What's My Line? - Hildegarde; Laraine Day [panel] (May 8, 1955)

MYSTERY GUEST: Hildegarde
PANEL: Dorothy Kilgallen, Fred Allen, Laraine Day, Bennett Cerf
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[@waynebrasler]

For years I wondered what made Hildegarde Sell such a sensation. She didn't seem to have much of a voice or be particularly gorgeous. Then late in her career and life I saw her in Chicago and I understand. She was delightful, charismatic, amusing and had a truly whimsical repertoire and boy could she immediately connect with audience, a large audience in a large venue of people of all ages. Then I understood.

[@Beson-SE]

In what year did you see her?

[@Marcel_Audubon]

my parents loved Hildegarde ... performed regularly at the Empire Room in the Palmer House. Sophisticated days gone by.

[@patriciamooney928]

😁

[@bluecamus5162]

Someone at work threw away a bunch of 78s in the dumpster and I recovered them all, including two by Hildegarde, whom I had never heard of. I listened to them all, once, and was favorably impressed, but not overly so. I don't remember much about her.

[@drumbum3.142]

Some People Have, and Possess "IT"; Others.. ...Not so much..

[@mrpuniverse2]

Hildegarde lived to the ripe old age of 99 and great to find out about a performer less known to me

[@Beson-SE]

I agree. I had never heard of her before but she seemed very merry and natural.

[@Marcel_Audubon]

dopey comment ... Hildegarde was famous in the US and internationally for over 50 years.

[@mathewfullerton8577]

Neither comment was "dopey". Each expressed that THEY were not aware of her, not that she was an unknown.

[@gilliankew]

@@mathewfullerton8577 Well said! Some people are too fond of their high horses! I had no recollection of her either.

[@Danno682]

Wow! Amazing job by Dorothy with the hot dog vendor!

[@waldolydecker8118]

No surprise since Dorothy frequently said she "had a winnie."

[@gugurupurasudaikirai7620]

Bad on John not to flip some extra cards for the first guest. He usually does when they get caught that early. Hildegarde was the inspiration for how Miss Piggy from the Muppets dressed, especially the gloves

[@loissimmons6558]

The first challenger's boss, who he highly extols, was a descendant of Harry M. Stevens, who founded his eponymous concessions company in 1887. He is credited with inventing the design of a baseball scorecard which he sold along with the various food and drink one gets at a ball game. He also invented the advertising phrase, "You can't tell the players without a scorecard." That's actually quite remarkable since he used that phrase long before teams began to put numbers on the backs of the uniforms. He also claimed to have invented the hot dog on a cold day in 1901 at a baseball game at the Polo Grounds when ice cream sales were slow so he decided to sell hot German sausages that were known at the time as "dachshund sausages" (to this day members of that breed are dressed up as hot dogs). At first that day they were being sold the traditional way: wrapped in wax paper. But when they ran out of wax paper, Stevens instructed an assistant to go out and buy buns. A cartoonist captured the scene but couldn't spell dachshund, so in his caption he wrote "hot dogs". The Stevens family eventually purchased and preserved the original cartoon. Like many foods, there are other competing claims as to the inventor of the hot dog. The one I've most often heard was that it was invented at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis. Still others claim it was known and popular in the U.S. in the 1800's. Harry M. Stevens, Inc. was a family-owned business until 1994. It supplied the concessions at many major sports venues in NYC (I remember them at Madison Square Garden when going to Ranger games) and I know some people who worked in the stands for them as older teens/young adults at various locations to earn extra money.in the late fifties and early sixties.

[@barrykendrick3146]

I recall a British actor who came to the US in the late 1940s when there was still a severe meat shortage in England. He said he had found the greatest food in the world...& it cost only a nickle: the Coney Island hot dog!

[@philippapay4352]

Gotta love a foot doctor named Hand. Also there was a family of emporium owners named Hand in that region and some of the Hands of that general area are distant relatives of Edvard Grieg. Not that she was related to any of those, but Bennett usually mentions such connections because he knows so much about localities.

[@waynehowell6160]

Bennett and Fred together, firing off puns. No playing footsie with the panel? Love it!

[@MrWindermere123]

Yes, John Daly repeatedly explaining the very simple scoring system was tedious and apparently some viewers complained about that. He consequently has more time to speak to the challengers and to let them answer - a welcome change.

[@lllowkee6533]

Possibly a legal requirement of the network??

[@mikejschin]

If Sherlock Holmes had been on the panel for the last guest, he would certainly have observed that, "The game is afoot".

[@MurrayMelander]

Sometimes you'd think Dorothy was down right psychic!

