Word: pengoe
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...Lord Pengo, which S. N. Behrman has modeled on the late Lord Duveen. high-priced art purveyor to U.S. multimillionaires, is, dramatically speaking, a 2½-hour still life. The play has poise, grace, urbanity, but it lacks any inner dynamic of change, conflict or direction...
...plush, colonnaded picture gallery, Lord Pengo (Charles Boyer) wheedles, cajoles, amuses, and stimulates a cultural lust for owning Giorgiones and Masaccios in the blank-walled minds of crotchety, sulky and pinchpenny plutocrats. But, as someone says, for him selling is "a kind of disembodied activity, like praying," and disembodiment is the felt mood of the evening. Behrman dutifully tries to fire Pengo and Co. with emotions. Pengo rages at his petulant and priggishly high-minded son (Brian Bedford). He feels pity for a twitchily neurotic moneybag (Ruth White), for his loyal secretary (Agnes Moorehead), and for a lonely press-maligned...
...finally finished her long-fermented play. If it contains her own wild and uncommon brilliance, it will be superb. Called A Matter of Position, it is vaguely described as a protest against society. The star is her comic partner, Mike Nichols (Oct. 25). S. N. Behrman's Lord Pengo (Nov. 11) is an adaptation of his biography of Art Dealer Joseph Duveen, played by Charles Boyer. Anita Loos (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes} has been tinkling with a French play about the wedding night of Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves. Sidestepping Ladies Prefer Beards, she kept the French title...
When Budapesters first saw the bright, handsome new forints (introduced last August just as the pengo was inflated to 500,000,000,000,000,000 times its original value), they compared the coins with bald, homely Communist Boss Matyas Rakosi, who was advertised as the father of the forint, and cracked: "It must have had a beautiful mother...
Last week the Hungarian inflation came far closer to needing evaluation by googol than any other inflation in history. The pengo was quoted at 500.000,000,000,000,000,000 to the dollar. At that point the Finance Ministry withdrew it from circulation, replaced it by something called the "index pengo," at 6,500,000 to the dollar. If the ordinary pengo had merely added a zero a day for another 80 days, it would have passed the googol...