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...impetuosity. Plantagenet, admirably played by Philip Latham, has a manner so arid that he seems to exhale dust, like an overloaded vacuum cleaner, every time he speaks. Gradually, however, they grow-and grow believably -into love. Glencora gives up any notion of running away with the scoundrel Burgo Fitzgerald. Plantagenet, for his part, relinquishes his dream of becoming Chancellor of the Exchequer so that he can take her to the Continent. Eventually, however, he does become Chancellor, then Prime Minister, and inherits his dukedom; Glencora becomes a celebrated hostess...
Victorian Equation. The first episode opens in the early 1860s at the Duke of Omnium's annual garden party. Glencora M'Cluskie, an orphaned heiress, alarms her aunts by flirting with Burgo Fitzgerald, a young dissolute whom Trollope describes as the handsomest man in all England. The aunts thereupon pick up their skirts and march up to the old duke to present him with an inescapable fact: they have an eligible niece, while he has an eligible nephew-his heir, the aspiring politician Plantagenet Palliser. The duke sees the merit of the equation and gives his nephew...
...perhaps beat me. I do not believe it; but even though that should have been so, I regret it. It is better to have a false husband than to be a false wife." Raven's Glencora is less long-winded. "I would rather be beaten by Burgo Fitzgerald," she says, "than kissed by any other man." Perhaps Raven's greatest liberty, however, has been his emphasis on the Pallisers, particularly Glencora, among the novels' myriad families and alliances. Explains Raven: "The heroine of a television series must never be less than prominent...
...that not the screen-writers' but Dardis's own values have been corrupted. For him, the big names and big numbers, presented as a choppy blow-by-blow account of the making and breaking of movie contracts, is enough of a story. Beside some embarassing moments following Fitzgerald's drinking bouts, Dardis rarely mentions how living in Hollywood affected the writers' daily lives. Nor, except for a brief description of a bookstore where they congregated, does Dardis's interest in the writers' impact on Hollywood penetrate more than skin deep...
Although the most worthwhile portions of Some Time in the Sun are probably the excerpts from the film scripts themselves, the book will probably end up on many Fitzgerald-in-Hollywood-in-the-30s fans' already crowded shelves. Instead of debunking it, Dardis's book only complicates the California myth. Apparently, not only Fitzgerald went west looking for gold...