[@Beson-SE]

Especially with the hot dog man. How did she manage to figure that out from practically no information?

[@loissimmons6558]

Never underestimate the power of a woman's inductive reasoning, sometimes dubbed "women's intuition". Sometimes her leaps were way off, but we tend to forget that when we see one of them pan out. In addition to her inductive reasoning, as a reporter Dorothy was also quite skilled at deductive reasoning. And if you watch her, she kept detailed notes along the way. She may have even developed some sort of outline of basic characteristics for any occupation as sometimes it appears that she is checking off something on her paper, although that could also be a question she wanted to ask based on the work of the other panelists that she got out of the way. I also notice that at the end of a round, she discards the top paper on her pad or stack.

[@libertyann439]

If only she had been.....

[@ibnalhaytham]

I have often thought that Dorothy overhears someone in the audience, and the segment with the hot dog man proves it as far as I'm concerned. There is simply no way she got from the zoo to the ballpark unassisted.

[@sandrageorge3488]

Arlene also

[@afonsords]

Dorothy is so smart!!!

[@tomitstube]

just a bit of info on laraine day, she was married to the manager (leo durocher) of the baseball new york giants, 1955 would have been durocher's last year with a new york team. durocher managed both the brooklyn dodgers and giants from 1939 to 1955. little did all of these new yorkers know, both teams would leave for california in 2 years.

[@smalltowndowntown9199]

Dorothy was so good at this game!

[@robertjean5782]

Dorothy was a investigative reporter for years to come 😊

[@ToddSF]

Dr. Catherine Hand, the chiropodist (or to use more current U.S. terminology, the podiatrist), once appeared on I've Got A Secret with three others whose names were unusual with respect to their professions: Mr. Strum, a guitar teacher, Dr. Yell, a dentist (whose full name was Donat Yell, prounounced "dough-not yell"), and there was a Mr. St. Peter, who was the gatekeeper at an Air Force base. I could remember the first three, but not the fourth one and I had to look that up. Since that episode of IGAS aired in 1963, about 8 years after this episode of WML, I'm amazed I could remember 3 of the 4 IGAS guests on that appearance. With some, they gave the name and asked the profession, and with others, they gave the profession and had the panel guess the name. At least that's what I recall. (I watched IGAS as an older child and then a teenager because it was on a weeknight fairly early in primetime, whereas WML was past my bedtime at 10:30 p.m., so I didn't get to see many episodes of the original WML.)

[@loissimmons6558]

+ToddSF 94109 Ditto on the reason why I watched IGAS and TTTT much more often than WML. Many years ago, we had a doctor who was a resident at one of the local hospital whose name was Dr. Slaughter. Yikes!

[@blueduck5589]

Chiropity has nothing to do with podiatry.

[@FeggyMin]

Dorothy is a gem! love her sm

[@JJJBRICE]

Miss Hildegarde acknowledges the audience , a sign of classy performer >

[@waynebrasler]

At Mill Run Inn in Skokie outside Chicago, with Fran Warren and a whole lineup of stars, all of whom got a big response from a sold-out crowd. I am guessing early 1980s. Being a journalist and in show business too I could easily go backstage there but on that night, which I believe was a Sunday, I sense these people from the past were going have a lot of people line dup to meet them, get photos with them and get autographs. I saw Peggy Lee there too with the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra and she was beyond remarkable. I'd never seen such a carefully thought out, prepared and performed concert. The musicians told the rehearsals were exhausting as Peg gave attention to even the smallest imperfection. Many of the musicians had been playing for whenever she was in town for more than three decades, and they adored her and they adored her being a demanding perfectionist. And they adored her for being a genuine individual who regarded the musicians she knew as family and friends.

[@joncheskin]

It is interesting how one well-placed question can sink a contestant. When Fred Allen asked the last contestant if she touched people above the waist and she said no, then the only realistic options were a Chiropodist or a shoe salesman.

[@Beson-SE]

A Foot Doctor named Hand... :)

[@loissimmons6558]

No doubt she waited on her patients hand and foot.

[@joieutube]

A foot Dr named Hand who lives in Palmyra!

[@mikejschin]

I really did know a lawyer whose last name was Sue. He got some double takes when he introduced himself.

[@donnawoodford6641]

Isn't it called Podiatrist?

