’s campaign stop in; CVV’s childhood and adolescence in; CVV’s 1924 visit to; facade of propriety in; father’s funeral in; vaudeville and theater in
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Cerf, Bennett
Cézanne, Paul
Chaliapin, Fyodor
Chamberlain, Wynn
Chambers, Robert W.
Champlain (ship)
Chanler, Robert Winthrop
Chaplin, Charlie
Charleston Jazz Band
Charleston Steppers dancing troupe
Chauncey, George
Cherry Sisters
Chesnutt, Charles
Chicago; African-Americans in; classical music in; Gertrude Stein in; journalism in (see also names of newspapers); nightlife in; theater in; University of; World’s Columbian Exposition in
Chicago American
Chicago Defender
Chicago Musical College
Chicago Opera
Chicago Record
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Chicago Tribune
Chopin, Frédéric
Chrysler Building (New York)
City News wire service
Civilization and Its Discontents (Freud)
Civilization in the United States (Harold Stearns)
civil rights; see also names of organizations
Civil Rights Congress
Civil War
Claire Marie publishing company
Clark, Emily
Clift, Montgomery
Cocoanut Grove (Los Angeles)
Cody, Buffalo Bill
Collins, Lottie
Color Scheme, The (McKay)
Columbia University Oral History Research Office
Committee of Fourteen
Compson, Betty
Coney Island
Confessions of a Young Man (Moore)
Confidence-Man, The (Melville)
Congregationalism
Congress, U.S.
Cook, George Cram
Cooke, Beach
Copeland, Aaron
Copenhagen (New York)
Corbett, Jim
Cosmopolitan magazine
Cotton Club (Harlem)
Covarrubias, Miguel
Coward, Noël
Cowley, Malcolm
Cox, Kenyon
Crane, Stephen
Crawford, Joan
Crisis, The
Croly, Herbert
cross-dressing, see transvestism
Croton-on-Hudson (New York)
Crump, Taylor
Cruze, James
cubism
Cudjo’s Cave (Trowbridge)
Cullen, Countee
Cummings, E. E.
Cunningham, Scott
Currie, Barton W.
Czechoslovakia
D
Dalí, Salvador
dance; CVV’s photographs of; CVV’s writing on; Native American; popular forms of; of seven veils; see also ballet
Daniels, Bebe
Darktown Follies
Dasburg, Andrew
Davidson, Jo
Davis, Allison
Davis, Elizabeth Lindsay
Day, Carita, see Washington, Carrie (“Carita Day”)
Dean, James
Death in Venice (Mann)
Debussy, Claude
Defoe, Daniel
DeMille, Cecil B.
Democratic Party
Demuth, Charles
Depression
Deslys, Gaby
Dial, The
Dietrich, Marlene
Diocletian
Divine Comedy, The (Dante)
Dodge, Edwin
Dodge, John
Dodge, Mabel; correspondence of CVV and; coterie of young men of; CVV influenced by; Gertrude Stein and; in Italy; New York salon of; publication in Trend of essay by; in Taos
Dos Passos, John
Double Dealer, The
Douglas, Ann
Douglas, Lord Alfred
Dover, Cedric
drag balls
Draper, Muriel
Draper, Paul
Dreamland Café (Chicago)
Dreiser, Theodore
Dresden
Drury Lane Theatre (London)
DuBois, W.E.B.
Duchamp, Marcel
Dudley, Caroline
Duncan, Isadora
Dunne, Finley Peter
Dutton, Mahala
Dvořák, Antonín
E
Edison, Thomas Alva
Egyptian Theatre (Los Angeles)
Eight, the
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
Eksteins, Modris
Eliot, T. S.
