Friday, May 30, 2014

What's My Wednesday? #3 - Super Special Friday Edition!



Today we have a whole episode of What's My Line?, because while I have enormous admiration for the Mystery Challenger of the week (which was, for the record, March 29, 1959, and Easter), the wonderful writer and actress Miss Cornelia Otis Skinner (who were she still gracing us with her presence would be an I'm sure still elegant 115), she is in truth quickly guessed and really rather put in the shade by the other competitors.

First up we have the formidably well-tailored Col. Margaret M. Henderson (Miss, as if you would be surprised), Commandant of the Women Marines.  She's perfectly charming, reminding me very much of some of Grandmother Muscato's more formidable friends (a little research reveals that her papers are on file at Texas Tech, if that's of any interest).  The gentleman who follows, a seller of traffic lights, stumps the panel and is passably attractive, but the episode goes out with a bang with a distinctly dishy Italian cyclist, who apparently has something of an effect on Dorothy.

Miss Arlene has rarely looked more fabulous (note that her fur-trimmed bolero is on standby at her chair, allowing her to enter in all her décolleté splendor, and thereafter makes sporadic appears on and off her perfect shoulders).  Panelist Dore Schary makes an adequate fourth on the panel, and Bennett is oddly subdued - but really I think the combination of Arlene's earrings and Sig. Giuseppe Ogna makes up for almost anything.  If you have half-an-hour this weekend, I really can't think of any better way to pass it...

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  1. You've mentioned it before, Muscato, but as I sat and watched this last night, I was so pleasantly struck by how charming, polite, dignified, and light it all was. Entertaining without being crude, crass, or loud.

    I bet the audience was as well dressed as the panel and guests. Not a sea of T-shirts, basketball shorts, and exposed flesh like you'd see today at a taping of The Price is Right.

    I want to go back...in a nice Dior cocktail dress.

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    1. Isn't it remarkable? Hits me every time. So effortless, and such fun they all seem to have. It lifts one's spirits, somehow...

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  2. Intelligent. Civilized. Refined. And, once again, intelligent. Now all they want to do is look younger and younger. And for what?

    "The Lady Marines" That was worth the whole 30 minutes.

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    1. I really rather adore Col. Henderson. I bet she was a hoot after a couple of gimlets...

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