Bring on The Girls (with Guy Bolton) 7,

Performing Flea 237,

Over Seventy 465.

(W) indicates a book or story by Wodehouse, or a show on which he worked.

A to Z 170

Aarons, Alex 173, 181-3

Abbott, George 387, 401

Adam and Eva 113, 133

Adams, Caswell 523

Adams, Maud 119, 171

Ade, George 71, 364

Adventures of Sally, The (W) 150, 257

Albanesi, Maggie 142

Allen, G. O. 333

All's Well with Bingo (W) 330

Anything Goes (W) 232, 307, 309, 310, 315 319

Arlen, Michael 272, 298, 399-200

armadillos 569-71

Arnaud, Yvonne 131

Arnold, Matthew 321, 521

Ash ley, Lord 175

Astaire, Adele 176, 177-8, 181-2

Aslaire, Fred 169, 176, 181-2, 213, 328-9, 332

Attlee, Clement 476

Aynesworth, Allan 142

Baa, Baa, Black Sheep 278

backers for shows 626-8

Band Wagon, The 182

Bankhead, Tallulah 273, 274

banking career 477-8, 481-5

Barbour, Robert 194-5

Barrie, J. M. 144-5, 365, 480

Barry, Philip 216

Barrymore, Maurice 40

Bartlett, Hugh 357, 362

Bartlett, John (works) 497-9

bass singers 506-7

Be Calm, Camilla 120

Beaton, Cecil 549-50

Beauty of Bath, The (W) 16, 246

Beauty Prize, The (W) 173, 175, 254, 255, 317

Beaverbrook, Lord 549

Behrman, S. N. 392, 627

Belasco, David 19, 29-30, 44, 71

Belloc, Hilaire 312, 367

Belmont, Mrs 0. H. P. 118

Benchley, Robert 193-5, 213, 216, 225-6, 232, 544

Bennett, Arnold 276, 277, 301, 321-3

Benny, Jack 640

Bentley, E. C. 463

Bceresford, J. D. 311

Berlin, Irving 149, 154, 158-62, 172, 250, 258

Bernard, Marcel 387

Best, Edna 142

Beverly Hills 196, 330-1, 333-4

Big Money (W) 272, 285

Bill of Divorcement, A 142

Bill the Conqueror (W) 256, 258

Birkenhead, Lord 459

Blackmer, Sidney 291

Blandings Castle (W) 318

Block, Paul 123, 126, 128

Blossom, Henry 48

Bolton, Guy Bring on the Girls

passim, 246-7, 249-50, 257, 267-8, 270, 283, 289, 293, 306-7, 309, 325, 371 388, 391, 395, 410, 411, 413, 527, 624, 645

