For 10 points, give this first name shared by characters referred to as "Lord" and "Lucky" in novels by Joseph Conrad and Kingsley Amis.
One man with this first name is dismayed to realize that the song he's about to sing splits the tenors into two parts, since he's been lip syncing. That character tries to fake a bad connection while going "Hallaher" in an imitation of a posh London accent, and pretends he is a reporter named Beesley from the Evening Post. Another character with this name is called a "romantic" who "cannot be cured" by the butterfly collector Mr. (*) Stein; that character is wracked by his guilt over leaving eight hundred Muslim pilgrims to die by abandoning the Patna. A character with this first name struggles to please his absentminded department head Welch, but ends up going to London with Christine Callaghan after being fired for a drunken lecture. For 10 points, give this first name shared by characters referred to as "Lord" and "Lucky" in novels by Joseph Conrad and Kingsley Amis.
One man with this first name is dismayed to realize that the song he's about to sing splits the tenors into two parts, since he's been lip syncing.
Jim [or James]