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Time now to enjoy What's My Line?
Now let's meet our What's My Line panel of well-known personalities whose lines you already
know.
First, the popular columnist whose voice of Broadway appears in the New York Journal American
and papers coast to coast, Miss Dorothy Kilgallen.
And on my left, a gentleman whose very, very funny new book, Good for a Laugh, will be
on sale all over the country tomorrow morning, Mr. Bennett Sirsh.
On my left is a very glamorous young lady who was one of the chief inspirations for
that book, Miss Arlene Francie.
Able to watch the ball game today because his television set went on the blink.
Hal Sandsack Block.
Well, thank you, Arlene.
And I won't say that my set was on the bum, but those bumps were sure all over the set.
And on my left, one of my favorite baseball fans.
This is a man who just came from the dentist and he's still worrying about the yanks, John
Daly.
Thank you.
Thank you and good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
Welcome to What's My Line?
Presented by Stopette.
Once again tonight, we've got some friends who've come in from the several states of
the Union, all of them with varied and we hope unexpected occupations to give our friends
in the panel a run for the money.
They hope to carry home some prizes.
We'll also have a famous guest challenger before the panel a bit later in the program,
but now to start things rolling, it's time for the experts to meet our first challenger
whose job they've got to spot.
So will you sign in, please, sir?
John Butler.
Is that right?
All right.
Mr. Butler, please come in.
Mr. Butler, would you be good enough to tell us where you live?
San Diego, California.
Well, nice to have somebody from California with us.
Our friends on the panel there, I'm sure are not strangers to you, but they want to know
you even better than they do.
So would you walk over there?
May I see your muscle, Mr. Butler?
Thank you.
Is it muscle or stuff like that?
It's muscle.
All right, Mr. Butler, if you'll come over here and sit down next to me now on the basis
of that fine, firm, strong, and confident handwriting of yours and that small trip you
just took in front of the panel, we give them at this point one free guess as to what your
line may be.
And we'll begin the free guesses with Miss Kilgallen.
I think he's a champion golfer.
A champion golfer.
Mr. Cerf?
I think he's a younger brother of Rhett Butler from Gone With the Wind.
Miss Francis?
I think he's a government astronomer.
A government astronomer.
Mr. Block?
I think he puts chlorophyll in cloth drops for people who have a stinking cold.
No, I'm afraid nobody has the right answer.
We'll let our viewers at home have a further look at Mr. Butler.
At the same time, we'll tell them what his line is.
But the panel's got to dig.
What happens here, Mr. Butler, is every time you give the panel a no answer, it costs the
panel $5.
We keep the record here.
Ten noes, you've won the game.
One more bit of help for the panel.
Mr. Butler is salaried.
With that, we'll begin the general questioning with Miss Francis.
Mr. Butler, are you associated in a kind of work that is indigenous to California?
I beg your pardon?
I'd say no.
No.
I would say...
You can do it anywhere, what you do.
Yeah, you can do anywhere, what he does.
That's one down and nine to go, Mr. Block.
Do you deal in services?
Yes.
Are these services something that maybe you have to have some kind of training for?
No training is necessary.
No, it is...
You mean this is an untrained one?
No, actually, I think that in the term of training is we use it.
I'm not using it that way.
Well, we'll accept it as being used that way.
Actually, a specific kind of training is not necessarily a specific to practice.
And I did better with indigenous?
Well, the whole thing is really indigenous.
There's no question about it.
Two down and eight to go, Miss Kilgallen.
Mr. Butler, when you do your work, do you ever wear any other type of garb than what
you're wearing now?
You mean other than normal street clothes?
No.
That would make it three down and seven to go.
Mr. Sack?
Mr. Butler, you're a very husky specimen.
Does that strength and athletic look about you have anything to do with the work you
do?
No.
Now, wait a minute.
This gets, pardon me, we got to have a conference.
We just had a committee meeting, it's no.
Four down, six to go, Miss Benson.
Thank you for the consideration.
Do you work for a profit-making organization?
No.
A fellow that looks like you?
He looks quite profitable.
Very, very profitable.
No, huh?
No.
No profit makes.
That makes five down and five to go, Mr. Block.
Well, we'll accept that.
Mr. Butler, you're a very good man.
I'm a good man.
Well, could a person like myself ever get into your business?
I wouldn't think it was possible, no.
But we must always assume that mistakes can happen, so we'll give you a qualified yes.
Sounds very dirty to me.
Well, the last time I said that, it was in a racket of some type.
It was, I think, somebody that had a roulette wheel in Reno.
Is your business at least legal?
It's legal, yes.
And it's so funny?
Well, is it something that women use?
Yes.
Well, do they have to come to you?
