Nelson is starring on Broadway in Mary, Mary (1961-1964). Though it did not achieve lasting fame, it
was one of the more successful non-musical plays of the 1960s.
Dr. Henry Lee Smith from Buffalo, New York: “I can tell where
these people are from…by listening to them talk”
The people he refers to are three
strangers selected from the studio audience.
Dr. Smith is a noted linguist who wrote books and made television
appearances demonstrating his ability to recognize regional dialects. He also happens to be a childhood friend of
Garry.
Willie Krause from Sarasota, Florida: “I was Gina Lollobrigida’s
double in a movie”
Krause is a
postman by trade, and also a trapeze instructor. He took several aerialists to Paris to double
for the leads in the Burt Lancaster movie Trapeze (1956). When the girl scheduled to
double for Lollobrigida had an accident, Krause threw on a wig and did the
trapeze work himself.
Special guest Milton Berle performs magic
tricks with playing cards. In one, Betsy
selects a card from a deck (the three of clubs), and it matches a photograph of
a card taken with a Polaroid camera before the show. Although his landmark variety series has been
off the air for years, Berle still has an exclusive contract with NBC, so this
appearance on another network is an unusual one, as Garry notes at the top of
the show. Berle has a variety special
coming up on NBC March 9.
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