Theatre, 251
American League of Decency, 485–6
American Legion, 557
American Mercury , 308
American Repertory Company, 290
American Theatre Council, 294
Ames, Winthrop, 210
Anatol (Schnitzler: radio), 387, 389, 418
Anderson, Arthur, 312, 347, 351, 388–9
Anderson, John, 338, 341
Anderson, Judith, 143, 425
Anderson, Margaret, 17
Anderson, Maxwell, 332, 424, 427
Anderson, Sherwood, 16, 17, 418, 555
Anderson, Tommy, 223
Androcles and the Lion (Shaw), 53
Anisfeldt, Boris, 18, 19, 72
Ankrum, Maurice, 427
Anna Christie (O’Neill), 19
Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare), 342
Appia, Adolphe, 46, 92
Apple Cart, The (Shaw), 107
apron stage, 272, 275, 281
Aran, Isles of, 78–80, 104, 108, 131
Archdupe, The , 104–5
Archer, William, The Green Goddess , 445–8
Arena , 320
Arliss, George, 445
Arms and the Man (Shaw), 88
Around the World , 386
Arsenic and Old Lace , 553
‘Art for Art’s Sake’(Blitzstein song), 292
ARTEF (Yiddish group), 417
Artaud, Antonin, 316; ‘Theatre of Cruelty’, 260
Arthur, Helen, 249
As You Like It (Shakespeare), 112
Ash, Walter, 353, 365
‘Ask Us Again’ (Blitzstein song), 292
Atalante, L ’, 460
Atkins, Robert, 92
Atkinson, Brooks, 143, 148, 188, 189, 202, 218, 223–4, 237–8, 239–40, 264, 275, 276, 278, 282, 310, 338, 345, 355,356, 361, 365, 409, 410, 411, 412, 413, 414, 551, 552–3, 564
Auden, W.H., 442, 543; ‘The Prince’s Dog’ (essay), 442–3
Bach, Johann Sebastian, 291
Badger Brass, 4, 5, 7, 8, 15
Baer, Richard, 428, 459–60, 464, 477, 515, 520, 529, 560
Baird, Bill, 253–4, 255, 256, 269
Baker, Carlos, 136
Bakst, Leon, 109
Balanchine, George, 378
Ball, Lucille, 480–1
Bankhead,Tallulah, 342, 427
Bannerman, LeRoy, 400
Barber, Phillip, 239, 243, 265
Barker, Harley Granville, 148, 173
Barnes, Baron, 73
Barnouw, Eric, 371, 373, 375, 380, 399, 400
Barr, Richard, 377, 397, 400, 404, 429, 433, 513
Barrett, Edith (Mrs Vincent Price), 348, 356
Barretts of Wimpole Street, The (Besier), 141, 143, 144–5, 148–9, 153, 154, 185, 200
Barrier, Edgar,384, 428, 470, 503
Barry, Phillip, 546
Barrymore, John, 140, 150, 154, 169, 198, 241, 263, 284, 319, 424, 446, 561
Bartholomew Fair (Jonson), 349
Batista, Miriam, 208
Baudelaire, Charles, 196
Bax, Clifford, Rose Without a Thorn , 112
Bazin, André, 50, 566
Beardsley, Aubrey, 109
Beau Geste (Wren), radio adaptation of, 445
Beaumarchais, Pierre, The Marriageof Figaro , 295
Beaumont, Francis and Fletcher, John, 159, 164
Beck, Martin, 439
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 292
Belasco, David, 181, 188, 210, 214
Belfrage, Cedric, 565, 566, 572
Benchley, Robert, 278, 342, 411
Benét, Stephen Vincent, 119, 555
Benson, Sir Frank, 83, 100
Bergman, Ingrid, 470
Berlin, 50, 109, 121, 288, 429
Berman, Pandro S., 450
Bernhardt,Sarah, 50
Bernstein, Edith ( née Mason: second wife), 23, 65, 73
Bernstein, Hazel ( née Moore: third wife), 20, 23, 49, 73, 75
Bernstein, Leonard, 288
Bernstein, Dr Maurice Abraham (‘Dadda’), 13–14, 15, 17, 20, 23, 30–1, 32, 41, 47, 50, 57, 58, 61, 62, 198, 199, 514; Beatrice’s relationship with, 14, 20, 21, 31, 63, 74; Highland Park house, 47, 49, 73; legal guardian of Welles, 65,474; moves to California, 475; second marriage to Edith Mason, 65, 73; third marriage to Hazel Moore, 73; as trustee of Dick Welles’s estate, 74, 435; Welles’s letters to, 76, 77, 79–80, 81, 86–7; Welles’s relations with, 13–14, 21, 27, 28, 30–1, 33, 34, 37, 49, 54, 63, 69, 73, 74–5, 118, 125, 126, 127, 128, 141, 142, 185, 474, 475–6
Bernstein, Minna ( née Elman: first wife), 14
Betterton,Thomas, 178
Big Sisterhood Association, 14
Big White Fog , 552
Bijou Theatre, New York, 208
Bird, William, 278
Birdseye, Clarence, 230
Bitter Sweet , 83
Blackbirds , revue, 221
Blake, Eubie, 219
Blavatsky, Mme, 64
Bleak House (Dickens), 158
Blitzstein, Eva ( née Goldbeck), 288, 289
Blitzstein, Marc, 288–302, 346, 354, 384, 386, 394, 529, 556; Christina
Shanna Swendson
Jessica Verday
J.D. Rhoades
Franklin W. Dixon
Tina Robbins
Kate Klimo
Luke; Short
Georgina Devon Nicola Cornick Diane Gaston
Jeff Buick
Thomas A Watson