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Gary Powell's performance came with a few perks for the audience. For one thing, lead singer Douglas "Pengo" DeMay stripped from a gray suit down to his boxers in the course of the set. Written on his manly torso were those immortal words of wisdom, "Listerine Kills Bad Breath." In addition, audience members got bags of popcorn with special "prizes" inside such as miniature chocolate bars and slips of paper with "Gary Powell Says Fuck!" scrawled on them...
...historic standard, such talk is still very premature. The alltime inflation record holder is 1946 Hungary, which issued 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 pengo bills worth about $10. Before World War II, a pengo had been worth 200. Germany between World Wars I and II suffered 4 trillion percent inflation, and Germans pushing wheelbarrows of money often valued the wheelbarrow more highly than all the currency inside'. Currently the top inflation rates prevail in Israel, Argentina and Brazil...
...Conservatory, and an early success on the Parisian stage, he sees himself as an artist of stature and he has repeatedly proved it, most notably in the 1951 Broadway production of Don Juan in Hell, two years later in Kind Sir with Mary Martin, and in 1962 in Lord Pengo, a bad play from which he salvaged superior notices...
...distinguished name in art dealing. Founded in 1877 by an English antique dealer, the commercial gallery was carried to the pinnacle of poshery by his son, Baron Duveen of Millbank, who became so legendary a dealer that 24 years after his death in 1939, a hit Broadway play, Lord Pengo, made fiction of his exploits. He bought and sold Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer three times, always handled, as his motto affirmed, "nothing but recognized masterpieces." His clients were equally well recognized -Mellon, Morgan, Frick, Rockefeller, Kress, Altman, Bache-and Duveen steered their taste in building...
...Terence Rattigan. Last season Charles Boyer starred in Lord Pengo, a tracing-paper-thin characterization of Art Wheeler-Dealer Jo seph Duveen. Boyer was slyly fascinating; the play provoked yawns. In Man and Boy, Boyer plays Gregor Antonescu, a blurry blotting-pad version of the 20th century's master swindler, Ivar Kreuger. Boyer makes a charming cad; the play is a jaw-aching bore. If the evening proves anything, it is merely that actors who are graded 100 for talent sometimes get zero for judgment...