[Ann Reddick] from Dalton, GA: “I was married
by Trans-Atlantic telephone. I haven’t
seen my husband since.”
Wacky matrimony. Mrs. Reddick’s husband is in the Army,
stationed in Germany. They got married
over the phone so that she could stay in government provided housing once she
arrived in Germany to be with her betrothed.
The show gives the couple a honeymoon in Germany, and gives Mrs. Reddick
a “German for tourists” book.
Special Guest Marguerite Piazza: “I’m wearing
ear plugs”
The panel is required to sing their
questions to the opera singer. Piazza
was a soprano with credits on the New York stage, but probably best known to
television viewers because of her regular role on the Sid Caesar variety series Your Show of Shows. After that series and her opera career ended,
she transitioned into a second career as a popular supper club singer.
Mr. X: “I own this theatre”
Michael Myerberg bought what was then
known as the Mansfield Theatre in 1945 and leased it to CBS for television
productions. Known as Studio 59 during
its TV days, it was home at one time or another to a variety of CBS
productions, including What’s My Line, The Burns and Allen Show, and Garry’s
own daytime variety show. In 1960, it would
be converted back to a “legitimate” stage and renamed the Brooks Atkinson
Theatre. In 2022, it became the Lena Horne Theatre, the first Broadway venue named after a Black woman. Myerberg
is also a Broadway producer whose credits include the American debut of Waiting For Godot, which was running at
the time of this Secret.
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