Word: pineros
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...Posket in question is the magistrate in Sir Arthur Wing Pinero's "The Magistrate." He is a man of some consequence who has just married a widow during a three-week recess from court. This would be all right, except for the fact that the good lady has lopped five years off her age in order to capture him. This simple subterfuge, in turn, would pass safely, but for the fact that she has had to reduce reduce her son's age by five years, too, in order to maintain the ruse...
...this is very entertaining. It is all nonsense, of course, but of a restrained sort. Pinero, though he does have most of the cast hiding under tables at one point, at least does not stoop to custard pies. The Victorians needed to relax at a farce now and then, but they would never have cared for Abbott and Costello...
...hands of these people Pinero's piece does not seem dated at all. It is only necessary to imagine a poorly-played Mr. Aeneas Posket, to see how much credit they deserve for this...
Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Pinero's The Thunderbolt, with Van Heflin and Celeste Holm...
...down from the mainland, watched the ceremony and inaugural parade from a grandstand on the steps of the marble Capitol. Munoz took the oath of office, administered by Chief Justice Angel de Jesús, shook hands with the judge, exchanged a warm abrazo with retiring Governor Jesus T. Pinero. Then Muñoz spoke to his people...