Betsy is performing in the US Steel Hour production of Shame the Devil live immediately after
the show, so veteran panelist Jayne Meadows slips into her familiar seat.
Raymond Auger from New York City: “This machine will paint a
picture of a face”
Auger’s large contraption has a
robotic arm that reproduces the movements of a human artist’s hand. A punched tape (much like a player piano
roll, as Garry points out) feeds instructions to the machine which direct the
arm to choose paints and attack the canvas.
The result is abstract, at best.
Auger made a splash in the early sixties with his automated artist, and
here suggests other applications for the arm such as cooking and building other
machinery. However, in a 1963 newspaper profile he seems to have become
disillusioned by the whole thing and retired the project.
Special Guest Eva Gabor: “My dress is made of Christmas
gift-wrapping paper”
Her dress is
hidden underneath her mink. Earlier this
year, her sister Zsa Zsa challenged the panel with a near-identical Secret (
E374
).
Mr. X: “I’m a singer…I’m going to make up a song about tonight’s
show”
Steve DePass
was composing improvisational, comic ballads years before Whose Line Is It Anyway?. Taking
cues from the panelists, DePass starts with a basic, repetitive calypso beat and
improvises lyrics on the spot, not just about the events of the past half hour,
but about anything the panelists request.
DePass would become known as “America’s Singing Poet” and would continue
to perform his unique act in nightclubs, on talk shows, and at venues large and
small in the decades to follow. He is
still performing today.
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