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00:13What's my line?
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00:30Now let's all play What's My Line?
00:39And now let's meet our award-winning panel of What's My Line?
00:43First, the popular columnist whose voice of Broadway appears in papers coast to coast,
00:47Miss Dorothy Kilgallen.
00:49If you'd like to read a funny book that the whole family will enjoy, the title of one
01:04that I'd like to suggest is The Question Man.
01:07And the author, I'm happy to say, is going to be the panelist on my left.
01:11Our adored Steve Allen.
01:13Thank you, and on my left tonight is a lady who's been on my left before, and it's always
01:26been very pleasant, the lovely Miss Arlene Francis.
01:36And now sitting in for our vacationing Bennett Cerf is my producer, actor, Martin Gable.
01:43And on my left, our own question man, John Charles Daly.
01:57Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
02:06Welcome to What's My Line?
02:08It's nice to have Steve Allen back again.
02:10I don't know whether his bread box is with him or not, but we kind of hope so.
02:14And Steve will be glad to know that the rules haven't changed.
02:17We have only one mission, and that's to confound the panel if possible.
02:20We'll also have a famous mystery guest a little bit later in the program, and we'll meet our
02:25first challenger after this.
02:28And now let's meet our first challenger.
02:29Will you come in and sign in, please?
02:39Cordelia?
02:44Cordelia Sharp, is that right?
02:50Cordelia Sharp, is it Miss or Mrs. Sharp?
02:54Mrs.
02:54Mrs. Sharp?
02:55Yes.
02:55And where are you from, Mrs. Sharp?
02:57Florence, Alabama.
02:58Florence, Alabama.
02:59Well, it's nice to have you here with us.
03:02And you have your own clack with you.
03:04You're lucky.
03:05See?
03:06May I present the panel, Sharp?
03:08Hello, Mrs. Sharp.
03:08Join me over here.
03:10You know how we keep score.
03:11Yes, I do.
03:12All right, if you know how we keep score, we have a very pleasant task now, letting our audience
03:17in the theater and those at home know exactly what your line is.
03:28All right.
03:30Panel, we will tell you that Mrs. Sharp is salaried, and just to get him back into harness, I think
03:35we ought to start things off with Steve Allen.
03:38Oh, dear.
03:38I hope I have it all straight.
03:40Is there a product connected with what you do, Miss Sharp?
03:44No.
03:44That's a good way to get in the harness.
03:46That's one down and nine to go, Miss Francis.
03:49Mrs. Sharp, do you work for a profit-making organization?
03:53No.
03:54No.
03:55I said it before you did.
03:57That's right.
03:58That's right.
03:59You did say it before, Mrs. Sharp did.
04:01That makes it two down.
04:02It makes it all.
04:03Do you work for a government, Mrs. Sharp, or a charitable organization of some kind?
04:12Yes.
04:12Yes.
04:13Is it a government?
04:15Yes.
04:16Is it, is your work done outside the state of Alabama?
04:22No.
04:23That's three down and seven to go, Miss Kilgallen.
04:26I'm going to be the only one in this panel to get a yes on Mrs. Sharp.
04:30Do you do your work inside of Alabama, Mrs. Sharp?
04:38Do you work for something other than the state government of Alabama?
04:45Yes.
04:46Do you work for some local government?
04:48Yes.
04:49Would it be considered a city government rather than a county government?
04:52Yes.
04:53Uh, have you an executive position?
04:57No.
04:58Four down and six to go, Mr. Allen.
05:00Is your job the sort that is ordinarily taken care of by a man?
05:06I didn't hear you.
05:08Well, forget it.
05:09Steve's been away.
05:10Steve's been away from us a long time.
05:11This is only second week back in harness, you see.
05:14Is, is your job something that would ordinarily be filled by a man?
05:18Yes.
05:22Uh, does it have anything to do with the law?
05:25Yes.
05:26Am I under arrest for making these absurd comments?
05:31Are you, uh, Lady Judge, by any chance?
05:36No.
05:36That's five down and five to go, Miss Francis.
05:39Do you have anything whatsoever to do with the police force?
05:42Yes.
05:43Do you ever wear a uniform?
05:45Yes.
05:45Would you be, would you be a policewoman?
05:50Yes.
05:53Well.
05:53Why aren't you?
05:55Well, I have to guess where and how, like on a motorcycle or in a...
05:59There you are.
05:59On a motorcycle.
