28     January 22, 1953
Bill, Jayne, Henry, Faye

Faye Emerson makes her debut on the panel.  She would become the fourth regular, though she took many more absences than the other three.    

Special Guest Monty Woolley: “I sleep with my beard under the covers” 
This secret is known because it is somewhat notorious in Secret circles.  It was no “secret” that Allan Sherman and his small team struggled with creating interesting Secrets for the celebrity guests, who were simply there for their star power, and not because they had done anything specifically Secret worthy.  Sometimes, as in this example, the production team just made something up, hoping to get a fun game out of it.  Instead, when asked about it afterwards by Garry on live television, Woolley blustered that he did no such thing, and that he had been instructed to lie about it by Allan Sherman. The show suffered no real damage from that embarrassment, but Sherman became determined to do something to shake up the celebrity segment.  The eventual answer would be for celebrities to not bother with Secrets at all, but that was still far away. 

Woolley taught drama at Yale in the 1920s, directed Broadway shows in the 1930s, and received late-in-life success when at age 50 he played Sheridan Whiteside in the 1939 stage play and 1942 film version of The Man Who Came to Dinner.