[@Flyingcar100]

.25 cents for a hotdog. I think last time I went to a ball game it was over $7.00

[@ToddSF]

Sports games are like movie theatres -- once the patrons are in, they aren't going to go out for food, snacks or beverages, so they really charge way too much for what they sell. Then, too, look at the exorbitant salaries they're paying these days for professional baseball and football players. 20-odd years ago, I saw Dodgers pitcher Don Drysdale as a guest on Letterman and he talked about what it was in the old days, when as a star pitchers, he and Sandy Koufax were getting something like $35,000. That was a generous salary in the 1960's, but as Drysdale said, it wasn't anything huge -- you could buy a fairly upscale home on one of the better streets in some suburb, but it wasn't a mansion on a huge piece of property by any means. Nowadays, ticket prices to see a game are also very high, not to mention the food and what they're paying the players. I can't help but think if they're paying the best players in the millions each year, that accounts for high admission prices and $7.00 hot dogs. Whatever contractor is selling the food no doubt, under the terms of their contract with the ball club, has to fork over a large sum for each unit of food or drink sold just to have the privilege of selling the food in the particular stadium.

[@loissimmons6558]

I went to a game at Yankee Stadium last year. He was nice enough to buy the tickets: $48 apiece for reserved seats down the left field line almost to the foul pole in the deck just below the upper deck (whatever they call that level). But to my surprise, the Yankees allow you (at least they did last year) to bring in your own food and beverages as long as you met their other rules for what you could not bring in (no coolers, no hard bottles or cans). I froze two bottles of Disani to keep fresh the sandwiches we bought before getting on the train, along with some snacks I brought from home. The water was still partly frozen when we got to our seats which was nice on a very hot August day in the bright sun. He did buy me a lemonade (very tart) before the game was over, most welcome on a scorcher (literally).

[@barrykendrick3146]

My cousin Susan would often take oranges for her & her friends at HS football games. She employed a bottle of vodka & a hypodermic syringe to create the best of Screwdrivers!

[@keymaninmusic]

Who is the, Lois???

[@janetmarletto6667]

The award $ seems low, when in actuality,$50 could be a weekly wage! Nonetheless, the guest panelists received a sumptuous $750 for one 30 minute appearance! That seems outrageously out of proportion considering that challengers paid their own way! Martin Gabel was a guest panelist over 100 times!

[@orgonkothewildlyuntamed6301]

the 1st contestant's last name Cohen there was a bar type place where i used to live called Cohen's made great hot dogs (& also candy apples during Halloween) but that's a common name so likely no relation

[@Merrida100]

Why didn't Day shake his hand when he introduced himself to the panel?

[@slaytonp]

It wasn't necessary. A woman offered her own hand first in those days. She chose not to. No problem with handshake etiquette.

[@Wizardofgosz]

What's up with Miss Day not shaking peoples' hands?

[@billross5084]

I noticed that also.

[@wynnssecret8584]

Richard Wielgosz.....maybe she was a germaphobe before it became a thing

[@voxer99]

Something to do with being a Mormon? Or a movie star?

[@gilliankew]

Or she had an allergy, or she just didn’t know she had to.

[@gilliankew]

@@voxer99 Not a Mormon thing

[@christinesammons8488]

Hildegard is a very wonderful lady

[@dancelli714]

How in the heck did Dorothy get the Hot dog guy ? ? ? ? Did she see him there. Even if Day was on the panel . I wish Daly asked her; '' HOW JA DO IT ?''

[@peternagy-im4be]

Waddya know brudda??

[@waldolydecker8118]

It's simple, she had a winnie.

[@soulierinvestments]

Fred Allen's first questions to the second contestant sounds like a gambit as well -- though typically the producers did only one gambit on occasion per episode.

[@WhatsMyLine]

That's what Gil Fates says in his book, only one planted gambit per episode. I find that suspect, not that he was necessarily being intentionally misleading-- maybe faulty memory, or maybe it was rare to use a gambit more than once but it did happen sometimes. We'll never know!

[@orgonkothewildlyuntamed6301]

soulierinvestments really? asking if a product is involved was a very common 1st question what makes you think this one was a gambit?

[@WhatsMyLine]

orgonko the wildly untamed First question*s*, not the first question.

[@loissimmons6558]

The gambit often appears to be used with the second challenger rather than the first. One way I identify a possible gambit is that it is almost always done by someone in the second seat (the humorist's seat) and that the first question is always answered yes. Somehow by magic, the gambiteer will know when the first question should be "do you deal in services?" and when it should be "is there a product involved?"

[@randylovering24]

HE STOPPED ASKING THAT IN 1963 CAUSE THEY ALL KNOW HOW WE SCORE THIS SHOW

[@williamludlow3788]

I named my 2 dogs, Hilegard 1, and 2

[@Baskerville22]

Hildegarde lived to 99 y.o. Died in 2005.