Bordoni, Irene 270

Borge, Victor 629

Brandt, Erd 336

Brian, Donald 33-4, 35

Brice, Fanny 128

bridges 554-5

Broun, Heywood 17

Brown, Harry 10, 88

Brown, Joe E. 411

Brown Sugar 142

Browne, Walter 37, 39, 94

Bryan, Gertrude 171, 172

Buchanan, Jack 204

Buchelt, Oberleutenant, Lagerfuhrer at Tost 445—6

Buck, Gene 54

Bulger, Bozeman 265

Bulldog Drummond 142, 144

Burbage 518-19

Burkee, Billie 283

butlers 510-16

By Candlelight (W) 214, 281-3, 291

Cabaret Girl, The (W) l6l-2, 173, 249

Cadell, Elizabeth (works) 404

Caldwell, Anne 48, 136

Calhern, Louis 391

Calthrop, Donald 142

Canfield, Dick 117

Cantor, Eddie 411, 590

Carleton, Carl 150

Carpenter, Connie 175

Carroll, Marie 54, 60, 65

Carry on, Jeeves (W) 214, 521

Cartmell, William (internee) 350-1

Caryll, Ivan ('Fabulous Felix') 103-5, 131, 160, 224, 625

Case, Charlie 136

Castle, Vernon 17, 148

Catlett, Walter 135

Cave Girl, The 133

celebrities 546-53

Chaliapin, Feodor 108-11

Chambers, Haddon 144

Chandler, Raymond 284, 363, 376, 404

Chaplin, Charlie 138 -9

Charlot, Andre 170, 204

Chevalier, Maurice 195

Cheyney, Peter (works) 363, 376

Christie, Agatha (works) 384, 453

Christmas 633-5

Chrysler, Walter 123, 126, 128, 129

Chula Vista 283-4

Churchill, Winston 283 Circle, The 142

Claire, Ina 71

Cochran, Charlie 173

Code of the Woosters, The (W) 336-7. 338

Cohan, George M. 19, 22-4

Colette 298-9

Coming of Gowf, The (W) 255

Company for Gertrude (W) 272-3

Compton, Betty 201-2

Compton, Fay 17

Comstock, Ray 13, 43, 44-9, 52-4, 56, 57, 59, 60, 62, 65-8, 82, 131, 147, 170-1

Connor, W. D. 463

Conti, Italia 188-9

Corey, Madison 35

Costain 313-14

Courtneidge, Cicely 203

Coward, Noel 142, 189-90, 529

crime 560-6

Crime Wave at Blandings, The (W) 327

critics 517, 520-6

Crowninshield, Frank 245, 274

Gushing, Tom 34-7

Damsel in Distress, A (novel) (W) 113,246

Damsel in Distress, A (show) (W) 214,274,290,329,332,334,335, 405

Dane, Clemence 144

Dare, Phyllis 131, 203

Dark Angel, The 133

Davies, Marion 54, 55-9, 62-3, 66-8, 197, 271, 283, 290

Davis, Bob 12

Davis, Clara Novello 205

Davis, Eddie 411

Davis, Owen 371

Day, Edith 150

de Silva, Buddy 136

dedications 469-71

Deeping, Warwick (works) 304

Dickson, Dorothy 147-8, l6l

Dietz, Howard 182, 626

Dillingham, Charlie B. 15, 19, 45, 70, 74, 77, 117-18, 131, 213

divorce 637-9

Donahue, Jack 206, 270

Dovey, Alice 14

Doyle, Arthur Conan 151, 254, 364-5, 276, 321, 358

Droitwich 185-6

du Maurier, Daphne (works) 375

du Maurier, Gerald 142, 144

Dulwich College 241, 374, 474, 477,

Duncan, Isadora 108

Duncan Sisters 154, 156-8, 224, 250, 258

Dunsany, Lord 271-2

Dupont, Coleman 118

Eagles, Jeanne 213

earls 505, 507-9

East Is West 73, 282

Eddy, Nelson 335

Edwardes, George 125

egg-eating 528-9

Enke (internee) 420, 421, 422, 425, 437-40

Erlanger, Abraham Lincoln 19-28, 103, 105, 209, 224

Errol, Leon 135, 137

Esdaile, Mrs K. A. 344-5

Esmond, Harry 144

Etting, Ruth 128

Evans, Edith 142

Everywoman 37

Fairbanks, Douglas, Sr 175, 296, 373

Farrow, John 287, 328

Faulkner, William (works) 321

'Felix' see Ivan Caryll Fields, W. C. 93-5, 222, 223, 228-32, 234

Five Million, The 113, 133

Five O'Clotk Girl, The 213

Fletcher, Sergeant-Major (internee) 353

footnotes 467-9

Forde, Hal 65

Foster, Basil 274

Frazee, Harry 30-2

Frcedley, Vinton 181, 182, 183, 232-3,310

Friml, Rudolf 213, 224, 625

Frohman, Charles 125-6

Full Moon (W) 350, 361

Funny Face 182, 213

Gable, dark 175, 328

Gaige, Crosby 30

Galsworthy, John 180, 273, 321

Gentleman of Leisure (W) 373

Gershwin, George 77, 149, 169, 170, 173, 175, 176, 181, 183, 210, 233, 267, 270, 289, 329, 334, 625