Ellis, Havelock
Eminem
Emmett, Dan
Emperor Jones, The (Eugene O’Neill)
England, see Britain
Enormous Room, The (Cummings)
Epstein, Jacob
erotica; homosexual
Essex House (New York)
eugenics
evangelicals
Evans, Donald
Evans, Walker
Everleigh Club (Chicago)
Ewing, Max
Exquisites
F
Fairbanks, Douglas
Famous Players-Lasky
Farm Security Administration
Farrar, Geraldine
fascism
Faust (Gounod)
fauvism
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
female impersonation
feminism
Ficke, Arthur Davison
Field, Eugene
Fine Clothes to the Jew (Hughes)
Finland
Firbank, Ronald
Firecrackers (CVV)
Fire in the Flint (Walter White)
Fisher, Rudolph
Fisk University; Carl Van Vechten Gallery; George Gershwin Memorial Collection of Music and Musical Literature
Fitch, Charles (Uncle Charlie)
Fitch, Roy
Fitzgerald, Ella
Fitzgerald, F. Scott; death of; fictional characters based on Zelda and; in Hollywood; in Paris; photographed by CVV
Fitzgerald, Scottie
Fitzgerald, Zelda
Florence
Floyd, John
Folies Bérgère (Paris)
Foote, Mary
For and Against (Gregg)
Fort Orange (New York)
Foster, Stephen
Four Saints in Three Acts (Stein and Thomson)
Fox, Della
France; CVV with Fania Marinoff in; honeymoon of CVV and Snyder in; Mabel Dodge in; sales of Nigger Heaven in; in World War I; see also Paris
Freaks (movie)
Freedom Riders
free love
Fremstad, Olive
Freud, Sigmund
Freund, John C.
Frick, Henry Clay
Froelich, Bianca
Frost, Robert
Frye, Meda
Fuller, Loie
futurism
G
“Gaby Glide, The” (Hirsch)
Garbo, Greta
Garden, Mary
Garvey, Marcus
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.
Gaugin, Paul
Gauthier, Eva
Genoa
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Loos)
George, George
Georgia Minstrels, The (revue)
Germany; Nazi; Weimar; in World War I
Gershwin, George; and African-American music; at CVV’s parties
Gershwin, Ira
Gibran, Khalil
Gibson Girls
Gillespie, Harriet
Gish, Dorothy
Gish, Lillian
Glaspell, Susan
Gleizes, Albert
Glyn, Elinor
Glyn, Harry
Goldman, Emma
Good Morning, Revolution (Hughes)
Gould, Joe
Gounod, Charles
Grand Rapids (Michigan)
Granny Maumee (play)
Grauman, Sid
Gray, Gilda
Great Gatsby, The (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Greece, ancient
Greene, Nathanael
Greene’s Opera House (Cedar Rapids)
Greenwich Village; gay hangouts in; Harlem and; political radicals of; salons of
Greenwich Village Theatre (New York)
Gregg, Frederick James
Gump, Frederick
Gurdjieff, George
Guyon, René
H
Haiti
Half-Caste (Dover)
Hamilton, Richard
Hamlet (Shakespeare)
Hammerstein, Oscar
Handforth, Thomas
Handy, W. C.
Hapgood, Hutchins
Harding, Warren
Harlem; CVV’s fiction about (see also Nigger Heaven); drag balls in; drug culture; evangelical churches in; Italian theater in; Native American culture in Taos compared to; nightlife in; photographs of
Harlem Renaissance
Harlow, Richard
Harmonium (Stevens)
Harper, Jack
Harper, Lucile
Harrison, Carter, Sr.
Harrison, Hubert
Hay, William
Haymarket (Chicago)
Haywood, “Big” Bill
Hearst, William Randolph
Hell’s Kitchen
Hemingway, Ernest
Henderson, Louise
Henry, Prince of Prussia
Hepburn, Katharine
Hergesheimer, Joseph
Herman Melville (Weaver)
Herrick, Robert
Hill, J. Leubrie
Himes, Chester
Hirsch, Louis A.
Hitchcock, Henry-Russell
Hitler, Adolf
Hogan, Ernest
Holiday, Billie
Holloman, Bobo
Hollywood; arrival of trade unions in; CVV’s novel about; European fascination with; Fitzgeralds in; McPherson’s condemnations of; movie premieres in; movie stars from, at CVV’s parties; novelists as screenwriters in; Vanity Fair articles about
Holmes, H. H.
