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00:00What's. My. Lime. Brought to you by Kellogg's. The folks who bring the best to you each morning. The widest choice of cereals in the forms you like best.
00:26Yours from Kellogg's of Battle Creek. Now let's all play. What's. My. Lime. And now tonight starting their 11th year on the air. Here is the award winning panel of What's. My. Lime. First the popular columnist whose voice of Broadway appears in papers coast to coast. Miss Dorothy Kilgallen.
00:48Last night the famous theatrical club called the Lambs gave a testimonial dinner to an actor whom I consider and I don't think anyone will contradict me the greatest player of Gilbert and Sullivan in our time.
01:08And I'm very proud that he's sitting here on my left. Mr. Martin Green.
01:19Thank you Dorothy. And it's my great pleasure to introduce somebody whom you all know who performed on Broadway in Once More With Feeling.
01:30The home show. And someone I'm very very fond of indeed. Miss Arlene Francis.
01:38And now sitting in for our dear vacationing Bennett Cerf is my own particular actor producer dear Martin Gable.
01:53And across the floor one of the most articulate men in television. Mr. John Bailey.
01:58By reason of this chair it falls to my happy luck to be in a way a spokesman for all of my colleagues on the panel. Those who have with us tonight and those who have been with us through the years.
02:15I think many of you know that this is our 10th anniversary, our 500th broadcast.
02:20We began way back on February 2nd, 1950.
02:25And if you think about it as all of us have, we feel that if it really is an anniversary and it calls for a celebration,
02:32we should give a party for all of you because we should certainly not be here on this 10th anniversary if it wasn't for the support and affection we've had from our public.
02:41Thank you very much.
02:47And now I think it's only fair to tell Mr. Green that all these kind words don't mean a thing.
02:52We're going to get the panel tonight again if we possibly can.
02:56So welcome once more to What's My Line.
02:58And we'll be up to our old tricks very shortly.
03:01We'll also have a famous mystery guest before the panel a little bit later in the show.
03:06And we'll meet our first challenger after this word from Dennis James speaking for Kellogg's.
03:12And now let's meet our first challenger.
03:14Would you come in and sign in, please?
03:20Don L.
03:25Don L. Brown.
03:26Right, sir?
03:31Where are you from, Mr. Brown?
03:34I'm from Denver, Colorado, Mr. Daly.
03:35Denver, Colorado.
03:36That's right.
03:36Well, that's a nice country to be from.
03:39And I don't mean it the way it sounded the old joke.
03:42I mean it's a nice country in which to live.
03:44It's nice to have you with us.
03:45May I present the panel, Mr. Brown?
03:47Brown panel.
03:48Will you join me over here?
03:49Do you know how we keep score, Mr. Brown?
03:51Yes, sir.
03:51In that event, let's let the good audience here in the theater
03:54and those who are watching at home know exactly what your line is.
03:58Well, panel, we'll tell you that Mr. Brown is salaried,
04:11and let's begin the general questioning with Arlene Francis.
04:15Well, Mr. Brown looks like a distinguished gentleman.
04:18Do you work for a nonprofit-making organization, Mr. Brown?
04:21Yes.
04:22That's pretty distinguished.
04:24Do you represent any branch of our government?
04:28No.
04:29That's not very distinguished.
04:30That's one down and nine to go, Mr. Gable.
04:32You work for a university, Mr. Brown.
04:34Yes.
04:37Is your job with the university often require you to be outdoors often?
04:44Sometimes.
04:46Would you be in the general category of teacher at the university?
04:51Yes.
04:52Do you teach a non-academic subject?
04:58Sometimes.
05:01I don't know where I'm going, but I'm going.
05:03You're going.
05:04But good, too, Mark.
05:06Well, Mr. Brown's general, he looks like a clean-cut American university man.
05:10Well, thank you.
05:11Not talking about it.
05:13Have you anything to do with sports?
05:16Yes.
05:17Is your sport a seasonal sport?
05:20No.
05:21That's two down and eight to go, Miss Kilgallen.
05:24Well, aside from the sport, Mr. Brown, do you teach something academic?
05:30Sometimes.
05:31Sometimes.
05:33Well, are we guessing the sometimes or the other?
05:37Well, actually, what you get to here is that sometimes is a perfectly valid answer, and you
05:42will have to assume that there could be an academic cast to his overall responsibility.
05:47I see.
05:49Are you?
05:50I told you he was articulate.
05:54I've known it for some years, John.
05:56Mr. Brown, is your work mental as well as physical?
06:03Yes, ma'am.
06:04Is it physical as well as mental?
06:06Yes, ma'am.
06:08Can the sport that you have some connection with be played indoors as well as outdoors?