Gershwin, Ira 181, 210, 267, 270, 289

Gibbs, Wolcott 541

Gibson Girl, The (W) 206, 210, 219

Gilbert, Jack 230

Gilbert, John 291

Gilbert, Sir William Schwenk 514

Gilbert and Sullivan 64 Gilkes, A. H. 339-40, 354

Girl behind the Gun, The (Kissing Time) (W) 105, 111, 131-3, 145, 87

Girl Crazy 233

Girl o' Mine 148

Girl on the Boat, The (W) 150, 347

Go To It 49, 52, 60, 61, 220

Golden, John L. 48

Golden Moth, The (W) 150

Goldwyn, Samuel 50, 285

Good Morning Bill (W) 213, 270, 271 279

Goodman, Philip 183, 213

Gordon, Max 626

Gould, Bruce 337

Goulding, Eddie 334-5

Grant, Arthur (internee) 425, 436, 438, 440

Graves, C. L. 280

Gresham, Herbert 26

Grey, Clifford 136

Griffith, Billy 357, 362, 363, 382

Griffith, Corinne 292

Grossmith, George 17, 131, 145-7,

161, 173-4, 176, 249, 252, 270

Grossmith, Laurence 17, 147, 181

Grounds for Divorce 181

Grumpy 142

Hagen, Walter 131

Hajos, Mitzi 34

Hamlet 300

Hammerstein, Oscar 392

Harbach, Otto 48

Harris, Sam 19, 116-17, 154. 159

Haskins, Bert (internee) 359

Have a Heart (W) 25, 36-9, 43, 246

Hawkes, Sylvia 174-5

Hay, Ian 144, 274, 278

Hay, Mary 136

Haye, Helen 142

Hazzard, Jack 14, 21-2, 27, 48-9

health 577-9, 583-4

Heart of a Goof, The (W) 150

Heavy Weather (W) 304, 305, 500

Hecht, Ben 332

Hemingway, Ernest 548

Henson, Leslie 131, 147, 161, 175

Her Cardboard Lover (W) 213, 273, 274

Herbert, Victor 48, 625

Hicks, Seymour 346, 527

Hirsch, Lon 111

Hirschfeld, Max 65

Holloway, Stanley 131

Hollywood 286-8, 616-22

Honeysuckle Cottage (W) 259

Hope, Bob 219

Hornung, E. W. 144

Hot Water (W) 263, 292, 342

Houghton, Claude (works) 322

Howard, Leslie 213, 273-4

Howells, W. D. (works) 362

Hoyt, Charlie 45

Hughes, Rupert 295

Hulbert, Claude 175

Hulbert, Jack 203

humorists 539-45

hurricanes 574-6

Huxley, Aldous (works) 298

Huy, Citadel of 418-27 Hyson, Carl 147-8

Indiscretions of Archie, The (W) 113

Inimitable Jeeves, The (W) 150, 247, 529-30

Inside Stand, The (W) 319 Irene 206

Irving, Sir Henry 107-8

Irwin, Inez Haynes 297

Irwin, Wallace 297

Irwin, Will 297

Jacob, Naomi (works) 374-5

Jacobs, W. W. 144

Jefferson, Joseph 124

Jenkins, Herbert 254

Jilt the Reckless (W) 247, 342

Johnson, Dr 530, 534

Johnson, Nunnally (works) 308-9

Johnstone, Justine 54-9, 63, 66-8

Joy in the Morning (W) 350, 361, 379, 384, 391

Kahn, Otto 118

Kalman, Emmerich 35, 74, 625

Kalmar and Ruby 183, 213

Katz, Sam 327

Kaufman, George S., 182

Kaye-Smith, Sheila 289

Kelland, Clarence Budington 332, 394-5, 407

Kelly, Harry 75, 104

Kendall, Henry 142

Kendall, Messmore 123, 124, 129

Kern, Eva 64, 67, 214-15

Kern, Jerome 10, 12-19, 25, 52, 60, 74, 87, 111, 119, 120, 122, 124-6, 132, 134-8, 148, 149, 162, 170, 172, 183, 214-15, 246,249, 257, 283, 388, 527, 625

Kerr, Deborah 175

Kersh, Gerald (works) 386, 394

Kid Boots 206

King, Dennis 213

Kipling, Rudyard 144-5, 275-6, 321, 322, 375. 378, 381, 398,469

Kismet 138, 520

Kissing Time (W) see The Girl

behind the Gun

Knoblock, Edward 138, 144

Knole 176-9

Kurnmer, Clare 120, 122

Lackage, Wilton 293

Lady Be Good 180-2

Landi, Elissa 196

Langner, Lawrence 150

Langtry, Lily 175

Lardner, John 406-7, 408

Lardner, Ring 73, 407-8

Lathorn, Lord 146

Laughing Gas (W) 311, 322

Lawrence, Gertrude 170, 183, 185, 188-90, 195, 200, 204-5, 214, 267, 282, 283, 293