Sometimes.
I think Dorothy is a little better on what women use.
All right, you pass.
Miss Kilgallen.
I don't even know how we got into anybody using anything.
Do you mean women use your services, Mr. Butler?
Yes.
Do you ever talk to people?
Is that part of your work?
Yes.
Does your eloquence have anything to do with your work?
Yeah, I guess it does.
We'll give you a yes on that.
Mr. Butler, do you work for any branch of any government?
Yes.
Is it either local or state, as opposed to federal?
Yes.
Now I just have to find out whether it's local or state.
Is it local?
Yes.
Are you an arm of the law in any sense?
In any sense?
I guess in any sense we'd have to say yes.
You can't rephrase that in any sense.
I don't think it's helping me much.
And yet you never wear a uniform.
No.
Do you work indoors sometimes?
Yes.
Is it possible for you to work out of doors too?
Yes.
Do you deal with men as well as with women?
Yes.
Are they ever in trouble when you see them?
Sometimes.
And do you help them get out of trouble?
Sometimes.
Whoa, sorry.
Would it be that sometimes they might be punished after they see you for some misdeed?
No, I wouldn't think so in the specific of the question.
I think we'd have to give you another six down, 40 to go, Mr. Searcy.
Mr. Butler, has your work got anything to do with health or sanitation?
Yes.
Well, I'll make it easy for Arlene.
Is it something to do with sanitation?
It has something to do with sanitation.
Something to do with sanitation.
Well, are you connected in any way with the San Diego Department that cleans things up
in the way of removing garbage?
You mean the specific connection, I think we'd have to give you a no.
Seven down and three to go, Ms. Francis.
Do you mean that therefore apart from health and sanitation, Mr. Butler may do other things,
other governmental things in his job?
Health and sanitation is not the only thing.
We got it down to local government, was it, Dorothy?
Is it city government then that you are involved in?
Yes.
Do you have an important position in city government?
Yes.
Would it be in the top echelon of jobs then as people that direct the city or work for
the city?
Yes.
Would you be considered one of the head men?
Would you maybe be a head man?
Like a mayor?
Yes.
Nancy Butler.
This is John Butler, the young mayor.
The young mayor.
The mayor of San Diego, California.
And I'm quite sure that you will know a friend of mine there, Paul White, who was the head
of the great CBS radio news service and who worked with us in the conventions.
I'm sure he had a lot of fun because it took the panel so long to get here.
I didn't think it would take him so long.
You've done fairly well with the prizes, but more than that, we hope you enjoyed your visit.
It was nice to have us with you.
Your Honor.
All right, panel, let's see what we can do with another challenger.
Will you come out, please, and sign in?
Carl Mills.
How are you, Mr. Mills?
Would you be good enough to tell us where you're from, sir?
Atlanta, Georgia.
Well, nice to have you.
We're west and the south, so will you go slightly east, please, and walk down in front of the
panel for me?
Mr. Mills, you look as though I ought to look at your hand.
Thank you.
All right, Mr. Mills, will you come over here now and sit down next to me?
And at this point, as you probably heard, we give the panel one free guess, since they've
had a look at you and had a chance to hear your voice briefly, one free guess as to what
your line may be.
We'll begin the free guesses, as usual, with Miss Kilgallen.
I think that Mr. Mills is a preacher.
A preacher, Mr. Cerf.
I think he must be connected with Coca-Cola if he lives in Atlanta.
Miss Francis.
I think he's in the magnolia growing business.
Well, shut my heaven up a mile.
Mr. Block.
I'd say he's a secret accountant.
He deals with secret funds.
Now, I'm afraid nobody has it right.
We'll let the folks at home have a further look at Mr. Mills, and at the same time, we'll
tell them what his line is.
But the panel has to dig, as usual.
Mr. Mills, you know how we play this game.
We keep the record up here, and every time you can give them a no answer, it costs them
$5.
Ten noes, you've won the game.
All right, Mr. Mills is salaried.
With that, let's begin the general questioning with Mr. Block.
Mr. Mills, you deal in services.
Yes.
Do you have a certain place where you work?
Yes.
Do your customers come to you?
Yes.
Do you have sort of a steady clientele?
That must be a nice place.
Do you ever have...
Oh, quiet.
I can't think.
Do you ever have music playing there?
Yes.
Do you serve food there?
Yes.
Do you have a job?
Yes.
Do you have a job?
Yes.
Do you have a job?
Yes.
Do you have a job?
Yes.
Do you have a job?
Yes.
Do you have a job?
Yes.
Do you have a job?
Yes.
Well, if I developed an accent and went to Georgia, could I use some of your southern
hospitality?
Yes.
