The Wooster Papers

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Bingo Little

Also called Bingo, young Bingo, Mr Little, Richard, Richard Little, young Mr Little, Little, Husband-baby

Bertie's old school friend, perpetually in love: with a waitress, Honoria, Charlotte Rowbotham, Lady Cynthia and Mary Burgess, until he marries Rosie M. Banks.

In each book 9 books
  • In The Inimitable Jeeves
    Bertie's old school friend, perpetually in love: with a waitress, Honoria, Charlotte Rowbotham, Lady Cynthia and Mary Burgess, until he marries Rosie M. Banks.
  • In Carry On, Jeeves
    Bertie's old school-friend, who dreads ridicule if his wife publishes her article about their married life.
  • In Very Good, Jeeves
    Richard Little, Bertie's old school friend, once given to marrying waitresses; he loses his wife's housekeeping money on a horse and is later a married country squire starved by her food-crank friend.
  • In Right Ho, Jeeves
    A pal of Bertie's who shrugs off rejections, and from whom Anatole picked up some English.
  • In Thank You, Jeeves
    Bertie's friend, who once persuaded him to burgle his house.
  • In The Code of the Woosters
    A married schoolfellow and friend of Bertie's.
  • In Joy in the Morning
    Bertie's friend, remembered pleading with bookies for time to pay.
  • In The Mating Season
    Bertie's friend, editor of Wee Tots and husband of Rosie M. Banks, who once won a raise after his baby won a contest.
  • In Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit
    Bertie's married friend, sent out by his wife to gather atmosphere for her novels.

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Scenes they are in

The Inimitable Jeeves 34 scenes
  1. Bertie meets Bingo in the park wearing a ghastly tie, and Bingo confesses he is in love with a girl called Mabel.Chapter 1, Hyde Park, as Bingo
  2. At a tea-shop near the Ritz Bingo introduces Mabel the waitress and begs Bertie to get Jeeves to find a way of breaking the news to his uncle.Chapter 1, the tea-shop, as Bingo
  3. Over an egg beaten up in sherry, a hoarse Bingo reports that the Rosie M. Banks novels are winning over his uncle and that he has a pippin of an idea to clinch things.Chapter 2, as Bingo
  4. Bingo announces that his recovered uncle wants Bertie to lunch, and bullies a reluctant Bertie into breaking the news of his engagement to the old man.Chapter 2, Bertie's flat, as Bingo
  5. Hailed by old Little as the author of Rosie M. Banks's novels, Bertie wins his blessing for Bingo's marriage to a waitress, but learns the allowance cannot be raised because old Little is marrying his cook.Chapter 2, No. 16, Pounceby Gardens, as Bingo
  6. At Buck's, Bingo Little, now tutoring the Glossop kid at Ditteredge, declares at the top of his voice that he worships Honoria Glossop.Chapter 5, Buck's
  7. At Ditteredge Bertie meets the supercilious Oswald and hatches a Jeeves-like scheme: he will push the boy off the bridge so that Bingo can rescue him under Honoria's eyes.Chapter 5, the grounds, as Bingo
  8. On the stairs Bingo explains he never hid in the bushes because he fell in love at first sight with Daphne Braythwayt, and Bertie walks away from him.Chapter 6, Ditteredge Hall, as Bingo
  9. In the park Bertie meets Bingo's uncle, now Lord Bittlesham and owner of Ocean Breeze, and the two are loudly abused by a bearded Red Dawn orator.Chapter 11, Hyde Park, as a bearded egg
  10. Bingo reveals he was the bearded orator, explains he is courting the revolutionary Charlotte Rowbotham, and invites himself and her family to tea at Bertie's flat.Chapter 11, the Drones Club, as Bingo
  11. Bingo's bearded arrival rattles Jeeves, the Revolutionaries wolf the tea, Rowbotham rebukes Jeeves for servility and Comrade Butt sulks with jealousy.Chapter 11, Bertie's flat, as Bingo
  12. Bertie meets a terrified Lord Bittlesham with Bingo, who privately admits he wrote the threatening letter himself to get a fifty-pound cheque to put on Ocean Breeze.Chapter 12, St James's Street, as young Bingo
  13. Ocean Breeze loses, Bingo in his beard denounces his uncle to the crowd, and Butt tears off the beard to reveal him as Bittlesham's nephew before a policeman hauls both away.Chapter 12, Goodwood, as That fellow
