At 3:12, John Charles Daly says that he wants to see the kinescope of the show that Bennett Cerf will host the following Sunday. He is using the word "kinescope" in a way that is familiar to many viewers of this channel, to mean a film recording of a program that is displayed on a television receiver. The earliest citation of this usage in the Oxford English Dictionary is from 1949. However, the term "kinescope" dates back to at least 1930. It was coined by Vladimir Zworykin to refer to a special kind of cathode-ray tube that he invented to be used in a television receiver.
I had the pleasure of taking my parents to see Patti Page here in Cleveland in 1975. She was stunning and in great voice.. Very sweet and gave my parents a wonderful evening.
Jim Backus seems to have a sense about people. Twice, he was called on first to ask a question about the occupation of the first two contestants and both times he asked a first question that led the panel quite easily to their occupations. Then, he was the one who finally came up with both The occupations of the first and second contestants! They should have had him on more often...or maybe the producers thought he was TOO good!
Mrs. Rincon de Gautier was a Puerto Rico icon, and mayor from 1946-1968. Prior to that, she was a pharmacist, business owner (clothing and, later, flowers), and suffragette/suffragist. Once she retired as mayor, she became a Goodwill Ambassador for four American Presidents. She died in 1994. I mostly posted that to make sense of the Stand-Up Watch, in which Dorothy didn't, but Arlene did.
@z At that time Hispanic was from the Latin and Greek that referred to people of Spanish-speaking origins and sometimes got expanded to the Iberian Peninsula to include, erroneously, Portugal, Basque country, the Catalan part of Spain. But it was not a racial designation. It was intended to be Spanish-speaking from Greek and Latin for Spanish, Spaniard, Spanish-surname. So it was not racially insensitive to those from Latin America. My close friend who is Cuban is of Spanish, French & Irish descent and is white, but is included in Spanish-surname categories. There are technically, of course, many peoples of the earth who are Latin-descent or Latin-language without having ancestors from Spain. Latins have long included all those from nations speaking romance languages, Latin-based, and sometimes others who are part of their nation and culture, though their language many not be historically Latin-based if separate, as in Basque. It was a language, culture based term, not intended to be a racial or ethnic category at all.
I went back to view the exit again, and indeed Dorothy remained glued to her seat as she shook the mayor's hand. Being mayor generally elicits deep regard and respect. To hold that position as female in those years speaks volumes of Mrs. Gautier by the commissioners' vote, as I understand it. She strikes me as a diplomatic woman doing a successful job of improving the lives of many...
Ms. Page had a very endearing quality in her voice, evidenced particularly in "Old Cape Cod", "Mama From The Train (A Kiss, A Kiss)" and "Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte". She also had the ability to let loose on songs such as "Cross Over The Bridge" and "I Wish I Never Was Born". She was also a most elegant TV show hostess.
And the British DJ duo of Groove Armada sampled her hit Old Cape Cod for their first UK hit of At The River, in 1999. Check it out since it is a slow melodic use of her hit.
One of the greatest female singers of all time. She had a very unique and wonderful style of singing that touched a lot of people in many different ways. I'm very privileged to know one of her nephews and hear many stories about Patti Page
As the Dodgers and Giants were heading into their final week as teams representing New York City, on this date the Dodgers played their next to last home game at Ebbets Field, beating the Phillies, 7-3. Duke Snider hit a pair of home runs off future fellow Hall of Fame member Robin Roberts, giving him 40 on the season. It was his fifth consecutive year of hitting 40 or more, tying Ralph Kiner's NL record (since surpassed by Sammy Sosa). With his second HR, he became the last player to homer at Ebbets Field. Meanwhile the Giants were losing in Pittsburgh, 5-1. They would finish their final season in NY at home the following Sunday while the Dodgers would finish the season on the road.
She returned last week to her natural dark hair. I wish the show had been in color so we could've seen her red hair. For my personal preference, I think she's prettier with darker hair.
When this show aired Jim was the host of a Big Time radio show on ABC (which had changed its name to ABN "The American Broadcasting Network). Jim Reeves, Merv Griffin were some of the others with programs as ABC tried out its "Light And Lively" format of old style radio, with orchestras, live audiences, and guest stars. Unfortunately, the experiment only last 7 months.