If you went to Georgia, you'd probably get some of it in the past.
Coming from you.
Could there ever be...
Could your customers ever be sort of boisterous or rambunctious people that come to you?
They might.
Yeah, they could be.
They could be.
We don't like to think that they would, but they could be.
In other words, you also serve beverages.
Yes.
Yes?
Well, do you have anything to do with curbing their boisterousness?
Yes.
I mean, any well-run place, you would, you know.
Well, when these customers get up to dance together, do you... and they get out of line,
do you ever throw them out of the joint?
That would be one down.
This is not a bouncer.
He doesn't know.
I think he's... that's just a flat no to that one.
All right, Miss Kilgallen.
Mr. Mills, despite all the yes answers that Mr. Block got about the music and the food
and the steady clientele, may I assume that you do not run a nightclub?
Yes, you may assume that Mr. Mills does not run a nightclub.
Is it more like an institution that you run?
Yes, it's more like an institution.
Is it a large building?
Reasonably, yes.
Does it have any bars in it?
Would you care to explain what you mean?
Well, I mean, is it a prison-type place or penitentiary?
Yeah, I guess it is something like that.
Are people held there incarcerated against their, let us say, will?
Well, they don't actually petition to get in, let us say.
Are these people prisoners, let's say?
Yes.
Does Mr. Mills run a prison or a penitentiary?
Yes.
Is he a warden?
He's a prison warden, for heaven's sake.
Yes, Mr. Block?
About your southern hospitality.
I may not come out there.
Is it the federal penitentiary, Mr. Mills?
Is it the federal penitentiary?
No, it's not the federal.
It's the branch of the state, prison branch of the state.
Well, I must say in the movies, they never make the wardens that good-looking.
He's also a very fine gentleman to sit and spend some time talking to.
I'm sorry that he couldn't spend more time with us.
Well, I'm not sorry.
I would not like to spend much time with him at all.
Well, that suits.
You see, I figure I can spend time with him outside of the bars,
but I know how you feel, Helen.
Thanks very much for coming and being our guest.
It was nice to have you with us here.
And now, in just a moment, ladies and gentlemen, we'll introduce our mystery guest.
But first, here's a young lady you already know, Barbara Joyce.
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And now we come to the regular feature of our program,
the appearance of our mystery celebrities.
Since my friends on the panel would recognize our famous guest immediately,
we've provided them with blindfolds.
Are they all in place, panel?
Yes, sir.
Good. Will you come in, mystery challenger, and sign in, please?
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Now we'll be joining you over here.
Panel, as you know, in the case of our mystery celebrity,
we get right down to the general questioning,
which we will begin with Miss Dorothy Kilgallen.
Are you in show business?
Yes!
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Have you ever appeared in motion pictures?
Yes!
Are you better known for motion pictures than anything else?
Yes!
Have you ever appeared in a film musical?
No!
One down and nine to go, Mr. Cerf.
Well, I think it's important to establish something right off the bat,
which I'm not really sure of.
Are you a female?
Yes!
Could have been either.
Are you American?
Yes!
Are you, uh, I don't want to be unchevelrous,
but are you under 40?
No!
You're down and eight to go, Miss Patsy.
Am I right in assuming that yes is not your regular voice?
Yes!
You have been in pictures for some years?
Yes!
You do not sing and dance.
Are you a dramatic actress?
I am both!
You're both dramatic and an actress?
Well, now, the answer is there that our guest is both a dramatic actress
and can also do lighter elements, singing and things like that.
Our guest could also be a comedian?
Mm-hmm.
She certainly is now.
Have you been associated with one studio in California?
No!
That makes it three down and seven to go, Mr. Block.
I love that voice.
You know, when I was a kid, I had a voice that high,
and my teacher made me sit with the girls.
And when I got old enough to enjoy it, my voice changed.
All right, Mr. Block.
Your other block.
Uh, have you been in a picture within the last two years?
Yes!
For the very high-ranking picture.
Have you been in a picture within the last year?
Yes!
Last six months?
Yes!
Tomorrow?
Probably yes to that, too. You go ahead, Mr. Block.
Uh, has it been determined that it hasn't been a musical?
It has been determined that our guest has not done a musical in the movies yet.
Uh, have you been a favorite, let us say, for, say, 10 or 15 years?
Yes.
A big favorite.
Now our voices change.
Now, wait a minute.
You've been a favorite for 15 years,
and within the last six months, you made a picture?
Yes!
And your voice is like that?
You know, I don't know.
...painting an appearance on Broadway?
Yes!
Are you Betty Davis?
Yes!
Betty Davis!
Thank you very much.
Thank you very much for joining us.
Thank you, Mr. Block.
