What's My Line? - Lily Dache; Peggy King (Aug 28, 1955)

MYSTERY GUESTS: Lily Dache (Hollywood clothing designer); Peggy King (singer, best known as the female vocalist on The George Gobel Show)
PANEL: Dorothy Kilgallen, Fred Allen, Arlene Francis, Bennett Cerf

[@bazazpa]

Dorothy's reminder that it can be folded into a pocket was great

[@BrianPicchi]

The garbage men portion was so hilarious. I just can't get enough of this show. Thank you so much for uploading these. I watch at least 2 episodes every day!

[@OnCloudNine62]

Mmmm...they clean up well!

[@VickyRBenson]

I don’t know how they got so many yes answers! What kind of garbage was it?!! I was laughing uncontrollably at times. I loved their duet about garbage collecting. And then the last contestant got so many No answers. Quite a show!

[@babyfir77]

I'm watching these WML shows in sequence and this episode with the singing garbage collectors was memorable!

[@GeertDelmulle]

Only two? What’s wrong with you? ;-)

[@stanmaxkolbe]

@@OnCloudNine62 Good one.

[@edwinrivera8449]

Every time I am hooked on anther one. There is just no way I can ever say "this was my favorite". The Garbage collectors ... WOW!!! they were a classic act.

[@theblake5356]

John’s reply to Bennett’s ‘refuse’ pun was hysterical 😂🤣

[@rmelin13231]

Sure was. He stuck it to him.

[@wchumphries]

I loved John's, "We've got something for you guys to come back and pick up." in response to Bennett's dreadful pun. :)

[@robertfiller8634]

Actually, that was one of Cerf's better puns!

[@lewisner]

These 1950s women had great style. Classy looking.

[@slaytonp]

@@davidarcudi230 Yeh, we were, but honey, don't look at us now. We're still classy, though.

[@jp0308]

@@slaytonp Class always supersedes looks!

[@LANCSKID]

And as bitchy as hell. Meeeowww!!

[@virghammer1]

The adorable young garbage men were actually excellent singers. Truly fantastic harmonies - and that’s not easy to do! Well done, lads. 👏🏼

[@robertjean5782]

I totally agree with you 💯 percent 😊

[@Bigbadwhitecracker]

The Garbage boys goes on my list of top 10 favorite segments.

[@519djw6]

I've just learned that the "Garbage Men" are both alive and well! (Feb. 14, 2021) Three Cheers!

[@broughtbackin]

Hal Sander passed away in 2022 at the age of 93. Can't find an obit on Art Asquith. There was a video done of him last year (2023) and he looked GREAT!

[@519djw6]

@@broughtbackin Was the video you mentioned one in which Asquith was mostly asked about his background some field of sport? (I haven't seen the whole video, but he did mention "What's My Line?" once, and he made reference to Hal Sander.)

[@broughtbackin]

@@519djw6 It was a pretty long video but at the beginning he was talking about his Mom's cooking. I can find it again if you'd like.

[@519djw6]

@@broughtbackin Yes, please!

[@broughtbackin]

@@519djw6 I posted the video for you a few times and it keeps disappearing. Sorry! :(

[@tjbnyc76]

The garbage collectors are a HOOT. I love them. Just one small qualification re: Lilly Daché: she wasn't a "Hollywood clothing designer." Daché was New York-based (she had a salon on Fifth Avenue) and was primarily famous as a milliner, although she did eventually branch out to clothing and other accessories. Actually, "Lilly Daché" was shorthand for the last word in fashionable chapeaus by the mid-1950's, so she really could have qualified as a Mystery Guest proper.

[@satori03]

She was VERY famous back in the day

[@ritagreen5224]

This episode just made me laugh so hard..... Thank you... WML brings back such fond memories.

[@Beson-SE]

The Garbage Collectors is on my "Top 5 Favorite Contestants On WML". Very charming and photogenic young boys. They even sang a song in harmony 17:56 We are your jolly "G" men, We come around each day. We pick your garbage up for you, And haul it right away. We bring a cheerful greeting, To all you happy folks. We brighten up your cloudy days, With little songs and jokes. And now your cans are empty, The entertainment's through. It's time for us to move along, We bid you all adieu.

[@ToddSF]

Johan Bengtsson -- Very nice of you, Johan. One correction -- the antepenultimate line should be "The entertainment's through."

[@Beson-SE]

ToddSF 94109 Thanks! Corrected.

[@ToddSF]

They were great contestants. As you said, they looked good on camera, they spoke well, and their song was very entertaining, and well sung in harmony, too.

[@wholeNwon]

@@ToddSF I wonder what became of them. Hopefully they had long and happy lives. Bet their descendants enjoy seeing them in their youth.

[@suible]

@@wholeNwon posted in WML Facebook page that as of today, both are still alive.

[@MrJoeybabe25]

Peggy King is STILL ALIVE on May 20th, 2020! She's 90, guys! 😍😍

[@MrJoeybabe25]

Still here on September 17th, 2020!

