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00:22What's My Line, brought to you by Kellogg's, Kellogg's cereals.
00:30The best to you each morning from Kellogg's of Battle Creek.
00:38Now, let's all play What's My Line.
00:49And now, live from New York, let's meet our What's My Line panel.
00:54First, the popular columnist whose voice of Broadway appears in papers coast to coast,
00:59Miss Dorothy Kilgallen.
01:09And on my left, one of the nicest and one of the best game players I know, Morton Gable.
01:20Thank you, Dorothy.
01:23The modesty of the girl on my left has prompted her to ask me to eliminate any fulsome adjectives.
01:29So, here is the shy Arlene Francis.
01:42And now, the Count of Montecisco, who is spending most of his time counting the sales of his very funny
01:51new book called Riddlesy Dee, Mr. Bennett Sirk.
02:02The rather startling piece of news came over the wires today.
02:06Yesterday, this spaceship that we set up, Mariner 2, to go all the way up to Venus and circle it,
02:12ran into a meteor on the way.
02:14But after being deflected, they got it back on its course.
02:18Astounding piece of news.
02:19It reminded me that on this show, we run into a meteor every Sunday night.
02:24And I'd like you to meteor him by now.
02:27John Charles Daly.
02:44It's barely possible we won't survive the next half hour.
02:48Well, good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to What's My Line, Morton Gable.
02:52It's nice to have you back on the panel, sir.
02:54And I think we ought to have something to honor the event of your return, so I have some good
03:00news for you.
03:01You will be putting blindfolds on for the first of our challenges tonight, and you can get ready for it.
03:06We'll also have a famous mystery guest before the panel a little bit later in the program, and we'll meet
03:12our first challenger after this work.
03:15All right, panel, as I told you, we would require that you have blindfolds on for our first challenger.
03:20The blindfolds are all in place, are they?
03:22Yes, sir.
03:23Yes, sir.
03:23In that event, I would ask our first challenger to enter and sign in, please.
03:40All right, are you familiar with our scorekeeping system?
03:43Vaguely.
03:44All right.
03:44I think, actually, it's very simple.
03:46Every time you can give them a no answer, why, we'll flip a card, ten no's, ten flips, and you've
03:51won the game, and I trust that you win it.
03:53And now we'll let our audience in the theater and those who are watching at home know exactly what your
03:57line is.
04:05All right.
04:09Panel, I'm happy to tell you that our guest is self-employed and salaried and deals in a service.
04:15And let's begin the general questioning with Dorothy Kilgallen.
04:20Do people ever pay to see you do what you do for a living?
04:26Occasionally.
04:28Do you do it indoors?
04:31Is it in any sense of sport?
04:35No, it is not.
04:36One down and nine to go, Mr. Gable.
04:40Have you anything to do with either the federal or state governments?
04:43No, I do not.
04:45Two down and eight to go, Ms. Francis.
04:46Has your name or picture been in the papers in the last couple of weeks?
04:52Yes.
04:55Is it a name recognizable to anyone in the art world?
05:03I don't mean just painting.
05:04I mean all the allied arts.
05:07I would think so.
05:08You would think so?
05:10Yes.
05:10I would concur in that.
05:12Are you a person behind the scenes rather than a performer yourself?
05:21Small conference.
05:24I don't know whether he's back or front.
05:27I think basically I would say yes.
05:31Would you be considered an associate in the world of pictures?
05:42No, I would not.
05:43Three down and seven to go, Mr. Sir.
05:45Would you have established your reputation either the fields of literature or architecture?
05:51No.
05:52Four down and six to go, Ms. Kilgallen.
05:54How about music?
05:56How about it?
05:56What's the question?
05:59Is your chief connection with fame your connection through music?
06:04I kind of accept the word fame, but my connection is with music.
06:08Well, would you accept the word well-known, successful?
06:13Distinguished reputation, yes.
06:15Distinguished reputation?
06:16Are you Leonard Bernstein?
06:17I'm his friend.
06:20Five down and five to go.
06:21He has a friend, you know.
06:22Are you, too, a conductor?
06:24No, I'm not.
06:25Six down and four to go, Ms. Francis.