And now, while our next challenger gets ready to sign in,
let me tell you very briefly that if you'd like to be on What's My Line
and try to puzzle our panel with your occupation,
you can send us your picture, a snapshot that you can spare,
your name, your address, your occupation,
let us know when you're going to be in New York,
and send all of this information not to me, that merely delays it.
Send it to What's My Line, CBS, 485 Madison Avenue, New York, 22, New York.
And now, a final challenger.
Will you sign in, please?
Irene...
Currett, is that right?
And tell us, first of all, where you live.
I live in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Indianapolis, Indiana.
Would you be good enough to walk down in front of the panel,
turn right around and come back again, because time is getting short.
It's right near Chicago.
All right, and now would you come over here and sit down next to me, please?
Right over here, Ms. Currett.
And on the basis of that handwriting and that quick walk,
we'll get the panel right into what you must know happens now,
the free guesses to what your line may be,
and we'll begin the free guesses with Ms. Kilgallen.
I think she's an expert in the poetry of James Whitcomb Riley.
Good heavenly days. Mr. Cerf?
Judging by that mink wrap, I think she does something for the government.
Ms. Francis?
I think she runs a smart hotel in Indianapolis.
Mr. Block?
I think she's cute.
Then I'll buy, but that isn't the answer we were looking for,
so we'll let our viewers at home have a further look at Mrs. Currett,
and at the same time, we'll tell them what her line is,
but the panel has got to work.
The panel, you've got just about three minutes to get it in.
We'll give you one more bit of help.
Mrs. Currett is self-employed.
With that, Bennett Cerf, suppose you pull your six feet up to the top height
and go to work on the general questioning.
Mrs. Currett, you're self-employed.
Yes.
Do you perform some kind of service?
Yes.
Is there any product involved in the service that you perform?
Yes, there is.
Is this service performed for both sexes?
Yes.
Indiscriminately?
Indiscriminately, yes.
Do you ever perform it for both sexes at the same time?
Oh, yes.
Oh, you do?
Would this service that you perform have anything to do with your extreme good looks?
You flatter me.
Does your appearance help you in the work you do?
It's a grand question, a very flatter question.
I quit stealing my stuff.
I cut you one down, nine to go, Miss Benson.
Is the product that you represent, is it found in the home?
Yes.
Is it something that might be decorative in some way?
Yes, I would say.
Is it also useful?
Yes.
Is it found, if one had a two-story house, would it be found on the first floor?
Yes.
Would it be usually found in one specific room?
No, that would be two down and eight to go, Mr. Block.
Is it something that could be carried around?
Yes, you could carry it around.
It's the product, yes.
It's small enough, let's say, to carry in your hands?
Yes.
Now let's get down to the room.
Is this a room, you say it could be in more than one room?
Yes, it could.
I see.
Is it something that has movable parts?
No, it is not.
That would be three down and seven to go, Miss Kilgallon.
Is it something that could be worn?
No.
That would be four down and six to go, Mr. Sir.
Mrs. Courette, is this anything to do with providing amusement for people?
No.
Five down and five to go, Miss Francis.
Is it something that you might have showing in your house if you had it?
Yes.
Is it something that would be out on display?
Yes.
Like a petticoat.
Is it something that would be put on something else?
Yes.
Would it be put on a table?
No.
Six down and four to go, Mr. Block.
Is it something that sometimes has to be designed?
Yes.
I got a yes.
Is it something that's put on a lot of furniture?
On a lot of furniture, that would make it seven down and three to go, Miss Kilgallon.
Does this object have a specific use?
Yes.
Is it solid?
Yes, it is.
But it's small enough to hold in the hand?
Yes.
It could be held in the hand.
Do you make this particular thing yourself?
No, that makes it eight down and two to go, and I'm afraid our time is up.
Mrs. Courette is a paper hanger.
How are you doing, kid?
I'm losing it.
A paper hanger.
She started doing it for fun, now loves it, and makes rather substantial increments,
shall we say, every year.
Oh, I'm wonderful.
Since you won by default, you get the full prize.
Oh, thank you.
Thanks a lot for being our guest and watching my life.
Thank you.
And now, in just a moment, ladies and gentlemen, we're going to give you a preview look
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For the answers to these and some other interesting questions,
be sure to tune in again next Sunday night at 10.30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.
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Until then, this is John Daly saying goodnight, Dorothy.
Goodnight, Bennett.
I was just thinking Hitler was a paper hanger.
Haven't they gotten nicer? Goodnight, Arlene.
Goodnight, Hal.
And happy paper hanging in a Georgia jail.
And goodnight, ladies and gentlemen, and thanks for being with us on What's My Line?
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