Holt, Nora
Holy Jumpers
Home to Harlem (McKay)
homosexuality; codes and innuendo for; and CVV’s marriages; of CVV’s photographic subjects; FBI demonization of; in Harlem; stereotypes of; of Wilde
Hoover, J. Edgar
Hopwood, Avery; death of; drug use by; fictional character based on composite of CVV and; Mabel Dodge and; Snyder’s resentment of CVV’s relationship with
Hornblow, Arthur
House of Fantasy
Howey, Walter
“How I Listen to Four Saints in Three Acts” (CVV)
“How to Read Gertrude Stein” (CVV)
How to Study the Modern Painters (Caffin)
Hughes, Langston; birthday party for; correspondence of CVV and; CVV’s support for career of; as Mason’s protégé; and Nigger Heaven; Opportunity award presented to; photographed by CVV; publication of books of poetry by; and Scottsboro Boys trial
Huneker, James
Hungary
Hunter, Alberta
Hurlock, Madeline
Hurston, Zora Neale
Hussey, L. M.
Huysmans, Joris-Karl
Hyde, James Hazen
I
Ibsen, Henrik
“I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise” (George Gershwin)
Imbs, Bravig
immigrants
impressionism
“In Defence of Bad Taste” (CVV)
Indians, see Native Americans
Industrial Workers of the World
Ingersoll, William
“Inky Ones, The” (CVV)n
Interpreters and Interpretations (CVV)
“Interrupted Conversation, An” (CVV)
In the Garret (CVV)
Invading Cupid’s Realm (Bouguereau)
Iowa
Iroquois Theatre (Chicago)
Isherwood, Christopher
It (movie)
Italian Americans
Italy
J
Jackman, Harold
Jack the Ripper
James, C.L.R.
James, Henry
Jannings, Emil
jazz; in Europe; in Harlem
Jazz Age
Jazz Singer, The (movie)
Jennifer Lorn (Wylie)
jeunes gens assortis
Jews
Jim Crow laws
Johnson, Charles S.
Johnson, Grace Nail
Johnson, Jack
Johnson, James Weldon; at CVV’s parties; death of; Memorial Committee for; Nigger Heaven supported by; writing of
Jolson, Al
Jones, James Earl
Jones, Laurence Clifton
Jones, Robert Edmond
Jones, Sissieretta (“Black Patti”)
Joplin, Scott
Jorgensen, Christine
Juan les Pins (France)
Julian, Hubert
Jurgen (Cabell)
K
Kahlo, Frida
Kahn, Otto
Kalamazoo College
Kandinsky, Wassily
Kazin, Alfred
Keith, B. F.
Kellner, Bruce
Kennedy, John
Kenton, Edna
Kern, Jerome
Kerouac, Jack
Keystone Kops
King of Kings (movie)
Kirstein, Lincoln
Kitt, Eartha
Knights Templar
Knopf, Alfred, Jr.
Knopf, Alfred A.; publishing company of
Knopf, Blanche
L
Labatie, Jean
Ladies Library Association
Lafayette Theatre (New York)
Laing, Hugh
Lait, Jack
Lang, Fritz
Lange, Dorothea
Langner, Armina
Langner, Lawrence
Larsen, Nella
Lasky, Jesse
Last Puritan, The (Santayana)
Lawrence, D. H.
Lawrenson, Helen
Lead Belly, see Ledbetter, Huddie William (“Lead Belly”)
Lectures in America (Gertrude Stein)
“Leda and the Swan” (Yeats)
Ledbetter, Huddie William (“Lead Belly”)
Lemmon, Jack
Leone’s speakeasy
Lewis, Sinclair
Life magazine
Lincoln, Abraham
Lincoln Gardens (Chicago)
Lindbergh, Charles
Lindsay, Vachel
Lipstick (movie)
Liveright, Horace
Locke, Alain
London; the Drapers’ salon in; Fania Marinoff in; marriage of CVV and Snyder in; Paul Robeson in Showboat in; during World War I
Loos, Anita
Los Angeles; see also Hollywood
