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Trocaine fights a week-long battle to dissuade scheduled guests from blabbing to friends.
In addition, Miss Trocaine goes to great lengths to hide the show’s weekly celebrity. On Sunday evening, she locks the celebrity in the control room until the panel is safely on stage, then spirits him out through an alley and backstage.
“I can now cover the distance,” she Says proudly, “in three minutes flat.”
Keith Taylor hides Masquerade Party guest Mary Hartline in dressing room.
Miss Trocaine reached the Mt. Everest of her career as a concealer the night Francis the Talking Mule was the celebrity guest. To baffle the blindfolded panel, Miss Trocaine wrapped the mule’s hooves in burlap.
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It was a triumph of deception—but it failed.
“The wind shifted,” she recalls somewhat ruefully, “and gave poor Francis away.”
Masquerade Party’s associate producer, Keith Taylor, is charged with keeping the show’s “mystery guests” hidden before—and after—programs. When a guest remains unidentified at the end of a show, he must be kept under wraps until the following week. This means he must be concealed somewhere in the theater until the panel, the theater audience and the fans outside all go away. Sometimes Taylor and the guest sit around in the empty theater playing gin rummy for hours until the coast is clear.
Once when a gang of teen-agers
in a hot rod spotted his mystery .
guest, blonde Mary Hartline, bouncing along in the back seat of a taxi, and gave chase, Taylor desperately clamped his hat over Mary’s face and, leaning out the window, shooed away the pursuers.
Taylor lives in secret dread of wellmeaning friends of the panelists. “One night some doorman watched me sneak the mystery guest into a cab,” he recalls. “So he sat down and wrote a nice little letter to panelist Dagmar: ‘Dear Dag, I saw your mystery guest. It’s Zsa Zsa Gabor.’”
Fortunately, the letter was addressed to the network. Taylor discovered it and, he claims, soaked it in oil and burned it over a brazier.
“T like to make a little ceremony of things like that,” he grins. “Keeps me from blowing my stack completely.".—Frank De Blois
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