06:15Yes, ma'am.
06:16Are implements used?
06:18Sometimes.
06:19Knives, guns, things like that.
06:21Well, do you teach more or are you connected with more than one sport?
06:25Yes, ma'am.
06:26Oh.
06:27Oh, ho.
06:29Are you the head of a department?
06:31Yes, ma'am.
06:32Are you the head of the athletic department?
06:33Yes, ma'am.
06:36A medical education.
06:37Actually, I'm going to throw these all over.
06:39I'm mad on a 500th broadcast.
06:41I think Mr. Brown will agree that you're so close now that it would be a little bit unfair
06:46to make them go to director of physical education.
06:48Darling, I don't mind keeping on.
06:51Well, actually, Martin, you started off brilliantly and Dorothy is revealed.
06:56It's director of physical education at Loretto Heights College in general.
07:02Mr. Brown was very generous to you because he actually is connected with Loretto Heights
07:06College and on a technicality could have ruled out the university issue, I think.
07:10Excuse me, but isn't Loretto Heights a girls' school?
07:12It sure is.
07:13Thank you very much, Dorothy.
07:21That was our little surprise.
07:23We never got a chance to spring it, and I wonder if you have any words of wisdom to
07:29give us when you have this assignment as director of physical education at a girls' school.
07:35I think you could help us out.
07:36We all have problems with girls.
07:38Watch yourselves at all times.
07:39Well, I can say, Mr. Daly, we don't have our problems in our school, but we do enjoy the
07:46work with the girls.
07:50The girls have trouble concentrating.
07:53How's your football team?
07:54We don't have a football team.
07:55You don't have a football team.
07:57Well, I think this is wonderful.
08:00Actually, Mr. Brown has got a degree in physical education.
08:06You also, I think, are studying for even more credits and acclaim in the field of physiology.
08:12I'm laboring on a man.
08:13You're laboring on it.
08:14But he's happy, and we understand from the young ladies at Loretto Heights that they're happy,
08:18and everybody is much healthier than they've ever been before, so a great good has been achieved.
08:23We're happy.
08:24You've been very good to join us on What's My Life.
08:27Well, I must congratulate you, panel.
08:39That's a very brilliant beginning.
08:40Let's see what you can do with the second challenger.
08:42Will you come in and sign in, please?
08:55Thelma Wagner.
08:56Miss or Mrs. Wagner?
09:03It's Mrs.
09:03Mrs. Wagner, where are you from?
09:05Hampton, Iowa.
09:06Hampton, Iowa.
09:07Right.
09:07Very nice to have you with us tonight.
09:09May I present the panel?
09:10Mrs. Wagner, would you join me over here, please?
09:13Do you know how we keep score, Mrs. Wagner?
09:14Yes, I do.
09:15Well, if you know how we keep score, we'll let everybody, except the panel, know exactly what your line is.
09:31All right, panel, we can tell you that Mrs. Wagner is self-employed.
09:35Martin, and Martin, I think you've earned the right to start this trip.
09:38Thank you, John.
09:39Mrs. Wagner, I can rule out, I can assume that you're in no relation to the mayor of our great city.
09:46Right.
09:46Is there a product connected with what you do?
09:50Yes.
09:52Is the product something that's indigenous to the great state of Iowa?
09:56Is it a farm product, for example?
10:00No.
10:01A small conference, if I may.
10:03Martin, we want to be very fair.
10:16I would think perhaps indigenous might be too encompassing a term, but we would have to admit that it would be likely that the product involved here would be common to the state of Iowa, yes.
10:29I see.
10:29Is the product grown rather than manufactured?
10:34No.
10:35That's $1.90 to go, Ms. Kilgoth.
10:37Is it manufactured out of anything that has ever been grown?
10:42Yes.
10:43Is it vegetable rather than animal?
10:46Yes.
10:48Does it grow?
10:50Does the part that is used in the manufacture of this product grow above the ground rather than underneath the ground?
10:58Yes.
11:00Would you consider it a vegetable rather than a fruit?
11:04Yes.
11:04Is it a vegetable which has color, a distinctive color, rather than something that comes in a variety of colors?
11:15In other words, I...
11:16And I don't know what I'm talking about.
11:18No, but what you're actually going to do is, does it have one color rather than a multiplicity of colors?
11:23Yes.
11:23If I went to the vegetable store, would I expect it to be a certain color?
11:26There are no green potatoes, in other words.
11:30I think...
11:30Don't say things like that.
11:34Somebody will hear you.
11:35I didn't hear it, whatever it was.
11:36Good.
11:36It's fine.
11:37Well, you'll get a yes.