  14. Arriving late for dinner at Twing Hall, Bertie sits next to Cynthia, who points out the local clergy and complains that Bingo keeps gazing at her oddly, which Bertie diagnoses as love.Chapter 13, the dining-room, as Bingo
  15. Bertie finds Bingo in his room, over Charlotte and now madly in love with Lady Cynthia, and is shooed away so Bingo can write poetry to her.Chapter 13, Bingo's room, as Bingo
  16. Bingo reads Bertie his poem to Cynthia, then Claude and Eustace burst in to explain Steggles's book on the Sermon Handicap and why Heppenstall is a sitter, and Bertie agrees to finance the syndicate while Jeeves declines a flutter.Chapter 13, Twing Hall, as Bingo
  17. Heppenstall's note reveals that Bates is preaching the Brotherly Love sermon at Gandle-by-the-Hill, on which Jeeves has a tenner thanks to inside information from Brookfield, and Bingo learns that Bates is engaged to Cynthia.Chapter 13, Twing Hall, as Bingo
  18. Bingo proposes betting on Steggles's book for the school-treat sports, Bertie forms a syndicate with Jeeves, and Jeeves tips Harold the page-boy for the Choir-Boys' Handicap.Chapter 14, Bertie's room at Twing, as Bingo
  19. From the passage-window Bertie watches Harold leave the second footman standing, and declares the Wooster shirt goes on the boy.Chapter 14, the passage-window, as Bingo
  20. Bingo admits he let Steggles see Harold sprint on the links, and Bertie fears Steggles will try to nobble the favourite.Chapter 14, Twing Hall, as Bingo
  21. Bingo, off to London with Egbert, insists Bertie go to evening service to guard Harold, who is on his last warning in the choir.Chapter 14, Twing Hall, as Bingo
  22. Steggles nobbles Mrs Penworthy with cake, Prudence Baxter finishes down the field, but Heppenstall disqualifies the first four for taking a manservant's bribe and gives Prudence the prize.Chapter 14, the Hall grounds, as Bingo
  23. Bingo marches Bertie across ploughed fields to catch a glimpse of Mary, who passes with her brother, her dog and the curate while Bingo is too awed to speak.Chapter 15, as Bingo
  24. Bingo takes Jeeves's tip, befriends Wilfred and is soon walking out with Mary and the boy.Chapter 15, Twing Hall, as Bingo
  25. Bertie finds Bingo asleep in his bed; Bingo explains that good works have softened Mary and that, with Wingham down with mumps, he has taken over the village Christmas Entertainment and is in town to pinch material from revues.Chapter 15, Bertie's flat, as Bingo
  26. Bingo's revue collapses as the lights fail, the Squire is called on to sing and walks out, and Steggles's real oranges cause a riot, after which Mary throws Bingo over and he flees the mob through the cellar.Chapter 15, Twing Village Hall, as Bingo
  27. Lunching Bingo at the Senior Liberal Club while the Drones is being cleaned, Bertie watches him fall instantly in love with their waitress.Chapter 17, the Senior Liberal Club, as Bingo
  28. Bingo, now engaged to the waitress, talks Bertie into posing again as Rosie M. Banks to win back his allowance from his uncle, starting with a signed copy of The Woman who Braved All.Chapter 17, Bertie's flat, as Bingo
  29. Bertie reports the allowance won but the blessing wobbly, and Bingo blames him and hints that things are awkward.Chapter 17, Bertie's flat, as Bingo
  30. Bingo drifts in with a flower in his buttonhole, babbles, and announces that he is married.Chapters 17–18, Bertie's flat, as Bingo
  31. Bertie meets the quietly dressed bride in the hall and the three take a taxi.Chapter 18, as Bingo
  32. Bertie quotes The Woman who Braved All at Lord Bittlesham, who thinks Bertie is its author, is won over and consents to Bingo's marriage.Chapter 18, No. 16, Pounceby Gardens, as Bingo
  33. Bingo bursts in to say his bride revealed herself as Rosie M. Banks, and his uncle, realising he was hoaxed, called her an impostor.Chapter 18, Bertie's flat, as Bingo
  34. Lord Bittlesham opens Bingo's door and flees in fright, and Bingo explains that Jeeves fixed everything by telling the old man Bertie is a lunatic who believes he is Rosie M. Banks, with Sir Roderick Glossop backing it up.Chapter 18, Bingo's flat, as Bingo
Carry On, Jeeves 4 scenes
