Aunt Julia

Also called Julie, Gussie’s mother, Mrs Mannering-Phipps

Mrs Mannering-Phipps, Gussie's dignified mother and Bertie's aunt, once a vaudeville artiste, who meets her old stage partner Joe Danby again.

Connections

dealings

• is stage partner of, is loved by Joe Danby 6
• is bossed by Aunt Agatha 2
• is aunt of Bertie Wooster 2
• performs, plans to revive Fun in a Tea-Shop^✦︎ 2
• marries, is paid by Uncle Cuthbert 2
• is parent of Gussie Mannering-Phipps 1
• admires Ray Denison 1
• performs Rumpty-tiddley-umpty-ay^✦︎ 1

Scenes they are in

1. Bertie meets Ray and her formidable father, and Aunt Julia arrives in New York demanding to know why he cabled.Chapter 1
2. Bertie shows Aunt Julia Ray's act as Exhibit A, and she pronounces the girl an artist.Chapter 1, the Auditorium
3. Aunt Julia watches her son perform as Exhibit B, much improved, and Bertie explains Danby's condition and sends her to see him.Chapter 1, the uptown theatre
4. Aunt Julia and Joe Danby recognise each other as old stage partners, Danby confesses he always loved her, and when she reveals Gussie is her son he asks her to come back to the profession and she falls into his arms.Chapter 1, the Danbys' apartment

Talked about, but not there

1. Aunt Agatha rouses Bertie early to tell him Gussie has fallen for a vaudeville girl in New York and orders him to go over and stop the marriage.Chapter 1, as Gussie’s mother
2. Bertie runs into Gussie, now calling himself George Wilson, at Abe Riesbitter's agency, where Gussie is booked for the small time so that Ray's father will let him marry her, and Bertie secretly cables Gussie's mother.Chapter 1, Abe Riesbitter's office, as Gussie’s mother
3. Gussie's debut is a stage-fright disaster until the pretty girl next to Bertie, Ray, stands up and sings the moon song with him and makes him the hero of the house.Chapter 1, the uptown theatre
4. Gussie reports that his mother is to marry Danby and he is to marry Ray, and Bertie answers Aunt Agatha's cable: 'Stay where you are. Profession overcrowded.'Chapter 1, Gussie's hotel, as the mater