The Daily Mail, April 30, 1928
 

MR. WODEHOUSE’S
FILM DEAL.

£7,500 FOR “JEEVES” AND “PSMITH.”

Mr. P. G. Wodehouse, the humorous writer, is to be paid £7,500 by a British film company for the right to select from his stories of “Jeeves” and “Psmith” material for the making of two pictures.

Introduced in “The Inimitable Jeeves,” which was published five years ago, Jeeves, a prince of butlers and a marvel of resource, on behalf of his employer, a gilded young “man about town,” instantly became famous. Psmith is another humorous character whose doings are well known to hosts of Mr. Wodehouse’s readers in this country and America.

Mr. Wodehouse, who is staying at Droitwich, Worcestershire, told a Daily Mail reporter yesterday that he has also sold the film rights of his story “Sam the Sudden.” He said:

The biggest sum I have previously been paid for film rights is £1,000 for “The Small Bachelor.” I am now thinking out more plots for Jeeves while I lie in a brine bath. I can generally get ideas in this way. Afterwards I go for long, slow rides on a push-bicycle and elaborate them as I go.

I am able to work best when my wife is with me. We go over plots together, and when I have finished a story she reads it and gives me her advice. She helps me a lot.

Mrs. Wodehouse is in London, ill with influenza.