190     June 6, 1956
Jayne, Bill, Henry, Faye

[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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