“Rex” a German Shepherd from Corning, New
York: “I led 25 Hungarians through the Iron Curtain to freedom”
The Hungarian Revolution was a brief but violent uprising against
Hungary’s ruling party and its Soviet backers in late 1956. The fighting lasted only weeks before Soviet
forces crushed the rebellion. In the
aftermath, thousands had been killed and thousands more arrested. Some 200,000
Hungarians became refugees, most escaping to Austria. Rex’s owner Joseph Bihari appears and
demonstrates some of Rex’s skills.
Miss X and Mr X: “Betsy Palmer was our baby
sitter in 1946”
[Charles and Karen Pittsley] are teenagers here, and were infants
when Betsy took care of them in East Chicago.
Special Guest Martha Raye
Using a lyric from the song “There’s No Business Like Show
Business” as a reference point (“The butcher, the baker, the grocer, the clerk,
get paid for what they do but no applause”), Raye brings on people in each of
those occupations (respectively, Herbert Guttenstein, Frederigo Fornari,
Michael Policano and Therea Bintner) who demonstrate their skills to great
applause from the audience. Raye is
about to star in a limited City Center revival of Annie Get Your Gun, the show from which that famous song comes. However, she would fall ill days before its
February 19 opening, and ended up not performing in the two-week run.
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