11:39Would it be green?
11:41Green?
11:42No.
11:42No.
11:43That's fine.
11:43That's two down and eight to go, Mr. Green.
11:46All right, Mr. White.
11:46I mean, Mr. Green.
11:47By a strange coincidence, Green.
11:51It is a vegetable, and it is of one color, and it is manufactured.
11:57Is it manufactured for a specific use other than consuming edibly?
12:06Yes.
12:06Is it something that is manufactured for use for somebody other than human beings?
12:17Yes.
12:19It has to do with animals?
12:22Yes.
12:25Now, what sort of animals do they have on farms, other than horses?
12:28Dogs.
12:28Dogs.
12:30I'm a city boy.
12:32Crocodiles, lions.
12:33Let's take a plunge and say, has it something to do with horses?
12:37Yes.
12:39Any part of a horse's harness?
12:45No.
12:46No.
12:47Three down and seven to go, Miss Francis.
12:50Well, I never saw a vegetable blanket.
12:55You mean somebody saw a vegetable blanket out there?
12:59Is it something that would cover a horse?
13:04Yes.
13:06Eddie Arcaro.
13:07Well, would it be, would it be, Eddie Arcaro?
13:10It is something other than a jockey, which also grows, but not very tall.
13:18Would it be considered a blanket in any way?
13:21Yes.
13:22Now I have to decide what way it's considered a blanket.
13:25Yeah.
13:26Is it made out of potatoes?
13:28No, it's not made.
13:30Martin wants to know if it's made out of potatoes, but I'm not going to ask that question.
13:37It's a vegetable blanket.
13:39Could we have a moment?
13:40You may have 30 seconds.
13:41Conference?
13:42Yes.
13:42She did say it was a vegetable, but in the manufactured form, it's other than edible.
13:48And it's used as, what are, what are, what are.
13:50It's used to cover a horse.
13:51Used to cover a horse.
13:52Is hay ever used to cover a horse?
13:54Of a, of a sun helmet.
13:56Hay, hay, could you make a hay blanket?
13:57Hay, hay, could you ever be hay?
14:00A corn blanket.
14:02Oh, please.
14:04Uh, I think I have to.
14:06Some blankets.
14:07Is it a, is it a vegetable that when, in its manufacture, as you say, it's used to cover a horse, but could it in any other state be edible?
14:16What?
14:17By you.
14:18No, that makes it four down and six to go.
14:20I couldn't be more than eight.
14:21Six to go.
14:21Is the.
14:24It's just a horse blanket and we're making too much of it.
14:35It's a vegetable horse blanket.
14:37No, you see, the initial question that raised the matter of the vegetable was Dorothy's question.
14:44Was it vegetable rather than?
14:46Mineral.
14:47Mineral.
14:47Yes, you would have to say vegetable rather than mineral.
14:50And then you went down to the specific of the vegetable and you've had corn blankets, potato blankets, potato blankets.
14:57It's definitely made too much of it.
14:59John, what is it really made of?
15:01Cotton.
15:01Wool or cotton?
15:02Cotton.
15:02Cotton.
15:02Cotton.
15:03Cotton.
15:03Well, cotton is not indigenous to the state of Iowa.
15:06I was thinking, I was thinking, I was thinking, I was thinking, I was thinking, I was thinking of Iowa.
15:07No, but horse blankets are.
15:08What is the name of it?
15:12And actually, I think indigenous.
15:14I said cotton size.
15:15I think indigenous is perhaps too strong a term, but common to the state of Iowa would be a horse.
15:19Is there any?
15:20John said that indigenous was not the right word.
15:22Don't you ever use it again.
15:24Naughty, naughty.
15:25Well, I think I've only got one choice.
15:27It's the 500th broadcast.
15:28There it goes.
15:29All the way over.
15:30And, Mrs. Wagner, we had a lot of fun.
15:31I hope you did.
15:32I sure enjoyed it.
15:33And I think that everybody will be interested.
15:37Mrs. Wagner, you just sort of fell into making these blankets for horses and Shetland ponies.
15:41And now she's got a real business going from it.
15:42Can't give us a tip, can you, Mrs. Wagner?
15:46Sure.
15:48Take the horse blanket off the horse before he races.
15:50That's Mrs. Wagner's tip for today.
15:52Thank you very much, ma'am.
15:53Nice to have you on.
16:05We'll meet tonight's mystery guest in just a moment.
16:08But first, here is a word from our sponsor.
16:11Now we come to the special feature of our program, the appearance of our mystery challenger,
16:16for which my colleagues on the panel for all these years have been asked to blindfold themselves.
16:21So tonight, we won't change it.