Los Angeles Herald
Love Among the Ladies (Loy)
“Love Songs of a Philanderer” (CVV)
Loy, Mina
Ludlow Street Jail (New York)
Luhan, Mabel Dodge, see Dodge, Mabel
Lujan, Tony
Lulu Bell (Belasco)
Lutz, Mark
Lynes, George Platt
Lyric Theatre (New York)
M
Macbeth Gallery (New York)
Madison Square Garden (New York)
Madrid
Mailer, Norman
Maison Favre
Majestic Theatre (Cedar Rapids)
Make It Snappy (revue)
Making of Americans, The (Gertrude Stein)
Malin, Gene
Mallorca
Manby, Arthur
Manhattan; acceptable behavior in, versus Taos and Hollywood; African-Americans in (see also Harlem); art establishment in; Block Beautiful in; cosmopolitanism of; CVV’s books about (see also titles of books); dance performances in; ethnic diversity of; first desegregated performance venue in; Fitzgeralds in; gays in; Gertrude Stein in; jail in; literary depictions of Jazz Age in; Lower East Side of; modern art in; nightlife in; opera in, (see also Metropolitan Opera); parties in; Paterson strike benefit pageant in; photographic exhibitions in; during Prohibition; salons in; shopping in; skyscrapers in; and stock market crash; Upper West Side of; vice districts of; see also Broadway; Greenwich Village; Harlem
Manhattan Opera House
Manhattan Transfer (Dos Passos)
Mann, Thomas
Mansfield, Richard
Mardi (Melville)
Marinetti, Filippo
Marinoff, Fania; acting career of; Block Beautiful apartment of; childhood of; correspondence of CVV and; and CVV’s death; and CVV’s relationships with gay lovers; European vacations of CVV and; fractures in marriage of CVV and; Jewish background of; Mabel Dodge and; midtown Manhattan apartment of; newspaper interviews given by; parties hosted by CVV and; photographs of; Snyder’s resentment of; at Stage Door Canteen; wedding of CVV and
Marinoff, Jacob
Marrakech
Marshall’s Hotel (New York)
Martin, Dr.
Marx Brothers
Marxists
Mason, Charlotte
Masons
Masters, Edgar Lee
Matisse, Henri
Mattachine Society
Maugham, Somerset
Mauriber, Saul
Mayer, Edwin Justus
Mayer, Louis B.
Mayfair Ball
Maynard, Leah
McAlmon, Robert
McBride, Henry
McCarthy, Joseph
McDowell, Edward
McKay, Claude
McPherson, Aimee
Meadows, Allen
Meeres, Paul
Megapolensis, Johannes
“Melanctha” (Gertrude Stein)
Melba, Nellie
Melville, Herman
Mencken, H. L.
Metropolitan Opera; in Chicago; Farrar’s farewell appearance at; modern dance performances at; Salome performed by
MGM
Michelangelo
Michigan, University of
Millen, Gilmore
Miller, Henry
Miller, Patsy
Minneapolis
minstrelsy
Miró, Joan
miscegenation
Mississippi
Mitchell, Charley
Moby-Dick (Melville)
modern art; exhibitions in New York of
modernism; American; literary (see also names of writers); as revolt against tradition
Monroe, Marilyn
Montaigne, Michel de
Montparnasse, Nina de, see Auzias, Eugénie (“Nina de Montparnasse”)
Moore, George
Moran, Gladys
Moran, Lois
Morand, Paul
Moszkowski, Moritz
movies; adaptation of novels for; cowboy; Fania Marinoff in; Marx Brothers’; novelists as screenwriters for; porn; scores for; stars of
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozley, Loren
Muir, Lewis F.
