229     April 3, 1957
Henry, Jayne, Bill, Faye

Miss X: “I sold $1500 worth of pictures I’ve painted.” 
“Betsy” is a chimpanzee. She is onstage with Arthur Watson, the director of the Baltimore Zoo, and Ben Gary, her handler.  Betsy became a sensation in 1957, creating controversy on whether her finger painting was truly “art” and being dismissed by, among others, Salvador Dali.  The money raised by the zoo from the sales of her works, at $25 to $50 a pop, went to buy Betsy a mate.    

Mrs. H.A. Frederick from Mountain Lakes, New Jersey: “I appeared on the first television broadcast in history” (April 7, 1927) 
Mrs. Frederick was part of a group of entertainers located in a studio in Whippany, NJ that were seen by a group in Bell Laboratories in New York City.  This had been preceded by a speech by Secretary of Commerce and future President Herbert Hoover from Washington.  According to newspaper accounts, Mrs. Frederick performed “a short humorous dialect talk.”  Reports of the time also suggested that a commercial use for television was doubtful.  “Firsts” in early television are sometimes disputed because many people were developing rival systems around the same time.  Those include British inventor John Logie Baird, and American Philo Farnsworth ( E242 ).   Director Paul Alter recreates the low resolution of the original signal. Fourteen members of the original Bell Laboratories team are in the audience.    

Special Guest Laraine Day 
Day and Garry arrange to have a huge argument onstage during the questioning.  The panelists pick up on it almost immediately and start bickering among themselves.