  1. A gloomy Bingo asks Bertie to be at home next morning for a matter of life and death.Chapter 9, the Littles' drawing-room, as Bingo
  2. Anatole’s magnificent dinner transforms Tom’s mood while Bingo remains miserable.Chapter 9, the Littles' dining-room, as Bingo
  3. Jeeves proposes stopping Rosie’s embarrassing article by provoking a quarrel through transferring Anatole to Dahlia.Chapter 9, Bertie's bedroom at the flat, as Bingo
  4. When Anatole refuses to leave his beloved parlourmaid, Bingo persuades Bertie to steal the dictating cylinder.Chapter 9, Bertie's bedroom at the flat, as Bingo
Very Good, Jeeves 10 scenes
  1. Bertie finds Bingo Little in the garden, tutoring young Thomas, who begs Bertie to treat him as a stranger lest Aunt Agatha sack him, then dives into a laurel bush.Chapter 1, the garden, as Bingo
  2. After days of golf with Filmer, Bertie hears Bingo confess he lost Rosie's housekeeping money on a horse and fears Thomas's planned revenge on Filmer will get him sacked.Chapter 1, Bertie's room at Woollam Chersey, as Bingo
  3. At the tennis party Bingo falls into his tennis trance and forgets Thomas, until a thunderstorm breaks.Chapter 1, the tennis lawn, as Bingo
  4. Over breakfast at Bingo's new country house, Bertie is invited back for the Lakenham races and Mrs Bingo announces that her school friend Laura Pyke is coming to stay.Chapter 9, Bingo's house, as Bingo
  5. Bertie returns to find Bingo miserable: Laura Pyke is a food crank who has Rosie in thrall, and there are no cocktails and no beefsteak puddings.Chapter 9, Bertie's room at Bingo's, as the young Squire
  6. At a meagre dinner the Pyke lectures on food and holds up Bingo's eating as the awful example.Chapter 9, Bingo's house, as Bingo
  7. Bertie has Jeeves pack extra sandwiches, and a jaunty Bingo describes the lavish lunch-basket he has supervised.Chapter 9, Bingo's house, as Bingo
  8. The luncheon-basket has been left behind; Rosie meekly accepts it, the men eat Jeeves's sandwiches behind a hedge, and Jeeves confesses he left the basket on purpose.Chapter 9, Lakenham races, as Bingo
  9. Bertie meets Bingo and Jeeves coming in his car, and he and Bingo creep back to overhear Rosie and the Pyke in a full-scale row raking up their schooldays.Chapter 9, Norfolk, as Bingo
  10. The Pyke leaves to catch her train, Bingo bullies the Bandit into giving Rosie tea by threatening to wake his baby, wins back her adoration, and reveals that Jeeves drained the petrol to start the row.Chapter 9, Norfolk, as Bingo

Talked about, but not there

The Inimitable Jeeves 24 scenes
  1. Over morning tea Jeeves advises against backing Privateer, reveals he has sent back Bertie's mauve shirts, and reports that Bingo Little rang about a matter of importance.Chapter 1, Bertie's flat, as Mr Little
  2. Jeeves reveals his understanding with Mortimer Little's cook and proposes that Bingo read Rosie M. Banks novels to his gouty uncle to soften him up about marrying a waitress.Chapter 1, Bertie's flat, as Mr Little
  3. Bertie tells Jeeves the scheme is working and praises his brains as unrivalled.Chapter 2, Bertie's flat, as Mr Little
  4. Bertie breaks it to Jeeves that his fiancée Miss Watson is marrying old Little, and Jeeves reveals he wanted just that, since his new understanding is with Bingo's waitress.Chapter 2, Bertie's flat, as Young Mr Little
  5. Bertie reflects that Bingo has bounced back from losing his girl and that, with winning horses and Aunt Agatha away in France, life has never been chirpier.Chapter 3, as Bingo
  6. Bertie hints to Honoria of a shy admirer, pushes Oswald off the bridge, finds Bingo has not turned up, dives in uselessly while Oswald swims ashore, and Honoria takes it all as a roundabout proposal and decides to take him in hand.Chapter 6, the lake, as Bingo
  7. Bertie tells Jeeves to watch Bingo's friends closely and to lay in muffins and sardines, at which Jeeves shudders.Chapter 11, Bertie's flat, as Mr Little
  8. Jeeves reports that Charlotte was roguishly slapping Bingo in the passage under Butt's jealous eye, but declines to offer any advice.Chapter 11, Bertie's flat, as Mr Little
  9. Bingo drops out of sight, and Jeeves reports that he has chatted with a gloomy Butt, whom Bingo has eclipsed with Charlotte.Chapter 12, as Bingo
