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Hello friends thanks for supporting this
day in Jack Benny I'm John Henderson
this is not a regular episode of The
Jack Benny Program in fact this is not
an episode of The Jack Benny Program at
all this is a show that's called What's
My Line as in what's my line of work
what's my occupation they would bring
out a person and a panel of celebrities
tried to guess what their job was by
asking questions now on television they
would actually post what the answer was
on the screen and that's why the
audience does a big reaction but I think
it's more fun to play along with the
panel so listen carefully see if you can
guess their line of work you might just
recognize somebody from the Jack Benny
Program time now for everybody's
favorite guessing game What's My Life
brought to you by Remington Rand makers
of the world's number one electric
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what's my
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life now let's meet our awardwinning
What's My Line panel first the popular
Broadway columnist miss darthy
kilgallen you and on my left gentleman
that we think is not only funny and
Charming but just great Fred
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Allen thank you darthy and on my left
ladies and gentlemen the oldest living
president of a Jessica Dragon nut fan
club Miss alen
Francis I guess I can be grateful you
didn't say Thea
bar and on my left the distinguished
publisher and columnist Mr Bennett
serve and on my left the uh positively
only news analyst and pattle moderator
who was born in Johannesburg South
Africa in fact he's known as Johan John
Daly thank you good evening ladies and
gentlemen and welcome to What's My Line
Tonight uh we have cut some tricks up
our sleeves which we trust will uh hit
the panel right over the heads we're
going to have a famous Challenger too a
little later on but I think we should
get to some of our other tricks first so
it's time for the experts to meet our
first Challenger Whose Line has to be
spotted would you sign in please
ma'am
Nicole jine that
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right ready fine firm hand is my
spelling good spelling is excellent fine
Splendid is it Miss or misss Mrs does it
matter very much no actually this is
more for the information of everybody
around and about makes a lot of
difference you know in some ways but not
particularly with reference to what
we're going to do here makes a lot of
difference to my husband yes I bet is he
very
big I'm 61 and weigh 100 what oh yes
well let's get on actually um I'd like
to chat with you all night here but the
panel's going to have to do all the work
so you go over and let them get a closer
look at you will you you didn't say
where you didn't say where you're from
as secret how do you do how do you do
Secret thank you very much you do you
have no all right will you come over
here now no other mu for the other hand
isn't that a shame Mrs gerain and sit
here with me Bennett made the point that
we didn't find out where you're from so
would you announce that out loud
Montreal Canada Montreal Canada and we
have some friends in the house too for
you from all and uh what we do at this
point is let the panel have one free
guess as to what your line may be we'll
begin the free guesses with Miss Kil
Gallen I think she's a diplomat a
diplomat Mr alen thank you Miss I say
from Montreal uh she's a lady hockey
player a lady hockey player Miss Francis
skiing instructress Mr Seth oh she she's
a bob slider no I'm afraid nobody has it
we'll let our viewers have a further
look at Mrs Nicole gerain and at the
same time we will tell them what her
line is but the panel is going to have
today all right Mrs Germaine uh I don't
know whether you see our program do you
know how we score this oh yes you see
the program Canada fine well you know
how we score it so I won't go through
that I will just announce that Mrs
Germaine is salar and let's begin the
general questioning with Fred Allen uh
Mr jamain uh do you uh deal in services
yes is there a product involved in what
you do is there what a product involved
in the services no no let one down I was
on about as long as a president Costa
Rica 1 down9 to go Miss
p and more fun
too uh main do people come to you for
any service rather than you're going to
them well yes they way way come to me
yes uh do you uh
uh touch them in any way no no that's
too down a date to go Mr s well that's
too bad for
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them Mr remain without meaning to get
personal I I think that a person as
beautiful as you are should have some
part in the entertainment world do you
thank you and it's yes it is yes
uh do you uh do some kind of a
performance that people watch in a
theater or
nightclub just a moment please sorry we
have to have a oh I knew we were going
to have
a he's saying you doing on Thursday all
right do you want to do it or do you
want me to do it oh I'll do it all right
go ahead no
