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Ralston, makers of Wee-Tex, Rye-Tex, Instant Ralston, and Rye Crisp.
The Ralston Purina Company, a famous checkerboard square in St. Louis, Missouri,
presents the exciting television game, The Name's the Same.
And now let's meet our panel of famous names.
Lovely radio and television actress, Joan Alexander.
That man with a grin, Gene Rayburn.
Our favorite Miss America, Beth Meyerson.
The creator of the comedy art known as Doodle, Roger Price.
And now a name everybody knows, the moderator and MC of The Name's the Same, Dennis James.
Thank you very much, everybody. Hi, once again, we say welcome to you to play Name's the Same with us.
We hope to have a lot of laughs here tonight, some interesting quizzing by our panel,
and we hope perhaps tonight we can stump this panel just a little bit.
You all know you're competing against one another, right?
Got your checkbooks ready and your pens in hand?
Competing against one another, you have ten questions apiece.
The person who correctly guesses that name of the person sitting here keeps his money.
The rest of you have to write out the checks. I think it's clear enough. Let's start quick.
Here we go, the first guest with a famous name. Here we are.
Won't you sit down, please?
A pretty one. Now, would you tell us first, not what your name is, honey, but just where you're from, will you?
From Belle Plaine, Iowa.
Do you go to school out there?
Yes, it's the University of Iowa.
Okay, swell. That's as far as we're going to go.
I'd like to explain that we're sending out ten dollars to Mrs. Maud Ray of Los Angeles, California for submitting this name.
And we'll show our audience at home now exactly what that famous name is.
So let's take a look at it.
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Tricky, eh?
All right, let's go. We'll start with Roger Price. You have ten questions, Roger.
Miss X, are you alive?
No.
Were you ever alive?
Yes.
Were you an American?
Yes.
Were you a character that is associated with some famous incident in our history?
In the history books, we might have read about you, yes.
No.
Now, rephrasing that question, in history books, might you have read about her?
Yes, but you didn't say that. You said one specific incident, Roger. Now, which do you want?
Oh, I see.
I suppose you want the one that gave you the yes answer, yes.
Are you a female?
No.
Were you a military man?
No.
I pass.
All right, Bess?
Did you hold a government position?
No.
Laugh.
Snicker. Just a snicker.
Were you connected with politics in any way?
No.
Tell me, did you live in the 20th century?
No.
In the last 200 years?
Oh, yes. Yes.
In the last 200 years. I pass.
Oh, that was kind of confusing. Did you say no to the 20th century?
That's right. She said no to the 20th century.
But I presume then that she lived, let's say, like 175 years ago.
I presume anything your little heart desires. If it confuses you, that makes us very happy, Gene.
Well, now, I hate to suggest anything to someone as pretty as you, but are you kind of an unsavory character?
I mean, did you...
I changed his favorite word tonight, you see.
Usually it has some ridiculous sounding thing like, are you notorious, you know.
Is that what you mean tonight, Gene?
Yes.
Okay. Answer his question, hon. Are you notorious?
Yes.
You are notorious.
Were you a famous robber of some kind?
Yes.
Now, has it been established that you were an American?
Yes, it has.
Well, the famous robbers that I know about in history offhand were men associated with the West.
Were you somebody like Jesse James?
Yes.
We thought that would be very confusing because it's a very pretty young lady.
When I say pretty, I mean pretty because you just won a big contest out there, didn't you?
Yes, I did.
What was the contest?
Miss University of Iowa.
Miss University of Iowa. How does it feel to be on television coast to coast?
Strange kind of feeling, is it, or a nice kind of feeling?
It's very nice.
It's a pleasure having you here. I'm sure that you've stolen nothing but the men's hearts in your lifetime.
Jesse, thank you ever so much. Pick up your checks from all the people except Gene.
Thank you on behalf of Rawson for playing me.
Nice to see you.
To coin a phrase, Rayburn, that's one time when that word of yours stayed you in good stead.
You've been asking that as long as I've been on the show.
Are you notorious? And today it worked.
Do you know why, Dennis?
Why?
Because all his ancestors were notorious.
I know his whole family, practically.
Friends, if you'd like to come down here and see the show in person and play the game before we go on the air,
have some fun, win yourself some prizes, all you have to do is write to us.
Write to names the same, ABC TV, New York 23, New York.
Now, before we meet our next guest with a famous name, here's a word from my good friend Bob Shepard.
He's over there in Checkerboard Square, so here he is.
Thank you very much, Denny.