Munich
Muray, Nickolas
Murphy, Dudley
Museum of Modern Art (New York)
Music After the Great War (CVV)
Musical America magazine
Music and Bad Manners (CVV)
My Friend from Kentucky (musical)
Myers, Carmel
N
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
National Association of Negro Musicians
nationalism, cultural
National Urban League
Native Americans
Nedra (movie)
Negri, Pola
“Negro Theatre, The” (CVV)
Netherlands
New Amsterdam
New Deal
Newell, Herbie
New Jersey
New Mexico
New Negro Anthology, The
New Negro identity
New Republic, The
New Woman identity
New York; CVV returns from Europe to; Fania Marinoff’s absences from; grounds for divorce in; in industrial age, cultural life of; reform of; slumming in; winter in; during World War I; see also Manhattan
New York Amsterdam News
New York City Ballet
New Yorker, The
New York Graphic
New York Journal
New York Post
New York Press
New York Public Library
New York Sun
New York Telegraph
New York Times, The; Book Review; dance criticism in; music articles in; Paris correspondent of; profile of Gertrude Stein in
New York World
Nichols, Beverley
Nigger Heaven (CVV); African-Americans’ responses to; Avon reissue of; European success of; impact on white American readers of; possibility of movie based on; publication of; white authors’ opinions of; writing process for
Nijinsky, Vaslav
Noguchi, Isamu
Norton, Louise and Allen
Norton, Wid
Nude Descending a Staircase (Duchamp)
Nugent, Richard Bruce
O
O’Keeffe, Georgia
One
O’Neill, Carlotta Monterrey
O’Neill, Eugene
opera; in Chicago; CVV’s writing about; in Europe; jazz; see also Metropolitan Opera; titles of operas
Oppenheimer, George
Opportunity magazine; awards given by
Ornstein, Leo
Others magazine
Our Country (Strong)
P
Palace Theatre (New York)
Panic of 1893
pantomimes
Paresis Club (New York)
Paris; African-Americans in; avant-garde in; CVV in; Lindbergh in; “lost generation” in; during World War I
Parks, Rosa
Parsons, Louella
Parties (CVV)
Passing (Larsen)
Paterson (New Jersey) silk workers strike
Patti, Adelina
Pearson, Norman Holmes
Pearson’s Magazine
Pentecostals
Père Lachaise Cemetery (Paris)
Peterson, Dorothy
Peter Whiffle (CVV)
Philadelphia Jimmie’s (Harlem)
photographs; of African-Americans in Europe; of childhood and adolescent friends; cigarette card; codes for homosexuality in; of CVV; donations and bequests to institutions of; exhibition of; family; gifts of; homoerotic; newspaper; of opera stars; paparazzi; portrait (see also names of subjects); travel
Picasso, Pablo
Pickford, Mary
Pierre (Melville)
Piney Woods School for Negro Children (Mississippi)
Pittsburgh Courier, The
Plantation Club (Harlem)
Plato
Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant (Shaw)
Poitier, Sidney
Polaire
Pollock, Anna
Porgy and Bess (George and Ira Gershwin and DuBose Heyward)
pornography
Porter, Cole
Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia (Gertrude Stein)
Pound, Ezra
Prancing Nigger (Firbank)
Prediction, A (Covarrubias)
“Prescription for the Negro Theatre” (CVV)
Presley, Elvis
primitivism
Prince Igor (Alexander Borodin)
Pringle, Aileen
prizefighting, see boxing
Progressive Era
Prohibition
Promise of American Life, The (Croly)
prostitutes; male; see also brothels
Proust, Marcel
Provincetown Playhouse
Psi Upsilon fraternity
psychoanalysis
Publishers Weekly
Pueblo culture
Pulitzer, Joseph
Q
Quaker Oats
Queen Anne architecture
Quicksand (Larsen)
R
radicalism; of CVV’s parents; of Gertrude Stein; in Greenwich Village; during World War I
Radio City (New York)
ragtime
Random House publishing company
Rauh, Ida
Ray, Man
Razaf, Andy
Red (CVV)
Reed, John
Reeve, Winnifred
Reis, Arthur
Renaissance
Reno (Nevada)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste
Rensselaer, Kiliaen van
Rensselaerswijck patroonship
Republican Party
Revolutionary War
Revue Nègre, La (show)
Rhapsody in Blue (George Gershwin)
Richmond (Virginia)
Rigoletto (Giuseppe Verdi)
Rivera, Diego
Robeson, Eslanda (Essie)
Robeson, Paul; correspondence of CVV and; at CVV’s parties; Epstein’s portrait bust of; Greenwich Village Theatre concert of; socialist politics of; stardom of
Robinson, Bill
Robinson, Jackie
Rockefeller, John D.
Rogue magazine
Romanesque architecture
romanticism
Rome
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare)
Romilly, Rita
Roosevelt, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Rose, Stuart
Rosen, Lucie
Rosenfeld, Paul
Rosskam, Louise
Rotary International
Roth, Philip
Rubinstein, Arthur
Run, Little Chillun (choral play)
Russell, Lillian
Russia; Communist, see Soviet Union
S
Sacchetto, Rita
Sacre du Printemps, Le (Stravinsky)
St. George, Camilla Martinson, Company
Salemme, Antonio
Salisbury, William
Salome (Wilde); opera based on
salons
Sanborn, John Pitts
San Francisco
Santa Fe (New Mexico)
Santayana, George
Schildkraut, Joseph
Schirmer, G., Inc. publishing company
Schoenberg, Arnold
School of American Ballet
Schulberg, B. P.
