Golfing Stories (The Oldest Member), World of Wodehouse5 Comments

Wodehouse at the British Silent Film Festival

September 22, 2017January 1, 2019 Honoria Plum

Last weekend, the 2017 British Silent Film Festival featured three silent film adaptations of Wodehouse stories as part of the programme. Regrettably I wasn’t there, but a kindly blogger (I thank you Arthur) has written about it in ‘Oooh, Betty!! A Sister of Six (1927) with Neil Brand, British Silent Film Festival Day Four.’ I suppose I had known, in a dim sort of way, that Wodehouse had been adapted for film from an early age, but the information that British film company Stoll Pictures made a Clicking of Cuthbert series of six short films in 1924 was news to … Continue reading Wodehouse at the British Silent Film Festival

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Blandings, Golfing Stories (The Oldest Member), Mr Mulliner, P.G. Wodehouse, The Great Romances14 Comments

On this day: P.G. Wodehouse died 14 February 1975

February 14, 2015February 13, 2019 Honoria Plum

P.G Wodehouse had double citizenship, British and American. He became Sir Pelham Wodehouse at the age of ninety-three, receiving a knighthood in the 1975 New Year’s Honours list. A month and a half later he died, of a heart attack, in a hospital on Long Island, near his home in Remsenburg. He was sitting in a chair, with a three-quarters-finished new Blandings novel in typescript and autograph notes around him. He had gone into hospital for tests to establish a cause, and indicate a cure, for a troublesome skin rash. He had been working right to the end. Richard Usborne … Continue reading On this day: P.G. Wodehouse died 14 February 1975