I've always like Jim Backus, particularly his Mr. Magoo character. I loved Patti Page's music when I was a kid. Looks like it's time to reacquaint myself with it.
I'm amazed Jim Backus came up with Mayor of San Juan since he seemed to be totally bewildered throughout his questioning. Even after an explanation as to why the City Manager (not Mayor) of San Juan was not elected, he didn't get it and questioned her as to why she was not elected. There are actually plenty of municipalities in the U.S. that have a City Manager form of government -- my home town of Downey, California, a suburb of Los Angeles was like that. We voted for members of the City Council, and they hired a City Manager to run the day-to-day operations of the city. We had an honorary mayor to officiate at public events -- he or she was chosen by the City Council from among their own ranks and the Mayor had no authority beyond that of a City Council member. It sounded to me as if San Juan elected its City Council and they hired Ms. Gautier to be the City Manager (rather than the Mayor) and oversee the daily operations of the city.
If you listen closely, Dorothy is feeding him the line. She says it low, "San Juan". He asks if she is from San Juan and gets a yes. Then Dorothy says in a low voice again, "Mayor." He takes the lead and asks if she is mayor and of course gets the yes.
"Atlas Shrugged" was not published until October 10, 1957, so Dorothy must have gotten an advance copy from Bennett. Anyone who has read the novel either loves or hates it, it seems. This is not the forum for discussing the merits of the book, so I will only mention two things that I find interesting in relation to it. First, Bennett Cerf couldn't stand Rand's philosophy, but he believed the book was important enough to publish. He was also impressed by Rand's intellect and character, and the two became good friends despite their philosophical differences. Second, Rand was born Alisa Rosenbaum. She chose the pen name "Rand" from the typewriter she was using in her early writing days -- a Remington Rand, the company that was one of the sponsors of WML at the time the book was published.
I hate that Rand philosophy too. I read the book in high school along with some friends of mine. We all agreed it was basically wrong. I later thought it formed the basis for many right wing policies promoted by the likes of Paul Ryan and others. Never mind - I love WML.
Rand is correct. Each person acting in their own interest - as defined by each person - results in the best overall conditions and is the basis for free market capitalism which has demonstrated superiority over other economic systems.
I understand and can agree with the disdain of living by Heart instead of Mind, but I do think it is wrong to dismiss Heart entirely. There is an inherent risk accepting a little Heart leads to being consumed by it, but it shouldn't be ignored. Compassion is vital for a society. Self-interest leads to prosperity, yes, but there are Innocents for whom Heart is required. Making it an obligation is what leads to Looters and Moochers, but the Innocents do not deserve to be destroyed because Mind won't acknowledge them.
The director may have been signaling to John and Bennett to stretch out the chit chat for a bit since there was no time for a third contestant, but still a few seconds to fill.
Just her name brings the song Tennessee Waltz into my head!!! The TV program was probably the Patti Page Oldsmobile Show . I use to get Patti, Doris Day, and Rosemary Clooney confused!
A couple of times the Swedish girdle designer had a look on his face like he had accidentally wandered into an insane asylum. Also, Jim Backus is an awesome panelist--very pleasant, funny and a good game player.
They ended up with well over 800 episodes, and John only missed four. Each absence was due to having to be away for his "real job" - he was there when he was sick, when his family had a special occasion, and every other situation for over 17 years.
@@twinsonic he actually was there several times when he wasn't feeling well; another time he had arrived only 40 minutes earlier from his son's graduation out of town. Every time he missed was for his real job - he never went on vacation or took any sick time.
Smart but - she couldn't or didn't know how to deal with guests who were not as privileged as she was. That always rather seemed she was speaking from an aloof ivory tower... instead of being as sensitive to certain guests as she could have been.
The mayor of San Juan looked like a gigantic Piñata. I loved how Bennett subtly steered her back in the right direction during her exit (not sure where she was headed)
Piñata isn't a bad description. Me, I was going to say Rose float. They could have put her in the Rose Parade if they'd just mounted her on wheels -- they could have pulled her with a similarly decorated horse. Nice enough lady, I'm sure, but what an ensemble!
Pinata, rose parade float…humor is always appreciated! With all of the baseball references and remarks made from fellow viewers, it’s no wonder that the image of swinging a bat came quickly to mind after beholding the sight of Miss Puerto Rico 1920.
