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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Mutual, the world's largest network with more than five hundred
stations from coast to coast, presents that absolutely unrehearsed, animal,
vegetable or mineral game twenty questions, and here's your man
about questions, Bill the Slater, Welcome to all if the
twenty questions. Very briefly, this is the way we play
(00:27):
the game of twenty questions. You listeners send in subjects
for our experts here to identify by asking me not
more than twenty questions. Now, if your subject is used
on this program, you will receive a beautiful, perfectly tailored
crocodile pocket wallet through the courtesy of the Mark Cross
shop at Fifth Avenue, New York. But if our questions
do not get your subject in twenty questions, and sometimes
they don't, you know, you win instead a grand prize
and exclusive traveling bag fashion by Mark Cross. And so
(00:50):
that you friends of ours at home there will always
know what our experts are trying to guess, our mystery
voice will tell you what the subject is. A poster
informs our studio guests naturally going to tell our questions.
Who are Fred van Derventer, famous news analyst Lawrence Renard
talented musician, Herb Plasi, radio and motion picture producer. Johnny McPhee,
our teenage student and our special guest, is the most
(01:13):
popular man in the world tonight, send it for.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Lauren.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
How are you? And how's your mother in law?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Jeez? Fine, that wonderful Hello, Johnny.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
How's everything at school?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Yes, wonderful mother in law has gone over the real
tops on a broom. I passed over a last Speaking.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Of Alaska, Bill, I want to tell you I had
to come around that way down here. And when I
told him I was coming down to being on twenty Questions,
they said, we are all be listening.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Way you're going, Alaska. They all listeners up there in
their igloos, right, sir. You're busy this year, Santa Oh,
this has been a terribly, terribly busy your mail.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
A lot of good boys and girl.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Oh the boys and girls is year passional records and
show are some of the parents.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
You like to play twenty Questions with us a little while,
Santa Claus and say a little bit. I love Drew. Okay,
let's get out. I'm watching your television here to night.
And you were all wonderful. Well, we all thank you
Santa Claus. I hope you'll remember that to come Christmas Eve.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
I certainly will. Oh, thank you.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
We got to get in good with him. Our first
twenty question subject of the evening was sent to us
by Ellen Graham, who lives in mccriston, Texas, and because
we're using it, she gets one of those beautiful, perfectly
killed crocodile wallets from the Mark Cross people on Style
swith Avenue here in New York. This subject is an
interesting one and it's animal. This is these tnty questions.
Mystery voice off stage in the sound proof room where
(02:41):
the paddle can't possibly hear me. Tonight's first subject is
the hero of a very popular song. It's Rudolph the
Red Nosed Reindeers. Mystery Voice has told our friends at home,
let the studio audience see its miss Shepherd. So we
all know what it is, except you five see if
you can get it. Van.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Is it a whole animal?
Speaker 1 (03:00):
It's a whole animal, Florence, human being, no John before animals.
It's a four footed animal, right herr?
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Is it a fur bearing animal?
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (03:12):
I think its outer coating could be used for fur, Florence.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Should it be of the deer family. It would be
of that family, would be one of Santa Claus's reindeers, one.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Of the half dozen. No, Santa, would it be a
little old Rudo. It would be fair. I'll tell you.
Rudolph's noses no redder than Santa's.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Though, no, it's quite red. Do you know, Santa, how
Rudolph's nose got so red? Why?
Speaker 2 (03:46):
There are many many stories about that? Bill? What's yours?
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Before I tell your mind? Well, Santa, I don't knows.
You don't know. I don't know, but your nose knows. Well,
maybe they just called him Rudy for short, and that
twitched into ruddy, and ruddy means red. And maybe maybe
it came by that way. I don't know. I thought
it was because he was so inquisitive when he was
(04:10):
a little fellow. He was always kicking his nose out
the door, and he got nip. You know why the
cold cold.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Of last your weather?
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Oh yes, is that the way you got your nose
so red too?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
So let's certainly as.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Something the new flying down through those clouds in that atmosphere.
Hold up there, you know, oh I bet it is? Well,
you're pretty hot. However, here on funny questions. Santa Claus
knocking that one off and set your hurt. And that
was Florence is good building up for me. There she
put it in the right family. All right. Now, let's
see what you do with this one here. Martin Hegland
of Venice, California is going to find in his mail
(04:40):
of purpose tailored crocodile wallet from Mark Crossing, New York.
The subject is vegetable. This subject is one of those
things you get for not being careful about where you
park your car. That's right, it's a parking ticket. Now
that they know at home, Let the audience see the
subject so that they don't know what it is too.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Did you say vegetable?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Yes? I did, Van, And you can tell by the
reaction from the audience, this is going to be a
rugged one. Go ahead.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Van is a literal wood product, yeah, Johnny.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Is this made of paper, yes, a form thereof Van.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Does it have any printing on it? Yes, yes, Laurence.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Is it just one sheet of paper, one piece of
paper or whatever it is?
Speaker 1 (05:22):
No, there are a lot of these things.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
No, But what I mean is what we're after. Is
it on one sheet? Even though there are a lot
of them.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Oh, yes, charge for both of them. What was that
last question? One?
Speaker 1 (05:31):
No?
Speaker 2 (05:31):
If the thing you were after was all on one
sheet or whatnot?
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Johnny?
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Is it generally folded once over like a Christmas car?
Speaker 1 (05:40):
No? I don't know how this is generally handled. I
don't think it's more often the folded once over than not.
Let's not charge him for that year. I didn't tell
him anything.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Van.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Is this a paper that has anything any particular significance
for Christmas? No? It has No, it has no particular
Christmas significance. You have now, I use six questions, You
have fourteen left, john Does it have a very direct
connection with financial transactions? Well, I should say fairly direct,
(06:12):
Johnny her Is it a legal piece of paper in
any sense? Yes, it's legal, Johnny.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Do you write on it yourself? No, you don't.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Santa Claus you pay for Christmas presents with his legal tender.
You can't buy Christmas presents with this, Santa Claus. No.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Florence.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Well, is it any kind of a traffic violation ticket
or something like that?
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Yeah, traffic ticketing tickets?
Speaker 2 (06:39):
What the last thing you said?
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Parking ticket?
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Right?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
I hope you're not speaking sonningly from experienced Florence.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
After they put parking meters in Princeton. I've had a
little experience.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Yet what you're laughing at you never heard that trouble.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
I just leave them right up there.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Boy, you're doing very very well tonight. You look awfully sharp.