[@robertfiller8634]

@@MrJoeybabe25 Still here, February 15, 2021!

[@Tre404]

...still with us on Christmas Day, 2021, aged 91!

[@ChrisHansonCanada]

September 2022, still living at 92.

[@jacquelinebell6201]

Still here, according to Wiki, Jan '23. 92 yrs young.

[@sansacro007]

The sexy garbage men bit was hilarious! A great reminder how the wholesome and simply ordinary can be made funny with wit, intelligence, and clever word play.

[@OnCloudNine62]

Love Arlene's look here!

[@IAmAWealthyGirl]

When have you ever NOT loved her look! She was fabulous!

[@loissimmons6558]

It happens to be one of my favorites of the gowns she wore. Simply perfect for her and a great match with her hairstyle in this episode.

[@libertyann439]

The look is Greek or Roman

[@kenretherford1197]

She looks so nice, why did she ever marry that midget Gabel?

[@aileen694]

@@kenretherford1197 Hey Ken! I am very similar to Arlene in appearance and personality, and I too find Martin Gabel a Very Attractive man! -- His physical presence and energy, professional accomplishments, humour and that wonderful Voice! A lovely, loving companion.

[@TheNomadicview]

This, for me, is the ideal panel.

[@broughtbackin]

Wrong "Allen" though.

[@sandragailgoudelock1531]

Thank you so much for posting! I hate it when they don't walk out and are already sitting, I don't get the chance to see what they're wearing!

[@AaronHahnStudios]

Love Arlene's hair do in this one, she looks fantastic.

[@robertjean5782]

Gorgeous 😊

[@gooshala]

Peggy King has got to be the most forgotten Mystery Guest of all. I was a baby when this aired and by the the time I was 7 and had been glued to the tv all my life she was nowhere to be seen. As a student of pop culture, I was aware that both George Gobel and Red Buttons had comedy shows that skyrocketed them to fame in the fifties but since they were never re-run only people in their 70's would be able to remember the details of their programs, who played their wives, who were the girl singers and so forth. Now to look her up on Wiki!

[@anselm4360]

Watching this brings me so much joy 😁💟

[@sandragailgoudelock1531]

Thank you so much for posting this episode. I'd heard of Lily Dache & how fabulous her hats are. I have one. I finally got the opportunity to see her. Thank you so much!

[@sdacj]

Several times over the course of this show it was explained that consumed doesn't just mean taken internally but consumed as in "used up".

[@jp0308]

This is one of the most delightful episodes I've ever seen! Thank you!

[@todddepue681]

In the vintage clothing business, I've sold many Lilly Dache' hats! Also Mr John hats, which Arlene mentioned.

[@dancelli714]

Arlene looks great with that 'pull-back' hair style.

[@donnawoodford6641]

Reminds me of the 'I love lucy' look.

[@michaelnivens6267]

she always looks sensational

[@shirleyrombough8173]

These garbage men were terrific!

[@jblue705]

@@shirleyrombough8173 and handsome!

[@robertjean5782]

I agree 👍 😊

[@designsonyouinparis]

Love Arlen’s hair do! Makes he look so pretty and young!

[@robertjean5782]

Gorgeous is the word. Arlene 😊

[@ibnalhaytham]

This episode had a little bit of everything, from the garbage men to Dorothy's hurried exit. I'm not a Fred Allen fan, but his subtle line about Arlene's purse cracked me up. Bennet's pun was perhaps his best on any show, and John Daly's come-back actually worked. Well done, all.

[@magnificentfailure2390]

Another great show

[@SheilaB]

So funny when Dorothy had to dash off at the end.

[@loissimmons6558]

I wonder if she caught the plane? Even then, traffic on a summer Sunday night could be pretty heavy.

[@ThomasConnolly]

Arlene Francis was 48 years old when this episode of "What's My Line" was originally filmed on August 28, 1955, and at 48 Arlene looked absolutely stunning💯🔥 Arlene Francis was sophisticated, classy, sexy, very articulate, had a great sense of humor, and was quite flirtatious😁👍 Arlene Francis was a true timeless beauty, and she honestly looked sexier in her mid-late 40s than she did when she much younger in her early 20s👏 Arlene has always been one of my all-time favorites🙏🏼 I wish that someone could properly professionally convert this episode of "What's My Line" from black and white to color.

[@chic7614]

I was born on August 28, 1955, so this is quite a birthday gift to behold!

[@RisingTidesAC]

To all young people today, if you are even watching this video. Everyone in this video is who and what you want to grow up to be.

[@rmelin13231]

I can only give one "thumb up", so I'll post another one here. Good post!!

[@robertjean5782]

I agree totally absolutely 💯 percent 😊

[@RisingTidesAC]

@@rmelin13231 Thank you!

[@RisingTidesAC]

@@robertjean5782 Thank you!

[@janettejoseph1430]

Everyone is so well dressed and so polite. So different from our everyday people

[@dovbarleib3256]

It is never fair to be the last guest after the famous mystery guest.