06:09Mr. Sharp is a fully qualified policewoman with the Department of Police in Florence, Alabama.
06:14Yes, Dorothy.
06:15That has a product.
06:16Tickets.
06:18Well, we've had a lot of, of, uh, trouble trying to determine whether we consider a ticket properly
06:23a product.
06:24I was only joking, really.
06:25I should think they'd all be terribly pleased to have you stop them wherever you ride around.
06:30Oh, thank you.
06:31That'll be, that, that should be true, but I don't think it'll ever happen that way.
06:35Do you find that most of the, and most of the people, I hope you don't have to stop many
06:39for speeding, but those who do stop, do you find that, that, uh, they resent it, or do
06:43they take so much surprise from the fact that it's a, an attractive woman motorcycle, please,
06:49but that they say, give me the ticket, I'm happy to receive it.
06:51Usually, they're very nice.
06:53They're very nice.
06:53I don't see how there could be anything else, but that's all.
06:56You've been very nice on What's My Line, and it's nice to have had you at the gate.
07:00And now, let's see what we can do with the second challenger, an excellent beginning panel.
07:15Would you sign in, please?
07:19Lynn?
07:22Lynn Brown, right?
07:27Is it Miss or Mrs. Brown?
07:29Mrs. Brown.
07:29Mrs. Brown, and where are you from?
07:31Vancouver, Canada.
07:32Vancouver, Canada.
07:33Nice to have somebody from our great sister nation to the north.
07:37I must say, may I present our panel, Mrs. Brown?
07:39I do, sir.
07:40Would you join me here?
07:43Do you know how we keep score, Mrs. Brown?
07:45Yes.
07:46In that event, we'll let our audience here and that at home look for a moment at exactly what
07:51your line is.
07:52All right.
07:59All right.
08:01Once again, panel, Mrs. Brown is self-employed, and let's begin the general questioning with
08:06Arlene Francis.
08:07Mrs. Brown, is there any product connected with what you do?
08:11No.
08:12That's one down and nine to go, Mr. Gable.
08:14You do most of your work indoors, Mrs. Brown.
08:17Yes.
08:19Do you own something in connection with your profession?
08:23No.
08:25Two down and eight to go, Ms. Kilgallen.
08:27That was, do you own something?
08:29No.
08:30That's two down.
08:31Or rent something.
08:32Well, it's too late.
08:32No, it's a bit late.
08:33Mrs. Brown, if the members of this panel went to Vancouver, could all of us enjoy whatever
08:40it is you do?
08:41No.
08:43No.
08:44No.
08:44I think we would have to say the members of the panel, if you all went to Vancouver,
08:48could all of you enjoy, no, three down and seven to go, Mr. Allen.
08:51Please not without upsetting things, sir.
08:53Are your services, therefore, ordinarily limited, or at least specialized in one sex or the
08:59other?
09:00No.
09:01That's four down and six to go, Ms. Francis.
09:04Would other people consider the work that you do a little difficult or unpleasant in any
09:10way?
09:11Difficult, but not unpleasant.
09:13But we wouldn't enjoy them.
09:16You must remember the context of that question as it was asked.
09:19I can't go into any more detail.
09:21All right.
09:21Uh, and when you perform this service, you do perform it indoors?
09:26Yes.
09:27Do you perform it in one place rather than going around to different places?
09:32Yes.
09:33Is it your own place of work?
09:35Yes.
09:36Uh, do you have, uh, any formal training for your particular job?
09:41Yes.
09:42Well, now, let's not mislead here.
09:44There is certainly an element of training necessary and required, but we wouldn't want you to assume
09:50from this affirmative answer that a specific degree of some kind is necessary.
09:55Would you agree with that, sir?
09:57Then we wouldn't refer to Mrs. Brown as, uh, by, as doctor or anything like that.
10:02No.
10:02Uh, do people come to you for your help?
10:08Yes, they do.
10:09Do you, uh, do you teach them anything or advise them in any way?
10:14Sometimes.
10:20Um, do you touch them in any way?
10:23No.
10:24That's five down and five to go, Mr. Gable.
10:27Do you give them, uh, mental health of some kind?
10:32Yes.
10:33This, in a very, very broad sense, we would have to agree that there is an element of mental health possible.
10:41Do you deal with children more than with adults?
10:43No.
10:45Six down and four to go, Miss Gilgallan.