The panel walked in so Arlene ankle has healed. Bennett says that this is John's 381st consecutive appearance as the moderator. Next week he will be on vacation.
Smart-arse alert! Obfuscating means hiding the truth but not necessarily lying, so Bennett Cerf's definition is slightly off. John Daly is very good at obfuscating in that he keeps a poker face and won't accept a vague question which might get a 'yes' by chance - he asks the panel members to be more specific in the hope that they will deserve a 'no'. Bennett Cerf is right to think he can't do the job as well the following week - Mr Daly is the master!
Week after week, and year after year, all of these remarkably lovely people seemingly from some far off civilization that rose so far above our own so often squalid seeming reality.
They were lovely, weren't they? Maybe reality was squalid then too but maybe not as much so as our reality. We all maybe need to try to adopt some of the behaviors of the panelists on WML. I think I will.
Dorothy's questions can be very frustrating at times. "an island that encompasses two nations rather than one" Lady, if you mean Hispaniola, ask that. If you don't know the island's name, name the countries. Frankly, she doesn't Haitian, though. And I doubt that Saint Martin/Saint-Martin/Sint Maarten even came to mind. And for God's sake don't use words like "prevalent" with non-native speakers.
It seems John is not flipping all the cards over as often as he used to. I don't recall his doing that in the last six episodes or so. I wonder if the producers had said something to him.
That's an interesting observation, one that I think I subconsciously noticed as well. I can't imagine that the producers would have objected, but who knows?
Does it have any properties of elasticity? Dorothy - how about just “does it have any elastic?” The panelists were very bright, but at times, some of them could be intellectual snobs.
"Having elastic" would refer to a single strand such as in the waistband or ankle area of pants. "Having elasticity" would refer to an entire segment of cloth. Sweat pants have elastic in waist and ankles. Yoga pants have elasticity as they stretch all over. Girdles in the 50's were constructed with segments of stretchy material prompting Dorothy to ask if it contained elasticity. Also both women were familiar with wearing such a garment. That said, the panel of regulars could at times be condescending to folks outside of the NYC scene. Imo, elasticity vs elastic wasn't a pompous exchange.
I confess to be unaware of why they are this way, there must be some benefit to them to remain outside of official statedom. Is there some selfish reason?
Dorothy was quite unfamiliar with speaking with people who did not speak English well. She kept using complicated words that foreign guests could not possibly understand. With the Mayor of Puerto Rico she was fair, but with the Girdle designer from Sweden, she kept using her 10 dollar words. All this proves that people here were not and still are not sensitive to this and tend not to revert to using simpler language to convey their communications with others from foreign lands. I supposed I am jaded because I speak multiple languages, but this was my observation, albeit probably controversial or pejorative. 😥🙁
Bravo to Jim Backus (Mr. Magoo) for guessing that the panelist was mayor. Arlene stood up for her and she did that for several other notable contestants. Dorothy and I don’t think ever stood up for anyone.
Funny how the guys wolf whistled at the regular challengers , but refrained ( not that I've senn anyway) from doing it to good looking female celebs.Maybe it was the unobtainable factor that stopped them from doing it.
winterlandboy I think you must have just seen some shows where that just happened to have. . . not happened. The wolf whistling for pretty female MGs was one of the clues the panel frequently used to latch on to the fact that it was a pretty female guest.
OK, who ordered the word salad here? (George, if auto-correct changed several of your words, I'm joking at it rather than at you.) But seriously, if I'm getting your meaning here, there were some game show scandals about this time, but What's My Line wasn't involved in them. If anything, because of the scandals, there was more scrutiny than before, and WML never was "busted" as you suggest.
![What's My Line? - Bennett hosts! Henry J. Kaiser; Julie London; Ernie Kovacs [panel] (Sep 29, 1957)](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/O3oOjFbWHPk/mqdefault.jpg)
![What's My Line? - Anne Jeffreys & Robert Sterling; Phil Rizutto [panel] (Jul 28, 1957)](/img/1.gif)
As a Swede, I got curious about the Swedish contestant Reimar Westerlind and looked him up. Turns out he's still alive - 92 years old!
AWESOME!
and..?
@@stephenthompson5413 ...and?