that no M Gall but people are permitted
to watch what you do yes do you move
about no no you stand perfectly still
sorry no no moving about $ 60 go Mr Al
you don't do this in a theater no that
what has been elicited is is not done in
a theater or nightclub iub either H is
it entertaining what you do I hope so
well is that the general uh
agreement General opinion yes uh is does
it involve your voice in any way it
does
uh I know it's no nor it's not not
anything as simple as singing he didn't
come all the way from Montreal a bird
wouldn't come down this far to
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sing yes it is not anything as simple as
singing Fred well is it done indoors is
your voice used
indoors yes is it done in any particular
uh typee of of store or
building store or building the
department store no no and I think there
on the basis of the theme of the
question you'll understand the no later
on Fred that's five down like know now
if I
could I may be gone later
on but your since your voice is
important one takes it that if you do
not sing for Fred Allen you might talk
for him do you do that I do um would you
in you certainly would be Charming at it
do you sit at a panel
ever
yes uh would it be a panel on
television yes and I want to thank
whoever like the
audience more help from the audience
please is this pan is this panel
television so show very successful in in
Montreal or in Canada very successful
even any chance the What's My Line
showing
that's
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right Mr probably the Fred up there
they're almost as good as you are I must
say which chair do you sit in Mr M which
one of the four chairs you sit in the
second one well goodbye everybody
wonder what do they call what's my
lineup in Canada shakun to each his Ade
trade that's what shakun but don't they
do it in the what do they do in the
street or something H in a hall stud a
no it's not a well I said indoors and
you said no no but not we said indoors
well don't you have an audience that
watches you yes wouldn't that be a
theater is that a
theater Studio it's a studio television
Studio well this sorry kids actually uh
well if you're going to be
a well Mr jine you haven't met the other
challenges tonight I ask that you not
allowed to meet them because they kept
me lock they kept you upstairs that's
what I getting worried you know I know
she's going to replace me I feel it
we're not going to ask to repace you but
I was do that I was going to ask Mr J
would you play one round with us just to
see U how you do you said one yes I only
not more than one I promise because I
had to show last night you know just one
round once a week is enough will you
pull that chair over next to you and I
will and that m j said next to you
that'll be fun you go on over and join
the panel then and we'll see what we can
do with the
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all right you all set everybody Mr
Jamaine you're all ready to go we get
the markers back again and let's see
what the panel all five of you can do
with another challenge and will you come
in and sign in please
ma'am
Alice Alice Chrisi right
uh miss or M Mrs Mrs chrisly panel fine
and where are you from boiceville New
York boyceville New York where is that
up north part of State part way up oh up
in that area well that's fun big state
isn't it yes was a big stage would you
take a small hike over there so that all
five panelists can get a look at you
please
sorry good it's too bad you didn't bring
your chair you could join us too
like a big economy siiz panel
here and the panel gets one free guest
now as to what your line may be would
you come in a bit closer please and we
begin the free guesses with Miss
kilgallin I think she's an instructor in
athletics instructor in nth Lakes Mr Ren
I think she's a chaperon at girls uh
Ville which is near Boysville up
there I think she's a mechanic miss
chrisell Mr serf I think she wrote the
town slogan Boysville will be boy
well well we can get this program off
the air faster than you can John all
right Mrs Jermain I think she's modeled
for a toothpaste ad a model for a
toothpaste ad no I'm afraid nobody's got
it we'll let our audience have a further
look at Mrs Alice Chrisi at the same
time we will tell them what our line is
but the panel going to have to
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work all right uh Mrs Chris do you know
how we score with these things here yes
time you give a not answer fli all set
yes sir Mrs chrisy is
self-employed let's begin the general
questioning with Bennett surf well Mrs
Chris py I hope I'm safe in saying there
are no television shows emanating from
Boyce bille is that correct yes uh so
you're not in the entertainment business
is that correct yes but you are
self-employed yes is there a product
involved with it with what you do yes do
you make
something no no no not made one down
nine to go Mrs
gerain do you repair something no two
down and eight to go Miss Galla well
does your work require any uh unusual