[@loissimmons6558]

The first challenger did not need to go to Ebbets Field on the day of this episode, Mother's Day. The Dodgers were in Philadelphia beating the Phillies, 9-8. Meanwhile, Laraine Day's husband's Giants split a doubleheader against the Pirates at the Polo Grounds. A remark is made by Bennett about hitting better than the Giants catchers. At the end of action that day (in which Giants catchers went a respectable 2 for 7) their averages were: Wes Westrum (.114) and Ray Katt (.143) both anemic marks. Third string catcher Mickey Grasso only batted twice up to that point without a hit. May 8 would prove to be his last appearance in a major league game. He was released three days later as the Giants were trimming their roster from 28 players to 25 to meet what was then known as the May 15 cut down date. Switching attention to Connie Mack Stadium in Philadelphia, the Dodgers built up a 9-2 lead with four runs in the top of the 7th when Duke Snider hit a grand slam home run. They needed every one of them as the Phillies countered with four of their own in the bottom of that inning and two more in the 8th. But the Phillies were unable to capitalize on a leadoff single in the 9th and the Dodgers were glad to get out of town with a sweep of the Phillies and their second double digit winning streak of the season still intact. At the end of the day's action, the Dodgers had a phenomenal 21-2 record, putting them 9 games ahead of the second place Braves, the only other team in the league with a winning record (12-11). The Giants were in third at 11-11. In contrast, the last place team in the American League (Baltimore) was 10 games behind first place Cleveland. Around this time, Branch Rickey of the Pirates was moaning that continued dominance by the Dodgers would be an economic disaster for the rest of the league because it would soon be obvious that no other team had a chance to win the pennant. The Dodgers were 6-0 this week, beating the Braves on Monday in 12 innings at home (the second game of a rare Sunday-Monday series), then taking two from the Cardinals at Ebbets Field on Wednesday and Thursday before leaving for Philadelphia. On Monday, Carl Erskine and 6'8" Gene Conley (also an NBA basketball player) matched zeroes through 11 innings. In the top of the 12th, Erskine survived walking the first two batters. After Del Crandall's bunt moved runners to second and third, Erskine got out of the jam by getting Conley to ground out to Pee Wee Reese at shortstop, no doubt with the infield playing in, and Billy Bruton to fly out to Sandy Amoros in left field. Yes Conley batted for himself. It was common in those days. In the bottom half of the inning, Jackie Robinson coaxed a one out walk and then trotted home on Carl Furillo's 8th home run of the year in the Dodgers first 18 games: a very fast pace for a player who normally hit about 20 home runs for the season. After a day off, Cardinals pitchers walked Furillo three of the four times he batted, but the Dodgers scored early and often to win 12-4, with Roy Campanella driving in 4 runs and Reese and Snider bringing home three apiece. Things were literally wild in the first inning the next day. Future Hall of Fame Manager Tommy Lasorda was given a rare start and he was lucky to get away with allowing only one run as he walked two batters and uncorked three wild pitches. He also suffered a bad gash on his leg covering home on his third wild pitch as Wally Moon scored. He retired the last two batters in the inning but couldn't continue thereafter. One of Lasorda's claims to fame is that the only reason the Dodgers sent him to the minors was that the rules required them to keep a bonus baby on the roster that year, a player by the name of Koufax, As evidenced by this game which wasn't that unusual, Lasorda;s wildness was comparable to Sandy's at this time, but Lasorda never had a fastball and curve anywhere close to what Sandy threw. The game was tied 3-3 in the bottom of the eighth when Snider led off with a walk, went all the way to third on a sacrifice bunt and scored on a sacrifice fly. People remember the speed of Mantle and Mays, but they forget that Snider was right up there with them in his prime. On Friday, the Dodgers won their second 12 inning game of the week. After 4 innings the score was tied 4-4. After 11 innings, it was the same score. Rookie Jack Meyer who would lead the NL in saves that year held the Dodgers at bay for 6 innings while 4 Dodger pitchers matched him blank for blank. The Dodgers finally prevailed on Campanella's two run double. On Saturday, Erskine went the distance to raise his record to 5-0 with a 6-3 victory. The game was marred in the 7th inning when losing pitcher Robin Roberts, who had already been removed from the game for pitching ineffectively, started yelling at HP Umpire Artie Gore about his pitch calling. He was ejected from the dugout and two other reserve players were also ejected. In response, the fans started throwing empty beer cans on the field and the game was delayed for 10 minutes. Umpiring crew chief Jocko Conlan had to threaten forfeiting the game to the Dodgers for things to quiet down.