Lawrence, Margaret 118

Laye, Evelyn 285

Leacock, Stephen 399

Leave It to Jam (W) 71, 80

Leave It to Psmith (W) 150, 249, 250, 253, 256, 290, 377

Lehar, Franz 625

Lemming, John F. 346

letters to newspapers 531-4

Lewis, Ada 14, 15, 136

Lewis, Georges 371-2

Lido Lady 203

Light of the World, The 133

Lindsay, Howard 309, 310

Linklater, Eric (works) 318

Little Boy Blue 171

Little Thing, The (W) 46-8, 89, 111, 121-2, 135, 137, 215, 219

Livermore, Jessie 208, 209

Lonsdale, Freddie 370

Loos Prison 351-2

Lorimer, George Horace 12, 265, 327-8, 330, 331, 334, 397-8, 527

Lorraine, Lillian 67

Louder and Funnier (W) 301

Love among the Chickens (W) 242

Love Doctor, The 196

Love Parade, The 195

Lubitsch, Ernst 195

Lucas, E. V. 279-80, 487

Luck of the Bodkins, The (W) 306, 309-11, 315-18, 337-8

Luck Stone, The (W) 260, 261

Lynn, Ralph 319, 320

McCandless, Joe (internee) 427, 438-9, 440

McComas, Carroll 10, 88

McCoy, Kid 488-90

Macfarlane, George 27

McGowen, Jack 327

McGuire, William Anthony 210, 211-13, 270, 282, 289

Mclntyre, Frank 170-1

Mackail, Denis 300, 347-8, 354, 372, 374. 385. 404

McKay, June 175

Mackenzie (internee) 446

Mackenzie, Compton 453

McLain,John 501

McLean, Mrs 119

McNeile, Cyril 144

Mailer, Norman (works) 393

Maine 401-2

Maloney, Russell 541

Mandel, Frank 113

manners in America 492-5

Mannin, Ethel 348

Marbury, Elizabeth 12-13, 43, 45

Marcin, Max 138

Marion, George 38-9, 40

Marsden, Fleur 89-90, 197-9

Marsh, Edward (works) 365

Marsh, George (internee) 457, 458

Marshall, Bart 161

Marshall, Bruce (works) 374

Martin, Kathleen 175

Mating Season, The (W) 381, 383,

384, 387, 389 Maude, Cyril 142

Maugham, W. Somerset 144, 375, 454

Maxwell, W. B. 279, 280

Mayer, Louis B. 225, 283

Mayne, Clarice 520

Meet Mr Mulliner (W) 214

Meredith, Scott 390, 394

Merman, Ethel 233

Merry Widow, The 33-4

meteorites 558-9

Middleton, George 29-30, 113, 133

Milk White Flag, A 45-9

Millar, Gertie (Lady Dudley) 309, 317

Miller, Gilbert 213, 214, 216-19, 269, 270, 282

Miller, Marilyn 119, 119, 128, 134-6, 171, 206, 219,270,289

Miller, Tom 274

Milne, A. A. 274, 296, 349, 361

Milton, Robert 53, 55-6, 162-4

Miss Springtime (W) 25-8, 49, 52, 123-4

Mitchell, Julian 26-7

Mizner, Addison 118

Molnar 185, 269, 387, 400

Monekton, Lionel 125

Money for Nothing (W) 214, 269-70, 279, 342

Money in the Bank (W) 350, 352, 359, 361, 377, 379, 417, 435

Montague, C. E. (works) 274

Moore, Victor 200, 201

Morgan, Helen 92

mosquitoes 572-3

Muggeridge, Malcolm 355, 357, 358-9.376

Mulliner Omnibus, The (W) 319

Munn, Orson 118

Munson, Audrey 83-6

Music Box Revue 159

mystery stories 578-82

Namara, Marguerite 106-9, 112, 133-4. 138, 148-50, 154, 162, 163, 171, 183-5, 215, 222

