572     June 15, 1964 (Taped)
Bill, Betsy, Henry, Bess

It’s the 12th anniversary of I’ve Got a Secret, and once again, staffers provide the entertainment and the Secrets.   

Mr. W, Miss X, Mr. Y and Miss Z: “We’re the panel’s stand-ins” 
[Bob Crew], [Kay Ticcuni], George Douth and [Janie Cox] would play the role of the panel during rehearsals with Garry, the contestants and the production crew on the day of the show.  The panelists never even arrived in the theater until a few minutes before the show began.   

Producer Chester Feldman: “I made a dress for Betsy Palmer”                 
Feldman bought a sewing machine for his wife and took to it himself.  Betsy is offstage getting ready during the questioning and models the creation afterwards.   

Herb Strauss, the commercial producer for this and other CBS shows, performs “Try to Remember” (1960) from the off-Broadway musical The Fantasticks.  Strauss has recorded several folk albums, most notably Folk Music for People Who Hate Folk Music (Riverside 1957).   
Stage Manager Harry Rogue dances with Garry and taps in a solo routine.  In a previous life, Rogue was a choreographer and dance instructor for some of Hollywood’s biggest stars, and before that a chorus boy in some early Broadway musicals.  He would go on to have a lengthy career as a stage manager for game shows, variety shows and situation comedies.   

John Hundley with the CBS program practices (i.e. “censorship”) department sings “With a Song in My Heart” (1929) a song he introduced in the Rogers and Hart musical Spring Is Here.  Hundley appeared in several Broadway musicals of the 20s and 30s before joining CBS in 1938 and working his way up into the executive ranks.   

Mr. X: “I’m the director of I’ve Got a Secret” and Mr. Y: “I sign the panel’s pay checks” 
Clarence Schimmel and Goodson-Todman VP Roy Blakeman perform a trumpet duet written specifically for them by Norman Paris.  “Schim” started directing the show in 1962 and would continue to do so until 1965.  In addition to handling legal and business affairs for Goodson-Todman, Blakeman was heavily involved in the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the organization that handles the Emmy Awards.  In 1966, he would serve a two-year term as the President of that organization.