[@robertjean5782]

I disagree the last contestant wins $50 which was a weeks pay or mortgage payment 😊

[@davedruid7427]

The Garbage Men were allowed to give the Panel so many Misleading Answers that it was Incredible.

[@Johnnycdrums]

I wanted to hear Lilly Dache' talk about her self named apparel being mentioned in the classic song; "Tangerine".

[@etraig]

+Johnnyc drums Tangerine, she is all they say With mascaraed eye and chapeaux by Daché ! Read more: Frank Sinatra - Tangerine Lyrics | MetroLyrics

[@robertjean5782]

WML NOT A TALK SHOW 😊

[@Johnnycdrums]

@@etraig ; Or Helen O'Connell, Bob Eberly with the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra.

[@jimchabai3163]

Peggy King still alive: 4th person I've found so far (July 2020)

[@JackDecker63]

The "special feature" of the show wasn't special. It was the "ordinary" people who were special.

[@Steezey7]

Jack Decker That’s what shows get wrong nowadays! They think they can put just anybody as the host and depend on celebrities for views - and that’s why none of them last for 17 years on TV!

[@Steezey7]

I received a notification that someone "liked" my reply. In hindsight, I think I totally misinterpreted what Mr. Decker was saying! He was talking about the contestants, and I was talking about the panelists. Well, his point is certainly true!

[@marymarysmarket3508]

This is proven by watching the first and best show designed to feature everyday folks...You Bet Your Life.

[@juliansinger]

Update on Asquith (mostly), who was briefly with the Yankees, and later became a sports coach and PE teacher in Cassadaga, NY, for about 40 years, and is pretty much an institution up there, in the 'was and is backbone of the program' sort of sense. (Was still alive in 2014.) Harold Sander went to California and I'll look for him more later. Also, they were really good. www.observertoday.com/page/content.detail/id/566905/What-s-My-Line-.html%3Fnav%3D5047

[@loissimmons6558]

+juliansinger Unfortunately, when I tried the link it only took me to the current online edition of the Observer, not to the article on Arthur Asquith and What's My Line. According to Baseball-Reference.com, Asquith pitched for the New York Yankees team in the Class D team in Olean, NY (not that far from where he and Harold collected garbage). It was a team in the long defunct PONY League (an acronym for Pennsylvanis-Ontario-New York). The only season they list is 1953. Apparently he didn't have something like a blazing fastball that convinced the Yankees to stick with him. I was hoping that I would find something that these two young men had a singing career, either together or solo, but I found nothing about that. I agree, they were quite good.

[@BigFredMachine]

Damn, that line that Hollywood couldn't remember Peggy's name either was pretty savage! The garbage boys segment was one of the funniest ever!

[@michaelnivens6267]

Peggy was so lovely and a great singer

[@billyshepard5514]

I never heard of Peggy King except for Abbott and Costello meet the Mummy. I wasn't alive in the 1950s and the George Goble show was never in re runs so its like she never existed. Now this shows date was August 1955. That means James Dean was making the movie Giant and would be killed in September and only become super famous in death.

[@daler.steffy1047]

The two "garbage men" offered us an ever-evolving conundrum: Does it have four legs--or no legs? Is it edible? Can it go into a pocket? There is so much you can say about garbage, to the extent that it can become unclear where to begin such a discussion and where to end it! But to go any further with this thought process would be a waste of time. ~ This was one of the funniest "What's My Line" episodes I have watched, and I've been watching a large number of them over recent months. The humor, the innocent innuendos, the "garbage men" with their tongue-and-cheek responses, in sync with Mr. Daley's casual agreeing, as each question is posed, were all beautifully orchestrated through their "impromptus." I laughed all the way through it, and I almost choked on my ginger ale as a result of Arlene's quick-witted comments, which are so funny and endearing. ~ An aside: Those two young college men had beautiful voices. I loved how they harmonized. I wonder if one or both eventually had full, or even a portion of a career around music, and more specifically, singing?

[@GingerHey]

The garbage guys were handsome and talented.. so fun!

[@beccawiley6684]

What is Dorothy talking about: Are your lines symmetrical?

[@kmgirl1967]

I would assume there was symmetry in her lines as.....a. Fashion Designer!

[@kmgirl1967]

I would assume her designs were in symmetry!!

[@spongevee1]

She thought the guest might be a model and asked to see if her appearance was 'symmetrical'.

[@Mmdmade]

I got confused by the animal references with garbage collectors. Hilarious.

[@rmelin13231]

So did the panel. Bennett refused to take the hints.

[@johngreen3543]

When Arlene gets that screwy smile you know she knows the identity of the mystery guest. Its automatic

[@LarsRyeJeppesen]

Arlene has an obsession with "young men" :)

[@Merrida100]

So do most women, lol. She's adorable about it, though.

[@md_vandenberg]

@Mark Richardson Because Block had no charisma and didn't know when to stop. Arlene would make a little zinger and leave it be.

[@slaytonp]

Who in the world would obsess on old ones?

