Commodore Of Errors Cl

by Jacobsen,John

• ISBN13: 9781611453386
• ISBN10: 1611453380
• Edition: 00
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-10-17
• Publisher: FRWHEEL

Summary

Commodore Thomas Dickey, the pompous second in commandat the United States Merchant Marine Academy, desperately wantsthe top job, presently occupied by the skirt chasing Admiral Johnson.Dickey goes into cahoots with Mogie Mogelefsky, the imperious,bullying mayor of neighboring Great Neck to oust Johnson.When they succeed in exposing him in yet another peccadillo,Mogie suddenly reneges on their deal. Mogie is tired of dealingwith the WASPs at the Academy and declares he wants a Jew instead.The Commodore is quick to point out that the Academy "sby-laws require the Superintendent to have sea-going experienceand that, unfortunately, it will be next to impossible to find a Jewishcaptain. Enter Mrs. Tannenbaume. Her sonny boy is captain of a ship,coincidentally! But Mrs. Tannenbaume has spent her entire lifeproclaiming it "s Tannenbaume with an E, and that she "s notJewish. Oy. Although the Commodore secretly plans to expose Captain Tannenbaumeas a Gentile in the end, Mrs. Tannenbaume joins herson "s ship in Singapore to teach him and his new bride, a nineteen year-old Thai bar girl, to be the perfect Jewish couple. The crewon the M. V. God is Able have never seen the likes of Mrs. Tannenbaumebefore and they sit back and watch as she Stakes theconn from her son and everyone else who stands in her way. YooHoo, Mrs. Tannenbaume is a bawdy, sea-going romp full of livelyoddballs and convoluted plot twists in the P. G. Wodehouse vein.