  10. Jeeves admits he let slip Bingo's identity to Butt, ending both Bingo's romance with Charlotte, and Bertie tells him to collar all the money on the dressing-table.Chapter 12, Bertie's bedroom at the flat, as Mr Little
  11. Sweltering in London, Bertie gets a letter from his cousin Eustace at Twing urging him to come down for a sporting event, with a baffling race-card of clergymen for a 'Sermon Handicap' on the back, and decides to go.Chapter 13, Bertie's flat, as Bingo
  12. Jeeves takes the news calmly and reveals he had Bingo back the outsider Prudence Baxter in the Egg and Spoon Race.Chapter 14, Twing Hall, as Mr Little
  13. Bingo wires that he is in love at last, and Jeeves, already informed by Brookfield, identifies the girl as Mary Burgess and urges Bertie to go to Twing and help.Chapter 15, Bertie's flat, as Bingo
  14. Jeeves explains that the curate Wingham is Bingo's favoured rival and advises Bingo to make friends with Mary's small brother.Chapter 15, Twing Hall, as Mr Little
  15. A despairing second telegram arrives from Bingo, and Jeeves offers to go down to Twing alone to investigate.Chapter 15, Bertie's flat, as BINGO
  16. Jeeves reports that Steggles is making a book on the romance and lured Bingo into an eating contest that made Wilfred ill and turned Mary against him; he has advised Bingo to take up good works.Chapter 15, Bertie's flat, as Mr Little
  17. Bingo sends a huge poster for 'What Ho, Twing!!', and Jeeves doubts that the metropolitan touch will suit the provinces.Chapter 15, Bertie's flat, as Bingo
  18. The Morning Post announces Mary's engagement to Wingham, and Jeeves reveals that he and Brookfield bought the Cow and Horses book and made a handsome profit.Chapter 15, Bertie's flat, as Bingo
  19. Told to stop wandering about London, the twins decide to go about in whiskers and false noses, and Jeeves offers Bertie no sympathy.Chapter 16, Bertie's flat
  20. Bertie warns Jeeves to stand by, as Bingo is in love for about the fifty-third time.Chapter 17, Bertie's flat, as Mr Little
  21. Melted by the novel, Lord Bittlesham restores Bingo's allowance but cools on the marriage when he learns the waitress is not the same one as before.Chapter 17, as Bingo
  22. Bingo phones to say his allowance is stopped and both his uncle and wife are coming to demand explanations, so Jeeves packs Bertie off to shoot in Norfolk while he stays to pacify the parties.Chapter 18, Bertie's flat, as Bingo
  23. Bertie spends a rainy, jumpy week in Norfolk and decides to go home and lie low.Chapter 18, Norfolk, as Bingo
  24. Bertie comes home resolved to sack Jeeves, but is softened by the perfect order of the flat and the whisky and cannot bring himself to say a word.Chapter 18, Bertie's flat, as Mr Little
Carry On, Jeeves 8 scenes
  1. Jeeves approves most of Bertie’s fashion article but objects to his silk evening shirts before Bertie asks him to find the Littles a housemaid.Chapter 9, Bertie's flat, as Mr Little
  2. Bertie meets Rosie outside the magazine offices and accepts an invitation to dine with the Littles.Chapter 9, the offices of Milady's Boudoir, as Bingo
  3. Bertie returns home and refuses Uncle George’s invitation to join him at Harrogate.Chapter 9, Bertie's flat
  4. Bertie climbs into Rosie’s study, startles a Pekingese, and crashes into a table of fragile ornaments.Chapter 9, Rosie's study, as Bingo
  5. Finding his photograph missing, Bertie blames Mary and escapes through the window while the parlourmaid goes to ask her.Chapter 9, the Littles' drawing-room, as Bingo
  6. Bertie escapes through the gate and takes a cab, vowing never to help Bingo again.Chapter 9, the Littles' garden, as Bingo
  7. Jeeves convinces Bertie to escape further appeals from Bingo by joining Uncle George at Harrogate.Chapter 9, Bertie's flat, as Mr Little
  8. Jeeves explains how Anatole’s abandoned fiancée drove him to Dahlia, lists his rewards, and reveals that he returned Bertie’s silk shirts.Chapter 9, Bertie's flat, as Mr Little
Very Good, Jeeves 9 scenes
  1. Bertie tells Jeeves the telegram was from Bingo and laments the ban on smoking and drinking.Chapter 1, Bertie's room at Woollam Chersey, as Mr Little
