The show opens with the panelists informing Garry that he has been named the "Best Master of Ceremonies on Television" in the fifth annual Look Magazine TV Awards. There will be a special NBC-TV program on Saturday night to recognize the winners of the Look survey of TV professionals. Other winners include George Gobel, Jack Webb, producer Fred Coe, and the TV series Omnibus, US Steel Hour, See It Now and You Bet Your Life.
Chris the Dog, along with owner George Wood from East Greenwich, Rhode Island: "I can spell and count"
Chris can do many neat tricks, including answering the panel's questions with 'yes' and 'no' paw gestures. It's all clearly a trick. Researchers back in February could not get Chris to duplicate his remarkable abilities outside the presence of his owner. Still, it's an impressive one. Skeptical newspaper reporters at the time had to admit that they couldn't tell how it was done. Garry points out that Wood is not a dog trainer by profession. He's a chemist.
Blanche Stuart Scott from Rochester, New York: “I
was the first woman ever to fly a plane”
Back at the start of the century, Scott drove a car across the country as a publicity stunt. She caught the attention of aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss, who offered to teach her to fly. In early September of 1910, while taxiing in a plane fitted with a limiter to keep it from going airborne, it went airborne anyway. She reached a dizzying height of forty feet before executing a safe landing. That was good enough for the Early Birds of Aviation organization to credit her with the first solo female flight. Another organization, the Aeronautical Society of America, credits a different aviatrix, Bessie Raiche, as the first female pilot. Scott, who is seventy years old here, is in town for the dedication of an Early Birds historical monument on Governors Island in New York Harbor.
Special guest Carl Reiner: “I once played a scene from
Hamlet in double-talk”
Reiner explains
that he was 18 years old and portraying Claudius. He forgot his lines for the
Act 4, Scene 5 speech to Gertrude. On
the spot, he improvised an impressive-sounding nonsense speech, and his
audience never noticed. He demonstrates
the speech for Garry and the panel. At this early point in his legendary comedy career, Reiner is a supporting player on Sid Caesar's landmark variety series Your Show Of Shows (1950-1954). He is also providing significant though uncredited work as a writer, working with (among others) Mel Brooks and Neil Simon.
This episode has not been reviewed. Information comes from alternate sources, including Gil Fates' handwritten notes. Quoted secrets are based on those notes and are believed to be accurate.
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