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In a fictionalized 1875, Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli seeks financing to buy the Suez Canal shares and secure Britain's route to India while outmaneuvering Russian spies. He also tries to bring young Clarissa and Charles together and reunite with his ailing wife, Lady Beaconsfield. The play invents characters and incidents around the historical transaction.
Store clerk Merton Gill dreams of film stardom and travels to Hollywood, where he befriends stuntwoman Flips. After his disastrous appearance as an extra, Flips exploits his resemblance to a matinée idol by casting him in spoof films; his earnest acting makes the satires unintentionally funny while he believes he is playing serious drama.
In 1855 Calaveras County, Salomy Jane encounters a stranger who has killed the man who betrayed his sister. When the stranger is captured alongside stagecoach robber Red Pete and faces vigilante hanging, Salomy Jane kisses him and later disguises and helps him escape. Their flight brings them into a feud between her father and Phil Larrabee, ending with a confrontation at the family corral.
Devout Englishwoman Domini Enfilden meets Boris Androvsky, a former Trappist monk with a mysterious past, in Beni-Mora. They marry, but after Boris confesses his history, Domini recognizes that his religious vocation remains; she bids him return to the monastery. Five years later, she listens to music in Count Anteoni's garden while their son plays nearby.
In a fictionalized 1875, Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli seeks financing to buy the Suez Canal shares and secure Britain's route to India while outmaneuvering Russian spies. He also tries to bring young Clarissa and Charles together and reunite with his ailing wife, Lady Beaconsfield. The play invents characters and incidents around the historical transaction.
Store clerk Merton Gill dreams of film stardom and travels to Hollywood, where he befriends stuntwoman Flips. After his disastrous appearance as an extra, Flips exploits his resemblance to a matinée idol by casting him in spoof films; his earnest acting makes the satires unintentionally funny while he believes he is playing serious drama.
In 1855 Calaveras County, Salomy Jane encounters a stranger who has killed the man who betrayed his sister. When the stranger is captured alongside stagecoach robber Red Pete and faces vigilante hanging, Salomy Jane kisses him and later disguises and helps him escape. Their flight brings them into a feud between her father and Phil Larrabee, ending with a confrontation at the family corral.
Devout Englishwoman Domini Enfilden meets Boris Androvsky, a former Trappist monk with a mysterious past, in Beni-Mora. They marry, but after Boris confesses his history, Domini recognizes that his religious vocation remains; she bids him return to the monastery. Five years later, she listens to music in Count Anteoni's garden while their son plays nearby.