Manuscripts
Motion picture film of Sonya Levien and friends, ca. 1935 - ca. 1959. There is an unedited master film reel, edited copy, a VHS videotape copy for circulation, and a digital copy.
The following information was supplied by Tamara Hovey Gold, May 1993. The following is clarification of some shots which may be obscure on the film:
001,2 Tony Luhan -- Pueblo Indian chief whom Mabel Dodge Luhan married. 002,1 Tony Luhan.
003,1 Mary Binney and Spud Johnson -- Mabel Dodge Luhan's friends.
033,4 Angelino -- lived with Frieda Lawrence after D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence's death.
007,1 Tamara, Tissie Bok (sister of Derek Bok, President of Harvard), Sophie Huxley.
077,5 Tamara and Richard Buhlig. Buhlig, concert pianist and teacher and friend of Schoenberg's. Andreis Deinum -- documentary film-maker. Frank Waters -- novelist, wrote many books on Indians, lives in Taos.
009,1 Buhlig -- Dr. Fischer (friend) -- Schoenberg.
011,2 Error in title - not Erika Mann but Elizabeth Meyers (friend). Erika Mann, correctly titled, is in next shot in the chaise lounge.
011,5 Schoenberg and son Rudy.
012,0 Daughter Nuria - became Mrs. Luigi Nono. 012,4 Donan Jeffers.
012,0 Garth Jeffers.
015,1 Matthew Huxley. 015,5 Angelino and group.
(The Prague section shows students from other countries volunteering in rebuilding of Lidice which had been razed by the Nazis and its population murdered.)
Dorothy Brett - daughter of Vicomte Esher - ran away from home to study art at Slade School ... then followed D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence to the U.S. where she typed his manuscripts and painted. Her portrait of Lawrence hangs in National Portrait Gallery in London.
The Big House - is Mabel's in Taos.
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