At 3:12, John Charles Daly says that he wants to see the kinescope of the show that Bennett Cerf will host the following Sunday. He is using the word "kinescope" in a way that is familiar to many viewers of this channel, to mean a film recording of a program that is displayed on a television receiver. The earliest citation of this usage in the Oxford English Dictionary is from 1949. However, the term "kinescope" dates back to at least 1930. It was coined by Vladimir Zworykin to refer to a special kind of cathode-ray tube that he invented to be used in a television receiver.
Patti Page & Guy Mitchell are the most underrated entertainers of all-time let alone the 1950's
I had the pleasure of taking my parents to see Patti Page here in Cleveland in 1975. She was stunning and in great voice.. Very sweet and gave my parents a wonderful evening.
I appreciate the discussion of islands, as it relates to Jim Backus. Gilligan's is not far off.
Patti Page was stunningly beautiful! 🥰👏🥰
Jim Backus seems to have a sense about people. Twice, he was called on first to ask a question about the occupation of the first two contestants and both times he asked a first question that led the panel quite easily to their occupations. Then, he was the one who finally came up with both The occupations of the first and second contestants! They should have had him on more often...or maybe the producers thought he was TOO good!
By the way, Jim Backus was the "Millionaire" in the Gilligan's Island TV Series (1964-1967).
@@ArmenianBishop He was also the voice of Mr Magoo.
Dorothy cheated and whispered to him during his final question of the first contestant. She often interrupted.
@@adlegacy56 He was definitely the voice of Mr. Magoo.
remarkable, considering he was still recovering from the "I Married Joan" series, having had to submit to the psychotic on-set behavior of Joan Davis.
Many years ago I had the pleasure of attending a private party where Ms. Page sang to the great pleasure of us all.
She's right, Puerto Rico is a beautiful place 🏵️
Mrs. Rincon de Gautier was a Puerto Rico icon, and mayor from 1946-1968. Prior to that, she was a pharmacist, business owner (clothing and, later, flowers), and suffragette/suffragist. Once she retired as mayor, she became a Goodwill Ambassador for four American Presidents. She died in 1994.
I mostly posted that to make sense of the Stand-Up Watch, in which Dorothy didn't, but Arlene did.
juliansinger - I thought they both stood.
@z At that time Hispanic was from the Latin and Greek that referred to people of Spanish-speaking origins and sometimes got expanded to the Iberian Peninsula to include, erroneously, Portugal, Basque country, the Catalan part of Spain. But it was not a racial designation. It was intended to be Spanish-speaking from Greek and Latin for Spanish, Spaniard, Spanish-surname. So it was not racially insensitive to those from Latin America. My close friend who is Cuban is of Spanish, French & Irish descent and is white, but is included in Spanish-surname categories. There are technically, of course, many peoples of the earth who are Latin-descent or Latin-language without having ancestors from Spain. Latins have long included all those from nations speaking romance languages, Latin-based, and sometimes others who are part of their nation and culture, though their language many not be historically Latin-based if separate, as in Basque. It was a language, culture based term, not intended to be a racial or ethnic category at all.
I went back to view the exit again, and indeed Dorothy remained glued to her seat as she shook the mayor's hand. Being mayor generally elicits deep regard and respect. To hold that position as female in those years speaks volumes of Mrs. Gautier by the commissioners' vote, as I understand it. She strikes me as a diplomatic woman doing a successful job of improving the lives of many...
Thank you for your most interesting comment. I love hearing more about the guests.
Ms. Page had a very endearing quality in her voice, evidenced particularly in "Old Cape Cod", "Mama From The Train (A Kiss, A Kiss)" and "Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte". She also had the ability to let loose on songs such as "Cross Over The Bridge" and "I Wish I Never Was Born". She was also a most elegant TV show hostess.
Patti Page was also very humble about her success as a singer & her gold records...
@@yedon68 You could tell - Yes!
By coincidence (I am watching the shows in chronological order), I am watching this on New Year's Day 2018. Patti Page died five years ago today.
This has become my fav show. Love Tony randall and Steven allen. John daly is so good. Love Bennett cerf. He's so smart.
Bennett: "I'm not going to be able to do this next week, John." LOL
Is the Cerf-hosted show posted here at RUclips? Anyone have the URL?
Yes it has been posted, search for 'Bennett Cerf Hosts' or something like that. It's on the WML channel.
He did a fine job.
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Patti Page had such a beautiful voice...Her Tenessee Waltz is a real pearl...
And she was so lovely.