[@dcasper8514]

Lois Simmons. thank you Lois for jogging my memory . I remember most of that game you so vividly brought forth..

[@robertjean5782]

Wow, what a fantastic memory 😊

[@lorijeangrandi4434]

Dr. Hand was from Palmyra, Pa.....just down the road from me.

[@hopelewis5650]

Palm-y-ra?

[@richardvilseck]

Benn ett Cerf complaining about .25 cents for a Hot Dog. That would be $2.80 in today’s money. Now a Hot Dog costs $6.99 at Dodgers Stadium. I just figured you should all know how LITTLE your money goes nowadays. We make half of what our grandparents made and everything is twice as expensive. BUT we have the same chances.

[@donaldewert2332]

Milwaukee's Hildegarde.

[@leesher1845]

Oh that’s too bad that the hotdog man didn’t win the full amount. With that kind of job, he probably could have used the money. “We’re not going to open up any Megillahs here.” 😂 I wonder if John Charles Daly knew what a Megillah is.

[@leesher1845]

Bennett Cerf loved the question: Has this product ever “bean” alive?

[@leesher1845]

Dr. Hand was a foot doctor! 😂

[@robertjean5782]

The hot dog man made a very good salary😊

[@deborahd.7281]

Larraine Day was married to Leo Durocher, manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

[@alanoneill3065]

Hildegarde was LOVELY

[@sansacro007]

Laraine Day refused to shake hands with the working man; never seen that before and will never forget it. Not nice. RIP

[@loissimmons6558]

The last challenger had a job to die for!

[@MurrayMelander]

I wish we could see the commercials too

[@WhatsMyLine]

Me too (assuming you mean the original commercials). I have posted a few episodes that include commercials-- if you do a text search on the videos on the channel typing in "commercials", you'll find them all pretty easily. Unfortunately, there aren't a lot of shows with commercials circulating, but I have around a dozen or so more to come as we continue through the rest of the series.

[@loissimmons6558]

+gcjerryusc Time to add TiVo to your Christmas gift list! As far as your suggestion to Madison Ave., unfortunately tests have shown that the product for irritating ads tend to be more memorable and such ads more effective than entertaining or pleasing ads. In particular, when ads are entertaining or pleasing, people are good at remembering the gist of the ad but not the product.

[@loissimmons6558]

+gcjerryusc Well of course! Exceptional people don't match the typical survey results! :-) Scatching TiVo off of Jerry's Christmas list ...

[@randyhutton9371]

Amusing once, then quickly tedious.

[@robertjean5782]

​@@WhatsMyLineThank You 😊

[@RalphOnofrio]

A hot dog was 25 cents in 1955....At the ball park.How times have changed.

[@shojinryori]

17:30-17:45 ish, Dorothy and John both say “tomAHto” juice. Is that a New York thing, or a 1950s thing? (I’m not from the US, and I’d thought it was pronounced “tomAYto”)

[@preppysocks209]

It is a NY thing. Ira Gershwin thought everyone pronounced the word to MAH to. When he found out that many people pronounced the word to MAY to, he wrote a famous song about it, "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off."

[@shojinryori]

preppy socks Thank you for that! I know the song but I’d assumed that it was comparing US and British English. How fascinating!

[@rondaleroi]

Regional differences. Midwesterners say "tomAYto."

[@neilmidkiff]

@@preppysocks209 At a lecture before a performance of a Gershwin musical, a member of the Strunsky family (Mrs. Ira Gershwin's family) told us, the audience, about a time in the 1930s when the Gershwins visited relatives in New Jersey who had a vegetable farm. According to his story, the farmers said to-MAY-to, the same way I learned the word in the Midwest. So you're right about the background, and correct about how specific the posh pronunciation is to N.Y. itself.

[@Marcel_Audubon]

@@rondaleroi everyone says tomAYto now

[@soulierinvestments]

The producers HAD to have given a gambit to Lorraine Day -- though typically gambits went to bright comedians whose egos inclined them to laughs rather than solutions.

[@lilybean835]

Ever notice that Dorothy will know the answer, but to get more screen time, she ends up asking 3 or 4 lengthy questions that are irrelevant such as "do children sometimes eat too many of these things?" She's a smart cookie and hones in on people and is very bright. It's just a little irritating how she'd hog for camera time when she was wiser than that.

[@418-Error]

Lily Bean the "new" MG rule helps with that, as happened to Bennett in the previous show. And this one - I just got to it.

[@dcasper8514]

Lily Bean. when being introduced at the beginning of the show, she'll glance up in the air to her right. Probably checking herself on a TV monitor...