So I think we want to try you with this one.
See if we can't slow you down a little bit.
It comes from missus Dorothy Massey, who lives in Saint
John's that's in the province of Quebec up in Canada.
And the subject I like it. It's animal. Subject number
three is hiding in the shoes of our five questioners.
(07:25):
It's the ten little toes of our five questioners. All right,
they've been told at home. Let the sue the audience
see this one. I'll take a careful look at it, audience,
so that we'll all know, so that we all know
precisely what we're after.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
What's a category?
Speaker 1 (07:42):
The category is animal, Johnny, Is.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
It a whole animal?
Speaker 1 (07:47):
No?
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Van, is it part of a human being?
Speaker 1 (07:53):
It's partly part of a human being. That mystifies everybody.
Lawrence a fictional No, it's real, it's real, Uh Santa?
What it be? My beard. No, No, it's not your beard, Santa,
although that's a luxurious beard you're sporting this year.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Van, Uh, is what we're after above the shoulders?
Speaker 1 (08:17):
No? No, Van? Is it below the waist? Yes?
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Cutting up the human anatomy, now, aren't you Florence?
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Well, is it on the legs or the your seat
or any part of that? Yes?
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Van?
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Is it toes?
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Yes, it's toes? And you have now used eight questions,
you have twelve left. It gives you a fighting change, and.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
You say this is real? Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Yes, sure, I hope I'm not imagining things, Herbert. You
had your hand up, took it down, Florence.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
So are they the certain toes on people's feet that
you want, like the big toe or the little toe
or something? Well, it's all the big toes are all
a little toes.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Why do you have it? Not all of them, part
of them, part of the people. Yes, in charge for it, dary,
old boy. That'll make us eleven, won't it? Ten? Ten left?
Santa Claus? No, Van, Well, uh, are these on a
large number of people? Well, these things you're after, I
(09:19):
wouldn't call it a large number, no, Johnny, more than
five people? No? No, Van is that the little toes
were after. It's little toes you're after, Lauren.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Why these toes on specific people?
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Yes, ma'am the hours. Well know who was ours?
Speaker 4 (09:37):
All of our little but all of our little toes
do the panels?
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Yeah, now we'll give you a couple more questions to
add them up.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Oh tty fifty.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Eight ten, Yeah, that's better.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
I tell you all a little then.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
I see, well, I thought for a minute we had
some funny looking people up here. I was going to
have a foot inspection like in the army. So you
got that in nineteen questions. That came within two questions
of stumping you. Maybe we'll have a little better luck
later on. I want to start a relax now. And
while we're getting ready to come at our questionnaires again,
I have for you all at home another Mutual note
(10:22):
for a super quick action cram mystery adventure. Here Nick Carter,
Master Detective this Sunday over most of these stations. Nick
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(10:44):
Since nineteen forty two, he's become one of the nation's
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(11:07):
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So be sure to hear Nick Carter, Master Detective this
Sunday over most of these stations. And I'm back to
twenty questions, the game where you listeners and our theater
audience are in on the subject. But all we tell
our questioners is whether that subject is animal, vegetable or mineral. Okay, Bill,
(11:28):
Let's have twenty questions all right now. The first three
subjects have been identified in very smart and short order,
and let's see what happens now is we move a
little bit deeper into the show. Dan Harston of Dallas
Texas is going to find his mail a beautiful, perfectly
tailored crocodile wallet from the Mark Cross shop on Fifth
Avenue in New York. He submitted an interesting subject which
is also animal. This is the twenty questions mystery voice
again telling you at home what the subjects are. And
(11:51):
this one is a neck in an expression. It's the
neck in a rough neck. All right, they know at home.
Let them see it here. I think we may cause
them a little bit of difficulty this time. Okay, who
has the first question? This animal?
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Johnny with a whole animal?
Speaker 1 (12:08):
No?
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Her? Is it part of a living animal?
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Uh? No?
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Van? Is a part of a human being?
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Part of a human being, Florence.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Is that human being fictional in a form of fiction?
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Yes? Van?
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Is it in prose fiction?
Speaker 1 (12:22):
He yes, John the saying or an expression in the
saying or an expression? Yes, yes, Van.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Is this part above the waist?
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Yes, here we go hacking the human anatomy again, Johnny
be heading.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Is he above the head?
Speaker 1 (12:38):
No, it's not above the hair. Van.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Is this a visible portion of the body.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
I think I should say sometimes yes and sometimes partly.
He said, now that it's between the waist and the shoulders,
haven't you. I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Well, you said it wasn't above the shoulders.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
I don't think they. I didn't say that.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Nobody asked when you said it wasn't a part of
the head.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
No, I didn't say that.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
I said, is it above the neck?
Speaker 1 (13:05):
And you said no, that's right.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
It's between the shoulders, and it's between the neck and
the waist.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Then the funny looking person you figure it out, figured
out yourself, Johnny.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Is this a part of either arm? No, this is
not a part of either arm, Florence.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
A part of the neck.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
No, it's not a part of the neck. Her is it?
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Then it's the neck in the next quession, right, you
get it in the neck.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
No charge for everything, Gary Stevens, Old boy, don't you've
got thirteen years, you've got seven leaft? This is going
to be a fight, man.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Well is this the neck that you're not supposed to
stick in the noose?
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Gee? Whiz, what a line you've got. No, it's not
that neck, Florence.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Well, Herb just said, don't stick your neck out?
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Is that it?
Speaker 4 (13:52):
And sticking your neck out?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Well, you said that, didn't you, Herb? I said, no,
one charge you for a question.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Oh you didn't charge me, I was charging for it.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Then let's look a chance to do that might as
well be honest this Christmas Johnny.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Does something happen to the object of this expression that
he doesn't like?
Speaker 1 (14:08):
No?
Speaker 2 (14:09):
No, Van, how many questions left? Please?
Speaker 1 (14:13):
You have four left? I'd like to establish whether or
not this is in a saying or an expression, and
therefore I'll ask is it in a saying? No?
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Three questions left?
Speaker 1 (14:25):
John?
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Does the neck move.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
In the expression?
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:30):
No? No? Two left? Van?
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Wouldn't be a dirty neck?
Speaker 1 (14:35):
What an uncleanly thought? No, it wouldn't be Santa.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
What be the neck of the chicken?