10:47Mrs. Brown, do you deal more with unmarried people than with married people?
10:54Yes.
10:56Is that why you feel that none of us on the panel would be inclined to use your services?
11:01Yes.
11:02Oh, marriage counseling.
11:02Uh, do you have, uh, anything to do with matchmaking or marriage counseling?
11:08Yes.
11:09Are you a matchmaker?
11:10Yes.
11:11Yes.
11:17Very good, panel.
11:18I don't know.
11:18Steve comes back and he's put this, this is the second week with us and brilliance pouring out all over the place.
11:23I think you've been holding secret meetings while Steve's sitting down.
11:26Something good to start.
11:27But that, that was wonderful.
11:28That was loads of fun.
11:29She's using telephotomy.
11:31I call your attention, John.
11:32It's the ladies that have been brilliant this evening.
11:35Well, I've always liked to see where the inspiration for brilliance lies.
11:39Uh-huh.
11:41But I'm sure the ladies wouldn't contest at the inspiration here.
11:45Well, I guess they might, so I won't raise your hand.
11:46No, no, we wouldn't.
11:47I didn't hear that.
11:48Well, I must say, Mrs. Brown, it's been very nice to have a guest from Canada.
11:51And I trust you enjoyed your visit with us as much as we've enjoyed having you with us.
11:54I definitely did.
11:55Will you say good night to the panel?
12:07We'll meet tonight's mystery guest in just a moment.
12:10But first, here is a word from our sponsor.
12:13And now we come to the special feature of our program, the appearance of our mystery celebrity,
12:18for which my friends on the panel are always blindfolded.
12:22Are the blindfolds in place, panel?
12:24Mm-hmm.
12:24Yes.
12:24Good.
12:24Will you come in, mystery challenger, and sign in, please?
12:27All right, panel, as you know, in the case of our mystery guest, we go to a different form of questioning.
12:49You ask one question at a time, in turn, moving clockwise, and we'll begin with Dorothy Kilgallen.
12:57Are you a motion picture star?
13:00Aye.
13:01Mr. Allen?
13:02Was that a yes or a no?
13:03That was aye.
13:04That means yes.
13:04Aye.
13:06Have you any connection with the field of comedy?
13:10Aye.
13:11Miss Francis?
13:12And the field of the theater?
13:14Aye.
13:14Mr. Gable?
13:17Were you born in England?
13:19Aye.
13:20Miss Kilgallen?
13:22Uh, do you have a title?
13:24No.
13:25One down and nine to go, Mr. Allen.
13:27Would you like to have a title?
13:30I have influence.
13:32Let me see, are you currently in a play on Broadway?
13:34No.
13:35Two down and eight to go, Miss Francis.
13:37I have to admit that my husband did, uh, did, I think, say a name, and I think, uh, it ought to be said again.
13:44Uh, are you, by any chance, uh, Charles Lawton?
14:00I have a bone to pick with you.
14:04You cost me a lot of money.
14:06I did?
14:07A lot of money.
14:08I'll never carry your bag again.
14:10I traveled on a plane with Miss Kilgallen to the coast, and when I got to the coast, my wife said, what a beautiful fur coat.
14:23And you have been fighting a good losing fight, I take it?
14:27None at all.
14:27I mean, on the contrary, I must say that I've been trying to persuade her to buy one, but she saw Dorothy Kilgallen's fur coat, and she fell for having a fur coat.
14:36I'm very grateful to you.
14:40Oh, she never sees Arlene's fur coat.
14:43Well, I'm a bit...
14:44Yes, Dorothy?
14:45I just wanted to say to Mr. Lawton, I was grateful to him for being such a charming traveling companion, but did you know you were coming on this show at that time?
14:53No.
14:55I did not.
14:58I did not.
14:59I've only been fixed up in about the last, what, 48 hours.
15:04I do wish, Mr. Lawton, you wouldn't say fixed up.
15:07That's a very...
15:08Oh, I thank your pardon.
15:12My God.
15:12It's only been arranged, is that right?
15:14That's much better.
15:16I'm sure you wouldn't have told me anyway, and I wouldn't have listened if you had.
15:19I didn't quite hear you.
15:21I said I'm sure you wouldn't have told me even if you did know, and I wouldn't have listened if you had.
15:25I'm just joking.
15:26I really did not, though, honestly.
15:29I really promise you.
15:30Well, I'm surprised to find that you were going to the coast.
15:32I thought that you were in England.
