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conversations.value: What is a description for a book titled The Mating Season about England, American, Jerome with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Humor & Satire?
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conversations.value: P. G. the author was born in England in 1881 and in 1955 became an American citizen. He published more than ninety books and had a successful career writing lyrics and musicals in collaboration with Jerome Kern, Guy Bolton, and Cole Porter, among others.
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conversations.value: The Mating Season (film): Ellen McNulty (Thelma Ritter) gives up her hamburger stand in New Jersey when the bank calls in her loan, and goes to visit her son Val (John Lund) in Ohio.\nVal has recently married a socialite, Maggie (Gene Tierney).\nTo help Maggie put on a dinner party, Val has an employment service send a cook; Ellen arrives first, and Maggie mistakes her for the cook.\nEllen, to avoid embarrassing Maggie, does not correct her.\nAfter the party, Val follows her home and persuades her to move in with them.\nThe next morning Ellen arrives with her things, and continues the deception, explaining to Val that a mother-in-law in the house would only cause friction.\nVal reluctantly goes along with the charade.\nMaggie\'s mother (Miriam Hopkins) comes to stay with them.\nShe is a snob and disapproves of both Val and Ellen.\nMaggie and Val later "lend" Ellen to the Kalinger family, owners of the firm where Val works, for a party of their own, whose guests of honor, mr and mrs Williamson, own a Maryland firm with which the Kalinger firm is about to make a major contract.\nWhile tending to mr Kalinger (Larry Keating) in his illness, Ellen finds that his son, Kalinger Junior (James Lorimer) – who had previously courted Maggie – is taking credit for Val\'s research that led to the contract, and she tells Kalinger Senior so.\nKalinger Senior then invites Val and Maggie to the party, forcing Junior to reveal Val\'s role, which he does graciously.\nAt the party, Maggie is insulted by mrs Williamson (Cora Witherspoon) and storms out.\nVal, realizing that this woman carries a lot of influence, forces Maggie to call the party to apologize.\nShe does so unwillingly, leading to another fight.\nThe next morning, Val and Maggie make up, agreeing that they were both in the wrong.\nLater that day, Ellen\'s friends come to the door and ask to speak to "Mrs.\nMcNulty" — thus revealing to Maggie that Ellen is Val\'s mother.\nMaggie is furious with Val for hiding his mother\'s identity from her.\nShe and her mother leave for a hotel.\nMaggie later confronts Val at his office.\nVal tries to explain himself but Maggie won\'t listen.\nShe tells him that he has become a snob and that she is moving to Mexico (where divorce was then easier).\nmr Kalinger decides to get Val and Maggie together.\nHe convinces Maggie to come to the hotel bar with him for a good-bye drink, knowing that Val will be there for a party.\nWhen Maggie sees Val, she again scolds him for trying to hide his mother and leaves the bar.\nVal leaves the party and rushes to fetch his mother and bring her back to the party.\nMaggie, who has come back to the bar, is a witness as Val introduces Ellen to mrs Williamson, who was about to hire Val but wants nothing to do with him when she finds that his mother is neither of her class nor cowed by her.\nKalinger Junior also finds Ellen appalling, but Kalinger Senior is delighted and decides to marry her.