16:23We'll ask them to blindfold themselves.
16:25Blindfolds all in place, panel?
16:26Yes, sir.
16:27Fine.
16:28Would you come in, mystery challenger, and sign in, please?
16:30All right, panel, as you know, in the case of our mystery challenger, we go to a different form of questioning.
16:49You ask one question at a time, in turn, moving clockwise, and we'll begin with Dorothy Kilgallen.
16:55Are you primarily famous for your work in the world of entertainment?
17:01Yep.
17:02Mr. Green.
17:03You are a lady?
17:05Yep.
17:06Miss Francis.
17:07Are you known for your work in pictures?
17:10Nope.
17:11One down and nine to go, Mr. Gable.
17:13You're known for your work in the theater?
17:15Yep.
17:17Miss Kilgallen.
17:18Uh, have you ever been in the musical theater?
17:23Yep.
17:23Mr. Green.
17:25Are you, uh, at present, or likely to be shortly, rehearsing for a musical coming into Broadway?
17:34No.
17:35Two down and eight to go, Miss Francis.
17:39Well, then, have you, in the last, uh, year, played in a musical on Broadway?
17:47Nope.
17:48Three down and seven to go, Mr. Gable.
17:52Uh...
17:52Have you, in the last five years, played in a musical on Broadway?
17:58Yep.
17:58Miss Kilgallen.
18:01Uh, are you a soprano?
18:03Yep.
18:04Mr. Green.
18:06Have you, within the last three years, appeared in a musical play on Broadway?
18:12Yep.
18:13Miss Francis.
18:14Have you appeared on television?
18:16Yep.
18:17Mr. Gable, have you got a current series going?
18:20No.
18:21That's four down and six to go, Miss Kilgallen.
18:24Um, have you now, or have you ever had red hair?
18:29No.
18:29Five down and five to go, Mr. Green.
18:32Would you, uh, have had blonde hair at any time?
18:37If you'd want to do.
18:38If you'd want to play.
18:40Have you hair?
18:41I'm assuming, Mr. Green, that when you use the word blonde to hear you...
18:49I mean, real blonde.
18:50Oh, you mean the real blonde.
18:51Oh, that's fine.
18:52Thank you, Mr. Green.
18:53That's six down and four to go, if you mean real blonde, Miss Francis.
18:57Are you best known as a singer rather than a dancer?
19:02Yep.
19:03Mr. Gable?
19:03Do you sing blues often?
19:08No.
19:09Seven down and three to go, Miss Kilgallen.
19:12Was she a soprano, did I?
19:13Yes.
19:13Yes, she is.
19:14Uh, did you ever play in a musical written by Frank Lesser?
19:19No.
19:20Eight down and two to go, Mr. Green.
19:23Oh, dear.
19:25Excuse me, may we have a conference?
19:27You may have 20 seconds for a conference.
19:29Do the other members of the panel agree with me that we have established she is not playing
19:34on Broadway now?
19:34She is not playing on Broadway now, but has in the last three years.
19:39Uh, was your last appearance on Broadway in a musical by Rogers and Hammerstein?
19:49No.
19:50Nine down and one to go, Miss Francis.
19:52Oh, well, what about, uh, were you in a musical written by Lerner and Lowe?
19:57Oh, yeah.
19:59Well, you're, uh, were you in a...
20:02Go ahead.
20:03Uh, were you in My Fair Lady?
20:05Yeah.
20:06Are you Julie Andrews?
20:08Yeah!
20:08Yeah!
20:14Mr. Green, I must say that in a way this is, is, uh, a tribute to you.
20:23We felt that, uh, since you came from England to join us tonight, we should get another distinguished
20:27representative of the British Isles.
20:29I couldn't wish for a nicer tribute.
20:31And I'd like you to do a duet!
20:33Tell it again, darling.
20:34Tell it again, yes.
20:36Well, Julie said we nearly did it.
20:37There was one left.
20:39Oh!
20:39We weren't really fair to them there, were we?
20:41Oh, I think so, because, no, Julie's worried about the question on, on a musical to come.
20:46Uh, there is going to be a new musical in September, but on the technicality that it's not really
20:52specifically in rehearsal now, I think the answer was very fair.
20:55I hope we didn't mislead you, Martha.
20:56May I just say that I saw Miss Andrews in that really sensational television show, The Fabulous
21:0350s, and you were enchanting in that.
21:05Thank you very much.
21:06Just love it.
21:07I think that is, that is an opinion very widely held, and there's going to be another
21:16television special called The Bell Telephone Hour on another network who's, the name of
21:20which we can't mention on this network because its initials are NBC, and Miss Julie's going
21:24to be on that, too.