names 502—4

Nares, Owen 181

Nast, Conde 118

New York 191-5, 408-9, 490-2, 588-95

Nightcap. The 149, 150

Ninety in the Shade 12, 13

Nobody Home 13

Novello, Ivor 204-5, 388

Ober, Harold 278

O'Brien (internee) 354

O'Casey, Scan 463

Oh, Boy! (W) 48, 49, 52, 54-69, 71, 143,2 20, 246, 283

Oh, Kay (W) 170, 185, 188, 190, 195, 200-4, 268, 270, 283, 293

Oh, Lady, Lady (W) 10, 82-92, 103, 127,128,197

Oh, My Dear (W) 111-12

O'Hara, John 382

Oklahoma! 391-2, 520, 625, 627

Old Reliable, The (W) 411

O'Leary, Jim 220

Oliver, Edna May 54

Olivier, Laurence 196

O'Neill, Eugene 371-2, 392

Oppenheim, E. Phillips 369

O'Ramey, Georgie 27

Orwell, George 346-7, 356, 376, 378, 462

O'Sullivan, Maureen 290, 292, 328

Palm Beach 114-21

Palmer 95, 97-101, 224-9, 234

Paris 357-8, 372, 373

Parker, Dorothy 91, 294

Parker, Louis 144

parties 597-9

Passing Show, The 212

patrons 534-8

Perry, Jefferson 58

Perry, Mrs 63-4, 67-8

Pershing, General 118

Petrass, Sari 27

Pettit, Ethel 123, 124, 126-8

Piccadilly Jim (W) 29, 246, 268,

274, 276, 527, 529

Pickford, Mary 296

Pig Hoo-o-o-ey (W) 269

pigeons 592-5

Pinero, Sir Arthur 144, 145

Pink Lady, The 14, 103, 105

Play's the Thing, The (W) 185, 203, 269,387,391

poetry 602-7

Polly Preferred 161,221

Polly-with-a-Past 29, 71, 142, 177

Porter, Cole 233, 307

Powers, Tom 65

Priestley, J. B. (works) 289, 379

Primrose 173-5

Private Lives 190

Prouty, Jed 27

Quennell, Peter 240

Quick Service (W) 360

Rains, Claude 142

Ramblers, The 183

Rats 170

Remsenburg, Long Island 410,

413, 567-8. 571-4, 583

Replogle, Leonard 120, 207

Return of Battling Billson, The (W) 252

Reynolds 278, 336, 341-2

Reynolds, Joshua 520-1

Richman, Arthur 216-19, 225

Riggs, Lynn 392

Right Ho, Jeeves 180, 305, 383, 384, 641-2

Rinehart, Mary Roberts (works) 398

Ring for Jeeves (W) 411

Rio Rita 205-7

Riviera Girl, The (W) 71, 73-4, 103

Roche, Arthur Somers 123

Rock-a-bye-baby 148

Rodgers and Hart 213

Rogers, Will 123

Rohmer, Sax 348

Romberg, Sigmund 210, 270, 289, 625

Roosevelt, Mrs Franklin D. 403-4

Rosalie (W) 210-13, 270, 271, 289

Rose of China, The (W) 71-3, 78, 79, 81, 221

Rubens, Paul 125

Rule of Three, The 13, 177

Runyon, Damon (works) 367

Sackville, Lord and Lady 177

Sally 135-7, 145, l47-8, 150, 153-4, 173, 219, 391

Sam the Sudden (W) 259, 261-4

San Francisco 134

Sandburg, Carl 467-9

San 34-7

Savage, Colonel Henry W. 19, 32-42, 93-102, 131, 143, 224, 226-7

Sayers, Dorothy L. 349

Scarborough, George 37, 39

Schenectady 60

Schwartz, Arthur 182

Seaman, Owen 277

Second Century Show, The (W) 71, 74-7, 107

Segal, Vivienne 89, 213

Selwyn, Arch 30, 115-16, 118, 131

Seiznick, David 332

Sergeant Brue (W) 625

Shakespeare, William 300, 313, 360, 317-19, 522

Shaw, Bernard 145

Shaw, Oscar 14, 15, 200

Shearer, Norma 286, 289

Shepherd, Bob (internee) 427-8

She's My Baby 213

Show Boat 87, 92, 392

Shubert, Lee 17, 212

Sime, S. H. 271

Sitting Pretty (W) 158-9, 161, 162, 170-3, 191, 250, 257-8