Speaker 1 (14:42):
No? No, If that's twenty questions, you didn't get it.
So here goes the grand prize to Dan Harriston of Dallas, Texas.
He stumped you, and he gets instead of the crocodile
pocket wallet, he gets an exclusive traveling bag of imported
English high direct from the Mark Cross shop on Fifth
Avenue in New York.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
And he stumped you with you know, well, Mark, I said,
rubber neck.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
That new that's stretching it a bit too far. Congratulation,
mister Harston. He stumped you with a rough Nick.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Missus James R.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Vanderbilt, who lives in Providence, Rhode Island, is going to
get a perfectly tailored crocodile wallet from the Mark Cross
people for submitting this next subject, which also is animal.
Towards the night before Christmas, and all through the house,
not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. And
that mouse that wasn't stirring is what the pammel has
to identify.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Now they now know at home.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Let them see it in the studio here. I guess good,
look at it. Oh, it's a good one, isn't it. Johnny?
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Is this the whole animal?
Speaker 1 (15:45):
This is a whole animal? Herb?
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Is this animal alive?
Speaker 1 (15:49):
No?
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Van is it human?
Speaker 1 (15:52):
The animal is not human? Noo? Tried it again?
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Band or legged?
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Or legged? Right?
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Flor a form thereof Florence is in poetry?
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (16:02):
Is it in the divisit in Saint Nicholas?
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Is this one of the Reindeers? No?
Speaker 1 (16:08):
I want to stop for a little bit. Try it, Johnny.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Is it a mouse?
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Yeah? Not a creature was stirring, Not even a mouse.
That's the mouse. All right, all right, you've only been
stumped once all evening long but I am still in
there fighting, this time with the help of KG Smith,
who lives in Long Island City in New York. And
he gets a perfectly tailored crocodile wall out of beauty
(16:33):
direct from the Mark Cross shop on Fifth Avenue. And
this subject also is animal. This subject is deflator mouse
and it's really a beat. It's also the title of
the Strauss Operetta de flata mouse. I know at home.
Let them see it here? Oh, I should say, here
(16:54):
we go. Van.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Is this a whole animal?
Speaker 1 (16:56):
This is a whole animal, right herb?
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Is this a female? By each man?
Speaker 1 (17:03):
See, I really don't know, so I'm not going to
charge you. Johnny.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Is this from the night before Christmas?
Speaker 1 (17:08):
This is not from the night before Christmas, Florence.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Is this a poor legged animal?
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Oh, baby, I don't think you would consider it a
four legged animal?
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Van? Is this animal native to the United States?
Speaker 1 (17:26):
They have them here. It's not exclusively native for the
United States. Who has the next question?
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Ah?
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Van?
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Not native?
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Now?
Speaker 1 (17:36):
No, you all do some thinking over there. You see.
It's tough sometimes to answer these questions like whether this
thing is poor leged or not? And I said, I
didn't think you'd consider it. As a matter of fact.
We had a discussion here not long ago about the octopus.
Somebody asked it was a fish, and I said it
was a scuttle fish, and somebody called me up from
the museum and said it wasn't a fish at all,
it was a moolosk. So you can't tell what's likely
to happened. All right, let's see where yeah reside tomorrow
(18:01):
about this question. Is this animal as small as let's say,
a rabbit?
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Oh yeah, Laurence animal.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
No, this is not a.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
But but it's it's as small as a rabbit.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Oh yes, yeah? Who has the next question?
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Try it?
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Van is, well, well, is this, uh anything like an
insect or anything like that? Well, it's not an insect,
I'll tell you that. But what you mean by something
that's like an insect? The only thing I can think
of it it's like an insect. As an insect? What
(18:40):
do you say? No, it's no kind of a worm? Van?
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Is this as small as an answer?
Speaker 4 (18:48):
No?
Speaker 1 (18:49):
No, Johnny.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Do we know whether this thing actually exists?
Speaker 1 (18:54):
I don't know whether you do or not. It Uh,
what we're after actually doesn't Johnny? Is it in prose? Fiction.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
No, it's not in prose fiction. Then can this thing fly?
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Yes? Herb Is it a bat? Yes?
Speaker 2 (19:10):
And there's one particular batchel after.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Larrence.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Man, what the flavor man?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Right?
Speaker 2 (19:26):
I say, Florence is batting?
Speaker 1 (19:27):
One thousands came off with them.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
He took the words right out of my mouth.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
He always says that.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Now you see why I couldn't Clawrence. You see why
I couldn't answer you on the question of four feet. Yes,
we'll say two feet and two arms with the lingo
stuff and the body and so forth flying around. Yeah, okay,
think about it. Change my attack now. If I'm going
to stump them more than once in this pretty saisling
evening that they're having Charles d One with silver Spring,
(19:53):
Maryland is going to be my helper. Now. We're going
to send him a beautiful crocodile wallach from the Mark
Cross Shop on Styley St. Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. And
the subject sent by mister Wants is animal. Let's see
if our experts can name this group of Hollywood movie executives.
The subject is the Warner Brothers. Unveiled for the audience,
Miss Shepherd, Please all right again, Belle, I would like
(20:18):
to say that their flavor mouse in the opera is
actually a man. Really, Oh you didn't know whether it
was a man or a woman. No, it's a man,
doctor doctor Cosstay or doctor Fauste.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Or something like that. I forget. Okay, right, this is animal.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
This is animal.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
I often wonder whether I'm a man or a flate
of mouse. I'm round my house.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
What's your mother in law? Say? Who's get going on
this subject? Quit trying to rest on your loyal laurels here,
my friends, This subject is animal. Florence is subject is
human Van man partly van?
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Are there more than two?
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Yes? Yeah, Santa Claus, you've been pretty quiet. Yes, he
a wonderful time listening here. He's got his head.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
And another thing I keep wondering, what is the.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Audience laughing at? Everybody wonders that except those of us
who know, Johnny.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Why it's so much fun being up front, you in
and all the jokes up here? You know, you wonder
why you're being laughed at?
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Johnny?
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Are these men American?
Speaker 1 (21:19):
The persons involved are American? Man?
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Are they members of some particular organization? Well?
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Yes, I think they undoubtedly are.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
I mean, is that the way we identify.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
No charge for just one? Nope, no charge for both?
Why because you asked two questions, I gave you two answers. Well,
I tell you.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
I should say, not what just organization comprised men and women?
Speaker 1 (21:46):
What organization?
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Well?