strength or agility that is not
associated with women entirely you mean
some faculty of strong hands or some
particular physical feature that has to
be developed beyond the norm for most
I'm not going to cooperate with you John
I'll get know on my
own you want it now or later I guess
I'll get it now I I just mean um May I
rephrase it sure uh do you use your your
hands or your body in your work as well
as your mind
yes uh we all
do now you mean Beyond actually I'm
trying to be help you mean beyond the
normal use is that it well I guess I
really did special application yeah all
right that makes it $3 s to go Mr Ellen
well is this product uh uh the product
is involved isn't it yeah is it a
product that that is used or found in
the house no no it might be in the house
but it would not be kept I mean you
would put it in the house on a bad
day whatever it is I mean $46 to go Miss
Franc is this product a product that
could
grow yes yeah it grows uh was it ever
alive yes does it belong to the animal
kingdom yes four-legged animal no no not
four-legs that's uh five down and five
to go Mr S Mrs Chris Foy is the animal
still alive when you're fooling around
with
it yes is it a domesticated
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animal hey this is rough isn't it yeah
to the degree that domesticated means
that it has learned or has been trained
or by its natural condition and
State
uh can get along in a normal society
without doing damage destroying property
Etc we'd say it was domesticated I said
I said uh Mrs chrisol you said it was
not a four-legged animal is it a
two-legged animal no no it's not too
like
fish could be a fish pleas for to go Mrs
Germaine does it have a some kind of a
voice or not a voice yes I mean just a
speaking a speaking voice a singing
voice speaking no make sound any kind of
sound doesn't make any sound no it
doesn't that's right that makes it seven
out of three to go this
gallon fish it's a fish uh is this
product to be found in or near the
water sometimes
it's sometimes found out of water yes
nothing like a fish out of water then is
it uh it U how you say in English you
know the both kinds like those PLS um
amphibious amphibious is it
amphibious in a matter of
speaking well is this bigger than a
goldfish is it bigger than a
goldfish hey wait a minute I got small
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goldfish well since you say they're a
very tiny
goldfish we'll give you a yes on that
but I'm not absolutely well is it a fish
is it a fish no no no that's it do to go
Mr Allan is it uh it's not a fish and
it's not two-legged it's not four-legged
there's no breed that we don't know of
living up in always filled by
anything oh did we have a conference a
conference 10 15 seconds per more than
four maybe it's lots of legs like AET
but don't go on this if you don't think
uh I don't think about anything I'll go
on it is this is it anything to do with
an
insect no no I'm want to go get the bugs
out of this question now I just want to
be sure we've we've done away with
several things it's not a bird it's not
a fish it's not an animal it's not an
insect but it's
alive right substantially
no uh and it doesn't make any
sound doesn't speak no
Adam uh judge greater got a voice uh do
you have anything to do with things that
are uh chemical in any way germs or
bacteria or John I hate that expression
on your face
bacteria you mean nonfilterable viruses
a molecule molecule no stand
go you're not going to feel so bad when
I tell you what it is that Mrs chrisop
the baby raises
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worms she and Mr chrisy rais worms and
up in the all went along they raise
worms and then in the fishing season in
the cat skills they sell them all around
there to bait dealers and stuff like
that F that never occurred to a worm
raiser yeah a worm Riser that's right we
don't you certainly gave the panel a
rough time and us a very pleasant few
minutes thanks for being our guest in
what's
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my what is
itene no I I really I'd like to know
what category you think a worm is in if
it's not an insect or a bug what is it
what is it is it's it's actually is the
snake world that's
it's uh not reptilian I don't think I
don't know I'll have to look it up but
it's
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not the worm the
turn I've had it and in just a moment
we'll meet tonight's mystery guests but
I first of all want to say thank you
very much to Mrs Germaine for being with
us for that one round pleasure it's
lovely to have had you with us first of
all
we'll miss gu in the moment but first of
all here's dick
Stark friends let's settle this question
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shaver and now we come to the special
feature of our program the appearance of
our mystery celebrity for which my
friends on the panel are blindfolded are
those blindfolds all in place panel good
will you come in mystery Challenger and
sign in
