125     March 2, 1955
Bill, Jayne, Henry, Josephine Hull

Josephine Hull was a Broadway actress whose 50-year stage career included roles in three bona fide classics of American theater: You Can’t Take It With You (1936), Arsenic and Old Lace (1941) and Harvey (1944).  She recreated her stage roles in the film versions of the last two, winning an Oscar for Harvey (1950).  Hull is 78 years old at the time of this, her only panel appearance.   

Sarah Weiss from Brooklyn: “I graduated from high school last month” 
Weiss, an elderly woman, received her diploma from Erasmus Hall Evening High School in January.  She has a great grandson who will graduate in June.  The soft-spoken, Russian-born Weiss intended to continue her education at Brooklyn College, majoring in economics. Though not revealed on the show, Weiss was 78 when she received her diploma, coincidentally the same age as panelist Hull.   

Special Guest Jackie Gleason: “I was an all-night disc jockey in 1939” 
The Secret itself is less interesting than what accompanies it.  Gleason brings in his own panel of questioners (four beautiful young models from his show) to compete against the regular panel.  It’s all done for laughs, as Gleason himself controls the buzzer and doesn’t give the home team any opportunity to ask questions.   

Hull, who seems at first to be a bit out of her element, ends with a terrific gag, pretending to mistake the name “Garry Moore” with “Barrymore” and thinking him to be part of the “first family of theater”.

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