Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation (75 page)

Kommer, Rudolph

Kschessinksa, Mathilde

Ku Klux Klan

Kuffner, Baron Raoul

L

Lady, The

Laking, Sir Guy Francis

Lardner, Ring

Lathan, Edward

Laurel, Kay

Laurencin, Marie

Lawrence, D.H.

Aaron’s Rod

Lawrence, Gerald

Le Corbusier

Le Galienne, Eva

Léger, Fernand

Leigh, Vivien

Lempicka, Marie Christine (Kizette) (daughter)

Lempicka, Tamara de

Adam and Eve

addiction to painting

appearance

and art deco movement

arteriosclerosis

artistic style

attempt at getting D’Annunzio to sit for a portrait

Autoportrait

LaBelle Rafaela

bipolar behaviour

bouts of anxiety and depression

childhood and adolescence

death and funeral

and death of Raoul

decision to become a professional artist

deterioration in health

diamond bracelets

Die Dame
cover images commission

divorce from Tadeusz

dress style

enrols in Académie Ransom

epilogue

exhibition at Bottega de Poesia gallery (Milan)

exhibitionist displays

exhibitions of work

family history

fascination with nudes in art works

fear of death

and First World War

gains friendship and patronage of prominent circle of sapphists

granddaughters

Group of Four Nudes

habit of reinvention

hat collection

in Hollywood

in Houston

inclusion of work in the Salon d’Automne

influence of Lhote on artistic style

Irene and her Sister

leaving of husband and attempted reconciliation

lesbian affairs

living in Paris

lovers and attitude towards sex

making her name

marriage to Kuffner

marriage to and relationship with Tadeusz

in Mexico

models

in New York

Paris apartment

Perspective

Portrait of a Young Lady in a Blue Dress

and portraiture

public image

relationship with daughter (Kizette)

reputation of after death

reviews of work

revival in interest in art of

role models in art

Russian Revolution and escape with husband to Paris

and Russian roots

in St Petersburg

schooling

sets her sights on Tadeusz Lempicki as future husband

stomach pains

voyage to United States to paint Rufus Bush’s wife

worshipping of glamour

Lempicki, Tadeusz

Lenglen, Suzanne

Lenin, Vladimir

lesbianism

Let Us Be Gay

Leveson-Gower, Rosemary

Levinson, André

Levy, Julian

Lewis, Wyndham

Lindbergh, Charles

Lister, Charles

Little Foxes, The

Littlefield, Catherine

Lloyd George, David

London

costume balls

and First World War

Loos, Anita

L’Oréal

Lhote, André

Lucky Strike

Lyles, Aubrey

Lynn, Olga

M

McAlmon, Robert

McDonald, Carrie

McDonald, Freda Josephine
see
Baker, Josephine

McKaig, Alec

McLeish, Archie

McVickar, Jim

Madonna

Mallet-Stevens, Roger

Manners, Angie

Manners, Lady Diana
see
Cooper, Lady Diana

Manners, Sir Henry
see
Rutland, Duke of

Manners, John

Manners, Marjorie

Margueritte, Victor

La Garçonne

Marsh, Eddie

Martien, Mildred

Martin, Arthur

Martin, Beth

Matchabelli, George

Matheson, Joan

Matthis, Peyton

Maugham, Somerset

‘Rain’

Maxwell, Elsa

Mayfield, Sara

Melba, Dame Nellie

Messel, Oliver

Meyer, Baron de

Michelet, Raymond

Milhaud, Darius

Millay, Edna St Vincent

Miller, Flournoy

Mills, Florence

Miracle, The

Mistinguett

Moffat, Curtis

Monnier, Adrienne

Moore, George

The Story Teller’s Holiday

Moore, George, Gordon

Moran, Lois

Morand, Paul

Morgan, Evan

Morrice, Monica

Mortimer, Raymond

Murat, Princess

Murphy, Gerald and Sara

Myers, Carmel

N

Nast, Condé

Nathan, George Jean

Nazimova, Alla

Neruda, Pablo

Nesbitt, Cathleen

Nevill Holt (Leicestershire)

New York

New York American

New York Times

New Yorker

Nice People

Nichols, Robert

Noailles, Comtesse de

O

Ober, Harold

Ode

Orman, Felix

Orwell, George

Ozanne, Marie

P

Paramount Studios

Paris

and avant gardism

and fashion

growing racism in

as marketplace of modern culture

role of women with money and influence in cultural life of

sexual tolerance

spread of jazz and ragtime

women artists in

Paris qui remue

Parker, Dorothy

Parsons, Alan

Pascin, Jules

Patou, Jean

Pavlova, Anna

Perkins, Max

Perrot, Ira

Pfeiffer, Pauline

Picasso, Pablo

Picenardi, Marquis Guido Sommi

Pickford, Jack

Pickford, Mary

Picture-Play
(magazine)

Pinchot, Rosamond

Plantation Club (New York)

Poiret, Paul

Polignac, Princesse de

Pollock, Jason

Poniatowski, Prince André

Porter, Cole

Pound, Ezra

Powell, Frank

Prasteau, Jean

pre-marital sex

Prieur, Dr Gaston

Prohibition

psychoanalysis

Puglisi, Gino

R

Ransom, Paul

Raskob, John Jakob

Rathbone, Basil

Ray, Man

Reboud, Jacques

Reinhardt, Max

Restitution of Pre-War Practices Act

Revue Nègre, La

Rhys, Jean

Ricci, Franco

Ripon, Lady

Rochas, Marcel

Rogers, J.A.

Roman, Alain

Rose, La (club) (Paris)

Rose, Richard

Rubinstein, Arthur

Russell, Bob

Russell, Conrad

Russell, Ethel

Russell, Maude

Russia

Russian Revolution (1917)

Rutland, Duchess of (Violet)

bohemian instincts

conversion of London home into an officers’ hospital

and Diana’s film career

disapproval of Duff Cooper and opposition to engagement

dislike of daughter working at Guy’s

and economizing

love affair with Cust

relationship with daughter

upbringing of daughters

Rutland, Duke of (Henry Manners)

S

Sackville, Lady Idina

Sackville-West, Vita

St Louis

St Petersburg

Salisbury, Lord and Lady

Salon d’Automne

Sanger, Margaret

Sauvage, Marcel

Sayre, Anthony

Sayre, Minnie

Sayre, Zelda
see
Fitzgerald, Zelda

Scarth, Miss

Scheherazade

Schueller, Eugene

Scotch Mist

Second World War

Sedova, Julie

Seldes, Amanda

Seldes, Gilbert

Sellers, John

Sert, José-Maria

Sert, Misia

Sex Discrimination (Removal) Act (1919)

Shakespear, Dorothy

Sheppard, Evelyn

Short, Bobby

Shuffle Along

Simenon, Georges

Sirène des Tropiques, La

Sissle, Noble

Sitwell, Edith

Wheels

Smith, Bessie

Smith, Clara

Smith, Eddie

smoking

Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts

Solano, Solita

Somme, Battle of the (1916)

Souls, the

Souter, John Bulloch

The Breakdown