06:29Does the Metropolitan Opera House mean something special to you?
06:35It certainly does.
06:36Would you be Mr. Bing?
06:38I'm his friend.
06:41Seven down and three to go, Mr. Sir.
06:43Everybody's friend, this fellow.
06:45Have you ever sung on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House?
06:47Often wished to.
06:48Never been invited.
06:49Eight down and two to go, Ms. Kilgallen.
06:52I pass.
06:54Well, that's nice.
06:58Do you do your performing infrequently?
07:03Let me say this, Martin.
07:04It has been elicited that performance as such is not a...
07:09Well, the gentleman said that people did pay to come to see him
07:12in response to a question from Dorothy.
07:13Well, I think here it was answered in a very general sense,
07:17but it has also been elicited that our guest is not a performer.
07:21Have you anything to do with the new Lincoln Center?
07:23A great deal.
07:26Are you an official of the Lincoln Center?
07:29I'm sorry, I didn't hear the question.
07:31Are you a sort of...
07:32Are you a managing director
07:34or one of the managing directors of the new Lincoln Center?
07:41You'd have to rephrase the question,
07:43but there's a certain element of truth in it.
07:46We are all seeking truth here, sir.
07:50May we have a conference?
07:52You may have 20 seconds for a conference.
07:54Maybe Martin doesn't want one.
07:55Yes, I do.
07:56I think it sounds rather like a Rockefeller.
07:59Does it to you?
07:59Are you Lawrence Rockefeller?
08:01No, I am not.
08:03No, I'm not.
08:03Is he your friend?
08:06And Francis?
08:08Well, now, since you are friendly with and care about
08:13the Metropolitan Opera Company and Lincoln Center,
08:16have you ever been associated in some way with the city center?
08:21No, I never have.
08:22Ten down and none to go.
08:24Is it Mr. Schumann?
08:26Yes, you're right.
08:36Mr. William Schumann, who is not only...
08:40And Martin, I must give you 98, because you came very close.
08:43It was a matter, really, of semantics.
08:45Not managing director, but president of the Lincoln Center of Performing Arts.
08:50Thank you, John.
08:51I appreciate your kindness, as always.
08:53I was just hoping that when we said maybe you'd come back with president, you know.
08:56I was waiting for my turn.
08:57I was trying to be polite.
08:58Well, you should all be proud of yourselves, because it was a difficult one to get.
09:01Now, needless to say, we all know that Mr. William Schumann is also one of the most distinguished composers on
09:08the current scene.
09:09Not only the American scene, but the entire scene.
09:11You got a Pulitzer Prize, if memory serves me right.
09:14Yes, I do.
09:14Back in 1940?
09:1743.
09:17I remember the date it so happens.
09:191943.
09:19Your memory serves you right, John, because you looked it up just before you came on the television.
09:22I look, well, but still, I'm getting old, you know, and I don't think they stay with me very well.
09:26But I'm happy, too, for you, sir, that your eighth symphony is to be performed this coming Thursday at the
09:32new Philharmonic Hall.
09:33So we have in our guest tonight, I don't know, the composer of the principal work on Thursday night in
09:38the Philharmonic Hall,
09:39but also the man who runs the place, or runs the joint, as we'd say in the idiom.
09:45Congratulations on a wonderful career.
09:47He ran the Juilliard School of Music, and I think perhaps had more fun or most fun in his career
09:53when he was teaching at Sarah Lawrence.
09:55Would that be right, sir?
09:55It was a great time.
09:56It was a great time, I bet.
09:58Thank you for giving us some of your precious time.
10:00It's nice to have you and welcome you.
10:11All right, now let's meet our next challenger.
10:14Will you enter and sign in, please?
10:23Anita?
10:36Is that Miss or Mrs. McMillan?
10:39Miss.
10:40Miss McMillan, where are you from?
10:41Chicago.
10:42Chicago?
10:43Nice to have you with us.
10:44May I present our panel, Miss McMillan?
10:47And now would you join me over here, please?
10:49Are you familiar with our scorekeeping system?
10:52Yes, ma'am.
10:53All right.
10:53In that event, we'll let the audience in the theater, the audience at home, know exactly what your line is.
11:05All right.
