Gussie Mannering-Phipps

Also called Gussie, Wilson, George Wilson, young Gussie, Cousin Gussie, Augustus Mannering-Phipps, young Wilson, the head of the Mannering-Phippses

Augustus Mannering-Phipps, Bertie's cousin and head of the family, who goes on the New York vaudeville stage as George Wilson to win Ray Denison.

In each book 3 books

• In Other Stories
  Augustus Mannering-Phipps, Bertie's cousin and head of the family, who goes on the New York vaudeville stage as George Wilson to win Ray Denison.
• In My Man Jeeves
  Bertie's cousin, whose marriage to a music-hall girl sent Bertie to America, and who went on the stage himself; a pal of Corky's.
• In Carry On, Jeeves
  Bertie's cousin, whose marriage to a vaudeville performer sent Bertie to America and who went on the stage himself. Not Gussie Fink-Nottle.

Connections

dealings

• is in love with, is loved by Ray Denison 9
• is cousin of Bertie Wooster 8
• is hired by, deceives Abe Riesbitter 2
• is bossed by, is nephew of Aunt Agatha 2
• is child of Aunt Julia 1
• is a friend of Corky 1
• is refused by Joe Danby 1
• is head of the Mannering-Phippses^⁂ 1

Everyone and everything else (4)

• performs the moon song^✦︎ 1
• is interrupted by the pianist 1
• performs the Tennessee song^✦︎ 1
• is child of Uncle Cuthbert 1

Scenes they are in

1. 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
2. Gussie rehearses his songs all weekend at the music publishers while a hook-nosed pianist interrupts every line for pep.Chapter 1, the music-room, as Gussie
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, as Gussie
4. Bertie meets Ray and her formidable father, and Aunt Julia arrives in New York demanding to know why he cabled.Chapter 1, as Gussie
5. 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, as Gussie
6. 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 Gussie

Talked about, but not there

Other Stories 4 scenes

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
2. Landing in New York, Bertie finds Gussie gone from his hotel, takes two lightning whizzers at the bar and strolls round Times Square feeling free of Aunt Agatha.Chapter 1, New York, as Gussie
3. Bertie shows Aunt Julia Ray's act as Exhibit A, and she pronounces the girl an artist.Chapter 1, the Auditorium, as Gussie
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, as Wilson

My Man Jeeves 3 scenes

1. Bertie explains how he came to New York and met Corky, a would-be portrait-painter living on an allowance from his bird-loving, jute-rich uncle Alexander Worple.Chapter 1, as cousin Gussie
2. Corky brings his fiancée Muriel Singer to ask how to break the news to his uncle, and Jeeves proposes that she 'write' a children's bird book dedicated to Worple, at Bertie's expense.Chapter 1, Bertie's New York flat, as Gussie
3. Fresh from defying Jeeves over a hat and a pink tie, Bertie is called on by Lady Malvern, who leaves her son Motty to live with him while she tours America, and Jeeves offers no sympathy.Chapter 2, Bertie's New York flat, as Cousin Gussie

Carry On, Jeeves 2 scenes

1. Bertie explains his American exile and Corky’s dependence on an uncle who despises his artistic ambitions.Chapter 2, as Gussie
2. Lady Malvern imposes Motty on Bertie while she tours America.Chapter 3, the sitting-room, as Gussie