The Wooster Papers

Cast

Mrs Cream

Also called Ma Cream, the Cream, Adela Cream, Mrs Homer Cream, Mr and Mrs Cream

Adela Cream, American mystery novelist and Wilbert's mother, a guest at Brinkley, who suspects the butler, twice catches Bertie in her son's room and ends convinced he needs treatment.

In each book 2 books
  • In Jeeves in the Offing
    Adela Cream, American mystery novelist and Wilbert's mother, a guest at Brinkley, who suspects the butler, twice catches Bertie in her son's room and ends convinced he needs treatment.
  • In Much Obliged, Jeeves
    The suspense novelist who once found Bertie on the floor of the Blue Room with a chair round his neck.

Connections

dealings

Everyone and everything else (8)

Scenes they are in

  1. Over tea Mrs Cream declares the butler Swordfish (really Sir Roderick Glossop) a crook after Uncle Tom's silver, Bobbie refuses to let Bertie flee Brinkley, and Bertie resolves to wire Aunt Dahlia at Eastbourne.Chapter 5, the lawn
  2. Bertie frets over Ma Cream's suspicions and Wilbert's ardour for Phyllis, and when Wilbert goes off walking Poppet he dozes off on the lawn over one of Ma Cream's novels.Chapter 6, Brinkley Court, as Ma Cream
  3. Bertie enters Wilbert's room, finds a housemaid there with Augustus the cat hunting a mouse, and gets rid of her by claiming Augustus has traumatic symplegia.Chapters 7–8, the Blue Room, as Ma Cream
  4. With Bobbie supposedly on watch, Bertie searches again, finds nothing on the armoire, and is caught under the dressing-table by Mrs. Cream, who decides he has a mouse-fixation and urges him to see Sir Roderick Glossop.Chapter 8, the Blue Room, as Ma Cream
  5. Jeeves has pinched Upjohn's speech while packing, and after Bertie fumbles the telephone call Bobbie seizes the receiver and forces Upjohn to drop his libel suit against Kipper in writing.Chapters 19–20, Aunt Dahlia's den, as Ma Cream

Talked about, but not there

Jeeves in the Offing 16 scenes
  1. Over breakfast with Kipper Herring, Bertie takes a phone call from Aunt Dahlia inviting him to Brinkley, and learns to his horror that Bobbie Wickham and Aubrey Upjohn are among the guests.Chapters 1–2, Bertie's flat
  2. Jeeves, leaving on holiday, tells Bertie that Wilbert Cream is the notorious New York playboy Broadway Willie, and Bertie nearly cries off Brinkley until he remembers Anatole's cooking.Chapter 2, Bertie's flat, as Mrs Homer Cream
  3. At tea on the lawn the butler brings out the fruit, and he is Sir Roderick Glossop.Chapters 3–4, the lawn
  4. On the telephone Aunt Dahlia waves aside Ma Cream's suspicions, forbids Bertie to fight Wilbert, and jumps at his idea of inviting Kipper Herring to shadow Wilbert instead.Chapter 6, Brinkley Court, as Ma Cream
  5. Glossop, answering the bell as butler, says he is still undecided about Wilbert's sanity, then brings a letter from Jeeves revealing Wilbert is a kleptomaniac, and they hurry to check the silver.Chapter 6, Brinkley Court
  6. Bertie and Glossop reach the collection room and find the cow-creamer gone.Chapters 6–7, the collection room, as Mr and Mrs Cream
  7. Bertie tells Bobbie he is through, but she talks him into a second search, promising to stand guard and sing if Mrs. Cream approaches so he can escape by the balcony and water pipe.Chapter 8, the lawn, as Ma Cream
  8. Bertie finds Bobbie in her car at the front door; she explains she was called to the phone by her mother, who thinks him a nincompoop, and drives off home.Chapter 8, the front door, as Ma Cream
  9. Bertie dozes off over Mrs. Cream's novel, wakes and telephones his overdue wire inviting Kipper Herring, and then sees Kipper arriving in his car.Chapters 8–10, the lawn, as Ma Cream
  10. In the pantry Bertie tells Glossop of being caught in Wilbert's room, and Glossop, his blood up, resolves to search the room for the cow-creamer himself; bonding over stolen school biscuits, they become Bertie and Roddy.Chapter 10, the butler's pantry, as Ma Cream
  11. Kipper bursts into Aunt Dahlia's boudoir to confess that Bobbie has read the stinking letter he wrote her and now says she will marry Bertie, who leaps up to drive to Jeeves at Herne Bay.Chapter 10, Aunt Dahlia's den, as Ma Cream
  12. Back at Brinkley, Bertie learns from Aunt Dahlia that Uncle Tom sold Wilbert the cow-creamer, then Bobbie icily cuts Kipper, who confesses he got engaged to Phyllis as a ruse against Wilbert and was caught kissing her.Chapters 12–14, Aunt Dahlia's den, as Ma Cream
  13. Bertie outlines Operation Upjohn to Jeeves, who calls it ill-advised and quotes Burns on best laid plans, and Bertie puts his coolness down to jealousy of Glossop.Chapter 15, Brinkley Court, as Mrs. Cream
  14. While Kipper waits behind his tree, Wilbert Cream tells Bertie the cow-creamer has vanished from his bureau, and Bertie realises Glossop has pinched it and talks Wilbert out of telling Mrs. Travers.Chapter 15, the lake, as my mother
  15. Bertie goes into Uncle Tom's study to insult Upjohn but gets no further than small talk about moustaches and Kipper before Phyllis bursts in and Upjohn dismisses him.Chapter 16, the study, as Ma Cream
  16. Back from a fruitless hunt for Glossop, Bertie learns that Jeeves saved the day by having Glossop say he was there to observe the potty Bertie, who stole the cow-creamer, and is softened only when Jeeves reminds him it was all for Uncle Tom.Chapter 21, the Brinkley drawing-room, as Mrs. Cream
Much Obliged, Jeeves 1 scene
  1. Sneaking into the Blue Room to return the porringer, Bertie treads on Gus the cat, wakes Runkle, and covers himself by saying Aunt Dahlia wants Runkle to take photographs.Chapter 15, the Blue Room, as Mrs Homer Cream