It's also mindblowing to think that this was one year before Hawaii became a state. Hence the "No" response to whether he worked in state government.

+cassiemoira Agreed!

Governor of Alaska also appeared some months ago

The rich, white minority of businessmen who overthrew the Hawaiian monarchy wanted it to be a state. The Hawaiian people did not.

Karen Heyou Of course the poor Hawaiin people haven’t benefited at all By becoming a state. The influx of all that tourist money along with the military personnel pouring money into your economy is the last thing they wanted. Know doubt they would be happy living in the 19th century. How much fatter has the dreaded rich white mans money made your pay packet ?????

@@michaelnaisbitt1639 that's fine if money is your measure of happiness

Yes, in those days there were only three television networks and this program was seen by a substantial percentage of the nation's population. It was bound to have had a big impact on public opinion.

Whatever part public opinion played in Hawaii becoming a state, the most important thing to get it through Congress is that it was believed that Hawaii would politically balance Alaska in Congress. By admitting both, neither party would gain an advantage over the other. And that's what happened although opposite of the way it was expected. It was believed that Hawaii would tilt Republican and Alaska Democratic, but it turned out in reverse over the years.

@@loissimmons6558 thank God for the great State of Alaska.

I remember this show when I a youngster and I so glad to see this again for so many reasons.

I remember my mom having white gloves in the 60s…but I think she wore them more in the 50s.

yes, now the ladies need tattoos and torn jeans to be trendy. i'm glad i enjoyed the 60's in uk

Never to be matched

They can have each other. I detested both of them!

@@roberttelarket4934 eewwww! You are a misfit to the classy representation of a fine Production. Your comment adds nothing, BTW.

@@larnakeane8940: Shut up you high grade moron! You have no taste! Further you don’t know they were "foreigners"!

A perfect pair!

JAY TERRY - It all made the program a delight.

@@shirleyrombough8173 And don't forget Arlene's lovely jokes

Sydney Cogan - Absolutely!

Dorothy is so cute when she argues with Daily.

According to the Internet Broadway Database, she never played Dolly on Broadway. She may well have toured in the show. Sadly, her stint in _Oh, Captain!_ opposite Tony Randall and replacing, of all people, Abbe Lane, lasted all of four performances and the show closed. I don't think it was because Ms. Lamour arrived. She had four solos or duets in the musical. Lane must have left the cast suddenly, because she was first replaced by an understudy for ten performances, i.e. the switch to Lamour was not planned for a long time (or else she would have had a long time to learn the part). Too bad. She never performed on Broadway again. She did make a few more movies and had numerous guest starring appearances on TV until she was 75.

Well, by the sixties, she sounded like Carol Channing after all her smoking!

I wonder what sordid stories follow him

Not part of the contiguous/ tangential United States

Arlene and Dorothy made it a point to know who was in New York that week and where.

I liked Bennett Cerf (I liked Martin also). He wasn't even entertainer. He was a publisher, but he had this incredible whit. Also, the banter between him and Mr. Daly was priceless.

@@rodericgray5202 Cerf had a different role. Even though everyone knew he was married to Phyllis Cerf, Bennett got to do the all but leering old guy bit. That was the bit that his predecessor Hal Block did too, when he occupied Seat #4, though Block was much younger. I have no idea if Cerf was that way in real life, but that was part of his shtick (along with the puns -- "make a hog of himself," indeed, John!) on WML. Sexism was acceptable in those days. I always wished John would ask a man if he was "Mr. or Mr. Schlurfenhoofer," (assuming his surname was Schlurfenhoofer, of course) just to give equal treatment to male contestants, and see how they'd react. It's so much easier and fairer having "Ms." available.

The panel participants don't foster competition between themselves. Why do some commenters try to compare to the extreme?

@John Richards Exactly. Though obviously not as successful as his brother, Bob Crosby was a bandleader and crooner in his own right. In fact he played himself in the Glenn Miller Story movie starring Jimmy Stewart.

