Freddie Rooke cannot face a poached egg, and his friend Derek Underhill cannot face his formidable mother. Meanwhile the American Wallace Mason falls for Jill Mariner, who loses her fortune and finds herself in the chorus of a doomed Broadway show bankrolled by the naive Otis Pilkington. Published in Britain as Jill the Reckless.
Early Wodehouse moving between London and New York, full of theatre lore and comic dialogue. Download the free EPUB.