The Wooster Papers

Cast

Ginger Winship

Also called Ginger, Mr Winship, Harold Winship, the Conservative candidate, young Winship, Harold, an ex-Oxford boxing Blue, a friend anxious to get into Parliament

Harold 'Ginger' Winship, Bertie's old Oxford friend and Conservative candidate for Market Snodsbury, engaged to Florence, who wrecks his campaign to marry his secretary Magnolia.

Connections

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Everyone and everything else (16)

Scenes they are in

  1. Lunching with Bertie at Barribault's, Ginger Winship reveals that he is engaged to Florence Craye, who has pushed him into the Market Snodsbury election and will drop him if he loses, and begs Bertie to canvass for him.Chapter 3, Barribault's, as Ginger
  2. Walking home from lunch with Ginger and brooding on his engagement to Florence, Bertie drops his cigarette case, trips in front of a taxi and is pulled clear by Jeeves, to whom he breaks the news about Florence.Chapter 4, Curzon Street, as Ginger
  3. Ginger arrives with his new secretary Magnolia Glendennon, whom Bertie likes, and Bertie drives them all down to Brinkley singing while Jeeves stays silent.Chapter 5, as Ginger
  4. At Brinkley the party separates and Bertie, finding the drawing-room empty and avoiding Uncle Tom's silver talk and Anatole's liver, decides to stroll in the grounds.Chapter 5, the Brinkley drawing-room, as Ginger
  5. Brooding on his aunt's poor chances and on Ginger's coming ticking-off, Bertie walks into the summerhouse and finds Ginger locked in an embrace with Magnolia Glendennon.Chapters 12–13, the summer-house, as Ginger
  6. Bertie drives back from London with none of his problems solved and is hauled out of the car by egg-spattered Ginger, who says the debate was a riot, Florence has dropped him, and he is off to London to marry Magnolia.Chapter 16, the drive, as Ginger

Talked about, but not there

  1. Bertie begs Jeeves to tone down his Totleigh report, Jeeves refuses because of the committee's rules, they quarrel over the danger of blackmail and the drunken Bingley, until Aunt Dahlia telephones.Chapters 1–2, Bertie's flat, as Ginger
  2. Over a whisky at the Junior Ganymede Jeeves warns that Ginger's Past could cost him the election, and they are accosted by Bingley, Bertie's former valet, who calls Jeeves 'Reggie' and now lives in Market Snodsbury as a man of property.Chapter 4, the Junior Ganymede smoking-room, as Ginger
  3. Jeeves, buttling in place of the indisposed Seppings, brings Bertie a reviving whisky and soda and consoles him with Shakespeare on good names, before Aunt Dahlia bounds in.Chapters 5–7, the Brinkley drawing-room, as Ginger
  4. Bertie and Jeeves set out to canvass River Row for Ginger, debating whether a canvasser needs preliminaries, and split up at Numbers One and Two.Chapter 8, River Row, as a friend anxious to get into Parliament
  5. Greeted by Aunt Dahlia's old maid, Bertie urges the grim Mrs McCorkadale to vote for Ginger, only to learn she is the rival candidate.Chapter 8, Number One River Row, as Ginger
  6. On the doorstep Bertie meets his old valet Bingley, who tells him Ginger hasn't a chance, advises a big bet on McCorkadale, and goes in to call on her.Chapter 8, Number One River Row, as the Conservative candidate
  7. Uneasy at Bingley's confident tip, Bertie walks home and finds Aunt Dahlia doing the Observer crossword.Chapters 8–10, Brinkley Court, as Ginger
  8. Bertie warns Aunt Dahlia that Bingley may sell the club book to the Argus-Reminder, and she sends him off to reason with Bingley while agreeing to break the news to Jeeves.Chapter 10, Brinkley Court, as Ginger
  9. Bertie calls on Bingley at 5 Ormond Crescent to ask for the club book, but Bingley patronizes him, boasts of how he stole it to protect his bets on McCorkadale, and Bertie leaves having achieved nothing.Chapter 11, the library, as young Winship
  10. Florence comes in in a temper, tells Bertie he looks like the underside of a dead fish, rages at Ginger's feeble speech at the Chamber of Commerce lunch, and sends Bertie to fetch Ginger to the study.Chapter 12, the room with the French window, as Ginger
  11. Crossing the lawn, Bertie finds Aunt Dahlia waiting for Runkle to wake in the hammock, and lectures her on why Ginger puts up with Florence until she tells him to go and drown himself.Chapter 12, the lawn, as Ginger
  12. Bertie finds Jeeves reading Spinoza by the back door, tells him Ginger must somehow lose the election despite Spode's oratory, and warns him to keep out of Ginger's way.Chapter 14, the back door, as Ginger
  13. Sneaking into the Blue Room to return the porringer, Bertie treads on Gus the cat, wakes Runkle, and covers himself by saying Aunt Dahlia wants Runkle to take photographs.Chapter 15, the Blue Room, as Ginger
  14. Runkle storms down, accuses Bertie of stealing the porringer and sends Seppings for the police, and Jeeves invents a jury summons so Bertie can slip up to London to think.Chapter 15, Brinkley Court, as Ginger
  15. Seppings describes the vegetable-throwing at the debate, and Jeeves reports that Ginger, on his advice, praised Mrs McCorkadale and urged everyone to vote for her, so ending his engagement to Florence; Jeeves adds that Bingley called round to tea in a friendly way.Chapter 16, the Brinkley drawing-room, as Mr Winship
  16. Aunt Dahlia tells Bertie that Spode, put off politics by the potato, has kept his title and gone off to London with Madeline, freeing Bertie from marrying her.Chapter 16, the Brinkley drawing-room, as Ginger
  17. Runkle gloats that Bertie is bound for prison, egg-covered Florence announces she will marry Bertie after all, then drops him when Runkle says he stole the porringer, and Runkle goes off to meet Bingley.Chapter 16, the Brinkley drawing-room, as Ginger
  18. Over breakfast in bed Bertie reviews the happy endings all round, frets about the Junior Ganymede club book, and learns Jeeves has already destroyed his eighteen pages: 'Much obliged, Jeeves.'Chapter 17, as Ginger