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Description edit
To the majority of the passengers aboard the RMS Atlantic the voyage to America was just a pleasant interlude in life’s hectic rush. But not so to Monty Bodkin. Monty’s wooing of Gertrude Butterwick was not progressing as it should, and the cause of all the trouble was Miss Lotus Blossom, the... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Reggie Tennyson: Ambrose's younger brother who loves Mabel
- Mr Ivor Llewellyn: President of the Superba-Llewellyn Motion Picture Corp. Married ex-star Grayce who wants him to smuggle a necklace into the States.
- Ambrose Tennyson: Gertrude's cousin, a novelist supposedly under contract to Superba-Llewellyn and engaged to Lotus Blossom
- Gertrude Butterwick: Engaged to Monty and on the All English Ladies' Hockey Team
- Albert Peasemarch: 46 year old Bedroom Steward
- Mabel Spence: Ivor's sister-in-law who is an osteopath in Beverly Hills. Falls in love with Reggie.
- Monty Bodkin: 28 year old hero who is engaged to Gertrude
- Lottie Blossom: A beautiful redheaded movie star under contract to Llewellyn who possesses a dominant personality. Engaged to Ambrose.
- George: Mabel's worthless brother
- Grayce: Sister of Mabel and George Spence and wife of Ikey in The Luck of the Bodkins and Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin, fifth divorced wife of Ivor Llewellyn in Bachelors Anonymous and widow of Orlando Mulligan. Once a panther woman on n stage and screen, now large but still formidable, with eyes ininclined to bulge a little. Mother of Mavis Mulligan by Western movie hero Orlando Mulligan.
- Louie: Add a description of this character.
- Mickey Mouse
- Reginald Tennyson: Ambrose's younger brother who loves Mabel
- Ikey Llewellyn
- Genevieve
- John
- Wilfred: Lottie's alligator
- Ammie
- Dooser
- Pilbeam
- Egbert
Setting & Locations edit
- Hollywood
- London
- New York
- Cannes
- Paris
- Cherbourg
- Montreal
- Llewellyn City
- America
- Southampton
- Canada
- Biarritz
- R.m.s. Atlantic
First Sentence edit
Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty, hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to talk French.
Authors & Contributors edit
- P. G. Wodehouse (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Herbert Jenkins
Country: UK
Publication Date: 1935
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 311
Publisher: Herbert Jenkins
Country: UK
Publication Date: 1935
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 311
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813
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