You know, friends, this is one commercial where I'm not going to ask you to buy a package of our sponsor's product,
because I like to think that you probably have a box of Rye Crisp on hand in your kitchen right now.
Anyway, I'm just going to take that for granted because it's a fact that Rye Crisp is mighty, mighty popular in lots and lots of homes.
So, instead of asking you to buy Rye Crisp, I am going to ask you when you go shopping tomorrow to bring home some cheese.
Now, I don't care what brand or type it is.
You just get the kind you like best, whether it's American or Swiss or cream cheese or whatever.
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And then you just try it.
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Yes, friends, that's the offer we make, no strings attached.
If you don't agree that cheese and Rye Crisp really are gooder together, well, you just write me a letter from that time forward.
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Now, this is known as our uncle back guarantee.
So, how can you lose, hmm?
Remember now, that's Rye Crisp, the smorgasbord cracker in the checkerboard package.
Thank you, Bob, very, very much.
Now, panel, we're going to do one of those things again that always confuses Rayburn.
We're not going to try to find the name of a person this time.
Once again, we have an interesting name of a town, so why don't we meet our next guest from that town right now?
Here he is.
How are you, sir?
Won't you sit down?
Nice and close to a metropony here.
And this is Mr. William Dillard, ladies and gentlemen, of our panel.
He comes from a town, and that town is out in the state of Missouri, and it's a kind of a thing.
It's the same as a kind of a thing.
That's as much as we can tell him, I think, Mr. Dillard, right?
Let's show all the folks at home now what the name of that town in Missouri is.
I hope I covered that.
Mark Goodson just tripped over the set back there, and I hope that we covered it completely.
If we're all set, now let's get underway here, and we'll start with Bess Meyers.
And Bess?
Mr. Dilling, this thing your town is named after, are there quite a few of them in the state of Missouri?
I would say so, yes.
Yes?
Are they raised or grown in your area?
Sure are.
Sure, sure.
Well, I don't know what grows in Missouri.
Do you?
Yeah, I've got some ideas of what grows out there.
Well, tell me, would this be something that I would ever find at the breakfast table?
Well, now, that's a tough question, Bill, I'll tell you.
Gosh, I don't know how to answer that, Bess.
I'm really at a loss.
I would have to say the way you phrased it, yes, you could find one at a breakfast table.
I could.
Might I squeeze half a dozen of these before breakfast?
Well, I know you well enough that I can answer that for her, Bill, and say no, you wouldn't.
No.
I was thinking perhaps if it wasn't an orange, would one of these a day keep the doctor away?
No, I don't think so.
No?
No.
Five questions.
Would this, perchance, be something that would grow on the ground?
Well, yes, I guess so.
Sure, sure.
Are they often fried?
Well, I have to ask, slowly, she didn't hear you, Bess.
Are they often fried?
Well, I don't believe I ever saw one fried.
Well?
Well, I'll pass to my unsafety friend.
This thing that's raised on a farm, is this a member of the animal kingdom?
I believe so, yes.
Really?
Do you ever find them in a barn?
Yes.
Are some of them big and sloppy?
I'd say so, yes.
Really?
Well, now, can you make them happy with a pail of garbage?
Well, I don't...
That's a weird thought, isn't it?
I don't believe I ever saw one eating garbage.
Oh, well, then it's...
You know, I thought it might be a pig.
We know what you're thinking, Mike.
Well, it's not a pig.
Is it more attractive than a pig?
Well, I would say so.
Some of them are.
Is this, by any chance, a two-legged animal?
Yes, yes.
Really?
Does it ever fly?
In an airplane, yes.
Yes, it can fly on an airplane.
Does a good one lay an egg every day?
It's a good thing you didn't hear what he said.
I would have never gotten that line from you.
Does a good one lay an egg every day?
I don't believe they do.
I've never seen one.
Well, then it's not a chicken, is it?
No, it isn't.
Well, then I'll pass.
Is this, by any chance, a human being?
Now, watch her, Mr. Dillard.
She comes right at you, cutting hard, wide and handsome.
Watch her now.
I guess you could call them human beings.
I think you would have to, yes.
Is it a certain type of human being?
Yes.
I see.
And is it male, or can it be either?
Answer yes or no.
Yes, it would have to be a male.
It would have to be a male?
It is the whole human being as opposed to part of the human being, is that right?
It's the whole human being.
The whole hog.
Does it imply some sort of grossness, as you say hog?
No, it does not, Joan.
It does not?
I was just going back to Gene's old gag there.