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conversations.value: \nKalinger Junior also finds Ellen appalling, but Kalinger Senior is delighted and decides to marry her.\nVal has recently married a socialite, Maggie (Gene Tierney).\nTo help Maggie put on a dinner party, Val has an employment service send a cook; Ellen arrives first, and Maggie mistakes her for the cook.\nEllen, to avoid embarrassing Maggie, does not correct her.\nAfter the party, Val follows her home and persuades her to move in with them.\nThe next morning Ellen arrives with her things, and continues the deception, explaining to Val that a mother-in-law in the house would only cause friction.\nVal reluctantly goes along with the charade.\nMaggie\'s mother (Miriam Hopkins) comes to stay with them.\nShe is a snob and disapproves of both Val and Ellen.\nMaggie and Val later "lend" Ellen to the Kalinger family, owners of the firm where Val works, for a party of their own, whose guests of honor, mr and mrs Williamson, own a Maryland firm with which the Kalinger firm is about to make a major contract.\nWhile tending to mr Kalinger (Larry Keating) in his illness, Ellen finds that his son, Kalinger Junior (James Lorimer) – who had previously courted Maggie – is taking credit for Val\'s research that led to the contract, and she tells Kalinger Senior so.\nKalinger Senior then invites Val and Maggie to the party, forcing Junior to reveal Val\'s role, which he does graciously.\nAt the party, Maggie is insulted by mrs Williamson (Cora Witherspoon) and storms out.\nVal, realizing that this woman carries a lot of influence, forces Maggie to call the party to apologize.\nShe does so unwillingly, leading to another fight.\nThe next morning, Val and Maggie make up, agreeing that they were both in the wrong.\nLater that day, Ellen\'s friends come to the door and ask to speak to "Mrs.\nMcNulty" — thus revealing to Maggie that Ellen is Val\'s mother.\nMaggie is furious with Val for hiding his mother\'s identity from her.\nShe and her mother leave for a hotel.\nMaggie later confronts Val at his office.\nVal tries to explain himself but Maggie won\'t listen.\nShe tells him that he has become a snob and that she is moving to Mexico (where divorce was then easier).\nmr Kalinger decides to get Val and Maggie together.\nHe convinces Maggie to come to the hotel bar with him for a good-bye drink, knowing that Val will be there for a party.\nWhen Maggie sees Val, she again scolds him for trying to hide his mother and leaves the bar.\nVal leaves the party and rushes to fetch his mother and bring her back to the party.\nMaggie, who has come back to the bar, is a witness as Val introduces Ellen to mrs Williamson, who was about to hire Val but wants nothing to do with him when she finds that his mother is neither of her class nor cowed by her.The Mating Season (film): Ellen McNulty (Thelma Ritter) gives up her hamburger stand in New Jersey when the bank calls in her loan, and goes to visit her son Val (John Lund) in Ohio.
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conversations.value: What is the first five paragraphs for this book? Start with the sentence 'The Mating Season
  The gesture known as wringing the hands is one that is seldom seen in real life, but Lady Constance Keeble at this point did something with hers which might by a liberal interpretation have been described as wringing'.
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conversations.value: The Mating Season
  The gesture known as wringing the hands is one that is seldom seen in real life, but Lady Constance Keeble at this point did something with hers which might by a liberal interpretation have been described as wringing.
  Lord Emsworth started with such violence that his pince-nez fell off and he dropped a slice of seed-cake.
  Lady Constance had turned a bright scarlet. Even in their nursery days she had never felt quite so hostile towards the head of the family as now.
  These marvellous stories introduce us to Jeeves, whose first ever duty is to cure Bertie's raging hangover ('If you would drink this, sir... it is a little preparation of my own invention. It is the Worcester Sauce that gives it its colour. The raw egg makes it nutritious. The red pepper gives it its bite. Gentlemen have told me they have found it extremely invigorating after a late evening.')
  And from that moment, one of the funniest, sharpest and most touching partnerships in English literature never looks back...
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conversations.value: But no sooner has Jimmy cut a wild swathe through fashionable London than his terrifying Aunt Nesta decides he must mend his ways. He then falls in love with the girl he has hurt most of all, and after that things get complicated.
  In a dizzying plot, impersonations pile on impersonations so that (for reasons that will become clear, we promise) Jimmy ends up having to pretend he's himself. Does he deserve a happy ending? Read and find out.
  This is the first Blandings novel, in which P.G. Wodehouse introduces us to the delightfully dotty Lord Emsworth, his bone-headed younger son, the Hon. Freddie Threepwood, his long-suffering secretary, the Efficient Baxter, and Beach the Blandings butler.
  The Empress of Blandings, prize-winning pig and all-consuming passion of Clarence, Ninth Earl of Emsworth, has disappeared.
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conversations.value: But no sooner has Jimmy cut a wild swathe through fashionable London than his terrifying Aunt Nesta decides he must mend his ways. He then falls in love with the girl he has hurt most of all, and after that things get complicated.
  In a dizzying plot, impersonations pile on impersonations so that (for reasons that will become clear, we promise) Jimmy ends up having to pretend he's himself. Does he deserve a happy ending? Read and find out.
  This is the first Blandings novel, in which P.G. Wodehouse introduces us to the delightfully dotty Lord Emsworth, his bone-headed younger son, the Hon. Freddie Threepwood, his long-suffering secretary, the Efficient Baxter, and Beach the Blandings butler.