[@sagarsaxena6318]

she seems to regularly 'check out' attractive ladies walking away too.

[@shirleyrombough8173]

Who wouldn't?

[@RachelDavisMatthews]

Art Asquith is alive and a retired Teacher!

[@Beson-SE]

Oh really? What did he teach? He seemed to be a nice man.

[@Karadoxical]

+Johan Bengtsson He was a gym teacher at Cassadaga Valley Elementary school in Cassadaga, NY. I was lucky enough to be a student of his. He was my gym teacher and my basketball coach. He was one of my favorite teachers... such a wonderful guy!

[@Beson-SE]

+BooBooKara Thank you for the information! I didn't like the gym in school but perhaps with a teacher like him I could have endured it better.

[@rmelin13231]

@@Karadoxical No kidding? (I realize your post is from 7 years ago). He was sure camera friendly in this show, pleasant personality, and a great harmony singing voice.

[@MrWindermere123]

This episode shows the one big weakness of a great format: timing. Somebody asked Peggy King to sing but she didn't and she left quickly. That left two minutes to fill with a challenger whose line would have been interesting - penguin keeper. His appearance was a waste of time and opportunity because the panel had no proper chance to question him. Why not stretch out the mystery guest segment and save the penguin keeper for next week? Perhaps the producers wanted it that way, perhaps the mystery guest would demand more money for singing/chatting or maybe John Daly ran out of things to say. We'll never know.

[@418-Error]

John Gee There might have been license/permission issues. Also, the last contestant may not have been able to show up the next week.

[@rachelehrenberg9231]

@@418-Error Exactly. WML may not have ASCAP/BMI clearance.

[@igkoigko9950]

@@rachelehrenberg9231 Unlikely to be needed as copyrights to a song (as opposed to a recording of a song are most often owned by the artist, and a snippet would be considered a “fair use” exception to the copyright 17 USC 107. But it’s good to be reminded of the chilling effect on creativity our overzealous copyright laws pose.

[@robertjean5782]

The penguin keeper didn't mind, he received the $50 . It was a weeks pay or mortgage payment 😊

[@marcuslarinen684]

Lisadawnn: the word is 'visage', meaning the appareance or expression of a person. And considering Dorothy's following question I feel she was asking if the guesr was rather shapely, speaking of symmetrical lines.

[@capncaviar]

Did the 50's have a jingle for everything, I mean this show is telling me that there was one for even garbagemen! Wow the things you learn.

[@loissimmons6558]

WML gets rid of the dreadful looking backdrop curtains behind John Daly that they had introduced a couple of months earlier. Good move!

[@jblue705]

The garbage men were nice eye candy, especially the one on the right 😁

[@MrWindermere123]

Fred Allen said in a different episode that his glasses have plain glass lenses which give no optical benefit. He wore them to disguise the circles around his eyes which are a natural feature of his face but not attractive on TV. He made his name as a radio comedian, so his face was not important until TV came along. He had a long-running rivalry with Jack Benny, another radio star who made it big in television.

[@marymarysmarket3508]

Those sure look like "real" lenses.

[@terryniblett9329]

Like Arlene's hair!!!

[@robertfiller8634]

Arlene never looked lovelier than she did here!. Don't recall seeing her hair up like that on any other WML episode. Does anyone recall otherwise?

[@robertjean5782]

​@@robertfiller8634A few other episodes 😊

[@bettycogswell9851]

I loved this one with the garbage collectors. I would love to know what they went on to do...

[@jacquelinebell6201]

My brother born exactly 7 yrs later.

[@lawrencecunningham7321]

Arlene looked so beautiful here

[@robertjean5782]

Gorgeous 😊

[@sandrageorge3488]

Little Valley, NY that is mentioned by the second contestants is 6 miles from me and Allegheny State Park is 2 miles away.

[@dancelli714]

2 guests sitting on one chair which means one of them sits on one cheek.. I would think they would have a wider chair all the time in case there were 2 guests.

[@nancymilawski1048]

I saw an interview where they said they did use a wider chair but not much wider.

[@robertjean5782]

​@@nancymilawski1048The camera man couldn't fit them on the screen if they had 2 regular chairs.😅

[@BeIIeDoc24]

aw precious! Is this the only time Arlene wore her hair back like this?

[@neilmidkiff]

She wore it back like this for the two preceding weeks and at least one afterward. It was mentioned earlier that New York was having a heat wave, so it was surely cooler to wear it this way. I agree it looks great on her.

[@BillyAlabama]

As of June 28, 2022 she’s alive and well at the age of 92!

[@loissimmons6558]

I grew up in the 50's and I understand those times and how the culture was different then. Even so, I involuntarily cringed when I saw that Peggy King was described to the audience as "George Gobel's Girl" when she signed in. Would it have been so hard to call her a "co-star" or "vocalist"?

[@oksills]

Lois Simmons And so our distasteful “political correctness “ creeps in to, as always, ruin everything it touches--even back into the 1950’s!! She, nor anyone else was offended. She was known by everyone as “George ‘s Girl”! It was her “name”.

