Joe Danby, father of Ray Denison in Extricating Young Gussie, won't let her marry outside vaudeville. Formidable old boy with thick eyebrows and a sort of determined expression, usually looks like a cross between a Roman emperor and Napoleon Bonaparte in a bad temper. Long an ardent admirer of Bertie Mannering-Phipps' Aunt Julia, with whom he worked in the music halls.

• Extricating Young Gussie