15:33Well, I was in England all last year.
15:37I was playing Shakespeare at Stratford-Arm-Avon.
15:41Oh, wonderful.
15:42Was it the Stratford Company?
15:44Yes.
15:44I played King Lear and Midsummer Night's Dream.
15:48It was quite a wonderful season there last year.
15:50There was Sir Lawrence Olivier and Paul Robes and Edith Evans, Harry Andrews.
15:55It was quite a thing last year.
15:58You didn't have to bring the company with you so that we could have the joy of it, but...
16:01No, but we did take a television tape of Midsummer Night's Dream, and I'm very pleased to say it's turned out really splendidly, and it's going to be shown later on.
16:12I think we are...
16:13Will it be shown here or just in England?
16:15No, only here.
16:16I'm shown only here.
16:17Only here.
16:17And I'm going back in 1961.
16:22And in early 1962, we're going to bring one of the Falstaff plays.
16:28Guess who's playing Falstaff?
16:31And King Lear, and another play with me nothing, and we're going to tour six months round.
16:36And so we shall all...
16:38You'll have your knife out for us.
16:42No, I must say that the nation will be the richer for it.
16:45And I would say, if I may, as one final word, I've not had the opportunity to see you for a long time,
16:50but I'm sure you've noticed the wonderful response that came with just the fact of your name and your appearance on the stage tonight,
16:57a mark of the affection that we hold you in this country.
17:00Thank you very much, sir.
17:01It's nice to have you with us, particularly on a Sunday night.
17:05I would like to say to you that my wife and I enjoy you every week.
17:11We just adore all of you.
17:14Miss Kilgallen, Steve, of course, and Arlene Francis and Martin Gable.
17:19Never, never, never do we miss What's My Life.
17:22Thank you very much.
17:24And that is the tale.
17:26Thank you very much.
17:31Well, I must say you've done very well indeed so far tonight, panel,
17:45and we'll have another contestant after this word from our ultimate sponsor.
17:51Now, I think the odds will be slightly in our favor from here on in.
17:54Will you come in and sign in, please, the next challenger?
17:57Right there, please.
18:01Tobias Cohen.
18:05Is that right, sir?
18:12Mr. Cohen, where are you from?
18:14Bayside, Long Island.
18:15Bayside, Long Island.
18:16May I present our distinguished panel?
18:18May I just present the distinguished Mr. Cohen,
18:20because we're going to stick you with Mr. Cohen.
18:22Will you come over here and sit down and join me?
18:23Do you know how we keep going?
18:24Yes, sir, I do.
18:25All right, let's let the audience and the theater and the folks at home
18:28know exactly what your line is.
18:31All right, panel, we will tell you that Mr. Cohen is salaried,
18:43and we'll begin the general questioning with Martin Gable.
18:47Mr. Cohen, there's a sensitive quality about your face.
18:52Is there anything spiritual relating to your profession?
18:56No, sir.
18:58No, one down is nine to go.
19:01Miss Gilgallan.
19:03Mr. Cohen, is there a product involved in what you do?
19:06Yes.
19:07Is it a useful product rather than purely decorative or luxurious?
19:13I would say so.
19:15Would it be found in the home?
19:17I don't think so.
19:18That's two down and eight to go, Mr. Allen.
19:20Can it be used by men as well as women?
19:23Yes.
19:24Can it be used by children?
19:26No.
19:28That's three down and seven to go, Miss Francis.
19:30And it's found out of doors?
19:33Yes.
19:34Is that the place for it?
19:37It should be.
19:38Yes.
19:38Is it a large product?
19:43Give us a relative factor.
19:45Larger than Steve Allen's bread box?
19:48A little larger than Steve Allen's bread box.
19:51Uh-huh.
19:51Does it have any moving parts?
19:55Yes.
19:57Are they larger than Steve Allen's?
20:00No.
20:01Are they mechanical?
20:05Yes.
20:06Uh, does it, uh, does it hold something?
20:13Yes.
20:15Uh, is it used at all in a game or as an amusement of some kind?
20:24No.
20:24No.
20:24Four down and six to go, Mr. Gator.
20:27Uh, is it used for traveling in any way?
20:32Yes.
20:32Uh, could it be described as a, uh, as a carrier?
20:40Uh, you mean to the sense that it must, it would always contain something?
20:47Not always, but, uh, could it contain people?
20:51Yes.
20:51Yes.