[@jessicapigg]

@@oksills Are you a man? Either way, you so don't get it. How the hell do you know that she wasn't offended? That NO ONE else was offended? How do you know she didn't say to her sisters: gee I wish for a time when I can be a star in my own right, and not patronised because I was born with a vagina and not a penis.

[@accomplice55]

It wouldn't have been hard; it would have been unusual.

[@joycejean-baptiste4355]

That was funny how Mr. Daly got out of Miss Kilgallen's question about the contestant's hair color. Clever, yes.

[@waynehowell6160]

Just to be a Monday morning quarterback, I think it should have been clarified that garbage is a "product" in a very general sense of the word. I'll admit it was funnier this way, though.

[@MrJoeybabe25]

Oh, no. I was reading about Miss King on Wikipedia and saw that George Gobel's father's name was Hermann Goebel! Jeepers!

[@mikekelly1777]

When they have 2 guests at the same time why do they make them share that small chair, is there not another chair there, somewhere?

[@snugglyshadow2049]

When Goodson and Toddman were MGs, even they shared one chair. A comment was made about it, but nothing was changed. One would think that they would have enlarged John's desk à la "I've Got a Secret" (with one chair one each side at all times.)

[@wholeNwon]

TV was still very primitive.

[@slaytonp]

@@wholeNwon It's even worse now.

[@philippapay4352]

Mike Kelly - If you watch enough of these there is a conundrum as to what was really the deal with the chairs. I have an unpleasant take on it because, while I think Daly is a brilliant moderator, I intensely dislike him as a rather leering, smarmy man, especially with women and others he would love to impress. So, it would be tempting to think the women had to sit closer to him when there was more than one as the contestant. There was a time when they had a female from a foreign version of the show who after her bit went to sit in for the next contestant with the panel and she shared a chair with Arlene or Bennett. Now, here's the odd part. There was an interpreter for a gentleman from Italy, the chief of police of Rome perhaps, who was given a separate chair. I think it was she. Then there was another person, perhaps another panelist from a foreign WML show, who sat in on the panel for a segment and that person, too, was given a separate chair. I remember these two distinct circumstances wherein there were other chairs available and it was really rather tacky of them to not have one in the wings at all times, even in event one onstage broke mid-show.

[@LANCSKID]

Cheapskate Productions Inc.

[@bubblinbrownsugar616]

Sometimes it has four legs, sometimes it doesn't. 😄

[@miketheyunggod2534]

Love ❤️ Arlene's hair.

[@robertjean5782]

Absolutely agree gorgeous 😊

[@walterweddle7644]

I was surprised Peggy King is still alive. I don't remember her.

[@MrYfrank14]

why did john have a problem Lily Dache's hair color? did she have purple hair?

[@robertjean5782]

Woman dyed their hair at times it might be a different color. He wasn't sure if she was a blonde, and dyed it black!😊

[@jackkomisar458]

Mr. Salanto, the penguin keeper at the Bronx Zoo, falls between the cracks of the panel's usual questions. Usually they could divide people into those who worked for profit-making organizations and those who worked for some branch of government. Those who worked for non-profit-making organizations but did not work for the government generally worked for charitable foundations, museums, or some kind of teaching organization. The 9 "no's" implicitly said that the Bronx Zoo fitted into none of those categories, so the panel didn't even begin to ask specific questions about Mr. Salanto's specific occupation. Perhaps it would have been fairer and better to say "yes" that Mr. Salanto was involved in teaching in a broad sense, because people learn a lot about the natural world when they go to the Bronx Zoo.

[@rmelin13231]

True - but they knew time was short, and they were beginning to close in, I believe. A zoo teaches, but a penguin keeper tends to the penguins. I would have loved this to have been a full segment.

[@Marcel_Audubon]

she was known as "Pretty, Perky Peggy King" and had a great singing voice (in spite of her vocal disguise here)!

[@Joe_Okey]

You are talking about her in the past tense. She is not only still alive, but she is still performing in clubs.

[@Marcel_Audubon]

@@Joe_Okey Talking about someone's past achievements doesn't imply they are dead. Everything I said is true and in the correct tense. If I say Barack Obama was President, we don't assume he croaked.. Peggy King is no longer pretty or perky or known as such nor does she have a great singing voice any longer ... past tense is appropriate on those subjects.

[@Arthur_McGowan]

There's a song that mentions Lilly Daché, but I can't think of it.

[@LANCSKID]

It’s called ‘Oh, how I hate pretentious people’. Minor hit for Perry Como in 1956.

[@rebeccahiggins2369]

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@MrJoeybabe25]

Seemingly, Peggy King seems to have dropped off the show biz planet (mostly) after the 50's. Wikipedia doesn't say she retired or became a farmer. Did her career just peter out?

[@LANCSKID]

Did she wash cows? … seems to be a favourite ‘line’ on this corny show.

