News You Can Bruise for 2002 March 10

According to the program for the Mass in B Minor, the solo mezzosoprano once performed the lead in a musical called The W of Bablylon. This I found very funny--it's something a more acerbic Bertie Wooster would say.

I poked the bean through the study door and Aunt Dahlia caught sight.

"Hallo, Bertie, you blot on the landscape," she said cheerfully.

"What ho, old W. of Babylon," replied I.