Schuyler, George
Scottsboro Boys
Sebastian, St.
segregation
Sennett, Mack
separate but equal, doctrine of
Seven Arts, The, magazine
Sex (Broadway show)
Shaffer, Van Vechten
Shakespeare, William
Shaw, George Bernard
Sherwin, Louis
Shiel, M. P.
Shirer, William
Show Boat (musical)
Simmons, Louis
Sinclair, Upton
Skene, Hener
Skinner, Otis
slumming
Small’s Paradise (Harlem)
Smart Set, The
Smith, Ada (“Bricktop”)
Smith, Bessie
Smith, Clara
“Smoke, Lilies and Jade” (Nugent)
Snyder, Anna; adolescent relationship of CVV and; alimony payments owed to; child given up for adoption by; college education and career of; divorce of CVV and; in Europe; long-distance romance of CVV and; marriage of CVV and
socialism
Some Like It Hot (movie)
Sorrow in Sunlight (Firbank), see Prancing Nigger (Firbank)
Souls of Black Folk, The (DuBois)
Sousa, John Philip
Soviet Union
Spain; Civil War in; folk music of
speakeasies; gay-friendly
Spider Boy (CVV)
Spingarn family
spiritualism
spirituals
Sports Illustrated
Stage Door Canteen (movie)
Stage Door Canteen (New York)
Stagg, Hunter
Starke, Pauline
Steffens, Lincoln
Steichen, Edward
Stein, Gertrude; African-American readers of; American tour of; correspondence of CVV and; death of; Fania Marinoff and; Hopwood and; on “lost generation”; Mabel Dodge and; New York Times profile of; opera by Thomson and; Paris home of; photographs of; publication of works of (see also titles of books); at second performance of Sacre du Printemps; story about Southern black woman by; suggestion of collaboration of Berlin and; Trend article on
Stein, Leo
Steinbeck, John
Stern Caskey, Elsie
Sterne, Maurice
Stettheimer, Florine
Stettheimer sisters
Stevens, Wallace
Stieglitz, Alfred
Stone, James
Stone, Lucinda Hinsdale
Stone, Lucy
Stonewall revolution
Story of the Illinois Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs, The (Elizabeth Lindsay Davis)
Strauss, Richard
Stravinsky, Igor
Streetcar Named Desire, A (Tennessee Williams)
Strictly Union (movie)
Strong, Josiah
Sublett, Desdemona
Sullivan, Noël
Summerfield, Arthur
Summers, Montague
Sunset Club (Chicago)
Survey Graphic
“Swanee” (George Gershwin)
Sweet Man (Millen)
Swirksy, Thamara de
T
Talmadge, Constance
Taos (New Mexico)
Tarantelle (Chopin)
Tarbell, Ida
Tattooed Countess, The (CVV)
Taylor, Prentiss
Tender Buttons (Gertrude Stein)
Tender Is the Night (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Tennessee
Tetrazzini, Luisa
Thaw, Harry K.
Théâtre des Champs-Élysées (Paris)
Third Awakening
Thomas, Millard
Thomas, Theodore
Thompson, Paul
Thomson, Virgil
Three Lives (Gertrude Stein)
Three Weeks (Elinor Glyn)
Thurman, Wallace
Time magazine
Tin Pan Alley
Toklas, Alice
Toomer, Jean
transvestism
Trend, The, magazine
Trip to Chinatown, A (musical)
Tristram Shandy (Sterne)
Trotsky, Leon
Trotskyism
Trowbridge, J. T.
