Cass is appearing in the film Auntie Mame (1958), reprising her Tony-winning stage
role as Agnes Gooch. She would become a
longtime regular panelist on To Tell the
Truth. Bill would later join her on
the TTTT panel in a syndicated version of the show (1969-1978) hosted by
Garry. Mrs. Ellington, a court reporter
from Charleston, West Virginia, was picked out of the studio audience two weeks
earlier (
E311
) to be a panelist on tonight’s show.
Mr. X: “I have an 8-foot alligator at the end of this rope…I’m
going to wrestle with it…Garry is going to help me”
Ross Allen founded the Reptile
Institute, a tourist attraction in Silver Springs, Florida. In addition to genuine research and education,
the Institute also lent its expertise to movies and television shows in need of
exotic reptiles. Allen founded the institute
in 1929, sold his interest in 1962, but continued to work at the facility until
1975.
George Hill from Seattle, Washington: “I’ve entered more than
5,000 contests…I’ve won…5 television sets…30 radios…500 pounds of sugar…1
pig…50 wrist watches…200 pounds of soap powder…1 beauty course…2 permanent
waves…and 2,000 other prizes”
Jingle contests and similar sponsored
competitions were such a popular fad in the early decades of radio and
television advertising that correspondence schools popped up offering training
on “contest technique.” One such school,
which claimed Mr. Hill among its scholars, said that it had 40,000 alumni who
together had won an estimated $4.5 million in prizes.
Special Guest Pat Boone
Boone’s Secret is
that he will perform a song accompanied by the panel on musical instruments
provided by Emenee Toys. Emenee was founded
in 1949, and between 1955 and 1968 was a leading manufacturer of plastic toys
and children’s musical instruments. In
1968, it was acquired by Ohio Arts Company, the toy manufacturer best known for
its Etch-A-Sketch. Garry plugs Boone’s
book Twixt Twelve and Twenty (Prentice Hall 1958).
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