Six-Cylinder Love 214-15

Sloane, Baldwin 49

Small Bachelor, The (W) 87, 150, 203, 214

Smith, C. Aubrey 142

Smith, Queenie 171, 172

smoking 584-7

snails 556-8

Solokov, Pavel 108

Something Fishy (W) 643-4

Something Fresh (W) 246, 328, 504-5,527,529

Sons of Guns 219

Spain, Nancy 546-7

sport 635-7

Spring Fever (W) 361, 366

Stableford 186-8

stagehands 628-31

Steinbeck, John 404

Stevens, George 335

Stillman, Jim 265

Stone, Fred 14

Stout, Rex (works) 376

Stout, Wesley 331, 352

Sullivan, Frank 371-2, 467-8, 540

Summer Lightning (W) 214, 272, 274, 304

Summer Moonshine (W) 329, 331

Swanson, Gloria 586

Talbot, Howard 125

talking 600-2

Talmud, The 544-5

Tangerine 150

taxi-drivers 590-2

Tebbel, John 397-8

telephones 588-90

television 608-15

Tempest, Marie 142

Thalberg, Irving 289, 327

Thank You, Jeeves (W) 299-301, 305, 338, 562

Thatcher, Heather 279, 293

theatre 623-32

Thomas, Olive 124, 128

Thomas, Sir W. Beach 487

Thompson, Fred 150, 182, 213, 219

Three Musketeers, The (W) 213, 270

Thurber, James 403

Tierney and McCarthy 205

Tiptoes 182

Titheradge, Madge 181

Tolstoy, Count Leo 584, 586-7

Tonight's the Night 17

Topsy and Eva 159-62, 258

Tost, Internment Camp 349, 351-4, 427-58

Towne, Charles Hanson 13

Townend, W. (works) 251-5, 260, 265, 276, 277, 300,307-8, 312-13, 315-16, 319, 323-4, 340-1, 360, 374. 375-7, 381

Travers, George (internee) 436, 440, 443-4, 450-1

Trollope, Anthony (works) 365

Truex, Ernie 14, 16, 214-15, 270

Twain, Mark 362

Uncle Dynamite (W) 355-6, 358, 360-1

Uncle Fred Flits By (W) 319

Uncle Fred in the Springtime (W) 338-9, 341-2

Uneasy Money (W) 246, 328, 527, 529

Ups-a-Daisy 219

Urban, Joseph 27, 49-52, 74, 131, 135, 137

Van, Billy B. 41-2

Van Loan, Charles E. 368

Vanderbilt, Willie K. 118

Vecsey, Armand 72, 79-81, 192, 221

Venne, Lottie 142

Very Good Eddie 12, 14-19, 22, 43, 45, 222

Volstead, Andy 193

Wain, John 525

Wallace, Edgar 271, 272, 369

Waller, Jack 320

Walls, Tom 131

Walpole, Hugh 294, 366-7

Wanger, Walter 332

Ward, Irene 361

Waugh, Alec (works) 247-8

Waugh, Evelyn (works) 379-80, 394, 399, 546-7

Webb, Charlie (internee) 438-9, 440

Webb, Clifton 173

Weller, Sam 131

Wells, H. G. 275, 301-2, 480

West, Mae 297

Wheaton, Anna 54, 60, 62, 65

White, T. H. (works) 389

White Feather, The (W) 261

Whoopee 211

Willard, John 14

Williams, Bert 9

Wilson, Harry Leon (works) 259

Winchell, Walter 614

Wodehouse, Armine 153, 477

Wodehouse, Ethel 63-6, 68, 83, 89-90, 115, 180, 187, 196, 199, 258, 267,280, 285-7, 304,307, 354-5, 361, 377-8, 386, 389, 408-10, 412

Wodehouse (senior) 11, 476

Woods, Al 269

Woollcott, Alexander 17, 216-l8, 222

Wordsworth, William 531

writing 479-81, 529-31, 640-5

Yellow Ticket, The 196

Youmans, Vincent 219, 224, 282, 625

Young, Roland 333

Ziegfeld, Florenz 19, 27, 50, 51, 54-5, 70, 74, 77, 115, 118-21, 123, 127-32, I34-6, 148, 170, 183, 206-13, 249, 270,271, 281-3, 289

Zimmerman, Freddie 49-50, 129-30