The Wooster Papers

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the Pat and Mike cross-talk act✦︎

Also cross-talk act, the act, the Pat part, knockabout cross-talk act, Pat and Mike, Pat, the part of Pat, the Hibernian entertainment

Catsmeat's knockabout Pat and Mike act for the village concert, with green beards and umbrellas; Bertie withdraws from Pat, and Gussie and Catsmeat perform it to silence.

Connections

dealings

Everyone and everything else (2)

Talked about, but not there

  1. Jeeves briefs a reluctant Bertie on Esmond Haddock, his five aunts and Gussie's coolness with Madeline Bassett before a low-spirited Catsmeat Pirbright is shown in.Chapters 1–2, Bertie's flat, as cross-talk act
  2. A low-spirited Catsmeat reveals that Corky is the vicar's niece who roped Bertie into the concert, explains his thwarted engagement to Gertrude Winkworth, and gets Bertie to guard her from Esmond Haddock, in return agreeing to give Gussie dinner.Chapter 2, as cross-talk act
  3. At dinner as Gussie, Bertie hears the aunts condemn Corky's cross-talk act and the absent Mr Wooster, resolves to drop out of the act, flops with a story about two deaf men, and is left alone with Esmond Haddock over the port.Chapters 5–6, the dining room at Deverill Hall, as knockabout cross-talk act
  4. Silversmith shows Bertie to his room and is asked to send his man, but the person who enters is Catsmeat, not Jeeves.Chapters 6–7, Bertie's room at Deverill Hall, as Pat
  5. 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 the part of Pat
  6. Gussie, furious at being taken for Bertie and loathing Catsmeat, rubbishes the Pat and Mike cross-talk act and refuses to hit a policeman with an umbrella, until Corky arrives and Bertie leaves her to win him round.Chapter 9, the post office, as cross-talk act
  7. Gussie returns besotted with Corky and keen on the act, reports that Sam Goldwyn bit Dobbs and was arrested, that Catsmeat will now play Mike, and hands Bertie the Christopher Robin poems he must recite at the concert.Chapter 9, Bertie's room at Deverill Hall, as cross-talk act
  8. Corky brushes Bertie off to take soup to Mrs Wellbeloved, and Gussie flatly refuses to write to Madeline, saying he is teaching her a lesson.Chapter 10, King's Deverill, as this cross-talk act
  9. Catsmeat tells Bertie how, kissing a weeping Queenie in brotherly fashion, he was caught by Silversmith and Gertrude, found himself engaged to Queenie, and has had his elopement with Gertrude cancelled.Chapter 21, Bertie's room at Deverill Hall, as a knockabout cross-talk act
  10. At the village concert the Kegley-Bassingtons and George's 'Ben Battle' are endured, Catsmeat and Gussie's Pat and Mike act dies, and Esmond's hunting song brings the house down until the standees chant him back on over Poppy's dance.Chapter 22, the village hall, as The act
  11. Esmond calls the Kegley-Bassingtons fatheads and leads Bertie into the drawing room, where Bertie is enjoying sardine sandwiches when Silversmith announces Constable Dobbs.Chapters 25–26, the drawing room at Deverill Hall, as the Pat-and-Mike entertainment