Carry On, Jeeves: (Jeeves & Wooster)

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Playwright, producer and manager. Known as “the Bishop of Broadway.” Well-known works include: The Girl I Left Behind Me (1893), Heart of Maryland (1895), Zaza (1899), and Madame Butterfly (1900). Bertie is writing an article for a women’s magazine on men’s fashion by request of his aunt. Her neighbor is married to Bingo, and is writing an expose of their marriage for the aunt. Jeeves has been tasked to lure away Bingo’s chef for the aunt which would prompt his wife to kill the story, but the chef is in love with the maid and won’t leave. Bingo asks Bertie to break into his house to steal the manuscript and he is caught. Jeeves whisks Bertie away to a health spa while securing the exchange of household help. In a last chapter Jeeves shares his secrets of managing the gentlemen who employ him in terms of resource and tact. When Bertie is considering adopting a little girl Jeeves arranges a visit to a girls school where the reality of raising children sinks in. Urdu) A public reception or levee, usually held with much pomp and ceremony to mark the accession of a ruler to power. The term was adopted by the British when Queen Victoria had herself proclaimed Empress of India at the Delhi Durbar of 1877. Lord Curzon, as Viceroy, stage-managed an even more spectacular Durbar in 1903 to mark the accession of Edward VII, and the last was held for George V in December 1911. It is presumably this one which Lady Malvern attended. Some of these stories also appear in My Man Jeeves (1919)* albeit in a slightly different form. These are the stories contained within Carry on, Jeeves (1925).... Cawthorne, Nigel (2013). A Brief Guide to Jeeves and Wooster. London: Constable & Robinson. ISBN 978-1-78033-824-8.

Adrian Mulliner” (a.k.a. David Rosenbaum) summarises the evidence in the Great Aunt/Uncle Mystery thus: avena fatua, a weed found in cornfields. Used metaphorically, sowing one’s wild oats is to indulge youthful folly, knowing that it will later be overwhelmed by the genuine corn. In Danish, “Loki’s wild oats” are spring mists which appear just before the crops start to sprout. (Brewer) P.G. Wodehouse's Carry On Jeeves is the story about Bertram "Bertie" Wooster and his gentleman's gentleman of a servant, Jeeves. Jeeves has a head suited to fix the oddest of problems and seems almost magic at times with his ability to understand people. Although Bertie is unsure at first of Jeeves, Bertie soon realizes that Jeeves is a necessity that no gentleman should be without. A proprietary hot sauce made with chili peppers. Tabasco ® brand products are produced by McIlhenny Company, founded in 1868 at Avery Island, Louisiana. Bertie is implying that Uncle Willoughby was hot stuff in his younger days. much as I admire P G. Wodehouse, I know he recycles characters and plots frequently, his charm relying more on style than originality.This sort of catalogue is a favourite comic device of Wodehouse’s: Compare the list of spectators of Ashe Marson’s exercises in Something Fresh, Chapter 1. Clustering Round Young Bingo is probably my favorite episode, and it involves a lot of recurring characters. Bertie’s aunt Dahlia comissions him to write an article for ‘Milady’s Boudoir’ on the subject of “What the Well Dressed Man Is Wearing” . While Wooster experiences what it means to be a writer ( I don’t wonder now that all those author blokes have bald heads and faces like birds who have suffered. ) Jeeves is as usual peeved about his master’s fashion sense ( Soft silk shirts with evening costume are not worn, sir!). The central character of the story is neither Bertie, nor Aunt Agatha, nor even Biffy who is threatened by intimate revelations from an article penned by his wife Rosie M Banks. No, here we meet for the first time the celebrated Anatole, the French artist of the cooking range.

Clive Exton adapted the stories into a television series staring Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry, as Jeeves and Wooster. It aired on ITV from 1990 to 1993. Taves, Brian (2006). P. G. Wodehouse and Hollywood: Screenwriting, Satires and Adaptations. McFarland & Company. p.179. ISBN 978-0786422883. Aunt Dahlia’s struggling magazine and Bertie’s sole literary effort are frequently mentioned in later stories. Wodehouse contributed stories to a number of women’s magazines, including Cosmopolitan, Redbook, the Ladies’ Home Journal, and the Woman’s Home Companion. Wolseley cars were made in Birmingham from 1895 to 1975, although the company was taken over by Morris (Lord Nuffield’s group, later to be British Leyland) in 1927. The famous illuminated radiator badge only appeared in the 1930s. What did it matter that Jeeves was somewhat of a tyrant, and that without his approval Bertie could not grow so much as a moustache? Was he not always there to lean on in moments of stress? And moments such as these were frequent in the life of Bertie and his friends. Jeeves service was extended to them all.A Google search for this exact phrase only returned quotations from the present story. It turns out that Harrogate has a variety of mineral-water wells, as described in a 1920–21 brochure (text transcription online); of the 87 known springs, sixteen are used for drinking; the rest for bathing. Under the heading Sulphur Waters—Saline—Mild are listed “The Magnesia Water” and “The Crescent Saline Water.” So Uncle George’s prescription was for a mix of two of these mineral waters. Wodehouse loved to parody modern verse, but here he is presumably having a go at Walt Whitman (1819–92) and his imitators. The “fairly nude chappie with bulging muscles” would seem to confirm this idea. [The image below is from Cosmopolitan, July 1920, illustrating Edgar A. Guest’s poem “Youth”; this is later than the original appearance of this story, so cannot be the specific picture Wodehouse had in mind, but it is close enough in spirit that I cannot refrain from including it here. —NM] In other words, to the judge who presides over the police court where offenders are first brought for arraignment or, in simple cases, summary judgment. Jeeves must disentangle the hopeless Bertie from formidable aunts, madcap girls and unbidden guests. Which he does without looking at all out of place.

We tend to associate “lark” in this sensewith Joe Gargery in Great Expectations (“Such larks, Pip...”), but it seems to have been current at least as a slang expression since the beginning of the 19th century. The OED quotes Byron using it in a letter. And when he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel: and the king spake and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God, whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee from the lions? Fictitious, but does occur as an occasional variant spelling of Easby, a village near Richmond, North Yorks. Many of Wodehouse’s country houses are placed in Shropshire. Placenames ending in ‘-by’ are normally of Danish origin, and would be very unusual in Shropshire, though common in Northeast England. Namely, New York, where Bertie is coming to the rescue of Corky, a young painter with little commercial success, who relies on handouts from his rich but tight-fisted uncle to make ends meet.Wodehouse, P. G. (1997). "Lines and Business". Enter Jeeves. New York: Dover Publications. pp. 155–167. ISBN 978-0-486-29717-0.