11:08Panel, Miss McMillan is salaried and deals in a product.
11:11And let's begin the general questioning with Bennett Cerf.
11:16Miss McMillan, that hairdo is rather startling.
11:19I presume it has nothing to do with the product that you are concerned with.
11:22No, it isn't.
11:23May I take that for granted?
11:24Yes.
11:25Is the product that you deal in one that is used by human beings?
11:30Yes, it is.
11:31Is it used by members of both sexes?
11:34Yes.
11:35Equally, would you say?
11:37Yes.
11:38Is it a product that they would use in their daily lives?
11:41Yes.
11:42Is it a product that might be found in the home?
11:45Yes, it would.
11:46Would it generally be found in one particular room of the home?
11:50You mean for purposes of...
11:52In general use, might it generally be found in one particular room rather than anywhere in the house?
11:58In general.
11:59Well, I would say it would be restricted.
12:01I think we could agree to that, don't you, Miss McMillan?
12:04It would be restricted to one particular area of the house and would not necessarily be found in every room
12:10of the house, yes.
12:11Might it usually be found in either the kitchen or the bathroom in the utilitarian part of the house?
12:17No.
12:18In a small conference.
12:22We want to be perfectly fair.
12:24The question was a very broad one.
12:26And we will admit that in the determination as to whether it would be found in either the kitchen or
12:33the bathroom, we would have to answer yes.
12:35Yes.
12:36Well, that doesn't seem to help us at all.
12:40Is this a product that you can hold in your hand?
12:43Yes, you can.
12:44Is it one that is available in stores to be bought?
12:49In stores?
12:50Yes.
12:51Yes.
12:51Does it come in a package?
12:54Sometimes.
12:55Well, this gets a little difficult.
12:58Let us say that it is in a container and we will agree that it's in a container.
13:03It might sometimes come in a package, too.
13:06Is it consumable?
13:09Yes.
13:10Is it eaten?
13:13No.
13:14One down and nine to go, Miss Kilgallen.
13:16Well, is it consumed internally by the human being?
13:21Yes.
13:22Is it therefore drinkable?
13:24Yes.
13:27Does it have any alcoholic content?
13:30Yes.
13:31And it's not found in every room of the house?
13:33Yes.
13:36Yes.
13:37Yes.
13:38Yes.
13:40Yes.
13:41Yes.
13:42Yes.
13:42Yes.
13:43Yes.
13:43Yes.
13:45Yes.
13:46Yes.
13:47Yes.
13:51Yes.
13:54It's like to indulge in it, describe certain medical qualities which are not necessarily
13:59provable.
14:00Does it come into the category of what is known as hard liquids?
14:08No.
14:08Three down and seven to go, Ms. Francis.
14:12By that, do you mean it has no alcoholic content?
14:15Oh, no, it has alcoholic content.
14:17But not a hard alcoholic content.
14:19But not a hard alcoholic.
14:20It's soft.
14:20You can chew it.
14:21I see.
14:24Would it be something that one might enjoy with one's meals?
14:29Yes.
14:29Is it anything in the wine family?
14:32Yes.
14:34Is it a bubbly?
14:37Could be.
14:38Could be.
14:39It could be.
14:40Well, then it isn't champagne, because if that isn't bubbly, then it ain't champagne.
14:43Well, it could be.
14:44No, we said it could be.
14:45Actually, I think we have to admit now that the product has been arrived at.
14:50But now your problem is to discover what it is that Ms. McMillan has to do with the product.
14:54She jumps on a grape.
14:57For her own happiness, I hope she's a taster.
15:02Is that your question?
15:03Yes, that's it.
15:03Wonderful.
15:04Four down and six to go, Mr. Sir.
15:06Do you have more to do with the manufacture of this product than you do with the vending
15:11of it, Ms. McMillan?
15:12No.
15:13No.
15:14Five down and five to go, Ms. Kilgallen.
15:16You are a wine sales lady?
15:20No.
15:21Six down and four to go, Mr. Gable.
15:23Do you package the wine?
15:24No, I don't.
15:25Seven down and three to go, Ms. Francis.
15:29I don't know.
15:30Is she Ms. May wine?