[@franklincolinco4424]

This is also the same day of the infamous & horrible killing of Emmett Till in Mississippi 😢

[@gaelengesser9484]

+LisaDawnn - the repetition of the rules was for possible new viewers not the guest.

[@stevehead4235]

Mr Sander passed away earlier this year - his obit said he was 93.

[@robbob1234]

Who else guessed Singing Garbage Collectors as soon as they saw those two fellows sign in? Just me?

[@frankroper3274]

Those guys were actually very good!

[@rmelin13231]

They were excellent! The highlight of the show.

[@robertjean5782]

Surprised they didn't try a singing career 😊

[@dancelli714]

PEGGY KING IS PERKY LOOKING. HAHAHAHA. Am I going to be arrested for that word. I remember her in the 50's on TV My 1956 DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE reviewed her 10" lp hasn't much jazz input but is a good pop singer. P.S. I posted this not knowing that Allen was going to use that dreaded word.

[@shirleyrombough8173]

What's wrong with perky?

[@accomplice55]

@@shirleyrombough8173: Men often use it to refer to a woman's breasts, although I doubt anyone's been arrested for it. :)

[@shirleyrombough8173]

Thanks for the information. Then would Steve Allen have used the word in that context in the fifties or sixties, do you think?

[@dancelli714]

@@accomplice55 I never thought of breasts that way. Their pointy and youthful that way ? Perky meant to me that she's petite , cute with a Pixie haircut.

[@tugginalong]

The garbage men were awesome

[@randysills4418]

The garbage men were so entertaining and handsome too...

[@LANCSKID]

Shitesorters sometimes are.

[@afonsords]

18:51 what's with John and Arlene's shocked reactions? Didn't Bennett just say they'd welcomed in the entertainment industry or did he allude to something else?

[@Dharmon1]

It was a joke. Refuse is another term for garbage, and Bennett was doing a play on words.

[@afonsords]

@@Dharmon1 Thank you! English isn't my 1st language so I was very confused ahah

[@scotnick59]

Serenading Garbagemen! oh, let's go back to 1955 - forever.

[@jacquelinebell6201]

Must still be hot. Arlene has her hair up again. She looks so lovely.

[@robertjean5782]

Gorgeous 😊

[@shirleyrombough8173]

"Sometimes it has four legs!

[@LANCSKID]

So do I.

[@sanseifromkofu728]

@What's My Line: It appears Lilly Dache's name has three "L"'s. I wouldn't have bothered with the mark over the "e", either.

[@neilmcdonald9164]

Arlene's hair looks so different from usual...I didn't recognise her at first🎩

[@robertjean5782]

Gorgeous 😊

[@fredjekroketje]

I don't understand why this program can't afford a second chair for the contestants, saw it many times at this show.

[@nancymilawski1048]

I saw an interview saying they used a wider chair.

[@LANCSKID]

Cheapskate Productions Inc.

[@robertjean5782]

The camera man wasn't able to get them all on the screen, so they had 2 sit on one wider chair😊

[@loissimmons6558]

The Dodgers returned to their winning ways, albeit with a modest 4-3 record. Historically, the most interesting thing happened on Saturday. But we will start with the game played on Sunday, August 28, the date of this episode of WML. The weekend schedule was unusual because Cincinnati was in town for a Thursday-Friday-Saturday series. Then St. Louis came into Ebbets Field to play on Sunday and Monday. Sunday’s game was tight through 6½ innings. The Dodgers nicked Larry Jackson for a run in the third on a Gil Hodges home run and added a run in the sixth on an RBI double by Roy Campanella. Karl Spooner gave up a home run to left fielder Rip Repulski to lead off the top of the seventh, cutting Brooklyn’s lead in half. From then on it was all Dodgers. They got the run back in the bottom of the seventh when Hodges, Sandy Amoros and Spooner opened the inning with singles and then added another on an error by second baseman Red Schoendienst. In the eighth it was Hodges and Campanella again when Campy led off with a homer of veteran relief pitcher Al Gettel and Gil smacked a sacrifice fly. Spooner loaded the bases with two outs in the ninth, but retired first baseman Wally Moon on a foul pop up to third base to end the game. It was the first complete game of the season for the rookie pitcher from whom so much had been expected coming off his two complete game shutouts at the end of the 1954 season. It was the first of a three game stretch that would be the best part of his year. At the end of play on the last Sunday in August, the Dodgers led the Braves by 11½ games with a record of 82-45. In the American League, the Yankees were in first, a half game ahead of the White Sox, one ahead of the Indians and 3½ ahead of the Red Sox.