Speaker 1 (21:48):
This group that you're after, the group that you're after, Yeah,
the group that I'm after I thought you were after. Well,
i'll clean up the question. Let's have it.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Wasn't it clean when I said, is this a group
of men and women? Clean?
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Not a group of man?
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Is it a group of boys and girls?
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Is it not a group of boys and girls? No, Florence.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
Did the people function any particular time of the year.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
No, they function more than any Bam. I'd like to
establish something. I asked if this was a man, and
you said partly? That's right?
Speaker 2 (22:27):
And then all right, is this a large group of men?
Speaker 1 (22:31):
I wouldn't call it a large group? Charge gear and
a boy? Ten questions? Ten left? Santa Claus.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
What'd the subject of this question be? You say, partly man?
Does that mean the other half of the subject would
be female?
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Not necessarily, Santa Claus. Although that's good logical thinking, But
that is what I mean?
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Is this a father and sons.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
No, they're not.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Fathers and sons. Johnny, Do we know these men by name?
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Yes? Van?
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Are they living?
Speaker 1 (23:01):
They are living. Let's see where we stand now, fourteen
Gary six left hot Florence.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Are these men in any governments?
Speaker 1 (23:10):
No, these are not men from the government, Van, And.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
We've already established that they're not in the entertainment world,
haven't we.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
No, we haven't.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Well, are they yes?
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Now you have used sixteen four left, Van's the only
hand up. Go ahead, you can call on me, you know,
go ahead, you got it? Are they are these people
connected with this particular show? No? Three questions left Santa.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Are they a singing group?
Speaker 1 (23:40):
No? No, two questions left, Laurence.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
Haven't we established that the name is not identical with
these people? Didn't hear?
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Johnny asked if we would know them by name, and
I said, yes.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
That's well, is their name all the same?
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Are they brothers?
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Wait just a second, Yes they are? And that's twenty questions. Oh, oh,
isn't that it?
Speaker 4 (24:01):
I wouldn't have asked, though, I asked if I'd known
that was a trainey, I would.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Have taken a guess what brothers? Would you have said? Flan?
Speaker 4 (24:06):
I would have said the Marks brothers.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Mm hmm, well your marks are justice, not the Cross
and Red brothers. First of all, let's sort of relax
here and award the grand prize to Charles d. Wance
of Silver Spring, Maryland. He stomped you for the second
time this evening, and instead of the crocodile wallet, he
gets that beautiful exclusive traveling bag of imparted English high
directs from the Mark Cross shop on Fifth Avenue in
New York. He stamped you with the Warner brothers. How
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how we get squared away for our quickies? Here for
you all at home? As another mutual note, okay, Bruce. Mutuals.
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Henry and Frank Edwards every weeknight, and Cecil Brown Saturday
and Sunday nights over most of these stations. And I'll
back to Bill Slater all right. Now into our quickies.
This Santa Claus, you know, is where I ratio against
the clock instead of counting the number of questions, and
the usual prizes will be given if your subject is
use you all at home, and if you stump them
the usual prizes. Now let's move into our quickies. You
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start when I say, on your mark, get set go.
When I say go, you're off. D R. Ed Blum
of Spokane, washingtonson. In our first QUICKI at easing and it's.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Animal mister and missus Santa Claus.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
They know at home. Let them see it here, good
look at it, audience. Okay, on your mark, get set go,
Van Living American Man Park Park.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
No, I say, partly though your answer is partly to
that a group of men.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Nor a man and a woman.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Yeah. Are they married?
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Are they in the theta?
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Uh not primarily?
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Are they missed from Missus Santa Claus?
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Thank you, but I thought I shouldn't be so egotistical.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
I once prefer to my beard and that's too much
and too many to references to myself.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
She's wonderful billing she sent her regard, but she still
remembers what you said about her three years ago.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Oh yes, and let's not repeat that. Mister claud got
me in bed. The only people in the only person
in the world I think that doesn't like mister Missus
Claws is old man stalin himself. Yeah, I could very easily,
and Santa is not going.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
To visit him.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Well, hope God trying.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
To shopping him up.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
We're not making much headway. Missus Nearly Weatherby, if you're
Eka California, submitted our next quick you see what you
can do with this one. This one's mineral.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
The North Pole.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Okay, let them see it all right, panel on your mark,
get set go, John.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Is this got a Santa in it?
Speaker 1 (27:11):
No van is a manufacturing, no herbs, it's some kind
of snow by any chin, Well, that's part of it, Van,
wouldn't be the north pole would be. Our next quick
is for missus m Mourra who listened to Orleans, Louisiana.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
And this one also is animal Santa's reindeer.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
All right, let them see it here, they know it home,
try it on your mark, Get set go, john human
No herbs.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
These rein there?
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Santa's eighth rain there, yep, Santa's raindeer.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Is that good fellow to having your corner tonight. I'm
going to slow you down now. Our next quickie comes
from Carl W. Rock of Davenport, isowand it's mineral a chimney,
all right, let them see it on your mark, Fanel,
get set go Van.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Is this snow no? Is a manufacturing Yeah in a sense,
Johnny no, No? Is it a you to have it Florence?
Speaker 4 (28:11):
Is it in the night before Christmas?
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Oh? Mention? But is it a building?
Speaker 1 (28:15):
It's partly Johnny No, No snow huts.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
Is it part of a building?
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Yep?
Speaker 4 (28:23):
Is it a window?
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Twenty questions? Thanks a lot to you, Santa Claus for
dropping in on a tonight. A happy Christmas to you, sir. Now, friends,
we'll be back this way again next week, so I'll
be sure to send in your twenty Questions subjects you
just made your subjects one to a postcard Please to
twenty Questions post Office box one four to two, New York,
forty six, New York, all selecting to be made by
our judges, and in case the similarity our duplication, the
one bearing the earliest postmark will be chosen. All entries
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become our property. Flooded Questions is brought to you by
the world's largest network, serving more than five hundred stations
from coast to coast. Tune in again next week when
Fred Van Derventer, Florence Fronard Herbley, Johnny McPhee and our
guests are trying to identify the subjects you submit. Next
week's guest will be the noted stage and screen actor,
a dramatic name of distinction, mister Walter Abel. Now, this
is Bill Slider speaking for all of us here on
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twenty Questions, wishing all of you at home there a
very merry merry Christmas and a happy New Year, and
saying good night.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Now for twenty Questions, you're my question.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Business celeboy, Where's you do into a broadcasting system
Mutual, the world's largest network with more than five hundred
stations from coast to coast, presents that absolutely unrehearsed, animal,
vegetable or mineral game twenty questions, and here's your man
about questions, Bill the Slater, Welcome to all if the
twenty questions. Very briefly, this is the way we play
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the game of twenty questions. You listeners send in subjects
for our experts here to identify by asking me not
more than twenty questions. Now, if your subject is used
on this program, you will receive a beautiful, perfectly tailored
crocodile pocket wallet through the courtesy of the Mark Cross
shop at Fifth Avenue, New York. But if our questions
do not get your subject in twenty questions, and sometimes
they don't, you know, you win instead a grand prize
and exclusive traveling bag fashion by Mark Cross. And so
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that you friends of ours at home there will always
know what our experts are trying to guess, our mystery
voice will tell you what the subject is. A poster
informs our studio guests naturally going to tell our questions.
