Call number
FIC WOD
Collection
Genres
Publication
Simon and Schuster (1974), Edition: 1st, 186 pages
Description
The Collector's Wodehouse series continues --three more sparkling classics from the master of hijinks and social comedy P. G. Wodehouse is recognized as the greatest English comic writer of the twentieth century. Launched on the twenty-fifth anniversary of his death, each Overlook Wodehouse is the finest edition of the master's work ever published. Much-married American movie mogul Ivor Llewellyn depends on his friends at Bachelors Anonymous to keep him out of romantic entanglements. But when devoted bachelor Trout takes it upon himself to thwart a romance between Pickering and a beautiful journalist, he sets in train a series of events which end in more than one marriage--including his own.
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LibraryThing member cmbohn
Just read this one last night. It's not as funny as Jeeves and Wooster, but it was still good. I think it would have been even better as an audiobook. About a Hollywood movie executive who visits London and needs help to prevent him marrying for the 6th time. Lots of funny characters.
LibraryThing member losloper
Much married American movie mogul Ivor Llewellyn depends on his friends at Bachelors Anonymous to keep him out of romantic entanglements on his trip to London. First, they arrange for Joe Pickering to be his bodyguard. Then his lawyer, Ephraim Trout, is sent to England to help fend off the actress
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Vera Dalrymple who is determined to ensnare Llewellyn. All seems to be going well. But when devoted bachelor Trout takes it upon himself to thwart a romance between Pickering and a beautiful journalist, he sets in train a series of events which end in more than one marriage including his own. Show Less
LibraryThing member losloper
Much married American movie mogul Ivor Llewellyn depends on his friends at Bachelors Anonymous to keep him out of romantic entanglements on his trip to London. First, they arrange for Joe Pickering to be his bodyguard. Then his lawyer, Ephraim Trout, is sent to England to help fend off the actress
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Vera Dalrymple who is determined to ensnare Llewellyn. All seems to be going well. But when devoted bachelor Trout takes it upon himself to thwart a romance between Pickering and a beautiful journalist, he sets in train a series of events which end in more than one marriage including his own. Show Less
LibraryThing member raizel
Mr. Trout, a lawyer whose client, Ivor Llewellyn of the Superba-Llewellyn studio of Hollywood, heads to England as a member of Bachelors Anonymous to stop Mr. Llewellyn from marrying Vera Dalrymple, the star of Joe Pickering's new play, which fails miserably because Vera takes all the good lines
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for herself. Joe gets a job with Mr. Llewellyn and falls in love with Sally Fitch, who has just inherited a tidy sum of money if she can abstain from smoking cigarettes. Sally is watched by Daphne Dolby, who loves Sir Jaklyn Warner, who is like some of Wodehouse's less admirable characters in handling and obtaining of money. At some point, Mr. Trout meets Amelia Bingham, who changes his opinion about the evils of marriage. And nearly everyone lives happily ever after. Show Less
LibraryThing member Pferdina
A typical Wodehouse story. Pairs of young people find each other, get mixed up, and finally end up with the "right" partners. The plot this time concerns a rich Hollywood movie magnate who has fled to London to avoid another marriage. His lawyer is a charter member of Bachelor's Anonymous and
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instructs him to hire a young man to run interference between the movie magnate and any eligible British women the magnate might be tempted to propose to. The young man he finds is a struggling playwright who falls in love with a reporter who has just inherited a lot of money (with a catch). Show Less
Pages
186
ISBN
0671217410 / 9780671217419