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There were no games in major leagues on Monday, August 22. On Tuesday, the Dodgers greeted the Cubs at Ebbets Field. Seven of the game’s ten runs were scored in the first two innings. Two Dodger errors sandwiched around a double by shortstop Ernie Banks put the Cubs on the board in the first. The Cubs returned some of the Dodgers’ largess in the bottom of the inning. Jim Gilliam, who made an error on the leadoff batter in the top of the inning, saw his second base counterpart, Gene Baker, return the favor when he led off. Pee Wee Reese followed with a single and Duke Snider plated both of them with a double, advancing to third on the throw to the plate. When Bob Rush uncorked a wild pitch, Snider scored to make it 3-1. The Cubs came right back in the second. Center fielder Jim Bolger led off with a walk and catcher Harry Chiti sent him to third with a single. Then Don Newcombe hurt his own cause with an error on a ball hit by Rush that allowed Bolger to score. An RBI single by first baseman Dee Fondy and a sacrifice fly by right fielder Frankie Baumholtz put the Cubs back in the lead. Newcombe got the first two outs in the third. But when Bolger singled and stole second, Newk was ordered to intentionally walk Chiti. Then he was yanked in favor of Don Bessent. The Dodger reliever struck out Rush to end the inning. The Dodgers knotted the score in the fifth on an RBI single by Campanella. Carl Furillo then doubled, but Rush stranded them when he retired Frank Kellert to end the inning. Skoonj wouldn’t be denied his moment of glory in the game. His two-run homer in the seventh put the Dodgers in the lead to stay. Bessent held the Cubs in check after he entered the game, 6 1/3 innings of shutout relief, to raise his record to 6-0. On Wednesday, the Dodgers sent the Cubs packing with another loss in their last game at Ebbets Field in 1955. It was an error-filled slugfest as Kellert hit two homers and Hodges and Campanella also contributed four baggers. Once again, the Cubs made an error on the Dodgers leadoff batter of the game. This time it was Jackie Robinson who reached base on the miscue. Warren Hacker walked Reese and Snider doubled home Robinson. Campanella’s sac fly added a second run. The Cubs got to Russ Meyer in the third when Banks tripled home two runs and completed the circuit of the bases when Zimmer made an error. The Dodgers regained the lead in their half of the inning when Kellert hit his first homer with a man aboard and Hodges (playing in the outfield in this game) also sent one over the fence. In the fifth, the Dodgers sent Hacker for cover when Campanella led off with a homer, Furillo singled and Kellert hit his second two-run homer of the game. The Cubs cut their lead with two runs in the sixth on a single by Baumholtz, a double by Banks and a double by third baseman Eddie Miksis who brought both of them home. With the score 9-5 in the eighth, the Cubs loaded the bases with one out. Clem Labine relieved Meyer and kept the Cubs from scoring to preserve the win. And that was the final score. Cincinnati then came in for the final visit to Ebbets Field in 1955. Although the Redlegs would finish the season in fifth place with a losing record, they were the toughest team for the Dodgers during the season as they held a slim 12-10 edge over Cincy in 1955. A closer look indicates that it shouldn’t be all that surprising. Cincinnati was second only to Brooklyn in run differential as they scored 77 runs more than they allowed. With the addition of Rookie of the Year Frank Robinson leading the team in home runs, a team that set a season record of 221 in 1956, the acquisition of Brooks Lawrence and Hal Jeffcoat to bolster the pitching staff and a rebound year by Ray Jablonski, this team was in the NL pennant race down to the wire. Cincinnati took the first three game of the series from the Brooklyn and only a Dodger victory on Saturday prevented a sweep. But oh what a victory it was. A rainout of a game on June 9 was rescheduled as part of a doubleheader on Thursday August 25. In the opener, the Redlegs built a 4-1 lead after 4 innings and always managed to stay a step ahead of the Dodgers to keep that margin for an 8-5 win. A homer by right fielder Wally Post off Johnny Podres get things started in the second, a double by Johnny Klippstein in the second in his own cause led to a run in the third, and three straight singles plus a wild pitch by Podres led to two more in the fourth. When Ed Roebuck entered the game in the ninth and surrendered four straight singles without retiring a batter, the Redlegs extended their lead to 8-3. Sandy Koufax came in and retired the next three batters without any further damage, striking out two. It was not the last time he would pitch in the series. Hodges singled home two runs with two outs to trim the Redlegs’ lead. But Herschel Freeman came in for Klippstein and got the final out, retiring pinch hitter George Shuba on a grounder to second. In the nightcap, the Dodgers faced their old teammate, Joe Black, once again. This time they would catch the Redlegs in the late innings, but they couldn’t pass them. In the first, an RBI double by first baseman Ted Kluszewski and an RBI single by center fielder Gus Bell gave Cincy a 2-0 lead. The Dodgers got a run back in the second on a Rube Walker homer, but Bell smacked a two-run homer in the sixth to up the Cincinnati lead to 4-1. Dodger catchers combined to help them tie the score in the seventh. After Hodges walked, Campanella batted for Don Hoak and singled. Once again Walker brought the Dodgers within a run, this time with a two-run double. Carl Erskine was sent in to run for the slow-footed catcher, Jackie Robinson was sent up to bat for Dodgers’ starter Roger Craig and Herschel Freeman relieved Black. Snider’s two out single tied the game. In the top of the ninth, the wheels were turning again after Spooner walked two. Bob Thurman was sent up to bat for Freeman and Bessent relieved Spooner. Thurman won the battle with an RBI single and then Cincy added a run on a sac fly. The Dodgers pushed over a run in the bottom of the ninth, but couldn’t get the tying run past first base as they lost, 6-5. On Friday, Erksine matched up against Don Gross and they were tied after six innings, when Hodges led off the sixth with a home run. But the Redlegs came right back on a single by shortstop Roy McMillan, an RBI double by second baseman Johnny Temple and an RBI single by catcher Smoky Burgess. When Snider led off the bottom half of the inning with a single, Freeman relieved Gross. He immediately got Campanella to hit into a double play and a runner doubled off first after a line drive erased the only other runner he allowed in preserving the 4-2 victory.

