The Masked Troubadour
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"The Masked Troubadour" is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse, which first appeared in the United Kingdom in the December 1936 issue of the Strand. "Reggie and the Greasy Bird", a rewritten version of the story with different settings and main characters, appeared in the United States in the November 28, 1936 issue of the Saturday Evening Post. It was included in the UK collection Lord Emsworth and Others, (1937), and in the U.S. equivalent, Crime Wave at Blandings. It stars young Drone Freddie Widgeon.
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Freddie Widgeon is heartbroken and penniless, again, to no surprise of his Drones Club fellows. And his uncle Lord Blicester will only unbelt should Freddie marry Dora Pinfold, who does Good Works in a sort of a mission over on Notting Hill. Freddie borrows a few bob to fill the Notting Hill mothers with tea and buns till their eyes bubble, but loses it on a bet over a Brazil nut, so he must enter a talent competition in rough-and-tumble Bottleton East to recover his funds and woo Miss Pinfold. Unfortunately, with Jos. Waterbury as his accompanist, this may be harder than it sounds.