[@robertjean5782]

Dorothy was a investigative reporter for years to come 😊

[@Traderjoe]

Laraine is so beautiful!

[@scottpardee6303]

Bennett says he loves Dorothy 12:35. He is making a joke, but that’s OK, because we often see that he disliked her because of her reporting, T least they were on good terms here.

[@janetmarletto6667]

Laraine Day did a marvelous job!🏵🌹

[@ceplio]

Ms. Hand the foot doctor

[@krystonjones]

Daly: "I would say this” Well, he hardly wouldn’t, then say it. I think he loved the sound of his voice, in motion.

[@MichaelHonscar]

Wonder why Laraine Day wouldn’t shake the hands of any of the male guests?

[@peternagy-im4be]

I don't really know or care to be honest

[@robertjean5782]

70 years ago woman could choose whether they shook hands or not😊

[@CKDH-YT]

Laraine Day clearly had a. inflated sense of self - not shaking hands with the guests. Ridiculous

[@soulierinvestments]

Patrick, Bennett dear, not Francis.

[@WhatsMyLine]

Haven't rewatched this one recently, so I'm curious what you're referring to?

[@buyvital]

What's My Line? I think it was in reference to Daly's full name, and while I have your attention, do you know who has that loud guffaw laugh in the background in almost every episode? You can hear it at 2:41.

[@Beson-SE]

His full name was John Charles Patrick Croghan Daly.

[@robertjean5782]

​@@buyvitalI was a part of the audience and it was free admission and the same people would show up as regulars. This loud person was faithfully here every Sunday😊

[@wildboar7473]

She had to think about been alive. Doctor knew what she did!

[@keithhyttinen8275]

Dorothy figured out the JFK in Dallas thing. They snuffed her quickly. Sad.

[@BenDover-cl6gx]

Even the contestants look and dress like celebrities. Not like trashy Hollywood now.

[@patriciamooney928]

Hildegard Loretta Sell. Unknown to me.

[@joycejean-baptiste4355]

Miss Hand is a foot doctor, funny.

[@nudistjamie]

25 cents for a hot dog! Before long, it will be 25 dollars!

[@robertjean5782]

😅

[@mjanavel]

A true Brooklyn accent there.

[@over50andfantabulous59]

Ever think they're fed the answers some of the time

[@robertjean5782]

The panelist doing this for years became professional job experts😊

[@ChrisHansonCanada]

SELLS HOT DOGS AT EBBETS FIELD MAKES DICE FOOT DOCTOR

[@peternagy-im4be]

Please remove this complete and utter troll from the comments section. Unfortunately today's awful society is full of pathetic losers intent on ruining other people's enjoyment of social media. Thank you

[@scottpardee6303]

We are all friends.

[@elisabethlinz4256]

Why does Laraine refuse to shake hands with the contestants? Not very polite!

[@robertjean5782]

70 years ago woman weren't required to shake hands, unless she desired to do so😊

[@elisabethlinz4256]

Never heard about that custom. Here in Germany it was different I guess. Anyway, I find it arrogant. ​@@robertjean5782

[@elisabethlinz4256]

​@@robertjean5782and by the way... Astonishingly she takes the hand of the artist Hildegard... Not nice!

[@Rosey01222]

Laraine Day not shaking hands with the guests as was customary. Perhaps due to her strict adherence to her religious beliefs? She was a devout Mormon who for one drank neither alcohol, coffee or tea.

[@robertjean5782]

70 years ago women had a choice to shake a hand or not!😊

[@oldmisterhoward1913]

Twenty Five Cents was a rather high price for a Hot Dog in 1955!

[@peternagy-im4be]

These stadium concessions have always been a rip off

[@robertjean5782]

The stadium charged 10 cents more then a vendor on the streets😊

[@robertjean5782]

​@@peternagy-im4beAgree, but no one's twisting anyone's arm to buy one!😊

[@bigwilson8794]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/eZOuY5enmryertkm47s. Is the guy laughing in this episode of "The Honeymooners" the same guy in the audience of this WML episode (1:17, 2:41, 4:39, 4:49, 8:36, 8:45, 19:02 and others)who laughs throughout (and other episodes)?

[@TheNomadicview]

Try watching the uploads of "Rhoda." There's a seeder in the audience of every show who is very annoying. HAH HAH HAH HAH.

[@shojinryori]

He’s probably one of the crew, who gets called on to liven things up. And why the voice is heard so often.

[@jerrylee8261]

@@TheNomadicview It is annoying especially when that raucous laughter is directed at something that only rates a smile at that. To me, it is insulting as TV/Hollywood people think their audiences have to be told when to laugh.