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conversations.value: Poor Corky Corcoran, Ukridge's old school chum and confidant, trails through these pages in the ebullient wake of Wodehouse's most disreputable but endearing hero and hopes to escape with his shirt at least.
  When Bertie Wooster goes to Totleigh Towers to pour oil on the troubled waters of a lovers breach between Madeline Bassett and Gussie Fink-Nottle, he isn't expecting to see Aunt Dahlia there – nor to be instructed by her to steal some silver. But purloining the antique cow creamer from under the baleful nose of Sir Watkyn Bassett is the least of Bertie's tasks. He has to restore true love to both Madeline and Gussie and to the Revd Stinker Pinker and Stiffie Byng – and confound the insane ambitions of would-be Dictator Roderick Spode and his Black Shirts. It's a situation that only Jeeves can unravel...
  An absolute classic collection of linked stories featuring some of the funniest episodes in the life of Bertie Wooster, gentleman, and Jeeves, his gentleman's gentleman – in which Aunt Agatha stalks the pages, seeking whom she may devour, Bertie's friend Bingo Little falls in love with seven different girls in succession (he marries the last, the bestselling romantic novelist Rosie M. Banks), and Bertie, with Jeeves's help, just evades the clutches of the terrifying Honoria Glossop. At its heart is one of Wodehouse's most delicious stories, 'The Great Sermon Handicap'.
  When the moon is full at Blandings, strange things happen: among them the painting of a portrait of The Empress, twice in succession winner in the Fat Pigs Class at the Shropshire Agricultural Show. What better choice of artist, in Lord Emsworth's opinion, than Landseer. The renowned painter of the Stag at Bay may have been dead for decades, but that doesn't prevent Galahad Threepwood from introducing him to the castle – or rather introducing Bill Lister, Gally's godson, so desperately in love with Prudence that he's determined to enter Blandings in yet another imposture. Add a gaggle of fearsome aunts, uncles and millionaires, mix in Freddie Threepwood, Beach the Butler and the gardener McAllister, and the moon is full indeed.
  Membership of the Society is open to applicants from all parts of the world. The cost of a year's membership in 2008 is £15. Enquiries and requests for membership forms should be made to the Membership Secretary, The P G Wodehouse Society (UK), 26 Radcliffe Rd, Croydon, Surrey, CRO 5QE, or alternatively from
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conversations.value: Poor Corky Corcoran, Ukridge's old school chum and confidant, trails through these pages in the ebullient wake of Wodehouse's most disreputable but endearing hero and hopes to escape with his shirt at least.
  When Bertie Wooster goes to Totleigh Towers to pour oil on the troubled waters of a lovers breach between Madeline Bassett and Gussie Fink-Nottle, he isn't expecting to see Aunt Dahlia there – nor to be instructed by her to steal some silver. But purloining the antique cow creamer from under the baleful nose of Sir Watkyn Bassett is the least of Bertie's tasks. He has to restore true love to both Madeline and Gussie and to the Revd Stinker Pinker and Stiffie Byng – and confound the insane ambitions of would-be Dictator Roderick Spode and his Black Shirts. It's a situation that only Jeeves can unravel...
  An absolute classic collection of linked stories featuring some of the funniest episodes in the life of Bertie Wooster, gentleman, and Jeeves, his gentleman's gentleman – in which Aunt Agatha stalks the pages, seeking whom she may devour, Bertie's friend Bingo Little falls in love with seven different girls in succession (he marries the last, the bestselling romantic novelist Rosie M. Banks), and Bertie, with Jeeves's help, just evades the clutches of the terrifying Honoria Glossop. At its heart is one of Wodehouse's most delicious stories, 'The Great Sermon Handicap'.
  When the moon is full at Blandings, strange things happen: among them the painting of a portrait of The Empress, twice in succession winner in the Fat Pigs Class at the Shropshire Agricultural Show. What better choice of artist, in Lord Emsworth's opinion, than Landseer. The renowned painter of the Stag at Bay may have been dead for decades, but that doesn't prevent Galahad Threepwood from introducing him to the castle – or rather introducing Bill Lister, Gally's godson, so desperately in love with Prudence that he's determined to enter Blandings in yet another imposture. Add a gaggle of fearsome aunts, uncles and millionaires, mix in Freddie Threepwood, Beach the Butler and the gardener McAllister, and the moon is full indeed.
  Membership of the Society is open to applicants from all parts of the world. The cost of a year's membership in 2008 is £15.