The plays chosen for each performance were announced in advance, although a myth evolved that the groupings were random. Matin*es were sometimes billed as Today at 2:30. The main characters, a British couple, Commander Peter Gilpin and his wife Lady Maureen (``Piggie'') Gilpin, were caricatures of Coward's friends Lord Louis (``Dickie'') Mountbatten and his wife Edwina, who, Coward later said, ``used to give cocktail parties and people used to arrive that nobody had ever heard of and sit about and go away again; somebody Dickie had met somewhere, or somebody Edwina had met -- and nobody knew who they were.
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