Bill Ballantine from Rockland County, New York: “I have a troupe
of trained fleas at the end of this rope”
Ballantine was a career circus man, a
professional clown and an author and illustrator about circus topics. He employs his clown training (though out of
makeup) to make it appear that something large and ferocious is on the other
end of his rope. Garry plugs his current
book, Wild Tigers and Tame Fleas (Rinehart, 1958), one of ten that Ballantine would write in his lifetime. From 1969 to 1977, Ballantine would be Dean
of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Clown College.
Four brothers and sisters in the Thorn family:
Georgette: “I was born Jan. 22, 1947”
Terry: “I was born Jan. 22, 1949”
Cheryl: “I was born Jan. 22, 1951”
Randy: “I was born Jan. 22, 1953”
Wacky childbirth. The Thorn children would turn 12, 10, 8 and 6
the next day. The show showers the kids
with gifts.
Special Guest Dana Wynter applies old-age makeup to herself during
the panel’s blindfolded questions.
Wynter, who pronounces her first name
“donna,” had a solid if unspectacular career in film and television, playing
both victim and villain with cool elegance.
Here, she is promoting In Love And
War (1958). Her final role would be as
the wife of Raymond Burr’s wheelchair-bound detective in the TV-movie The Return of Ironside (1993).
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