And the British DJ duo of Groove Armada sampled her hit Old Cape Cod for their first UK hit of At The River, in 1999. Check it out since it is a slow melodic use of her hit.
I'm 19 Year old dude who love to listening to Patti Page's Song all the time.
GOOD TASTE!
Try Doris Day and Judy Garland👍
One of the greatest female singers of all time. She had a very unique and wonderful style of singing that touched a lot of people in many different ways. I'm very privileged to know one of her nephews and hear many stories about Patti Page
Not only did Patti Page have a great voice, great songs, and a fantastic career, she was one good-looking Okie.
I love in Oregon. I really don’t know that much about Oklahoma, but now the first thing I think about will be her. Talented AND very beautiful!
She was an Okie? Never would have guessed.
So I just found her singing “Tennessee Waltz” on RUclips. After watching this, I suggest you do the same. She was wonderful!
Arlene looks fantastic in this one!
She looks radiant with blonde hair!
They all do. It just shows what people did back then.
As the Dodgers and Giants were heading into their final week as teams representing New York City, on this date the Dodgers played their next to last home game at Ebbets Field, beating the Phillies, 7-3. Duke Snider hit a pair of home runs off future fellow Hall of Fame member Robin Roberts, giving him 40 on the season. It was his fifth consecutive year of hitting 40 or more, tying Ralph Kiner's NL record (since surpassed by Sammy Sosa). With his second HR, he became the last player to homer at Ebbets Field.
Meanwhile the Giants were losing in Pittsburgh, 5-1. They would finish their final season in NY at home the following Sunday while the Dodgers would finish the season on the road.
Dorothy was looking very pretty!!!
She returned last week to her natural dark hair.
I wish the show had been in color so we could've seen her red hair.
For my personal preference, I think she's prettier with darker hair.
This is their FOURTH girdle designer since 1955.
😂😂😂 hilarious
When this show aired Jim was the host of a Big Time radio show on ABC (which had changed its name to ABN "The American Broadcasting Network). Jim Reeves, Merv Griffin were some of the others with programs as ABC tried out its "Light And Lively" format of old style radio, with orchestras, live audiences, and guest stars. Unfortunately, the experiment only last 7 months.
I've always like Jim Backus, particularly his Mr. Magoo character.
I loved Patti Page's music when I was a kid. Looks like it's time to reacquaint myself with it.
Patti's rendition of "Stranger on the Shore" (available here on Y.T.) is one of the most beautiful things I have ever heard.
I was 2 days old when this aired
My Grandma's neighbor's cocker spaniel was 14.
Hmm...Had no idea Patti Page was such a great beauty!!
I'm amazed Jim Backus came up with Mayor of San Juan since he seemed to be totally bewildered throughout his questioning. Even after an explanation as to why the City Manager (not Mayor) of San Juan was not elected, he didn't get it and questioned her as to why she was not elected. There are actually plenty of municipalities in the U.S. that have a City Manager form of government -- my home town of Downey, California, a suburb of Los Angeles was like that. We voted for members of the City Council, and they hired a City Manager to run the day-to-day operations of the city. We had an honorary mayor to officiate at public events -- he or she was chosen by the City Council from among their own ranks and the Mayor had no authority beyond that of a City Council member. It sounded to me as if San Juan elected its City Council and they hired Ms. Gautier to be the City Manager (rather than the Mayor) and oversee the daily operations of the city.
To be fair, the mayor is not the sharpest prick on the cactus.
Markxxx
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Sounds as though she was the "honorary" one.
If you listen closely, Dorothy is feeding him the line. She says it low, "San Juan". He asks if she is from San Juan and gets a yes. Then Dorothy says in a low voice again, "Mayor." He takes the lead and asks if she is mayor and of course gets the yes.
Jim Bacchus did well that night. I wish she would’ve been in more episodes. He was so great as Mr. Magoo and Thurston Howell lll. 😂❤
I love Patti’s music. I have a CD of her best music with every song that she mentioned here.
Westerlind is still alive at 92 years of age, as of december 2021.
And at 94 (going on 95) in 2024 he is still working full time. What a guy! 😊
"Atlas Shrugged" was not published until October 10, 1957, so Dorothy must have gotten an advance copy from Bennett. Anyone who has read the novel either loves or hates it, it seems. This is not the forum for discussing the merits of the book, so I will only mention two things that I find interesting in relation to it.
