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petrated the hoax as a way to intro¬ duce himself and perhaps snag a TV guest spot; but he had been carried away by the magnitude of the spoof. Liberace laughed it off and congratu¬ lated Kittredge on his ingenuity. And if Kittredge didn’t get his guest spot, he did get an invitation to describe his hoax this week on Art Linkletter’s House Party. This wasn’t the first—nor will it be the last—time a TV star has served as target for a practical joke. Bob Crosby, for instance, was flus¬ tered during a telecast when 24 mem¬ bers of the studio audience showed up in masks, looking like brother Bing. When Gail Davis, filming an Annie Oakley sequence, fired at a “bad guy” and a studio electrician dropped to the floor, Gail began to cry—until everybody else began to laugh. Martha Raye was flabbergasted at a final rehearsal when all the chorus boys and girls yelled: “And now the star of our show—Eve Arden!” The social-minded Douglas Fair¬ banks, Jr., was delighted when Queen Elizabeth accepted an invitation to dine at his Mayfair home; not so de¬ lighted when a prankster, pretending to represent the power company, phoned to say all electricity in the area would be shut off on The Night. Some of the shenanigans go on in full sight of TV audiences, as when Don Ameche, guesting on I've Got a Secret, revealed he had pawned the coats of all the panelists. On his daytime show, Garry Moore was appalled when he ran off home movies supposed to show why he was fond of sailboating. The film was filled with bathing beauties. Turned out to be his writers’ idea of a joke. Humorist H. Allen Smith reports a gag pulled off in full view of a totally unsuspecting audience when he guested on a panel show. One of the regular panelists, a puckish news¬ paperman, panicked the emcee just before air time by displaying a neck¬ tie decorated with an underdressed beauty. Throughout the show, while the emcee grew more and more jittery, the newspaperman kept toying with the buttons of his jacket, almost—but not quite—revealing the tie. This is fun? Say Seagrams and be Sure Seagram Distillers Corporation, New York City. Blended Whiskey. 86.8 Proof. 65% Grain Neutral Spirits. 21