It may have been a sore spot with Lamour as well. Her last movie before this appearance was Road to Bali, which had come out 6 years earlier. It wouldn't be very polite to say, "Do you remember working with my brother in those great films you made when you were more successful?" She appeared in 48 films in 16 years but then nothing from 1953 to 1961.

Terri henricks - Maybe everyone knew Bob Crosby was Bing's brother.

@socal rocks He didn't need them, but I think they tended to drag him down, instead.

@@shirleyrombough8173 he certainly looked like his brother.

Michael Danello - Well the name was "Cow Town," Vaca is cow in Spanish and Ville is French for town.

I live a few miles from Vacaville and, until recently, it was well named because it really was a cow town. I was surprised when the contestant said he was from there. It’s now best known for having factory outlet stores.

Michael Danello - But the definition of Vacaville was "cow town," with vaca being Spanish for cow and ville being French for city or town, hence cow town. What a mash up.

3/17/21 Wow! I live 25 miles away from Vacaville, CA in Vallejo, CA. I never knew it stood for "Cow Town" 🐮🐄🤠. Love this show! 🤗👍🏾

@@kimjohnson4558 - from Napa here. Didn’t know that either. 👍🏻

Was that mainly because of her, or was the show already winding down when she took over?

It was her.

Stage actors tend to make the transition to movie acting a lot easier than movie actors make the transition to acting on stage. That's why it has always been seen as something of an act of bravery to step out on the Broadway stage from Hollywood. Some actors have pulled it off rather successfully, other like Lamour, not so much.

@@MikkoHere The show's reviews when it came out were actually quite mixed.

@@sstavsky Nominated for five Tonys, but won none and ran only 192 performances in total. That would have made it a big hit in the 1920's, but not the 1950's.

Mr. Pullen aka Dr. Horatio Q. Birdbath did a lot of bird calls for Spike Jones’s band.

Letterman used to have people doing birdcalls -- not at this chap's level

Arlene constantly badgers the contestants to perform AND tries to force the MGs to perform all the time.

Yes, he must have been popular with the chicks!

Yes he really was interesting.

Sometimes, as Dr. Horatio Q. Birdbath, he did bird calls for Spike Jones.

"Check the kinescope John" Dorothy was certainly being feisty.

@@jenniferyorgan4215 Dorothy was right. She asked just that the contestant's answer be repeated to her and John was already launched into one of his interpretations and refused to do so. All she wanted to know was what the guest had said. It would have been clear to her that Paar was joking. Sometimes John interfered in the process way too much. Dorothy was a fine crime reporter and like Joe Friday of TV fame wanted, "the facts, just the facts." She stuck to her guns. In any other situation, I'm certain she would have said to the guest, "Please repeat to me exactly what you said." And she'd have told John she did not need an interpretation. But she knew it was a game show and meant to be entertaining, so backed off. John was not as smart as she was. You may notice when he speaks to guests he speaks only in terms of his life or friends or what show biz has awarded them and does not seem to have much knowledge of the content of their writing or acting or painting, etc. He has all the airs and manners of the well-educated who know how to get ahead, but he does not seem to be a truly cultured man. I have to admit I love it when John answers too much for a guest and Dorothy asks, "Well, doesn't s/he know what they do?"

@@philippapay4352 But I do love when they get into an argument whether it be John and Dorothy;Arlene and John; or Bennett and John( mostly John and Dorothy because I think she wins most the time while with the others John usually wins) but it always makes me laugh and shade is throw 😂

@@philippapay4352 You are right, but why make it so important? Killgallen was a bit of a killjoy. She was concerned more about winning and competing instead of trying to please the viewers. She never got what it was all about for some reason, while her colleagues did.

@@WintersWar I was just noting what I had viewed when they were first on TV and now on KZfaq, lo these many years later. Dorothy was insecure and rigid in the extreme and had an inferiority complex that manifested itself in what appeared to be a superiority complex. She had to know she was right and could not relinquish any control and live in a mystery. Some of that was her upbringing and some was her crime reporter training to get to the bottom of things with facts. She is dead and she was talented and I prefer to elucidate something of the whole person and not diminish them inside one unfortunately displayed characteristic. Plus her feud with John could be funny. She probably worried about his influence.