[@robertjean5782]

I was a part of the audience, free admission to all. Majority of patrons were " regulars" this man was one of them😊

[@orgonkothewildlyuntamed6301]

when did chiropodist change to podiatrist?

[@litigioussociety4249]

orgonko the wildly untamed When the government and AMA worked to corporatize the healthcare industry requiring a license to perform certain types of medicine that previously were regulated by consumer choice. This was done by big hospitals to eliminate competition, and artificially inflate prices on such services. State governments started using the term doctor of podiatry or podiatrist for those holding such licenses.

[@gilliankew]

In the UK they are different professions.

[@jackkomisar458]

According to the Google Ngram viewer, "chiropodist" was more common in 1961 and in previous years, while "podiatrist" became more common in 1962 and stayed that way. "Chiropodist" is still used, however.

[@antonioiglesiasiii8000]

Is it just me or is Ms. Day selective with whom she shakes hands? She shook all the contestants' hands from the May 1 episode, but only shook hands with the third non-celebrity contestant for this episode.

[@AllenMQuinn]

I noticed that and found it kind of strange. Never seen a guest panelist do that... There's something about her I don't find likeable or authentic. Seems snobby.

[@loissimmons6558]

+gcjerryusc I cannot speak regarding Miss Day's personality in general. I can say that it is public record that she was involved in a very messy divorce from airport executive Ray Hendricks immediately before she married Leo Durocher. There was testimony in the divorce hearings that there was a particular night when the three of them were in Ray and Laraine's house arguing over which one Lararine would go with. She chose Leo. (Pretty foolish choice from a marital point of view as he was a notorious womanizer of Hollywood starlets, among others, even while he was married to her.) The divorce was granted on Jan. 20, 1947. Part of the interlocutory divorce decree was that she wait one year before remarrying. She went to Juarez, Mexico the next day and got a second divorce decree there, then met Leo in El Paso and married him there. When she returned to California, the original judge ruled that the Mexican divorce was illegal and therefore the Texas marriage was as well. So biographies of her show her as marrying Leo in 1948, which they did on Feb. 16, 1948 in Santa Monica. While Leo was suspended from managing the Dodgers in 1947 in large part due to his association with known gamblers and other gangsters, Commissioner Happy Chandler also cited his dealings with another man's wife as part of his activities that were detrimental to baseball. He noted that where he came from (he was the former Governor of Kentucky), a man would be justified in shooting a man who came into his home to steal his wife. Also a large factor in Chandler's decision is that the Catholic Church in general and in particular the Catholic Youth Organization (CYO) in NY threatened to pull their support of and any association with the Dodgers if Durocher remained manager there. Somehow it was never a problem when Durocher was released from his contract with Brooklyn and became manager of the New York Giants. The suspicion is that a very powerful Irish-Catholic, someone with many high level connections within the Catholic Church, could have steered their stance on Durocher in either direction and he steered it this way to embarrass Branch Rickey. Durocher was well-known as Rickey's favorite reclamation project, trying to reform him. The name of that influential person is Walter O'Malley, part-owner of the Dodgers who would force out Rickey at the end of the 1950 season. Perhaps the biggest irony of Miss Day's marriage to Durocher and all the events that surrounded it was that she was a lifelong Mormon who is reported as never having swore, smoked or drank any alcohol, coffee or tea. She and Durocher were divorced in 1960. Within a year, she was married to television producer Michael Grilikhes. They had two daughters together when she was in her early 40's. She did not appear in any more movies after the birth of their daughters and much less often on television. She was widowed of her third husband less than a year when she died on 11/10/12.

[@loissimmons6558]

+gcjerryusc Alas, women in love (or worse, infatuation) do stupid things. I've had over 30 years of girlfriends crying to me on the phone or on my shoulder about some guy, whether it's the boyfriend who dumped her, the boyfriend who abuses her in one way or another, or the husband who does either of those. And too many times the response to common sense counseling is "But I love him!" Me? I'm smart. I avoid stupid things and get out of relationships pronto when the red flags outweigh the benefits. Therefore, I'm single. And I'd rather be single wishing I was married than married wishing I was single.

