[lit-ideas] Maugham's "McEvoy", etc. (Was: "Theatre")
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 19:01:34 EST
I went to see _Being Julia_ yesterday and quite liked it. A rather good
adaptation of W. S. Maugham's _novella_ (I don't know why it's called a novella
when it has 293 pp. in the Heineman 1937 edition).
In the Preface, W. S. M. mentions the usual disclaimers:
"The characters in this novel are imaginary. The author has tried to fit
them with names of his own inventions; if he has by chance hit on the name of
any living person he offers his apologies for an accident which, whatever care
is taken, must sometimes occur." (p. i).
One such is perhaps a rather sarcastic reference to the theatrical star of
the day:
"After tea, Julia [Lambert, played in the film by a brilliant Annette
Bening] was persuaded ... to do her imitations of ... Gertie Lawrence." (p.
140).
Another is on p. 227:
"One day ... people would go to the National Portrait Gallery [in London]
and look at her portrait, the one McEvoy had painted, and sigh when they
thought
of the sad, romantic love-story of which she had been the heroine." (p.
227).
Cheers,
JL
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