First, Bennett Cerf couldn't stand Rand's philosophy, but he believed the book was important enough to publish. He was also impressed by Rand's intellect and character, and the two became good friends despite their philosophical differences.
Second, Rand was born Alisa Rosenbaum. She chose the pen name "Rand" from the typewriter she was using in her early writing days -- a Remington Rand, the company that was one of the sponsors of WML at the time the book was published.
I hate that Rand philosophy too. I read the book in high school along with some friends of mine. We all agreed it was basically wrong. I later thought it formed the basis for many right wing policies promoted by the likes of Paul Ryan and others. Never mind - I love WML.
Rand is correct. Each person acting in their own interest - as defined by each person - results in the best overall conditions and is the basis for free market capitalism which has demonstrated superiority over other economic systems.
Rand had to escape Communist Russia.
I understand and can agree with the disdain of living by Heart instead of Mind, but I do think it is wrong to dismiss Heart entirely. There is an inherent risk accepting a little Heart leads to being consumed by it, but it shouldn't be ignored. Compassion is vital for a society. Self-interest leads to prosperity, yes, but there are Innocents for whom Heart is required. Making it an obligation is what leads to Looters and Moochers, but the Innocents do not deserve to be destroyed because Mind won't acknowledge them.
@@shirleyrombough8173 Totally agree.
The first guest had beautiful penmanship. It’s a darn shame that they’re not teaching cursive in most schools anymore.
I was surprised that John Charles Daly didn’t know the meaning of the word obfuscate, but he wasn’t embarrassed to ask. Good for him.
The director may have been signaling to John and Bennett to stretch out the chit chat for a bit since there was no time for a third contestant, but still a few seconds to fill.
In an alternate universe, Arlene Francis would have made an excellent Mrs. Eunice 'Lovey' Howell.
Just her name brings the song Tennessee Waltz into my head!!!
The TV program was probably the Patti Page Oldsmobile Show .
I use to get Patti, Doris Day, and Rosemary Clooney confused!
A couple of times the Swedish girdle designer had a look on his face like he had accidentally wandered into an insane asylum. Also, Jim Backus is an awesome panelist--very pleasant, funny and a good game player.
Jonathan C - But such a sweet insane asylum it was. They all seemed truly to care about each other.
This show has had many Girdle salesmen over the years.
sales, design, inspect, sorry forgot to include this.
To insure its success as a show, it needed a good foundation!
Literally the FOURTH girdle designer just since 1955. Not even counting the salesmen, etc.
They did get some snappy back and forth with those guests.
Don't forget corset salesmen LOL They had one of those too!
Swedish guy is adorable!
I've never met a Swede I didn't like.
@@slaytonp Thanks!
Impressive that John Daly had done 381 straight shows. I don't think I have ever managed to do 381 days of work without at least getting sick once.
They ended up with well over 800 episodes, and John only missed four. Each absence was due to having to be away for his "real job" - he was there when he was sick, when his family had a special occasion, and every other situation for over 17 years.
It was not 381 straight days...more like 381 straight weeks, since the show aired once a week. So he could have been sick easily during the week.
@@twinsonic he actually was there several times when he wasn't feeling well; another time he had arrived only 40 minutes earlier from his son's graduation out of town. Every time he missed was for his real job - he never went on vacation or took any sick time.
@@sdacj I never said he wasn't. Read what I said.. I never questioned Daly's commitment to the show.
@@twinsonic no I didn't think you were questioning anything - just expanding on comments made above is all
Geez did Dorothy love camera time! 15:23
The second contestant is from Kungälv - less than half an hour from Trollhättan where I live! ;D
Jag undrar hur han hamnade i WML? Han uttalade 'Kungälv' klart och tydligt men John uppfattade det som 'Kunghälven'. :) 13:25
Det verkar som om Kungälv ligger 21 km (ca. 31 engelska mil) norr om Göteborg. Tyvärr har jag bara besökt Sveriges östkust, inte västkusten.
ToddSF 94109 jim bachus looks confused
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Puerto Rico had a female mayor in San Juan then and has one now. Good for them. And both women on the panel stood to shake her hand. Good manners.
my God she is beautiful
Dorothy was so smart
Smart but - she couldn't or didn't know how to deal with guests who were not as privileged as she was. That always rather seemed she was speaking from an aloof ivory tower... instead of being as sensitive to certain guests as she could have been.