15:33Eight down and two to go, Mr. Sir.
15:35Do you have anything whatever to do with publicity or with demonstrating the wonderful qualities
15:40of the wines or going to conventions and something like that?
15:43Nine down and one to go, Ms. Kilgallen.
15:45What is there in wine besides the grape?
15:47Well, it was established.
15:48Oh, sorry, John.
15:49She has something to do with selling.
15:50You have 20 seconds for a conference.
15:52Didn't Bennett establish that she had nothing much to do with the manufacturing of it for
15:56his question?
15:57More with a vending.
15:57More with a vending.
15:58She's a wine?
15:59Um, well, do you do advertising or promotion?
16:03Ten down and I don't agree.
16:04No, she's a bartender at a wine house.
16:07What is she, John?
16:08What is the most obvious one that you've missed simply because Ms. McMillan is a female or not
16:12a male?
16:13A bartender.
16:13Sommelier.
16:15Sommelier.
16:15A wine steward.
16:16Right.
16:25Actually, it's Ms. Sommelier, the wine steward.
16:27Never saw a lady wine steward.
16:29I haven't either.
16:30Must have been at the Alabama.
16:31Is that?
16:32Club Alabama.
16:32Club Alabama in Chicago.
16:35Been doing it for a year and a half and was trained by her predecessor, I would take it,
16:41wouldn't it?
16:42What is she doing?
16:43By Mr. Carter.
16:43By Mr. Carter.
16:44By Mr. Carter.
16:44Where one of those things around here?
16:45And where's the Sommelier's chain?
16:47She's a sommelier, right?
16:49No, it's evidently, it's a word that is, has no feminine, so you just do it as Madame Sommelier.
16:56Are you an expert in wines?
16:58I hope I am.
17:00I try to be.
17:01She is at the Alabama, honey.
17:04Thank you very much, Mr. Bill.
17:06It's nice to have had you with us and once in my life.
17:08Thank you very much.
17:09Thank you very much.
17:19We'll meet tonight's mystery guest in just a moment, but first, here is a word from our
17:24sponsors.
17:25And now we come to the special feature of our program, the appearance of our mystery celebrity
17:29for which, once more, my friends on the panel are blindfolded.
17:33Are those blindfolds all in place, panel?
17:35Yes, John.
17:36Good.
17:36Will you enter Mystery Challenger and sign in, please?
18:00All right, panel, as you know, in the case of our Mystery Challenger, we go to a different
18:03form of questioning.
18:04You've asked one question at a time, in turn moving clockwise.
18:07And let's begin with Arlene Francis.
18:10Are you in the entertainment world?
18:13Yes.
18:15Mr. Sir.
18:18Are you in a play that is either on Broadway now or is about to come to the Broadway sector?
18:25No.
18:26One down and nine to go, Miss Kilgallen.
18:28Are you known chiefly for your work in motion pictures?
18:34Maybe.
18:36Mr. Gable, are you a woman?
18:40Maybe.
18:42That's yes, Miss Francis.
18:44I was going to say, that's the worst thing to be in doubt about I can think of.
18:52Have you ever appeared in nightclubs?
18:56Yes.
18:57Oh.
18:58Mr. Sir.
19:00Are you a dancer?
19:02No.
19:04Two down and eight to go, Miss Kilgallen.
19:06Are you primarily a singer?
19:09Yes.
19:11Mr. Gable?
19:12Are you working in New York now?
19:15Yes.
19:16Miss Francis?
19:19Well, one of the answers sounded like there was more than one.
19:23Are you half man, half woman?
19:27Yes.
19:29Mr. Sir.
19:30Are you now appearing in a New York nightclub or hotel room?
19:35Yes.
19:36Yes.
19:37Are you Gordon and Sheila?
19:38Yes.
19:40Yes.
19:41Yes.
19:50It's so hard to fool.
19:51Gordon and Sheila McRae at the Empire Room of the Waldorf.
19:54I thought Gordon was never coming in or was one of those high voices Gordon's.
19:58Well, that was deliberate, I must say, Dorothy.
20:00We tried to get it settled in your minds that only Sheila was here.
20:03And then I told Gordon to get up high, but unfortunately that wonderfully rich and glorious
20:07We got up every once, but he couldn't stay there.
