Ask Dad^✦︎

Also the show, the Ask Dad company

George Caffyn's musical comedy, due to open in Schenectady, in which he gives Cyril a small part.

Connections

dealings

• Cyril Bassington-Bassington has a part in 2
• George Caffyn wrote 2
• Blumenfield produces 1

Talked about, but not there

1. Lunching with George Caffyn at the Lambs Club, Bertie learns from Jeeves that Cyril has been arrested and wants bailing out.Chapter 9, the Lambs Club
2. Brooding over Cyril, Bertie receives Aunt Agatha's cable forbidding him to introduce Cyril into theatrical circles, but is too proud to ask the cold Jeeves's advice.Chapter 9, Bertie's New York flat
3. Cyril gleefully announces that George has given him a part in Ask Dad, which his father would never allow, and George on the telephone refuses to drop him.Chapter 9, Bertie's New York flat
4. At the dress-rehearsal of Ask Dad, Blumenfield's son condemns Cyril as the ugly one with a face like a fish, Cyril threatens to spank him, and Blumenfield fires Cyril on the spot.Chapter 10, Blumenfield's theatre
5. Cyril calls to say he has nobly resigned from the show out of duty to his father and is off to Washington, and Jeeves allows that young Blumenfield may have overheard his views on Cyril and the stage.Chapter 10, Bertie's bedroom, as the show