The Wooster Papers

Cast

J. Washburn Stoker

Also called Stoker, old Stoker, Mr Stoker, Father, Pop Stoker, J. Washburn, old Pop Stoker, a well-to-do American millionaire called Stoker

Pauline's formidable American millionaire father, heir to fifty million, who keeps her prisoner on his yacht, locks Bertie up to make him marry her, and buys Chuffnell Hall.

In each book 4 books
  • In Thank You, Jeeves
    Pauline's formidable American millionaire father, heir to fifty million, who keeps her prisoner on his yacht, locks Bertie up to make him marry her, and buys Chuffnell Hall.
  • In The Code of the Woosters
    Pop Stoker, a self-made man who once pursued Bertie and wanted to hit Dobson with a shovel.
  • In Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit
    The American millionaire with a habit of kidnapping people on his yacht; another man who unnerves Bertie.
  • In Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves
    Emerald and Pauline's bossy American millionaire father, who once kidnapped Bertie on his yacht and pays Emerald a monthly allowance.

Connections

dealings

Everyone and everything else (18)

Scenes they are in

  1. Bertie recalls how, hiding from Aunt Agatha in New York, he fell for Pauline Stoker and got engaged to her, until Sir Roderick Glossop told her father all about him and the engagement was called off.Chapter 1, New York
  2. A beaming Chuffy tells Bertie that Sir Roderick Glossop is to marry Aunt Myrtle and has found a millionaire, J. Washburn Stoker, to buy the Hall, just as the Stokers and Glossop arrive for lunch.Chapters 3–4, Chuffnell Hall, as an American
  3. On a bench in the shrubbery Pauline tells Bertie she is crazy about Chuffy and asks him to hint that Chuffy should speak, until Jeeves appears.Chapters 4–6, the rustic bench, as your father
  4. Expecting Sergeant Voules, Bertie instead finds J. Washburn Stoker, who searches the cottage for Pauline, finds nothing, and leaves apologising after Bertie insists she is not infatuated with him.Chapter 10, Seaview Cottage
  5. Bertie dines on the yacht with Stoker and Dwight, learns Pauline is confined with a 'headache', and over cigars Stoker remarks that guests on a yacht can't easily get away and offers to show him round.Chapter 11, Stoker's yacht, as Stoker
  6. Stoker shows Bertie into a guest state-room, slams and locks the door on him, and ignores his calls.Chapters 11–12, the state-room, as Stoker
  7. Bertie creeps into Chuffy's study to steal his breakfast, hides behind the desk, finds Jeeves telephoning for the missing Sir Roderick, tells him Glossop has gone off in a petrol cleanse and that they are now friends, and dives under the desk again as Stoker is announced.Chapters 17–18, Chuffy's study, as Stoker
  8. Pauline tells Jeeves she will not marry Bertie after all and starts on Chuffy's kippers; the starving Bertie pops up, she shrieks, and Chuffy rushes in and takes her in his arms.Chapters 18–21, Chuffnell Hall, as Father