[@loissimmons6558]

+gcjerryusc The quote a girlfriend from many years ago: "they're all crazy but me and thee ... and I'm not too sure about thee!" :-) From what I know about you through this distance and impersonal medium, whatever quirks that your beloved Sue had to put up with, I doubt any of them reached the level of being a red flag. There are certain generalities about men that women with understanding learn that is typical male behavior and one learns to live with it if one wants to be in a fulfilling relationship and the same is true for men with understanding learning what is typical female behavior. One example is the two minute test which is what a person means when they say, "Honey, I'll be there in two minutes." In other words, what does the typical guy mean when he says that referring to there being two minutes left in a football game and what does the typical gal mean when she says she needs to run into a store for two minutes. Those are examples of things that a couple in a healthy relationship learn to tolerate in each other, but they are far from being red flags. In a good relationship that's stood the test of time, the other person's foibles may even become endearing because you know the other person is putting up with your foibles, too. When I am talking about red flags, I am talking about something major like cheating on your spouse/significant other, or drug use, or alcoholism where the other person isn't making any attempt to become clean and sober, or major issues in the other person's life that has them start to sabotage the relationship. I've had to back away from relationships where the other person was abused or emotional damaged in some way that made it impossible for them to be in a long-term healthy relationship without a lot of time and effort put to healing, time and effort that they showed no sign of being willing to make. So it was a matter of either stepping away or getting pulled down with them. At some point, no matter how compassionate I wanted to be, I had to protect myself. And while this hasn't happened to me, I've seen women dragged down by someone who was basically a con man. One woman I know married two of them over the years. Yes, leaving the toilet seat up for the 9 millionth time or wanting to take a shower and finding wet pantyhose hanging from the shower curtain rod ... again ... may be annoying. But they aren't close to being the red flags that I mean. And unless I have evidence to the contrary, I would bet dollars against donuts that if Sue "put up with" you for 45½ years, you had enough redeeming qualities to make up for your annoyances. After all, most of us woman (female IFBB members and the like being the exception) need someone who can open that pickle jar. Most of us feel that the auto mechanic is less likely going to try to take advantage of you than us. And someone to cuddle with is nice, too. And it is always sweet to hear how devoted you and Sue were to each other. I love to hear love stories with happy endings.

[@loissimmons6558]

+gcjerryusc Thank you for the compliment, but I would not want to live in a world without marriages. I have been fortunate enough to know many loving couples whose life together in marriage was beautiful and a joy to behold. It sounds like if I had known you and Sue together, your marriage would be added to that list. When a marriage works, the total is greater than the sum of its parts. Each person makes the other better than they would have been alone (or with the wrong partner). No, I would never want to see that disappear from the world and hopefully it is wise of me to think that way. I describe myself as a hopeful romantic. But for whatever wisdom I have, so far in my life I've only been able to encounter many frogs but nary a prince of my own ... or even a frog who I could kiss and turn into a prince. Or to put it more accurately, the princes I met were already taken. There was one time when something magical started to happen, but it failed for reasons to detailed to get into. And then we found each other again ~25 years later and tried again. But this time when it failed, I knew why it failed and it gave me closure that I lacked the first time. And since then I've learned even more reasons why it was ill-fated. But at least I had 8 months of my life (courtship plus the first month of marriage) where I knew what it felt like to be totally in love with someone who felt the same way about me.

[@RayhanAhmed-qr3vz]

Looks like a professor - but only a burger maker

[@lilybean835]

What on Earth was wrong with Laraine Day? She never bothered to even extend a hand to shake out of simple politeness to the guests, yet everyone else did. She didn't even make a gesture? That strikes me as very rude for a panelist.

[@robertjean5782]

70 years ago it wasn't proper for a woman to shake hands, unless she desired to do so 😊

[@BernardProfitendieu]

every man who wasn't born in a barn knew not to offer his hand to a woman, you only shook a woman's hand if she offered it first and she was not required to do so (that's true today, too!) - there's nothing wrong with Laraine Day, but you seem to be lacking in a little knowledge

[@greeneyes2256]

WHY did John Daly ask a woman’s marital status? He didn’t ask it of the men.

[@accomplice55]

To know whether to call them "Miss" or "Mrs" during the questioning.

[@hopelewis5650]

Don't they have names?

[@Marcel_Audubon]

​@@hopelewis5650learn something about the social conventions of the time before asking mouthbreather questions

[@robertjean5782]

​@@Marcel_AudubonI wish majority of people would realize that 70 years ago it was a different experience 😊

[@VTMCompany]

14:08 Who?

[@keymaninmusic]

By clicking on this stupid link you made me lose my place in the comments!

[@Marcel_Audubon]

The Incomparable Hildegarde

[@adamcoates2890]

I know it was the 1950s but why don't they just ask, "is it below the waist?" That's so dumb.

[@jmccracken1963]

Laraine Day: smart, articulate, classy, and every inch a lady as a panelist. A good substitute for Arlene Francis!!!!!

[@dcasper8514]

jmccracken1963. And very attractive too..