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please all right panel as you know in
the case of our mystery Challenger we
get right down to the general
questioning which we will begin with u
Miss Arlene Francis are you
performer
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y German performer do you uh work in
pictures
Abyssal Abyssal is a
sweeper so he's a sweeper in
pictures um is that what you are
primarily known for your appearances in
Motion Pictures not exactly no no I
would think not one down and nine to go
Mr s
have you ever appeared in
television
y do you do you appear with any degree
of regularity in television well I
wouldn't say that now exactly oh well do
down a date to go Miss Gil
Gallen uh then uh may we accept it as
fact that you do not have program of
your own and that's a fact Ma
uh do you do you do something besides or
in addition to
acting yes I do uh do you have any
connection with
music
oh little H yes yes are you a
singer yes I
am uh are you um a singer of popular
songs more than operatic songs well I
reckon I can do both if I'm called
upon are you a
tener uh a tener did you
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say yeah some people might call me
that well would somebody with a musical
ear call you
that I've heard a lot of descriptions of
it but uh I I think they'd call me a
tener do you also uh perform in what
might be called a supper club act I beg
your pardon uh have you ever performed
in nightclubs or supper clubs uh yes I
have are you a
single I'm
maded I mean when you're in a nightclub
are you a single yes I'm a single and P
I want to put you on notice we have only
about 3 and 1/2 minutes to go get this
uh have
you um have you ever appeared in
radio radio what's
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that well it's a thing with knobs on the
dial and uh and you get sound but no
picture yes I've been in
radio uh have you been uh on
radio with other people rather than as a
single go my
shoes
what
what what is my Sho
me
oh you obviously are a very good mimic
and dialectician have you used this in
your work too oh yes I have used him
very
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much uh you you say that you're not
um that you're not a a person with a
television show of his own have you ever
had a radio show of your own
see but would you say you were primarily
a
singer
see well I've got to take the plunge are
you currently performing in a nightclub
see are you currently performing in a
nightclub in New York
C are you performing under an assum
name that I
am is your real name mcnalty but that's
the truth entirely
there fath and are you Dennis Dame Ah
that's the truth
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yes actually um I thought Bennett was
going to nail Dennis day tonight but he
he got on the television I recognized
four of the voices and I had Dennis I
didn't have the sound like Alan alley to
make sound like Alan Aly that's right
well you know it's a tip off actually
Dennis because there are only a few
people in Show Business who are as good
at doing that many voices as you are and
I can't think of the other
one that's the is true
uh m m yes Mr Jayy there I was going to
try mine but I don't think I will is an
expert along here Mr mcy I don't think
the daes can work in the same league I
think Dennis is very good at another
thing too he made a living out of Jack
Benny for a good many
years that how long were you or have you
been on the Jack Benny show how many
years well this is my 16th year isn't
that 1939 39 wonderful Dennis honestly
have you ever met a nicer fellow than
Jack Benny no actually I never have
Bennett that's true I must this seems to
go for everybody I'm I had the pleasure
of of asking Jack to do me a favor a
little while ago I never saw a man work
so hard to try to get something done for
uh really he had no reason to help me
out but he did and I commercial for
Benny huh yep need you I think we uh
learned again tonight while you were on
that for 16 years we'll be on it for 16
more thanks very much been very nice
having you with us and watch
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and I got one word to say about that I
hate to be left out in a limb with our
worm friend I don't think it's an insect
it's of the larvae family I believe but
I I'll look it up and we'll see where we
back to me we'll be back in just a
moment but first here's dick Stark with
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John D saying good night Miss dthy Good
night you man who doesn't know what a
worm is good
night uh good night arene good night
Fred from the
worm I don't think they'd be that
way give my love to all my friends in
Dayton Bennett good trip thank than you
Al good night lava
boy and thanks again to Mrs Germaine for
being our guest on the panel and uh well
good night ladies and gentlemen thanks
for being with us and What's My
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Line this has been a mark Goodson Bill
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