I’ve got a secret:
Week 399, 2/3/60
Guest Host: Betsy
Panel: Henry, Carol Burnett, Durward Kirby, Bess
Program Staff: Hazel Oxholm
Lighting: Sal Bonsignore
The set is redecorated to add a “feminine touch.“ Norman Paris plays accordion and piano on stage accompanied by women on harp and double bass.
Halbirg Nielsen, Reykjavik: “I have a soprano singing voice ... I also sing tenor and baritone ... I also sing bass.“ Sings “Ol’ Man River“ like Paul Robeson and “Ain’t Misbehavin’“ like Louis Armstrong.
The rest of the episode:
Some dresses are modeled, and then the models are revealed to have what at the time were male-dominated jobs. May Grayson is a bartender, Loretta Rudney is a Pinkerton private investigator, Margaret Allen is a barber, and Rona Levine is a doorman.
Edna McKuen, Phoenix: “My home town voted me Man of the Year“ (only female member of the city council).
Guest Jean-P