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Before his capture, I enjoyed a very pleasant correspondence with Mr. Wodehouse. In his last letter, written to me, which was mailed shortly before the Germans seized him, Mr. Wodehouse informed me that he was sure the Germans would not penetrate Le Touquet...
...Yorkshireman received a letter from his son in a German prison camp, who reported that among his fellow prisoners was bald, twinkly Novelist Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, last heard from in July when the Germans captured him and his Le Touquet villa...
WODEHOUSE ON GOLF - P. G. Wodehouse - Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Last week Author Wodehouse, captured by the Germans, was reported still at Le Touquet. In this collection of reprints, some dating from 1910, Wodehouse's bland, bumbling golfers hook, slice and burble their way through 844 pages of fairway, rough and green...
British Humorist Pelham Grenville Wodehouse was caught in a situation he might have devised himself. While he and his wife served cocktails to friends in their villa at Le Touquet, they were warned that the Germans would be there in an hour, took the news with unruffled skepticism. The Nazis arrived on schedule, broke up the party, let U. S.-born Mrs. Wodehouse go, held fast...
...covet oil concessions. They are busy installing a puppet dictator as Regis leaves for Zurich to meet Madame St. Aurlon. Feeling responsible for his loss of the throne, she goes into hiding. Regis then becomes a playboy. He cracks up in airplane races, drives a speedboat at Le Touquet, plays polo at Deauville. He takes up with women of the town, fends off U. S. debutantes, begs not to be addressed as "Your Majesty," is called that anyway. He broods: "It's strange . . . that one should learn how to rule after the chance of ruling has gone." Finally...