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Cincinnati looked for the sweep on Saturday afternoon. They didn’t come close. For whatever reason, perhaps encouraged by his inning of relief on Thursday, Manager Walt Alston gave Koufax his second major league start that day. It would prove to be his first major league victory, first complete game, first shutout and first double-digit strikeout performance. After surviving a two-out single by Kluszewski in the top of the first, the Dodgers gave him a three run cushion in the bottom of the inning. A leadoff double by Gilliam and a two-run homer by Furillo off Art Fowler were the big blows. Robinson literally stole the show in the fourth when he beat out an infield hit, stole second and third and scored on a ground ball. Three walks by Redleg pitchers led to another run in the fifth. Koufax walked five in the game, but he was nearly untouchable in innings two through five. In the sixth, two walks and a balk when Koufax slipped while in mid-delivery put runners on second and third. But he got Post to fly out to end the threat. He walked two more in the seventh, but struck out pinch hitter Chuck Harmon to end the inning. Robinson switched from speed to power in the seventh to give Sandy even more of a cushion when he smacked a two-run homer. The only blemish on Sandy’s record in the final two innings was a two out double in the ninth by left fielder Sam Mele. (Koufax reminded him about it ten years later when Mele managed the Minnesota Twins against Koufax and the Dodgers in the 1965 World Series, during which Sandy helped the Dodgers win with shutouts in games five and seven.) Koufax retired third baseman Rocky Bridges to put the cap on a two-hit shutout, 14 strikeout, 7-0 victory. The win was the right medicine for the Dodgers. It started them on four game winning streak and a stretch where they won 12 of 13, shades of how they started the season. The thirteenth game of that stretch was the game when they clinched the NL pennant.

[@MrJoeybabe25]

I don't think Fred could get a god look into Dorothy or Arlene's purses. They were very small.

[@LANCSKID]

Oh, so now he’s a deity?

[@robertjean5782]

He was making a witty joke😊

[@Sylvander1911]

They never learn do they

[@dancelli714]

THEY SING GREAT. "THE GARBAGE SONG" Good harmony..

[@shirleyrombough8173]

The garbage boys were terrific. Especially their song. This whole episode was.

[@dancelli714]

The garbage men were GREAT. Bennett said nobody would refuge them a job, and Daly said, "Hey boys, come back and PICK UP !"

[@neilmidkiff]

Tiny correction: Bennett said REFuse, with the wrong syllable accented for the verb "refuse".

[@preppysocks209]

@@neilmidkiff "Re-FUSE" is a verb and "REF-use," a synonym for trash, is a noun. I think Bennett knew the difference but was making a bad pun.

[@neilmidkiff]

@@preppysocks209 Of course I know the verb and noun and the pronunciation of each. My comment was a hopefully mild correction to Dan's typo "refuge."

[@preppysocks209]

@@neilmidkiff I am sure you do.

[@MrJoeybabe25]

I wish I had a TV on the wall next my sink. So that way, I could eat my (meager) supper over the sink. 😥

[@FigaroHey]

Who eats garbage? Why did Daly say yes to 'consuned'?

[@sandrageorge3488]

He has for other collectors too.

[@robertjean5782]

A can of spam, could be eaten for example 😊

[@christopheraustin3084]

this was the day Emmett till was killed

[@loissimmons6558]

A sad day in U.S. history, showing the worst of violence and bigotry with at least one of his murderers unremorseful to the end. The one good thing that came of it was the decision of Emmett's mother in the midst of her own grief showing the world what had been done to her 14 year old son. That and the subsequent acquittal of the murderers was an important rallying point in the Civil Rights Movement.

[@kgalford]

We often look back at the 1950s as the Happy Days and innocent time. However, there were a lot of not Happy events just like any other era.

[@doctorj5009]

Christopher Austin yep

[@mikejschin]

I hadn't made that connection. It's ironic that we are enjoying this show and lamenting the loss of the social grace that it represented, while on the same day as this episode the horrific end of Emmett Till's life occurred. Nostalgia consists of remembering the good things while forgetting the bad things. Thank you for reminding us that those days weren't all filled with wine and roses, and in fact there were serious problems in this country.

[@shirleyrombough8173]

That was so sad to hear. These episodes seem like they are in a timeless bubble. I am glad for these historical references, even the tragic ones like the one referring to Emmett Till.