20:10He couldn't stay up there.
20:11Actually, he was Svengalling me, see, and giving all the answers.
20:15We tried to fool you this time because the last time we couldn't.
20:18You're hard to fool.
20:19Well, the nice thing is I read in the papers recently, because the Empire is usual.
20:23Well, you, they're always wonderful.
20:25But I read in the papers this week, you're going to be busy doing a lot of television,
20:28a lot of things, besides Sheila raising a big, wonderful family of youngsters,
20:31whom I know, I'm happy to say.
20:33And it's wonderful to see that success continuing and growing all the time.
20:36And your husband never puts on any weight.
20:38No, that's good.
20:39I try not to, John.
20:41Well, from all of us, thanks for coming over to see us,
20:43because I know you have a big work schedule every week,
20:46and I hope we can have you back again soon in Fulham next time for sure.
20:49Bye.
20:49Nice to see you.
20:50Bye, John.
21:04Well, you've done very well so far tonight, panel,
21:06and we'll have another contestant after this word from our alternate spot.
21:10And now to meet a final contestant.
21:12Will you enter and sign in, please?
21:26Michael Kilkenny, right?
21:32Mike, if I may call you Mike, where are you from?
21:36New York City.
21:37Mike is from New York City.
21:38Panel, I also readily admit to you,
21:40because I think it's only fair that Mike is a student,
21:42but he has an occupation which is helping him pay his way through school that we're interested in.
21:46May I present our panel, Mike?
21:47Now, will you join me over here?
21:49You know how we keep score.
21:50Yes.
21:51All right, fine.
21:51Then we'll let the audience in the theater and the audience at home know exactly what your line is.
22:02All right.
22:04Panel, we're very short of time, and this is really a tricky little thing.
22:07What we're doing here is to see if you've got really good guesswork going tonight.
22:11We will tell you that Mike is salaried and deals in a product, and we'll begin with martingale.
22:17Do you ride a bicycle in the course of your after-hours job?
22:21No.
22:22One down and nine to go.
22:23Miss Francis.
22:24Is it a useful product?
22:26Yes.
22:26Product for both men and women?
22:28Yes.
22:28A product that one might find in the home?
22:32Yes.
22:32Might one carry this product oneself?
22:35Yes.
22:36Might one take it down the street if one happened to be so inclined?
22:41Yes.
22:42Might it be in the apparel world in any way?
22:46No.
22:47Two down and eight to go, Mr. Serve.
22:48Might it be in the world of food or drink?
22:50Yes.
22:52I was wrong last time.
22:53I'm going to stick to food.
22:54Is it something to eat?
22:55Yes.
22:57Is it in any kind of a sandwich or roll, like a hero sandwich or something?
23:01Yes.
23:02It's close to it, Bennett.
23:03Actually, I'm going to flip the card because I want to explain fully what it is.
23:06You were close to it, and I think you might have gotten it.
23:08Actually, what Mike does is to sell hot dogs at Yankee Stadium,
23:11and I thought you'd be there for the series, and you'd like to meet Mike.
23:15He works for the Stevens brothers.
23:17Mike, thank you very much.
23:18I'm sorry we didn't have more time.
23:20It was nice to have you on What's My Life?
23:33Well, that was kind of fun.
23:34We just wanted to see if you had the World Series in the back of your minds,
23:37and we've had a lot of fun tonight.
23:39Martin, again, nice to have you with us, and good night, Miss Dorothy Kilgallen.
23:42Good night, John.
23:43Good night, Martin.
23:43Coming down soon.
23:45Arlene.
23:47Martin.
23:48Good night, John.
23:50John, I love you in California.
23:52Good night.
23:52Good.
23:53I hope so.
23:54That's my second state these days in California.
23:56You had a good trip, I trust?
23:59That you went out to San Francisco and ate nothing but fish.
24:01I knew there was always something fishy about you.
24:04I can do it, too.
24:05And good night, ladies and gentlemen, and thanks for being with us on What's My Life.
24:13What's My Life is a CBS Television Network production in association with Mark Goodson and Bill Todman.
24:20This is Johnny Olsen speaking.
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