The mayor of San Juan looked like a gigantic Piñata. I loved how Bennett subtly steered her back in the right direction during her exit (not sure where she was headed)
Piñata isn't a bad description. Me, I was going to say Rose float. They could have put her in the Rose Parade if they'd just mounted her on wheels -- they could have pulled her with a similarly decorated horse. Nice enough lady, I'm sure, but what an ensemble!
LOL...Rose float.
Pinata, rose parade float…humor is always appreciated! With all of the baseball references and remarks made from fellow viewers, it’s no wonder that the image of swinging a bat came quickly to mind after beholding the sight of Miss Puerto Rico 1920.
The panel walked in so Arlene ankle has healed. Bennett says that this is John's 381st consecutive appearance as the moderator. Next week he will be on vacation.
Thank you for the synopsis of each WML Show for that I am truly grateful! Paul
Paul Edelstein Arlene was a good looking woman and sexy..even in later episodes. She had that glint in her eye.
Patti Page is a cutie!
15:20: Dorothy drags it out again to get facetime.
Or perhaps she is just playing the game--aware of time cues?
Love Jim Backus! ❤
I love Patti
Smart-arse alert! Obfuscating means hiding the truth but not necessarily lying, so Bennett Cerf's definition is slightly off. John Daly is very good at obfuscating in that he keeps a poker face and won't accept a vague question which might get a 'yes' by chance - he asks the panel members to be more specific in the hope that they will deserve a 'no'. Bennett Cerf is right to think he can't do the job as well the following week - Mr Daly is the master!
MAYOR OF SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO
DESIGNS GIRDLES
Interesting that the first contestant didn’t seem to understand what the panelists were asking her, but she understood John Charles Daley.
One the girdle spot, Dorothy is asking questions she knows will get her a yes so she gets more camera time
Strategy
Week after week, and year after year, all of these remarkably lovely people seemingly from some far off civilization that rose so far above our own so often squalid seeming reality.
They were lovely, weren't they? Maybe reality was squalid then too but maybe not as much so as our reality. We all maybe need to try to adopt some of the behaviors of the panelists on
WML. I think I will.
@@shirleyrombough8173 Back then, we just ignored "squalid."
Dorothy's questions can be very frustrating at times. "an island that encompasses two nations rather than one" Lady, if you mean Hispaniola, ask that. If you don't know the island's name, name the countries. Frankly, she doesn't Haitian, though. And I doubt that Saint Martin/Saint-Martin/Sint Maarten even came to mind. And for God's sake don't use words like "prevalent" with non-native speakers.
I was thinking the same thing that a couple of the panelists would use lofty English words. Bennett Cerf did that too as did Martin Gabel.
So Bennett's responsible for "Atlas Shrugged." Well, then.
Paul Ryan's favorite book
He published it but was personally vehemently against her philosophy. They were also good friends. Call it cognitive dissonance.
soulierinvestments - Exactly.
The female mayor needs to take a geography class. Jim Backus was always so hilarious.
So nice to see such beautiful cursive
It seems John is not flipping all the cards over as often as he used to. I don't recall his doing that in the last six episodes or so. I wonder if the producers had said something to him.
That's an interesting observation, one that I think I subconsciously noticed as well. I can't imagine that the producers would have objected, but who knows?
That mayor from Puerto Rico didn’t know that she was south of Florida - or was it her comprehension? It seems like it may have been the latter.
Jim Backus, a.k.a. Mr. Magoo and Thurston Howell lll, was a very good panelist.
Back when female singers had class and style.
They mayor could use a little geography lesson. Puerto Rico is well south of Florida, even south of Cuba.
Sadly, the panel always guess the celebrity guest too quickly.
At times and more than many I found Bennett Cerf to be disrespectful toward some of the contestants [challengers].
Pffffff!! Get outta here.
Mr Howel!!!
The Swedish girdle guy looks like Tod from Breaking Bad.
And the bad news is Bennett will host the following week
Mrs Galtier doesn't seem to have a clue.
Does it have any properties of elasticity? Dorothy - how about just “does it have any elastic?” The panelists were very bright, but at times, some of them could be intellectual snobs.