Who are Fred van Derventer, famous news analyst Lawrence Renard
talented musician, Herb Plasi, radio and motion picture producer. Johnny McPhee,
our teenage student and our special guest, is the most
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popular man in the world tonight, send it for.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Lauren.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
How are you? And how's your mother in law?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Jeez? Fine, that wonderful Hello, Johnny.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
How's everything at school?
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Yes, wonderful mother in law has gone over the real
tops on a broom. I passed over a last Speaking.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Of Alaska, Bill, I want to tell you I had
to come around that way down here. And when I
told him I was coming down to being on twenty Questions,
they said, we are all be listening.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Way you're going, Alaska. They all listeners up there in
their igloos, right, sir. You're busy this year, Santa Oh,
this has been a terribly, terribly busy your mail.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
A lot of good boys and girl.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Oh the boys and girls is year passional records and
show are some of the parents.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
You like to play twenty Questions with us a little while,
Santa Claus and say a little bit. I love Drew. Okay,
let's get out. I'm watching your television here to night.
And you were all wonderful. Well, we all thank you
Santa Claus. I hope you'll remember that to come Christmas Eve.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
I certainly will. Oh, thank you.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
We got to get in good with him. Our first
twenty question subject of the evening was sent to us
by Ellen Graham, who lives in mccriston, Texas, and because
we're using it, she gets one of those beautiful, perfectly
killed crocodile wallets from the Mark Cross people on Style
swith Avenue here in New York. This subject is an
interesting one and it's animal. This is these tnty questions.
Mystery voice off stage in the sound proof room where
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the paddle can't possibly hear me. Tonight's first subject is
the hero of a very popular song. It's Rudolph the
Red Nosed Reindeers. Mystery Voice has told our friends at home,
let the studio audience see its miss Shepherd. So we
all know what it is, except you five see if
you can get it. Van.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Is it a whole animal?
Speaker 1 (03:00):
It's a whole animal, Florence, human being, no John before animals.
It's a four footed animal, right herr?
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Is it a fur bearing animal?
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (03:12):
I think its outer coating could be used for fur, Florence.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Should it be of the deer family. It would be
of that family, would be one of Santa Claus's reindeers, one.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Of the half dozen. No, Santa, would it be a
little old Rudo. It would be fair. I'll tell you.
Rudolph's noses no redder than Santa's.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Though, no, it's quite red. Do you know, Santa, how
Rudolph's nose got so red? Why?
Speaker 2 (03:46):
There are many many stories about that? Bill? What's yours?
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Before I tell your mind? Well, Santa, I don't knows.
You don't know. I don't know, but your nose knows. Well,
maybe they just called him Rudy for short, and that
twitched into ruddy, and ruddy means red. And maybe maybe
it came by that way. I don't know. I thought
it was because he was so inquisitive when he was
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a little fellow. He was always kicking his nose out
the door, and he got nip. You know why the
cold cold.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Of last your weather?
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Oh yes, is that the way you got your nose
so red too?
Speaker 2 (04:18):
So let's certainly as.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Something the new flying down through those clouds in that atmosphere.
Hold up there, you know, oh I bet it is? Well,
you're pretty hot. However, here on funny questions. Santa Claus
knocking that one off and set your hurt. And that
was Florence is good building up for me. There she
put it in the right family. All right. Now, let's
see what you do with this one here. Martin Hegland
of Venice, California is going to find in his mail
(04:40):
of purpose tailored crocodile wallet from Mark Crossing, New York.
The subject is vegetable. This subject is one of those
things you get for not being careful about where you
park your car. That's right, it's a parking ticket. Now
that they know at home, Let the audience see the
subject so that they don't know what it is too.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Did you say vegetable?
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Yes? I did, Van, And you can tell by the
reaction from the audience, this is going to be a
rugged one. Go ahead.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Van is a literal wood product, yeah, Johnny.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Is this made of paper, yes, a form thereof Van.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Does it have any printing on it? Yes, yes, Laurence.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Is it just one sheet of paper, one piece of
paper or whatever it is?
Speaker 1 (05:22):
No, there are a lot of these things.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
No, But what I mean is what we're after. Is
it on one sheet? Even though there are a lot
of them.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Oh, yes, charge for both of them. What was that
last question? One?
Speaker 1 (05:31):
No?
Speaker 2 (05:31):
If the thing you were after was all on one
sheet or whatnot?
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Johnny?
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Is it generally folded once over like a Christmas car?
Speaker 1 (05:40):
No? I don't know how this is generally handled. I
don't think it's more often the folded once over than not.
Let's not charge him for that year. I didn't tell
him anything.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Van.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Is this a paper that has anything any particular significance
for Christmas? No? It has No, it has no particular
Christmas significance. You have now, I use six questions, You
have fourteen left, john Does it have a very direct
connection with financial transactions? Well, I should say fairly direct,
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Johnny her Is it a legal piece of paper in
any sense? Yes, it's legal, Johnny.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Do you write on it yourself? No, you don't.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Santa Claus you pay for Christmas presents with his legal tender.
You can't buy Christmas presents with this, Santa Claus. No.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Florence.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Well, is it any kind of a traffic violation ticket
or something like that?
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Yeah, traffic ticketing tickets?
Speaker 2 (06:39):
What the last thing you said?
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Parking ticket?
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Right?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
I hope you're not speaking sonningly from experienced Florence.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
After they put parking meters in Princeton. I've had a
little experience.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Yet what you're laughing at you never heard that trouble.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
I just leave them right up there.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Boy, you're doing very very well tonight. You look awfully sharp.