Tucker, Sophie
Twain, Mark
“Twelfth Night” (Mabel Dodge)
291 Gallery (New York)
U
Ulric, Lenore
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Underground Railroad
“Unfinished Symphony” (CVV)
United Artists
Universalist Church
Universal Negro Improvement Association
Universal Pictures
V
Valencia
Vallombrosa (Italy)
Valmouth (Firbank)
Vanderbilt family
Vanderpool, Vanderpool
Van Doren, Carl
Vanity Fair; African-American culture articles in; Hollywood articles in
Van Vechten, Ada (CVV’s mother); in Chicago; clubs established by; death of; love letters of Charles Van Vechten and; social causes supported by
Van Vechten, Anna Snyder, see Snyder, Anna
Van Vechten, Carl: African-American culture championed by; air travel as passion of; American music collection at Fisk University established by; arrival in New York of; in Bahamas; birth of; black culture collection at Yale established by; and black evangelical religion; blackness concept of (see blackness); boxing up materials to secure legacy of; at brothels; Chicago visit with father; childhood and adolescence of; collecting obsession of; coterie of young gay men around; cross-dressing fascination of; cruising by; cultural influence of; dance reviews by; death of; deaths of friends of; as drama critic; as editor of The Trend; essays on New York by; in Europe; family background of; Fania Marinoff’s affair with; financial irresponsibility of; Firbank promoted by; Gertrude Stein promoted by; at Greene’s Opera House; Harlem experiences of
health problems of; in Hollywood; honorary degree awarded to; imprisonment of; influence of parents’ values and religion on; Mabel Dodge’s influence on; male lovers of; marriage and divorce of Snyder and; marriage of Fania Marinoff and; modernism embraced by; and mother’s death; music criticism by; New York apartments of; novels by (see also titles of novels); operas attended by (see also titles of operas); parties attended and hosted by; personal appearance of; as photographer (see also names of portrait subjects); political avoidance and ignorance of; and Prohibition; scrapbooks of; self-destructive behavior of; self-mythologizing of; sexual awakening of; tabloid journalism of; in Taos; as tour guide to Harlem; at University of Chicago; use of word “nigger” by; at World’s Columbian Exposition; and World War I
Van Vechten, Charles (CVV’s father); in Chicago; and CVV’s birth; and CVV’s books; and CVV’s financial irresponsibility; death of; financial success of; love letters of Ada Van Vechten and; moves to Cedar Rapids; racial attitudes of; respectability; Universalist faith of
Van Vechten, Derrick
Van Vechten, Emma (CVV’s aunt)
Van Vechten, Emma (CVV’s sister)
Van Vechten, Fannie (CVV’s sister-in-law)
Van Vechten, Giles (CVV’s uncle)
Van Vechten, Michael
Van Vechten, Ralph (CVV’s brother); career of; during CVV’s childhood; CVV’s financial irresponsibility criticized by; death of; in New York
Van Vechten, Teunis Dircksz
vaudeville; black
Venice
Victor, Sarah
Victorianism
Victoria Theatre (New York)
Vidal, Gore
Vidor, King
Villa Curonia (Florence)
Virginia
Vitascope motion picture technology
Volstead Act (1919)
W
Wagner, Richard
Walker, A’Lelia
Walker, Madame C. J.
Walpole, Hugh
Walrond, Eric
“War Is Not Hell” (CVV)
Washburn, Charles
Washington, Booker T.
Washington, Carrie (“Carita Day”)
Washington, George
Wasserman, Eddie
Waste Land, The (Eliot)
Waters, Ethel
Weary Blues, The (Hughes)
Weaver, Raymond
Weinberg, Jonathan
Wellesley College
Wertheim, Arthur Frank
West, Mae
West, Nathanael
West, Rebecca
West India Company
White, James “Slap Rags”
White, Walter; in NAACP; Nigger Heaven supported by; Paul and Essie Robeson and
Whitechapel Club
Whiteman, Paul
white supremacy
Whitman, Walt
Whitman Sisters
Wilde, Oscar; American tour of; CVV influenced by; incarceration of; tomb of; trial of
Wilder, Thornton
Wild West shows
Willard, Frances
Williams, Berkeley
Williams, Bert
Williams, Lulu
Williams, William Carlos
Williams and Walker; see also Williams, Bert
Wilson, Edmund
Wine of the Puritans, The (Brooks)
Winter Garden Theatre (New York)
Women’s Club of America
women’s suffrage
Wong, Anna May
Woollcott, Alexander
World’s Columbian Exposition
World War I; African-American culture and; armistice ending; CVV on meaning of; “lost generation” in Europe after; outbreak of; United States in
World War II
Wylie, Elinor
Y
Yale University; Collection of American Literature; James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of Negro Arts and Letters
Yeats, W. B.
Yiddish culture
Yust, Walter
Z
Zabelle, Flora
Zit’s Weekly