Ironic that big modern companies are now quietly moving individuals 45 and older out for social media kids who still at home

oh please, cut that feministic shit, maybe she didn't get the job, because she was not talented

JACK ANTHONY - Miss Lamour was beautiful. Too bad Hollywood was so mired in the unproductive general sexism of the world, still with us.

@@sg-yq8pm that's dignifying it!

@@sg-yq8pm that's dignitying it!

I disagree, I did like Bennett and Martin Almost the same, Bennett a little more

I have grown to love B. Cerf after watching these. He is quite playful on top of very smart.

They are all great... fun... smart and enjoyed. 2023

We all have our preferences, likes and opinions. However my guess is no one connected with the Show would welcome any extreme favoritism.

Agreed

Hawaii wasn't a state yet, I dont think they, or many Americans, were that familiar with the greeting.

Seems like a Major House reunion in here.

Frank Weltner Did you ever get my message through Facebook? It seldom works for me. Contact me directly at wbrasle@ucls.uchicago.edu. I have faithfully followed you through the years and never forgotten you, nor for that matter anyone in Hadley-Major. I am still very connected with Mizzou and will be going there this summer to take people at the Journalism School to lunch. Being a totally nothing student there, not to mention total mess at all times, it is a big surprise since to have received several alumni honors and the School of Journalism Gold Medal, one of the few to ever go to a high school educator. I also publish a major publication for Normandy; if you've never heard of it or seen it I will send you the latest issue and Historic Edition I did. I am in St. Louis about every two or three weeks. I have been by your house just for old times sake. I have so many fun memories of you, Larry, Ray Ebert, Mike Miner, Al Word and your brother-in-law Winston (I always loved the fact you two ended up relatives; he was one of the most important people to me in college). To everyone else reading this, eat your heart out if YOUR college years weren't this much fun.

+Wayne Brasler She may have sold some records, but I doubt if they were in the millions. That high figure was only achieved by the likes of Sinatra, Doris Day, Crosby, Rosemary Clooney and a few others at that time.

+Many million sellers for the Andrews Sisters, Peggy Lee, Dick Haymes, and Billie Holiday, who had a bigger audience than people realize because she sold big to both black and white audiences (and anyone else with good taste).

August 21, 1959.

You are on the money!

All United States of America Territories have governors, and despite what John Daly said, they work for the National Government. Territorial Governors are appointed by the President of the United States.

Who is the current Governor of Alabama? What does he look like? … i didn’t think so.

He actually was the territorial governor since Hawai'i was not officially a state until May 1959.

Alaska in January 1959 Hawai'i in August 1959

Really a moot point

I don't want you to be here, but it's a moot point.

Dorothy had a good voice, just listen to some of the Road Pictures she sang in!

She was a very good singer.

+Wayne Brasler Yes, the problem with the cast album being that Abbe Lane wasn't allowed to do it because of her own record contract.

+epaddon I never knew that! As I remember there was a Rosemary Clooney and Jose Ferrer album on M-G-M Records. The big labels in the 1950s had the peculiar habit of getting in the way of original cast albums, most notably and most horribly "White Christmas," where Mitch Miller would not let Rosemary Clooney participate on the film cast album on Decca, so Peggy Lee had to step in and Rosie recorded her own album (which is fabulous) on Columbia. This went on all the time and it was nuts. But so much was nuts in the record business in the 1940s and 1950s; I know, I was there.

+Wayne Brasler I should add that Abbe Lane, a nice Jewish girl from the New York City area, was doing great business for RCA and all her albums for that label are outstanding.

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It’s clear that she was getting older but that happens. Still wearing the sexy halter dress did not help but she had class!

@@gilliankew yes.

The Spanish-American War of 1898 resulted in the INDEPENDENCE of Cuba from Spain. So in 1958, Cuba was an independent country for 60 years. Castro would not affect the independence of Cuba, so your comment is blatantly wrong.

Allot of us do as we age!

What purpose would that serve? As it is, they had time they had to kill.

It is hard to believe that he is the brother of Bing Crosby.