So I think we want to try you with this one.
See if we can't slow you down a little bit.
It comes from missus Dorothy Massey, who lives in Saint
John's that's in the province of Quebec up in Canada.
And the subject I like it. It's animal. Subject number
three is hiding in the shoes of our five questioners.
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It's the ten little toes of our five questioners. All right,
they've been told at home. Let the sue the audience
see this one. I'll take a careful look at it, audience,
so that we'll all know, so that we all know
precisely what we're after.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
What's a category?
Speaker 1 (07:42):
The category is animal, Johnny, Is.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
It a whole animal?
Speaker 1 (07:47):
No?
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Van, is it part of a human being?
Speaker 1 (07:53):
It's partly part of a human being. That mystifies everybody.
Lawrence a fictional No, it's real, it's real, Uh Santa?
What it be? My beard. No, No, it's not your beard, Santa,
although that's a luxurious beard you're sporting this year.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
Van, Uh, is what we're after above the shoulders?
Speaker 1 (08:17):
No? No, Van? Is it below the waist? Yes?
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Cutting up the human anatomy, now, aren't you Florence?
Speaker 4 (08:26):
Well, is it on the legs or the your seat
or any part of that? Yes?
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Van?
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Is it toes?
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Yes, it's toes? And you have now used eight questions,
you have twelve left. It gives you a fighting change, and.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
You say this is real? Oh?
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Yes, sure, I hope I'm not imagining things, Herbert. You
had your hand up, took it down, Florence.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
So are they the certain toes on people's feet that
you want, like the big toe or the little toe
or something? Well, it's all the big toes are all
a little toes.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Why do you have it? Not all of them, part
of them, part of the people. Yes, in charge for it, dary,
old boy. That'll make us eleven, won't it? Ten? Ten left?
Santa Claus? No, Van, Well, uh, are these on a
large number of people? Well, these things you're after, I
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wouldn't call it a large number, no, Johnny, more than
five people? No? No, Van is that the little toes
were after. It's little toes you're after, Lauren.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Why these toes on specific people?
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Yes, ma'am the hours. Well know who was ours?
Speaker 4 (09:37):
All of our little but all of our little toes
do the panels?
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Yeah, now we'll give you a couple more questions to
add them up.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Oh tty fifty.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Eight ten, Yeah, that's better.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
I tell you all a little then.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
I see, well, I thought for a minute we had
some funny looking people up here. I was going to
have a foot inspection like in the army. So you
got that in nineteen questions. That came within two questions
of stumping you. Maybe we'll have a little better luck
later on. I want to start a relax now. And
while we're getting ready to come at our questionnaires again,
I have for you all at home another Mutual note
(10:22):
for a super quick action cram mystery adventure. Here Nick Carter,
Master Detective this Sunday over most of these stations. Nick
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(10:44):
Since nineteen forty two, he's become one of the nation's
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provides his listeners with an opportunity to match wits with
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a master sleuth who solves crime bafflers with polished ease.
So be sure to hear Nick Carter, Master Detective this
Sunday over most of these stations. And I'm back to
twenty questions, the game where you listeners and our theater
audience are in on the subject. But all we tell
our questioners is whether that subject is animal, vegetable or mineral. Okay, Bill,
(11:28):
Let's have twenty questions all right now. The first three
subjects have been identified in very smart and short order,
and let's see what happens now is we move a
little bit deeper into the show. Dan Harston of Dallas
Texas is going to find his mail a beautiful, perfectly
tailored crocodile wallet from the Mark Cross shop on Fifth
Avenue in New York. He submitted an interesting subject which
is also animal. This is the twenty questions mystery voice
again telling you at home what the subjects are. And
(11:51):
this one is a neck in an expression. It's the
neck in a rough neck. All right, they know at home.
Let them see it here. I think we may cause
them a little bit of difficulty this time. Okay, who
has the first question? This animal?
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Johnny with a whole animal?
Speaker 1 (12:08):
No?
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Her? Is it part of a living animal?
Speaker 1 (12:12):
Uh? No?
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Van? Is a part of a human being?
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Part of a human being, Florence.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Is that human being fictional in a form of fiction?
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Yes? Van?
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Is it in prose fiction?
Speaker 1 (12:22):
He yes, John the saying or an expression in the
saying or an expression? Yes, yes, Van.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Is this part above the waist?
Speaker 1 (12:31):
Yes, here we go hacking the human anatomy again, Johnny
be heading.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Is he above the head?
Speaker 1 (12:38):
No, it's not above the hair. Van.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Is this a visible portion of the body.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
I think I should say sometimes yes and sometimes partly.
He said, now that it's between the waist and the shoulders,
haven't you. I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Well, you said it wasn't above the shoulders.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
I don't think they. I didn't say that.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Nobody asked when you said it wasn't a part of
the head.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
No, I didn't say that.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
I said, is it above the neck?
Speaker 1 (13:05):
And you said no, that's right.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
It's between the shoulders, and it's between the neck and
the waist.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
Then the funny looking person you figure it out, figured
out yourself, Johnny.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Is this a part of either arm? No, this is
not a part of either arm, Florence.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
A part of the neck.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
No, it's not a part of the neck. Her is it?
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Then it's the neck in the next quession, right, you
get it in the neck.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
No charge for everything, Gary Stevens, Old boy, don't you've
got thirteen years, you've got seven leaft? This is going
to be a fight, man.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Well is this the neck that you're not supposed to
stick in the noose?
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Gee? Whiz, what a line you've got. No, it's not
that neck, Florence.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Well, Herb just said, don't stick your neck out?
Speaker 1 (13:51):
Is that it?
Speaker 4 (13:52):
And sticking your neck out?
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Well, you said that, didn't you, Herb? I said, no,
one charge you for a question.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Oh you didn't charge me, I was charging for it.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Then let's look a chance to do that might as
well be honest this Christmas Johnny.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Does something happen to the object of this expression that
he doesn't like?
Speaker 1 (14:08):
No?
Speaker 2 (14:09):
No, Van, how many questions left? Please?
Speaker 1 (14:13):
You have four left? I'd like to establish whether or
not this is in a saying or an expression, and
therefore I'll ask is it in a saying? No?
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Three questions left?
Speaker 1 (14:25):
John?
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Does the neck move.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
In the expression?
