180     March 28, 1956
Bill, Jayne, Henry, Faye

An Easter special with lots of animals. Garry recognizes the Norman Paris Trio providing music.  This is possibly the first reference to Paris, who would become the show’s musical director.   

Garry has Easter bonnets for the female panelists, and with them comes the first secret of the night: “Jayne and Faye have bees in their bonnets (live bees)” 
The hats were designed by Mr John, a fact that immediately delights Faye.  John P John (yes, really) was a well-known milliner whose hats adorned wealthy celebrities and socialites, especially in the 1940s and 1950s.  He also worked in Hollywood, and designed the hats worn by Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939).    

Marte Latham from Wexford, Pennsylvania: “I have the world’s largest Easter Bunny” 
Mrs. Latham’s Flemish Giant rabbit weighs in at over 25 pounds.  Though her professional life is not mentioned here, Latham is an explorer and collector whose adventures in South America yield exotic plants and animals for zoos and research.  She would return to the show in 1961 with a less cuddly creature ( E435 ).   

Albert McAlexander of Carysville, Ohio: “I have a horse who can roller skate” 
“Jimmy” is fitted with special skates and struggles with the soft linoleum floor of the studio, but we’re told on a hard surface he can really go.  Jimmy was featured in a 1952 issue of Life Magazine and would perform nationwide in the years that followed.   

“Butch” the cockatoo: “I kissed Winston Churchill” 
Butch is handled by a youngster, William VanderWyden from Parrot Jungle, Miami, Florida, who answers the questions on behalf of his bird.  Billy’s father comes out later with a trained macaw that, on command, rolls around on the floor.  Parrot Jungle began in 1936 as a zoo and tourist center.  Today known as Jungle Island and located on a different site than the original, the zoological exhibits remain but the operation is now also home to a small amusement park.  Young Billy, who is the grandson of the park’s original founders, would grow up to be a Dean at the University of Miami School of Law.   

In a weird final spot, 100 rabbits are let loose on stage and youngsters from a local branch of the Boys Club are whistled up on stage to grab one as a gift.  In his book about What’s My Line? (1978), executive producer Gil Fates devotes part of one chapter to I’ve Got a Secret and spends several paragraphs describing this event in disastrous terms.  Whatever the backstage turmoil, everything on camera seems to be relatively benign.