[Magdalen] What's My Line? On Facebook and YouTube

Grace Cangialosi gracecan at gmail.com
Wed Apr 22 01:04:33 UTC 2015


Am I remembering correctly that Dorothy Kilgallen was the other woman on the panel?

> On Apr 21, 2015, at 3:40 PM, Jon Egger <revegger at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Oh, Scott, I love those old WML shows, too...and I remember the time when
> people dressed up to fly.  We flew to Tucson in about 1970 in our
> Suday-go-to-meeting best.
> 
> I also love the old Groucho shows, old Jack Benny, and so on.......
> 
> +++
> Grace & peace,
> Deacon Jon Egger
> 
> 
> 
> *“In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who
> has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to
> deceive and overawe the People."(Eugene V. Debs, Anti-War Speech, June 16,
> 1918) *
> 
> 
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 8:41 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> I've fallen in love with a Facebook group called What's My Line? (CBS).
>> They have a YouTube channel with hundreds of the 800+ kinescope episodes. I
>> learned from the group that a kinescope was a film of a TV screen playing
>> the live show. Anyway, I love the world of gracious, convivial humor and
>> the various regular panelists and how they did or didn't get along. And who
>> doesn't love the wonderful star of stage and screen, Miss Arlene Francis? I
>> don't love the audience's wolf whistles at the arrival of attractive female
>> contestants. I did love loose-cannon panelist Hal Block's take on the
>> show's sometime sponsor, Stopette Deodorant Spray: "Turn your armpit into a
>> charmpit!"
>> 
>> Anyway, an episode of WML ends as I realize I've been smiling throughout
>> the show, presided over by the mellifluous and affable John Charles Daly
>> (who was father to four sons all called John).
>> 
>> Can't seem to find a link to the group on my iPad here, but the group name
>> is exactly as given in the first line above. Closed group, but they'll let
>> you in.
>> 
>> Sent from my iPad


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