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:30):
No? No? Two left? Van?
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Wouldn't be a dirty neck?
Speaker 1 (14:35):
What an uncleanly thought? No, it wouldn't be Santa.
Speaker 2 (14:40):
What be the neck of the chicken?
Speaker 1 (14:42):
No? No, If that's twenty questions, you didn't get it.
So here goes the grand prize to Dan Harriston of Dallas, Texas.
He stumped you, and he gets instead of the crocodile
pocket wallet, he gets an exclusive traveling bag of imported
English high direct from the Mark Cross shop on Fifth
Avenue in New York.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
And he stumped you with you know, well, Mark, I said,
rubber neck.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
That new that's stretching it a bit too far. Congratulation,
mister Harston. He stumped you with a rough Nick.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Missus James R.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
Vanderbilt, who lives in Providence, Rhode Island, is going to
get a perfectly tailored crocodile wallet from the Mark Cross
people for submitting this next subject, which also is animal.
Towards the night before Christmas, and all through the house,
not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. And
that mouse that wasn't stirring is what the pammel has
to identify.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Now they now know at home.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Let them see it in the studio here. I guess good,
look at it. Oh, it's a good one, isn't it. Johnny?
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Is this the whole animal?
Speaker 1 (15:45):
This is a whole animal? Herb?
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Is this animal alive?
Speaker 1 (15:49):
No?
Speaker 2 (15:50):
Van is it human?
Speaker 1 (15:52):
The animal is not human? Noo? Tried it again?
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Band or legged?
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Or legged? Right?
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Flor a form thereof Florence is in poetry?
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (16:02):
Is it in the divisit in Saint Nicholas?
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Is this one of the Reindeers? No?
Speaker 1 (16:08):
I want to stop for a little bit. Try it, Johnny.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Is it a mouse?
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Yeah? Not a creature was stirring, Not even a mouse.
That's the mouse. All right, all right, you've only been
stumped once all evening long but I am still in
there fighting, this time with the help of KG Smith,
who lives in Long Island City in New York. And
he gets a perfectly tailored crocodile wall out of beauty
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direct from the Mark Cross shop on Fifth Avenue. And
this subject also is animal. This subject is deflator mouse
and it's really a beat. It's also the title of
the Strauss Operetta de flata mouse. I know at home.
Let them see it here? Oh, I should say, here
(16:54):
we go. Van.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Is this a whole animal?
Speaker 1 (16:56):
This is a whole animal, right herb?
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Is this a female? By each man?
Speaker 1 (17:03):
See, I really don't know, so I'm not going to
charge you. Johnny.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Is this from the night before Christmas?
Speaker 1 (17:08):
This is not from the night before Christmas, Florence.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
Is this a poor legged animal?
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Oh, baby, I don't think you would consider it a
four legged animal?
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Van? Is this animal native to the United States?
Speaker 1 (17:26):
They have them here. It's not exclusively native for the
United States. Who has the next question?
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Ah?
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Van?
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Not native?
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Now?
Speaker 1 (17:36):
No, you all do some thinking over there. You see.
It's tough sometimes to answer these questions like whether this
thing is poor leged or not? And I said, I
didn't think you'd consider it. As a matter of fact.
We had a discussion here not long ago about the octopus.
Somebody asked it was a fish, and I said it
was a scuttle fish, and somebody called me up from
the museum and said it wasn't a fish at all,
it was a moolosk. So you can't tell what's likely
to happened. All right, let's see where yeah reside tomorrow
(18:01):
about this question. Is this animal as small as let's say,
a rabbit?
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Oh yeah, Laurence animal.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
No, this is not a.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
But but it's it's as small as a rabbit.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Oh yes, yeah? Who has the next question?
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Try it?
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Van is, well, well, is this, uh anything like an
insect or anything like that? Well, it's not an insect,
I'll tell you that. But what you mean by something
that's like an insect? The only thing I can think
of it it's like an insect. As an insect? What
(18:40):
do you say? No, it's no kind of a worm? Van?
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Is this as small as an answer?
Speaker 4 (18:48):
No?
Speaker 1 (18:49):
No, Johnny.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Do we know whether this thing actually exists?
Speaker 1 (18:54):
I don't know whether you do or not. It Uh,
what we're after actually doesn't Johnny? Is it in prose? Fiction.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
No, it's not in prose fiction. Then can this thing fly?
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Yes? Herb Is it a bat? Yes?
Speaker 2 (19:10):
And there's one particular batchel after.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Larrence.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Man, what the flavor man?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Right?
Speaker 2 (19:26):
I say, Florence is batting?
Speaker 1 (19:27):
One thousands came off with them.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
He took the words right out of my mouth.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
He always says that.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Now you see why I couldn't Clawrence. You see why
I couldn't answer you on the question of four feet. Yes,
we'll say two feet and two arms with the lingo
stuff and the body and so forth flying around. Yeah, okay,
think about it. Change my attack now. If I'm going
to stump them more than once in this pretty saisling
evening that they're having Charles d One with silver Spring,
(19:53):
Maryland is going to be my helper. Now. We're going
to send him a beautiful crocodile wallach from the Mark
Cross Shop on Styley St. Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. And
the subject sent by mister Wants is animal. Let's see
if our experts can name this group of Hollywood movie executives.
The subject is the Warner Brothers. Unveiled for the audience,
Miss Shepherd, Please all right again, Belle, I would like
(20:18):
to say that their flavor mouse in the opera is
actually a man. Really, Oh you didn't know whether it
was a man or a woman. No, it's a man,
doctor doctor Cosstay or doctor Fauste.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Or something like that. I forget. Okay, right, this is animal.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
This is animal.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
I often wonder whether I'm a man or a flate
of mouse. I'm round my house.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
What's your mother in law? Say? Who's get going on
this subject? Quit trying to rest on your loyal laurels here,
my friends, This subject is animal. Florence is subject is
human Van man partly van?
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Are there more than two?
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Yes? Yeah, Santa Claus, you've been pretty quiet. Yes, he
a wonderful time listening here. He's got his head.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
And another thing I keep wondering, what is the.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
Audience laughing at? Everybody wonders that except those of us
who know, Johnny.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Why it's so much fun being up front, you in
and all the jokes up here? You know, you wonder
why you're being laughed at?
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Johnny?
Speaker 2 (21:16):
Are these men American?
Speaker 1 (21:19):
The persons involved are American? Man?
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Are they members of some particular organization? Well?
