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Sir Arthur Wing Pinero - LoveToKnow 1911 |
 | | SIR ARTHUR WING PINERO (1855-), English dramatist, was born in London on the 24th of May 18J5, the son of John Daniel Pinero, a Jewish solicitor, whose family was of Portuguese origin, long established in London. |
 | | Pinero was engaged in 1874 as an actor at the Theatre Royal; Edinburgh, and came to London in 1876, to play at the Globe Theatre. |
 | | The first play to make a hit was The Money Spinner (Theatre Royal, Manchester, Nov. 1880); but in The Squire (St James's Theatre, Dec. 1881) he attempted serious drama, and gave promise of the qualities of his later work. |
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