"Having elastic" would refer to a single strand such as in the waistband or ankle area of pants. "Having elasticity" would refer to an entire segment of cloth. Sweat pants have elastic in waist and ankles. Yoga pants have elasticity as they stretch all over. Girdles in the 50's were constructed with segments of stretchy material prompting Dorothy to ask if it contained elasticity. Also both women were familiar with wearing such a garment.
That said, the panel of regulars could at times be condescending to folks outside of the NYC scene. Imo, elasticity vs elastic wasn't a pompous exchange.
Jim's hot tonight.
Reimar Westerlind should have taught John how to say his name.
Puerto Rico still wants the independence of not being a state but also the benefits of being a state.
I confess to be unaware of why they are this way, there must be some benefit to them to remain outside of official statedom. Is there some selfish reason?
5:15 "Are you from this hemisphere?". Thinking "Are you from this planet?
Did Dorothy say "Atlas frugged"? at the opening?
Atlas Shrugged... Ayn Rand.
She reminds me of Ava Gardner.
Dorothy was quite unfamiliar with speaking with people who did not speak English well. She kept using complicated words that foreign guests could not possibly understand. With the Mayor of Puerto Rico she was fair, but with the Girdle designer from Sweden, she kept using her 10 dollar words. All this proves that people here were not and still are not sensitive to this and tend not to revert to using simpler language to convey their communications with others from foreign lands. I supposed I am jaded because I speak multiple languages, but this was my observation, albeit probably controversial or pejorative.
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Would love to see Revival What's my Line heralding some decent TV family entertainment for a change
The hair on the first contestant looked like a straw hat. Or, WAS that a straw hat?? Anyway, it was a snooze of a game, taking up half the show.
Lassie
At 19:41, did Daly say "Mistress celebrity"? If so, that would be a huge giveaway to the fact it was female.
What he was about to say was cut off, but he was most likely saying "mystery", not "mistress".
I think he did say mistress and then try to correct it to mystery.
Bravo to Jim Backus (Mr. Magoo) for guessing that the panelist was mayor.
Arlene stood up for her and she did that for several other notable contestants. Dorothy and I don’t think ever stood up for anyone.
Wow! An actual FAT one in 1957! (The lady Mayor)So unusual back then! So common now.
Does Mr. Daly give Mr. Cerf the finger at 2:45?
Good lord, that Puerto Rican mayor had no understanding of directions and/or geography.
I wonder if Americans from that or this era have this understanding. I'll bet their still a great chasm.
No don't. I have 5 or 6 of them.
Chalk seems way to small.
Beulah Bondi wearing a bird's nest!....
Funny how the guys wolf whistled at the regular challengers , but refrained ( not that I've senn anyway) from doing it to good looking female celebs.Maybe it was the unobtainable factor that stopped them from doing it.
winterlandboy I think you must have just seen some shows where that just happened to have. . . not happened. The wolf whistling for pretty female MGs was one of the clues the panel frequently used to latch on to the fact that it was a pretty female guest.
There’s a whole generation of men (and women) who believe it was very flattering (if not very classy) and so it was, by some, viewed as supportive.
Notice how many times there are also wolf whistles for the good looking men contestants. Women can whistle too.
I am trying to hate Arlene but she is so nice.
Doug w. Why in the world would you be trying to hate Arlene? :)
I dont want to but cant believe how nice she was hehe.
Doug w. Yup-- she was universally beloved. Not an unkind word about her ever uttered that I've ever seen, anywhere, by anyone.
may i ask how old you are?
Doug w. I'm 42.
OMG the first lady. She's to much
the millionaire...and his wife...
Atlas Shrugged? Oh what a lapse of judgement.
Dorothy a fan of Ayn Rand. 😆
Oh dear!
She said the book was exciting. That's very different from being a fan of its author.
Those were the days - when women wore gloves... but no parasol, unfortunately. Disappointed.
you're disturbed - get help! pronto!!
Oh that was fix snow way to going to guest her that quickly yeah that was fix what's a game shows in the old days was explicit they got busted
OK, who ordered the word salad here? (George, if auto-correct changed several of your words, I'm joking at it rather than at you.) But seriously, if I'm getting your meaning here, there were some game show scandals about this time, but What's My Line wasn't involved in them. If anything, because of the scandals, there was more scrutiny than before, and WML never was "busted" as you suggest.