I see.
Is it something funny, Dennis?
Is it an amusing kind of a human being?
Not in itself, no.
Not in itself?
It's in the butt of many jokes and things like that, but it has to be amusing in itself.
It has been in the butt of many jokes.
I see.
Well, Roger knows all about that, so I'll pass to him.
Roger.
Is this type of person classified because of his marital state there?
No.
Is it a family type, relationship type name, like Grandpa?
No.
Didn't you hear vehemently I said no to you, Roger?
I don't want to throw you way off the beam.
You said is it because of his marital state.
Does it have in-law in it?
No.
Is it nothing like...
Now, Joan, he knows and it's too late.
What is it?
Is it nothing like cousin, brother, uncle, aunt?
No.
It is...
Would I be one of these things?
I don't know, Roger, to be honest with you.
I never did find out.
Father.
Father, no.
Bachelor.
Bachelor, right, yes.
Well, I kind of took it away from Bill there for a minute.
I know we're running very long on that particular one.
I thought you were getting close, but you said does it have to do with your marital state.
And I didn't want to say the lack of it, you know.
All right.
So we want to show everybody now a grown up enlarged postal stamp
to authenticate this town out there in Missouri.
out there in Missouri, so let's let all the folks look at that right now, can we?
There it is. Now we'll talk to Mr. Dillard for just a second and find out what you do out there.
So what do you do?
Well, I'm a farmer and a substitute mail carrier.
Mm-hmm. And what's the population of this town?
About 20.
About 20?
How'd they get its name?
Well, there were two old bachelors settled there, I understand, years ago, and that's the way it got its name.
From those two bachelors. Are there any bachelors there now of the 20 that you know of?
Oh, yes. Yes, yes, there's still bachelors.
Are there?
I might ask you a question. Are you one of them?
Sure.
How do you like that?
Dillard, thank you very much on behalf of the Lawford Post. Pick up your check.
From everybody.
There you are.
Give me the table.
I don't know quite what to do with you that time, Rog.
All right, now let's carry on here. I'd like you to meet our guest star here tonight.
I think you're going to get a real kick out of meeting this gentleman.
Known around the world in the field of modern art, the celebrated painter, Mr. Salvador Dali.
Say hello.
Salvador, before we start and play our little game with you, I just want to say that I've been reading some very nice things about you.
You're now designing jewelry, too, are you not?
Yes, just finished one complete collection of electronic jewels.
Electronic jewels?
Yes, diamonds, jumping and romping in every direction.
I see, kind of like your paintings with those suspended all over.
Completely in dynamic form.
I'm very anxious to see them. Are they on display someplace, an exhibit, or are they for sale, or what?
No, it's just complete.
I see.
Sometimes.
I see. All right, now let's play our game. This is something that's a wish that Mr. Dali has, a desire.
You know.
It's something, yes, I know, yes.
In a moment I'm going to let the people know. You do not know, we know.
This is something that Mr. Dali wishes to see.
Let's show the home audience right now what it is that Salvador Dali wishes to see.
All right, Joan, I'm going to start with you now. Remember, this is something Salvador would like to see.
This thing you'd like to see, Mr. Dali, does it involve something artistic?
Almost artistic.
I would say definitely.
Definitely artistic?
Thank you.
Does it involve something tangible? Could I hold it in my hand?
Yes, that's possible.
I could. Well, could you describe this as a work of art?
It's almost one work of art.
Yes?
Very close.
It's a work of art.
If I got one, would I hang it on my wall?
It's impossible.
It's impossible?
Impossible.
I would say impossible, yes, Salvador. But then with you, really, nothing's impossible, you know. Nothing. Joan?
Is this the sort of thing which you would create yourself?
Absolutely.
What you have designed.
What is original.
You've designed some absolutely beautiful jewelry. Is it something that could be worn?
Yes, yes.
It could be worn?
Yes.
Would I cause somewhat of a sensation if I wore it, say, to the opera?
She said, would she cause a sensation, Mr. Dali, if she wore it at an opera? I think the roof would fall in, no?
Yes.
Well, in that case, I'll pass because I thought it was something to do with Mr. Dali's jewelry.
No, it is not. Roger?
Is this something to do with something that might cause people to ask you how you fixed for blades?
You understand that, Mr. Dali? Yes.
Is it something to do with a tremendous mustache, which is a book out on now, isn't it?
The mustache?
Yes.
The same mustache?
You have two questions there.
That is, something to do with the mustache. You'd like to see something happen to the mustache.
