Screenland Plus TV-Land (Nov 1952 - Oct 1953)

can who was known as "The Great Pacificator." The question was worth a tidy $11,110. A couple from Long Island lost $10,830 when they failed to identify Captain Flagg and Sergeant Quirk as the soldiers in "What Price Glory." The people who lost, won a rich experience that few may have. The attention of millions of people were focused on them. Everybody tried to help them make it. They coaxed them on. They even shouted the answer to the glass-fronted screen of their television set. That night they met America. Their names were heard by all their neighbors and friends. A little bit of show business rubbed off on them. They met Bert Parks, the nation's Number One Quizmaster. And what's he like when not handing out those fabulous prizes? Bert is a family man. He fives in Greenwich, Conn., with his lovely wife, Annette, their identical twins, Jeffry and Joel aged six, and three-and-one-halfyear-old daughter, Annette. There is no tension in his house. Just work and play in an atmosphere spiced with the actions of three lovely children. Bert loves trains. He bought the kids a train set for Christmas and fell in love with the life-like action of the miniature railroad. The kids didn't have a chance. In their basement there now is a complete railroad system which Bert, himself, assembled. Every known device railroad fans tinker with is there. Signals, switches, several types of locomotives, bridges, tunnels, etc. The kids watch for hours as the trains wend their way through the scenic displays that Bert built. Another of Bert's hobbies is boats. Bert owns a large outboard motor boat powered with a 25 HP Johnson which he keeps moored in Greenwich. One day Bert saw an ad in a magazine explaining how he could build his own boat. Bert, at that time, needed a small boat to row out to his larger boat. The ad said you could build the boat in your living room, it was so simple. Well, Bert sent for the kit. When it arrived he put the parts in his garage. Six months later the boat was finished. His car had to be left out all this time. Bert wonders what his wife would have said if he actually had tried to build the boat in the living room, as the ad suggested. The amount of sawdust was up to his ankles and Bert groans, as he remembers, that all the 383 screws had to be countersunk. Not a carpenter, Bert was fascinated by the various tools that he could get to make his work a little bit easier. He now owns enough power tools to start a small factory. The career of Bert Parks started when, at the age of sixteen, he won an amateur singing contest. The show business bug bit him hard and Bert started to look for a job in this field. He got one with the radio station that carried the amateur program he won. He became a part-time announcer at the splendid rate of six dollars per week and practically had to sweep the floors, too. Bert held this job until he graduated from high school, then was made a fulltime announcer. His boss suggested he enter a contest a New York station was conducting. Bert told his mother about the contest, but that to qualify he had to go to New York. His mother gave him the money and Bert went to the big city. He assured the director of the contest that he was twenty-one and had several years of college. Along with several other hopefuls Bert was given the test. Later, he was told that, unfortunately, he had missed out on the chance to become a major announcer. Heartbroken, he left New York. Arriving home in Atlanta, his mother told him a telegram had just arrived from New York saying that they had made a horrible mistake and that he had won the contest! Back went Bert to New York to start the long climb up the ladder of success. After several years of announcing early morning programs, singing commercials and popular songs, Bert received his big break. Eddie Cantor hired him to do comedy bits and sing on his show. Bert never knew what Eddie Cantor would come up with next. Eddie, wanting to make each show better than the last, often was carried away by his emotions and would do things that were not in the script. One day Eddie jumped up into Bert's arms during a show. This was not the way it had been rehearsed and Bert, completely surprised, dropped Eddie Cantor on the floor. The spontaniety of this bit so set off the audience it went wild with laughter and took five full minutes to quiet down so the program could proceed. When the Eddie Cantor show went oil the air Bert worked as announcer and singer for Benny Goodman. Then Uncle Sam stepped in. Bert received his "Greetings." However, he was turned down for some physical defect he didn't know he had. Bert then went to Chicago with Xavier Cugat and while there enlisted in the U.S. Army. This time he was accepted. Bert met his wife-to-be on a blind date. They fell so in love they decided to get married as soon as Bert graduated from Officers Training School. He graduated a second lieutenant, they were married and honeymooned in Macon, Ga. He soon received his orders, left for the Pacific and didn't return for two years. He came back with a captain's commission and three campaign ribbons. Bert and Annette hit their first big jackpot when the twins, Jeffry and Joel, were born. Shortly after, Bert made the big time with "Break The Bank." After this came one of the top shows of all time, "Stop The Music." Bert's five golden rules to all who participate on quiz shows are: Don't be nervous. Pay close attention to the questions. Forget about your personal appearance and how you may look to the viewer. Pay no attention to the audience. Above all, relax. Bert's advice to people who want to break into show business is also good. Just because your friends and family think you're terrific, don't let this be your only criterion. 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