  2. With a tennis party looming, Jeeves reports that Thomas has been reading Treasure Island and admiring Captain Flint, while fussing over Bertie's tie.Chapter 1, Bertie's room at Woollam Chersey, as Bingo
  3. Jeeves reveals he saved Bingo by telling Filmer that Bertie set the boat adrift, which also scuppers Aunt Agatha's plan to make Bertie Filmer's secretary, and proposes escape down the waterpipe.Chapter 1, Bertie's room at Woollam Chersey, as Mr Little
  4. Losing his nerve, Bertie climbs the cedar with a flower-pot and is caught up the tree by a policeman, until Jeeves appears with a story of intruders.Chapter 7, the garden
  5. Driving away, Bertie praises the Bingos to Jeeves as a thoroughly united couple, unaware of the coming storm.Chapter 9
  6. Over biscuits, Bertie explains to Jeeves that the Pyke's criticism threatens the Bingo marriage and tells him to study her at the races.Chapter 9, Bertie's room at Bingo's, as Mr Little
  7. Bertie spends a hungry, bored afternoon thinking hard thoughts of Jeeves until Mrs Bingo asks him to drive her and Laura home early for tea.Chapter 9, Lakenham races, as Bingo
  8. The Bingos' car runs out of petrol on a lonely by-road, Rosie and the Pyke start to bicker over Bingo, and a householder whose baby Bertie's honking nearly woke threatens him and refuses petrol.Chapter 9, Norfolk
  9. Jeeves reveals the girl is Rhoda Platt, a Buffers waitress, and Bertie orders packing for flight before Aunt Agatha arrives.Chapter 10, Bertie's flat
Right Ho, Jeeves 2 scenes
  1. Bertie returns to the drawing-room, quails at the sight of the Bassett, but takes her out for a stroll after an exchange of ‘Lovely’s about Cannes.Chapters 9–10, Brinkley Court
  2. Aunt Dahlia races Bertie and Seppings up to Anatole's room, where the furious chef threatens to leave over Gussie's faces at the skylight; Gussie is let in by pole but can only gurgle, and Aunt Dahlia tells Bertie to take him away.Chapter 20, Anatole's bedroom, as Bingo
Thank You, Jeeves 1 scene
  1. Softening towards Glossop on the way, Bertie creeps up to the Dower House, finds the drunken Brinkley singing hymns inside, and hears a frightful rampage end with someone bursting out of the back door.Chapter 16, the Dower House
The Code of the Woosters 3 scenes
  1. Restored after hours at the Turkish bath, Bertie gets home to find a pile of telegrams waiting.Chapters 1–2, Bertie's flat
  2. Madeline thinks Bertie has come pining for her like Rudel, assures him the rift with Gussie is mended, and tells him Gussie has grown bold enough to tell Spode to boil his head.Chapter 3, the hall
  3. Gussie tells Bertie that Aunt Dahlia arrives tonight, explains how Jeeves's advice to despise his audience cured his shyness, and reveals he has written his scorn of Spode and Sir Watkyn in a notebook he has now lost.Chapters 3–4, the Totleigh drawing-room
Joy in the Morning 1 scene
  1. Jeeves reports he has released Clam, and Bertie sends him to find Boko and think of a way to heal the breach, after which Boko looms up again.Chapters 15–19, the grounds of Bumpleigh Hall
The Mating Season 3 scenes
  1. A frosty Silversmith brings the morning tea and says the late-night arrival was 'Mr Wooster', leaving Bertie baffled until Jeeves himself walks in with a breakfast tray.Chapters 7–8, Deverill Hall, as Mr Little
  2. Bertie copies out the letter, posts it at the post office and is at once hailed by Corky.Chapters 11–12, the post office
  3. Bertie hides in a bush at The Larches, waits out a flirting postman, a smoking housemaid, Madeline and her school friend's dog, then grabs Gussie's letter from the breakfast table and, cut off at the window, bolts across the hall into another room.Chapters 15–17, The Larches, as Bingo
Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 2 scenes
  1. Jeeves, posing as Bertie, refuses Percy Gorringe's request for a thousand pounds, declines to tear Bertie's pages from the club book, and puts Florence through on the phone; she asks Bertie to take her to a garish night club, and he agrees, hoping to patch things up between her and Stilton.Chapter 4, Bertie's flat
  2. Locked in his room, Bertie repels Stilton through the keyhole, sends Jeeves for a strong whisky-and-soda, and is then invaded by an agitated Aunt Dahlia demanding Jeeves to save her.Chapters 11–12, Bertie's room at Brinkley