21:25John, I'd like to say that while I had the mask on, I was thinking, gee, this poor girl
21:31doesn't work at all.
21:33Didn't it get the pretty accent at all?
21:36Not at all.
21:36It didn't.
21:37It was wonderful.
21:37You're yuppers.
21:38I was so nervous.
21:39Dorothy?
21:40I was just thinking that Professor Iggins did a wonderful job on her tonight because
21:43her American accent was perfect.
21:45That was American?
21:46Oh, it was beautiful.
21:47It was just as American as it could be, and of course, we do feel we kind of share an
21:51experience with you.
21:52All those wonderful years in My Fair Lady and on our 10th anniversary.
21:56Thank you, Miss Julie.
21:56Wonderful to have you.
21:57Bye-bye.
21:57Bye-bye.
21:58Bye-bye.
21:58Bye-bye.
21:59Bye-bye.
21:59Bye-bye.
22:00Bye-bye.
22:00Bye-bye.
22:01Bye-bye.
22:02Bye-bye.
22:03Bye-bye.
22:04Bye-bye.
22:05Bye-bye.
22:06We'll have another contestant after this word from our alternate sponsor.
22:13And now let us meet another challenger.
22:15Would you come in and sign in, please?
22:17This continuous celebration of our anniversary is very touching.
22:27Miss Judy Joy.
22:28Miss Judy Joy.
22:29Is that right?
22:30Yes, I do.
22:30And am I right that it's Miss Judy Joy?
22:37That's right.
22:38Miss Judy Joy.
22:39Where are you from?
22:39New York.
22:40New York.
22:40Fine.
22:41May I present the panel, Miss Joy?
22:42How do you do?
22:43Hello.
22:43You join me over here.
22:44Do you know how it keeps going, Miss Joy?
22:45Yes, I do.
22:45All right.
22:46Then we'll let the audience at home and our friends here in the theater know exactly what
22:49your line is.
22:56All right.
22:59Panel, we have some two minutes.
23:00I'll tell you very quickly that Miss Joy is self-employed.
23:03And let's begin the general questioning with Mr. Green.
23:05Are you connected with a service?
23:10Yes, I am.
23:11Is it a profit-making service?
23:14Well, obviously, because you're self-employed.
23:17Is your service connected with, shall we say, humanity, medicine in any way?
23:26No.
23:27No, I don't think we can say yes to that, Mr. Green.
23:30Miss Francis?
23:30Is there a product connected with what you do?
23:32Sometimes.
23:33Sometimes?
23:34I would say here the service is more germane to what you're seeking than a product would
23:38be.
23:39All right, John.
23:41It's not a horse blanket.
23:43No.
23:44Do you go places to do your job, whatever it is?
23:48Yes.
23:49Would you ever go to a studio to do your job?
23:53No.
23:54A photographic studio?
23:55Two down and eight to go, Mr. Gable.
23:56Are you in the theatrical business?
23:58No.
23:58Three down and seven to go, Miss Kilgallen.
24:00Do you touch people when you do your work?
24:04Um, no.
24:05Not as a necessary requirement.
24:08Four down and six to go, Mr. Green.
24:09Are you connected in any way with a recreational service?
24:14No.
24:15Five down and five to go, Miss Francis.
24:17Do you do most of your work indoors?
24:19No.
24:20Six down and four to go, Mr. Gable.
24:22Is your work physical rather than mental?
24:25Yes, it is.
24:26Has it to do with sports in any way?
24:28Um, there's a connection.
24:30Yes.
24:31There's a connection.
24:32Are you a bodybuilder of any kind?
24:35No.
24:36No, and I'm sorry.
24:37This had to be a very quick one.
24:39It's a little bit offbeat.
24:40I thought you might get on the track, and I think you were beginning to get close.
24:43Miss Joy is a professional skin diver.
24:45Does search, salvage, instruction, that sort of thing.
24:48And skin diving is a fine sport, and with that, good night, Miss Dorothy Kilgallen.
25:12Good night, John.
25:13Good night to Lee Belser and all the girls at the courthouse.
25:16See you tomorrow.
25:16Good night, Morton.
25:17Good night, Dorothy.
25:19Good night, Arlene.
25:20Good night, Martin.
25:21Good night, Bennett and all the girls at the courthouse.
25:23Good night, Martin.
25:25Thank you, Father.
25:25Good night, John.
25:26Good night, Martin.
25:27And Bennett down there in Jamaica, happy anniversary to you, and happy anniversary to everyone.
25:32And thanks for being with us on What's My Line.
25:38What's My Line is a CBS Television Network production in association with Mark Lipson and Bill Tottenham.
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