Mr. X: “I will read what the panel just wrote…I’ll be blindfolded”
Kuda Bux is a
Pakistani magician whose most famous trick is his ability to “see” with his
eyes heavily bandaged. During the
introductions, Garry had the panel each write a short phrase on their note pads. Bux is
able to read the notes, and perform other seemingly impossible tricks, with his
eyes covered. Bux was the subject of a
1938 newsreel which called him “The Man with the X-Ray Eyes.” He would continue to perform until his death
in 1981. Remarkably, in his later years,
glaucoma would leave him legally blind, yet he still performed this act.
Charles Hamilton: “I found the couple lost for 7 weeks in the
Yukon”
On February
4, pilot Ralph Flores and his passenger Helen Klaben crashed in a region known
as the Rocky Mountain Trench. The Royal
Canadian Air Force searched for a month before deeming a recovery hopeless, but
bush pilots such as Hamilton continued to keep their eyes peeled. On March 24, 49 days after the crash, Hamilton
spotted the couple and by morning they were rescued. Klaben had a badly damaged and frostbitten
foot so Hamilton carried her piggyback three miles through the snow to safety.
Special guest Dorothy Loudon and the
panel build songs playing off the name of Mr. Somerstein, the breakout star
from the previous week’s show. Loudon
also performs songs built around his first name, Stewart (“Birds Stewart, Bees
Stewart”) and his middle name, Martin (“Oh when the saints go Martin in”). Loudon had the unenviable task of replacing
Carol Burnett on The Garry Moore Show,
but would become better known for her stage roles. She would win a Tony Award as Miss Hannigan
in the original Broadway run of Annie,
a role that Carol Burnett would coincidentally end up playing on screen. In 1971, she would marry Norman Paris, the I’ve Got A Secret music director.
This site was created with the Nicepage