Hooray for live television. On this week's episode of "What's My Line?", Groucho joins the panelists: Of one guest whsoe occupation must be guessed he asks, "Are you a corrupt politician? Or am I being redundant?" As tis is an era of decorum, the double entendre flourishes. "What a Freudian panel this is!"
On another evening, when Alfred Hitchcock was featured, the blindfolded Bennett Cerf, Random House publisher and What's My LIne? regular, asked whether the guest was a gentleman. "Sometimes," Hitchcock replied. The new movie he was promoting was Rear Window. The names of Jimmy [Stewart] and Grace Kelly are dropped. The third guest that evening was Marilyn Monroe's dramatic coach. The producers did a terrific job that evening. The panelists -- Random House publisher Bennett Cerf, NY Journal American columnist Dorothy Kilgallen, and actress Arlene Francis, one of the most likeable gals in show business..
Too bad the show went off the air before Mark Strand could have revealed his poetic line. -- DL
and that should put you in the right frame of mind for this performance, a "classic by Mendel Picasso":
And this:
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