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precautions taken by the producers of America’s most talked-about television program to guard against question-snatchers, answer-snatchers, reporters and other pests.
Here’s precisely how the show’s “Operation Hush” works:
After leaping Minerva-like from the fertile brain of college professor Dr. Bergen Evans, a typical question is okayed by executive producer Steve Carlin and associate producer Mert Koplin, sealed in a box, rushed to the bank and locked in a vault. There it moulders until the night of the broadcast, when Feit and an associate (plus two stalwart bank guards) unlock the vault, remove the sealed box, skulk through the streets of Manhattan in a taxi and arrive at CBS Studio 52 on West 54th St. just before the show.
When a contestant enters the show’s sealed, soundproofed wood-and-glass “isolation booth,” all he can hear is the voice of Hal March; all he can see is March’s face.
So far, the elaborate secrecy system has worked—despite the public’s untiring efforts to help Patrolman Redmond O’Hanlon on Shakespeare, Gino Prato on opera, Gloria Lockerman on spelling and Capt. Richard McCutchen on cooking.
Older quiz and panel shows take’
precautions, too—and have had security headaches aplenty.
Ive Got a Secret, for instance,. is constantly faced with the problem of hiding all kinds of things from its panelists. In the past the show’s associate producer, Allan Sherman, has been called on to conceal items as sizeable as the 69th Regiment’s band.
“On one show,” says Sherman, “we hid George Gobel in a broom closet and an elephant in a big cold-storage vault. We thawed out the elephant in plenty of time for the program, but at the last minute we discovered that nobody knew just where
Gobel was. We found him, sitting in there among the mops, just in the nick of time.”
Sherman’s best-laid schemes gang aft a-gley. One guest on the show was a man whose “secret” was that he had two squirrels in his pocket. Sherman’s preliminary security precautions had kept the panel completely in the dark; no one even came close to the lively secret. At the triumphant moment, unfortunately, the two squirrels jumped out of the pocket and scampered into full view.
**Ever since that terrible night,” says Sherman, “we figure nothing can bother us!”
Frances Trocaine, program manager and general security agent for What's My Line?, has problems, too. To keep the show’s panelists from being tipped off, Miss continued
Frances Trocaine and guest Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., await What’s My Line? cue.
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