20:52Well, is it an automobile?
20:55No.
20:55No.
20:55Let's find out.
20:56It's five to go, Miss Gilgall.
20:58Uh, is it something other than an animal?
21:04Yes.
21:05What kind of animal contain people?
21:07That's what I'm talking about.
21:08Oh, lions!
21:09A mean grizzly bear.
21:11This is a sad, this is a satisfied lion, British Russell.
21:15It has mechanical parts on it.
21:16Well, you know, you can't trust anybody on this program.
21:21Dorothy, do you know the wonderful story about the wonderful old missionary who meets the lion in the path?
21:27No.
21:27And he's so old he can't run away, so he falls to his knees and begins to pray for deliverance,
21:31and he opens one eye because nothing happens, and the lion is there in posture of prayer, too,
21:36and opens up an eye and sees the missionary's eyes open.
21:38And he says, I don't know what you're doing, Father, but I'm saying grace.
21:41All right, John.
21:54I don't know what, just the thought of people at lions, I guess, on this stage.
21:58Well, say a prayer for me tonight because I'm about to get a no.
22:01All right.
22:02Is there metal involved in whatever this is that you're connected with?
22:06Yes.
22:07Would you say it was chiefly metal?
22:10I'm sorry, didn't hear it.
22:11Would you say it was chiefly metal?
22:14Yes.
22:15Now, in answer to someone's question, you said it was a little larger than Steve Allen's bread box.
22:22Do you really mean that it's quite a good deal larger?
22:25Yes.
22:27Could it hold more than one person?
22:30Yes.
22:30Could it hold more than two?
22:33Yes.
22:33Would it ever be used by a public means of transportation?
22:38Let us say, I think the point that you're getting at, Dorothy, is probably...
22:50She's struck oil.
22:55No, but you did say it had something to do with amusement, didn't you?
23:01We said it had nothing to do with amusement.
23:03Oh, dear.
23:04Do you want to take back that gas?
23:07To answer your previous question, I think it's fair to say that it would not, in its normal use, be a public carrier,
23:14but it could be seconded over to such use.
23:18It could be what?
23:19It could be what?
23:19Beg your pardon?
23:21Does the accent go from the penult to the anti-penult?
23:24Of course.
23:25It could be transposed or converted.
23:27It could, in certain exigencies, it...
23:31War, famine.
23:32That sort of thing, yes.
23:33Does it travel on something other than solid ground?
23:43Ever.
23:44Does it travel on something other than solid ground?
23:47Yes.
23:48Does it ever go above ground?
23:52Above ground?
23:53Yes.
23:54Which it's not traveling on, you mean?
23:57Oh!
23:57Up.
23:58What?
23:59No.
23:59Oh.
24:00No.
24:00That makes it six down a...
24:01This is wonderful.
24:02I knew I'd get you.
24:03Does it travel on water?
24:04Yes.
24:06Some kind of a craft that people get into.
24:10Yes.
24:10Such as metalworking or something like that.
24:13Oh, Steve.
24:14Sorry.
24:15I have been away a long time, haven't I?
24:19Is it something that one rose?
24:23No.
24:24No, we've read it on time, but I've got to have it a second.
24:26Is it a ferry, John?
24:27No, but Martin, you...
24:29Inadvertently, you got it a bit ago when you said a carrier.
24:31Because, you see, Mr. Cohen sells used aircraft carriers, battleships, cruisers, destroyers,
24:37and some of the other...
24:38To the United States family.
24:39I just happen to need an aircraft carrier.
24:48You just happen to need an aircraft carrier.
24:51And I have a very long oars for you, Martin.
24:53Mr. Cohen is the sales contracting officer.
24:56Thank you, Mr. Cohen, very much.
24:57Nice to have you on What's My Life.
25:09Now, we'll be back again next week, and this is to say good night, Miss Dorothy Kilgallen.
25:14Good night, John.
25:14Good night, Steve.
25:15Good night, Dorothy.
25:16Good night, Arlene.
25:17Good night, Steve.
25:18Good night, Martin.
25:18Good night, Arlene.
25:19Good night, John.
25:20Good night, everybody.
25:21Good night, Martin.
25:21Good night, Bennett, wherever you are, and thanks for being with us on What's My Life.
25:27What's My Life is a CBS Television Network production in association with Mark Gibson and Bill
25:33Coffman.
25:34The preceding program was pre-reported.
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