Wooster Sauce

The September Wooster Sauce

Some Society members have wondered why the website doesn't do more to extol our great journal, Wooster Sauce. Those already in the Society will have read their September issue avidly, but for the world outside we ought to explain a little about what they are missing. (Wooster Sauce is only available to UK Society members.) This is our first attempt at this page. Comments to johnafle@aol.com (Website Editor) welcome.

Wooster Sauce is 24 glossy pages of Wodehousean news and wit. On the September cover is a photo of David Hayhoe, our thousandth member, who received a copy of A Prince for Hire (hardback edition) and, as he is a golfer, an entry to the Cow-Creamer Challenge Cup at Exeter. He didn't win it, but photos of the winners and their cow-creamer trophies and a description of the day is on page 9.

On page 3 Wodehouse and Sandow's Magazine, by Jan Piggott, who had bought for Dulwich College a run of this magazine, 1898-1902, in which articles by the young PGW first appeared.

Page 4, Plum and Mugg Part Two by Murray Hedgcock, an account of the Savage meeting when Malcolm Muggeridge's niece, Sally Muggeridge, and founder of the Muggeridge Society, addressed us. (But there's an account of that on the website too).

Page 6, What Leonora said about Plum, by (obviously) Leonora Wodehouse when interviewed in 1933 by Toye Vise of Chums. Without her never-failing sympathy and encouragement he would have written many more books; how can that be true? Yet he implied it. Look closely at this father-daughter relationship.

Page 12, The Drones Society at Charterhouse, Introduced by Peter and Philip Hoskin. Here's a blueprint for anyone wanting to establish a PGW-supporting society in a school, if you are as lucky as Charterhouse.

We leave you half way through. The rest, from page 13 to page 26, is good ripe stuff too.