You'd like to see it clear around so you can tie it in the back?
No.
You'd like to see more. You'd like to see yourself with a goatee.
Au contraire. I don't like it.
You'd like to see the mustache on someone else.
Yes.
Ava Gardner.
Listen, that is not as silly as it sounds.
Roger, that is not as silly as it sounds, and we come up to a point later. Go ahead.
Someone who would not normally be wearing a mustache.
You'd like to see the mustache on someone who would not normally wear one.
Who else besides Salvador Dali normally wears it?
True.
Is somebody in show business?
Is it somebody in show? It could be. It would have to encompass him. Yes. Three questions.
Okay, I pass.
Would it be a male that you would like to see this mustache on? I presume since you said that Joan would tear the roof down.
Would it be a male that you'd like to see this mustache on?
Yes.
Would it be a gentleman right here on this panel?
This is what time you're getting fucked, kid.
Yes, we have to include. Yes.
If not Gene again?
No. Would it be Roger?
Yes, it's Gene and Roger.
Both of them, you would like to see a mustache very similar to yours on both Gene and Roger?
Yes, but that's not the end of it.
What about Dennis?
And Dennis?
That's not the end of it.
And me?
No, that's the end of it.
No, you're so close, I'm going to have to give it to you.
He's going to put it on.
Right, right, right. An all man. An all man.
Thank you.
Roger, Roger, you happen to mention a book about Salvador Dali's mustache.
Here it is, Dali's mustache, Salvador Dali and Philip Polsman.
And he's got a technique now for putting mustache on women.
So it's not so funny what you said.
This is full of some weird pictures. In the back here, it says.
Transparent mustache for women.
Yeah, not on me.
Wait a minute, wait a minute.
It says here, warning, this book is preposterous and what's going to happen now is preposterous.
Gentlemen, join me.
Come on, Salvador.
Go ahead.
All right.
Mr. Vukovic and the mustache.
Yes, here's he.
He, he, he, all that, the whole thing, the mustache, he, he, he, all that.
Now stand here.
No, Gene, over here.
Now you stand here and you stand here.
No, no, no, don't have to face the audience right now.
No, no, no.
Turn your back.
That's all right.
I know you've had this great stage training and all.
But turn your back just the same.
Am I seen straight?
Yes.
And, uh, let me make.
Excellent.
Very good.
I'd make myself good.
Excellent.
All right, now you may turn around, gentlemen.
Wow.
Mine is grueling.
Gene.
Me too.
No.
Mr. Duffy.
No.
Now.
No, no, no, no.
It's possible to improve myself one more.
Don't laugh.
I forgot to tell you, this is indelible pencil.
It'll never come off.
It's all right.
I'm going to have him sign it and then I'm going to charge $5,000 for the face.
Blue tastes delicious.
Method, method, method.
Very good.
Boy, you can take them off now and go back and make out your check.
Boy, you try to keep a mine iron, man.
Well, look, I got to get mine off.
Mr. Dolly, I want to thank you very much for coming down here today.
If I can, I have to talk about something very important.
Mr. Dolly, thank you very much.
Let's give him a nice hand, everybody.
Salvatore Dolly.
Let me get a cupcake.
Woo!
Ah, you like this kettle of fish.
Two of them.
You'll have to just forgive me for a moment.
Oh, darn this business of show business with all the makeup.
Hey, it comes off all right.
You can't bear to look at this much longer, though.
I mean the face, Rayburn.
Dennis, you said that they had discovered a way to put mustaches on women.
Yes, he said that.
What I want to know is if they discovered a way to take them off.
I have to take these off right now because I am about to read to you a note from our sponsor.
And I wouldn't want to do anything silly like have a mustache and stuff on at that time.
Let's see if I can find this note quickly.
It says here, we are the Ralston folks.
Dennis would like you to tell the folks that all of them may see in some grocery stores large displays of hot Ralston,
both instant and regular, with a big dinosaur on top of it.
Now, right now, let's show everybody.
Can we get a camera over there and show the folks what this display looks like in all those grocery stores?
May we?
All right, good.
May we.
Now you're saying it.
I don't want you to get the wrong idea about this Ralston dinosaur.
I don't want you to think a bowl full of steaming hot Ralston,
even slightly resembled a fillet of Prontosaurus or a dinosaur stew or anything like that.
Matter of fact, this hot Ralston has a nice nutty wheat flavor that, well,
it's completely unlike anything else you've ever tasted, dinosaurs included.
