484     May 7, 1962
Bill, Betsy, Henry, Gretchen Wyler

Wyler, filling in for the honeymooning Bess, has just finished performing in a tour of Bye Bye Birdie.   

Paul Lipman from New York City: “This is a musical instrument…I can play it without touching it.”                 
Lipman demonstrates the Theremin, an electronic instrument developed in the 1920s and named for its inventor, Leon Theremin.  An operator waves his hands near two antennae, and the positioning of the hands controls the frequency and volume.  The eerie sounds produced by the Theremin have been featured in many classic films and television series.  By the early sixties, the instrument had fallen out of favor, supplanted by simpler electronic instruments, and Lipman was one of the few serious practitioners.  A 1993 documentary revived interest, though it remains mostly a novelty.   

Susan Gregory from Silver Creek, New York: “I made the suit Garry Moore is wearing”                 
Miss Gregory is twelve years old.  She contacted the show asking to make a suit for Garry, and did so without ever meeting him, armed only with his measurements.   

Special guest Jane Powell hooks Bill and Henry up to a ‘metrograph’, a device that measures their emotional response to having love songs performed to them by the female panelists.  Later, Garry hooks himself up as Powell sings to him.