Talked about, but not there

Thank You, Jeeves 12 scenes
  1. Strumming his banjolele, Bertie tells Jeeves he saw the Stokers dining with Sir Roderick Glossop and Lord Chuffnell's aunt at the Savoy Grill, and is outraged to hear that Glossop has called to see him.Chapter 1, Bertie's flat
  2. Chuffy, rattled to learn from Glossop that Bertie was once engaged to Pauline, is reassured and reveals he is now engaged to her and that Stoker has agreed to buy the Hall.Chapter 6, the rustic bench, as old Stoker
  3. Jeeves tells how a fight between Dwight and Seabury became a general brawl, Stoker withdrew from buying the Hall, Chuffy insulted him, Pauline was confined to the yacht, and Chuffy overheard about the kiss.Chapter 6, Jeeves's quarters, as Stoker
  4. Bertie persuades a seething Chuffy that the kiss was brotherly, and Chuffy, resolved to marry Pauline regardless of money, plans to send Jeeves into Stoker's service to carry his letters.Chapter 6, Seaview Cottage, as Stoker
  5. Back at the cottage at midnight, Bertie finds Pauline Stoker sitting up in his bed in his heliotrope pyjamas.Chapters 6–8, Bertie's bedroom at the cottage, as Father
  6. It is Sergeant Voules and his nephew Constable Dobson about the broken window; Bertie blames Brinkley and refuses to let them search the house, and Voules complains of the police being shackled.Chapter 8, the front door
  7. Bertie tells Jeeves of the night's disasters and Chuffy's row with Pauline, and Jeeves brings an invitation to dinner from Stoker, whom he has talked out of thinking Bertie mad; they agree Bertie will tell Pauline that Chuffy is pining, and remain at odds over the banjolele.Chapter 11, the cottage garden, as Stoker
  8. Bertie despairs at having to marry Pauline, and Jeeves arrives with pyjamas and a plan to black his face with boot polish so he can slip ashore with the departing minstrels.Chapter 12, the state-room, as Stoker
  9. Landed safely from the yacht in blackface, Bertie thanks Jeeves, who advises him to wash, take the 10.21 to London and go abroad, and says he will return to Chuffy's service at the Hall.Chapter 13, Chuffnell Regis, as Pop Stoker
  10. Unable to wash off the polish, Bertie finds a drunken Brinkley wrecking the cottage, is chased into the bedroom by him with a carving knife as the Devil, keeps quiet when Sergeant Voules arrives, and flees through the window after Brinkley upsets a lamp and sets the cottage ablaze, leaving the banjolele behind.Chapter 13, Seaview Cottage
  11. Bertie knocks at the back door of the Hall and the scullerymaid who opens it has hysterics at the sight of his black face.Chapters 13–14, Chuffnell Hall, as Mr Stoker
  12. Over breakfast after his acquittal Jeeves reveals that he faked the cable about the contested will, and, since he will not serve a married man, asks to come back to Bertie, who gratefully accepts.Chapter 22, the small morning-room, as Mr Stoker
The Code of the Woosters 2 scenes
  1. Jeeves reveals the Junior Ganymede's club book, offers to telephone its Secretary for dirt on Spode, and on his way out mentions that Gussie's engagement to Madeline is off, as the dinner gong sounds.Chapter 5, Bertie's room at Totleigh, as old Stoker
  2. Locked in, Bertie talks to Jeeves through the door, learns that Sir Watkyn has forbidden Stiffy to marry Stinker, and urges Jeeves to cosh Oates with a shovel.Chapter 14, Bertie's room at Totleigh, as Pop Stoker
Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit 1 scene
  1. Fortified by one of Jeeves's specials, Bertie refuses to shave off the moustache Jeeves disapproves of, just as Stilton Cheesewright arrives.Chapters 1–2, the sitting-room
Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves 4 scenes
  1. Over lunch at the Ritz Emerald Stoker backs Bertie over the Alpine hat and reveals she is off to stay a month at Totleigh Towers, so Bertie briefs her on the Bassett menagerie and learns she thinks Gussie a lamb, leaving him with a presentiment of doom.Chapter 2, the Ritz, as old Pop Stoker
  2. Gussie storms in denouncing vegetables and reveals that the cook is Emerald Stoker, who lost her allowance on a horse and took the job rather than confess to her father.Chapter 7, Bertie's room at Totleigh, as her father
  3. Gussie, clutching Emerald's ham sandwiches, declares her his true love and Madeline heartless; Stiffy and Stinker tell Bertie to keep clear of Sir Watkyn, and when Stiffy warns Gussie that Spode is after him he bolts straight into Spode.Chapters 14–15, the yew alley, as old Stoker
  4. On the telephone Aunt Dahlia, delighted that Emerald has taken over as cook while Anatole is ill, asks Bertie to buy Pop Bassett's black amber statuette for Uncle Tom with her legacy.Chapter 17, Totleigh Towers, as a well-to-do American millionaire called Stoker