Furthermore, I can tell you this for sure, for dang sure,
that you cannot get a live dinosaur for 25 cents plus a hot Ralston box top.
The idea of the dinosaur, and I guess you know this,
is simply to attract your attention to the hot Ralston when you enter your favorite neighborhood store.
Now, as far as I'm concerned, you can completely ignore Mr. Dinosaur.
Pay no attention to him at all as long as you pay attention to this, the hot Ralston.
Okay?
And then someday real soon, some morning, when you want to really enjoy your breakfast,
want to be real nice to yourself, you cook up a steaming bowl full of hot Ralston
and you find out for yourself how really downright good it is, huh?
Either way, regular, which has been a favorite for half a century,
and instant Ralston, which cooks up in just 10 seconds.
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You'll find that it's the famous hot cereal from Checkerboard Square.
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All right?
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I would have loved to have stayed with you fellas, really, with the mustaches.
You look like the cat.
I just didn't want to take away anything from the dinosaur.
Let's carry on here with our next guest with a famous name.
Here he is.
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Won't you sit down?
I hope you don't mind the greasing hand.
That happens to be cold cream, and I think we ought to jump right into the game, sir,
and we'll tell all the folks at home what your famous name is.
So you folks take a look at it right now and pal, you figure it out.
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All right.
Now, let's start with Gene Raven.
Gene, we only got a couple of minutes.
Okay, are you living?
Yes.
Are you a male?
Yes.
Are you an American?
Yes.
He always talks like that when he has a mustache on.
Living American male, are you in the arts?
Yes.
Are you known for your work primarily in motion pictures?
Yes.
Are you a juvenile lead?
Good question, huh?
Are you a juvenile delinquent?
Are you a...
No, not a juvenile lead, Gene.
Are you a character actor?
Are you a character?
I pass.
No, he's not answering my question, so I'm just going to pass.
Apparently you're just a leading man, is that right?
Oh, you catch on so quick there, Jody.
Have you been in pictures for a long time?
Yes.
Do you have any distinguishing physical characteristics?
To you, Jody, yes.
Yes?
Yes, but not really to anybody else.
Not really to anybody else.
Now, that's odd, isn't it?
Above the neck?
I would have to say it's the whole thing.
What?
The whole thing.
The whole thing is distinguished to me.
Yeah.
If you're a girl, are you a girl?
Then it is.
You bet on the girl.
You can say that again, can't you?
Yes, you can.
All right.
I pass.
You pass.
Sorry.
Do you have a distinctive way of talking, sir?
You can be mimicked.
Yes.
Are you Clark Gable?
No.
Jimmy Stewart?
No.
Tyrone Power?
No.
Robert Taylor?
No.
You've got 100 to go.
Go ahead, man.
Me.
No.
Gary Cooper?
Yes.
Very, very good.
How can you answer, Joan, whether or not Gary Cooper has distinguishing characteristics?
I think the girl's...
All the girls just think.
Sure.
Look at him when he stands up.
Now, pay attention to him.
He's very tall.
He's just like the real Gary Cooper.
You get $60 from the Raulston folks.
Thank you for playing the game.
Everybody but Roger Price.
Mr. Cooper, thank you.
Thank you.
There you are, Gary Cooper.
Thank you.
It's so nice to have you here.
He's a big man.
All right.
Now, we're going to have an accounting from you people in just a second.
But first, I just want to say this.
We'd like to know from you folks about famous names of people, places, and things.
Now, as a way of getting $10, if you send that name in to us and we use it on the air,
if it's a person, make sure that you include the name and address and phone number, will you?
Just address it to names the same, ABC TV, New York 23, New York.
If we use it, we send you $10.
All right.
Quickly now, Chilin, let's have an accounting.
I lost $80.
The things you have to do to prove you're a girl around here.
Yeah.
Gene?
Good bye, everybody.
I lost $60, but I still have enough to have this thing dry cleaned and pressed.
Good bye.
Beth?
Well, I lost $80, but I still have enough to give him money to take it off.
Good bye.
I lost $60.
I'm going to wear mine all night.
You're ridiculous.
You know, it's very becoming on all of you.
I want to thank you very much for playing the game.
I thank all of you people for looking in.
Right now, I got mine off.
Salvatore Talley paints with his.
This is Dennis James speaking for the Ralston folks.
The Ralston Purina Company out in Checkerboard Square in St. Louis, Missouri, saying bye-bye.
Talk to you next week.
Bye.
Bye bye.
Bye.
See you next week.
Bye.
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