The Wooster Papers

Cast

Comrade Butt

Also called Butt, the man Butt, poor old Butt, the chappie Butt, Mr Butt

A small, shrivelled revolutionary with a foghorn voice, Bingo's jealous rival for Charlotte, with whom she goes off.

Connections

dealings

Scenes they are in

  1. 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
  2. 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 Butt

Talked about, but not there

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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 Butt
  4. 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 Butt
  5. 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 Butt
  6. 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