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Yes, I think they undoubtedly are.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
I mean, is that the way we identify.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
No charge for just one? Nope, no charge for both?
Why because you asked two questions, I gave you two answers. Well,
I tell you.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
I should say, not what just organization comprised men and women?
Speaker 1 (21:46):
What organization?
Speaker 2 (21:48):
Well?
Speaker 1 (21:48):
This group that you're after, the group that you're after, Yeah,
the group that I'm after I thought you were after. Well,
i'll clean up the question. Let's have it.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Wasn't it clean when I said, is this a group
of men and women? Clean?
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Not a group of man?
Speaker 2 (22:10):
Is it a group of boys and girls?
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Is it not a group of boys and girls? No, Florence.
Speaker 4 (22:15):
Did the people function any particular time of the year.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
No, they function more than any Bam. I'd like to
establish something. I asked if this was a man, and
you said partly? That's right?
Speaker 2 (22:27):
And then all right, is this a large group of men?
Speaker 1 (22:31):
I wouldn't call it a large group? Charge gear and
a boy? Ten questions? Ten left? Santa Claus.
Speaker 3 (22:37):
What'd the subject of this question be? You say, partly man?
Does that mean the other half of the subject would
be female?
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Not necessarily, Santa Claus. Although that's good logical thinking, But
that is what I mean?
Speaker 2 (22:50):
Is this a father and sons.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
No, they're not.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Fathers and sons. Johnny, Do we know these men by name?
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Yes? Van?
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Are they living?
Speaker 1 (23:01):
They are living. Let's see where we stand now, fourteen
Gary six left hot Florence.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
Are these men in any governments?
Speaker 1 (23:10):
No, these are not men from the government, Van, And.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
We've already established that they're not in the entertainment world,
haven't we.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
No, we haven't.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Well, are they yes?
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Now you have used sixteen four left, Van's the only
hand up. Go ahead, you can call on me, you know,
go ahead, you got it? Are they are these people
connected with this particular show? No? Three questions left Santa.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Are they a singing group?
Speaker 1 (23:40):
No? No, two questions left, Laurence.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
Haven't we established that the name is not identical with
these people? Didn't hear?
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Johnny asked if we would know them by name, and
I said, yes.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
That's well, is their name all the same?
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Are they brothers?
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Wait just a second, Yes they are? And that's twenty questions. Oh, oh,
isn't that it?
Speaker 4 (24:01):
I wouldn't have asked, though, I asked if I'd known
that was a trainey, I would.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Have taken a guess what brothers? Would you have said? Flan?
Speaker 4 (24:06):
I would have said the Marks brothers.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Mm hmm, well your marks are justice, not the Cross
and Red brothers. First of all, let's sort of relax
here and award the grand prize to Charles d. Wance
of Silver Spring, Maryland. He stomped you for the second
time this evening, and instead of the crocodile wallet, he
gets that beautiful exclusive traveling bag of imparted English high
directs from the Mark Cross shop on Fifth Avenue in
New York. He stamped you with the Warner brothers. How
(24:37):
how we get squared away for our quickies? Here for
you all at home? As another mutual note, okay, Bruce. Mutuals.
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Henry and Frank Edwards every weeknight, and Cecil Brown Saturday
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back to Bill Slater all right. Now into our quickies.
This Santa Claus, you know, is where I ratio against
the clock instead of counting the number of questions, and
the usual prizes will be given if your subject is
use you all at home, and if you stump them
the usual prizes. Now let's move into our quickies. You
(25:39):
start when I say, on your mark, get set go.
When I say go, you're off. D R. Ed Blum
of Spokane, washingtonson. In our first QUICKI at easing and it's.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Animal mister and missus Santa Claus.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
They know at home. Let them see it here, good
look at it, audience. Okay, on your mark, get set go,
Van Living American Man Park Park.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
No, I say, partly though your answer is partly to
that a group of men.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Nor a man and a woman.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Yeah. Are they married?
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Are they in the theta?
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Uh not primarily?
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Are they missed from Missus Santa Claus?
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Thank you, but I thought I shouldn't be so egotistical.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
I once prefer to my beard and that's too much
and too many to references to myself.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
She's wonderful billing she sent her regard, but she still
remembers what you said about her three years ago.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Oh yes, and let's not repeat that. Mister claud got
me in bed. The only people in the only person
in the world I think that doesn't like mister Missus
Claws is old man stalin himself. Yeah, I could very easily,
and Santa is not going.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
To visit him.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
Well, hope God trying.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
To shopping him up.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
We're not making much headway. Missus Nearly Weatherby, if you're
Eka California, submitted our next quick you see what you
can do with this one. This one's mineral.
Speaker 2 (27:01):
The North Pole.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
Okay, let them see it all right, panel on your mark,
get set go, John.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Is this got a Santa in it?
Speaker 1 (27:11):
No van is a manufacturing, no herbs, it's some kind
of snow by any chin, Well, that's part of it, Van,
wouldn't be the north pole would be. Our next quick
is for missus m Mourra who listened to Orleans, Louisiana.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
And this one also is animal Santa's reindeer.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
All right, let them see it here, they know it home,
try it on your mark, Get set go, john human
No herbs.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
These rein there?
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
Santa's eighth rain there, yep, Santa's raindeer.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Is that good fellow to having your corner tonight. I'm
going to slow you down now. Our next quickie comes
from Carl W. Rock of Davenport, isowand it's mineral a chimney,
all right, let them see it on your mark, Fanel,
get set go Van.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Is this snow no? Is a manufacturing Yeah in a sense,
Johnny no, No? Is it a you to have it Florence?
Speaker 4 (28:11):
Is it in the night before Christmas?
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Oh? Mention? But is it a building?
Speaker 1 (28:15):
It's partly Johnny No, No snow huts.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
Is it part of a building?
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Yep?
Speaker 4 (28:23):
Is it a window?
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Twenty questions? Thanks a lot to you, Santa Claus for
dropping in on a tonight. A happy Christmas to you, sir. Now, friends,
we'll be back this way again next week, so I'll
be sure to send in your twenty Questions subjects you
just made your subjects one to a postcard Please to
twenty Questions post Office box one four to two, New York,
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our judges, and in case the similarity our duplication, the
one bearing the earliest postmark will be chosen. All entries
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twenty Questions, wishing all of you at home there a
very merry merry Christmas and a happy New Year, and
saying good night.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
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