324     February 25, 1959 (Taped January 14)
Bill, Esther Williams, Henry, Bess

James D Moore from Charleston, West Virginia: “I co-starred in a play with Garry Moore…He played my mother”                 
Moore and our Moore (then Garrison Morfit) were members of Baltimore’s Paint & Powder Club, an amateur troupe which put on an original musical comedy called Too, Too Divine back in 1936.  Garry recognizes several other members of the club seated in the audience. Today, the Paint & Powder Club still operates in Baltimore, performing original shows annually for charity.   

Elliot Glasser from New York City: “These rocks are worth two million dollars” 
The three large, rough looking stones Glasser brought with him are pure opals.  They were once a single 125 pound stone, found the previous year by Australian aborigines exploring an abandoned mine.  Glasser is the president of an opal importing company.  Contemporary news stories valued the stones at a mere $175,000.   

Special Guest Dick Powell is watching the show with Garry at a party in his California home.
This trippy, time-travel Secret is due to the fact that they taped this particular episode on January 14 so that Garry could be in California for his variety show.  This is still something of a novelty for a panel show that viewers tended to believe was live.  Ampex had introduced its 2-inch quadruplex (“quad”) videotape format in 1956, and it quickly revolutionized the industry.  Secret had taken advantage of the new technology last year when they prerecorded some episodes to air in the summer, but this is the first time they’ve acknowledged it. Poorer quality kinescopes continued to be the preservation format of choice due to the expense and bulk of the videotapes, though that too would change as the technology of the videotape format improved.