Information Please 1942 03 27 Wallace_R_Dual

0:00It's half past eight, ogh, ogh, ogh, ogh, ogh, ogheeeaaaaaarina haf worst eight . It's half past eight New York time, time to wake up America and stump the experts. Each week at this time, Lucky Strike invites you to a nationwide quiz and conversation party. Here's how it goes. You finish the questions and our experts, try to answer them. For every question used, Lucky Strike will reward you with $10 indifend stamps. If the question is muffed, you get a total of a $50 defense bond plus the 24-volume set of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Send your questions to Information Please for 80 Lexington Avenue, New York City. If all editorial staff edits your questions a bit, don't fret over it. In case of similarity, we'll have to be sold judge of who shall be paid, and all questions become the property of Information Please. And now light up a lucky strike as I present our Master of Ceremonies, book reviewer of the New Yorker Magazine, Clifton Fatiman, Mr. Fatiman.

1:00Ladies and gentlemen, tonight Information Please, as always, is completely unprepared and unrehearsed. Our panel of experts includes our three regulars, Franklin P. Adams, Oscar Levant, and John Kirin. And as our guest of honor, the famous author, Emil Ludwig, whose recent book, Bolivar, has been highly praised. Now we're going to begin with a question from our Kessler Sirals of Mount Vernon, New York. There are three out of four on this, if you can. It's about certain circumstances under which certain things were opened to release or admit other things. For example, what was opened to release all the ills of the world, all the Mr. Ludwig? The Pandora. Yes. Not Pandora. The box. Yes. The box of Pandora. What caused Pandora to open the box, Mr. Ludwig? Why did she do it? It's terrible. Don't want to tell us. Curiosity. Just plain curiosity, yes. And gave us all the ills of the world.

2:00She hadn't done it to somebody else. Well, of course. Now what was opened to release the dangerous winds of the world? The winds of the world, Mr. Kirin? Well, the cave of Eliths, with King of the Winds, he opened the cave. Well, you've got the right man, I think, with what actually was open from which the winds were released. The cave was at the bag in which the winds were confined. Well, it's a cave in Virgil's anode. I thought it was a bag of bag in which these four winds were confined. It's been a bag lately, but I don't know. And then, right, it was the crew of Ulysses who untied these winds and that ills had bitten them not untied. Now, how about something that was open to admit the beasts of the world, or to release all the beasts of the world? Mr. Kirin? The art. No as art. Yes, no as art, quite right. And what was open to admit a concealed foe, an enemy, a disguised enemy, Mr. Adams?

3:03A wooden horse. Yes. And what circumstances? Siege of Troy. Under Siege of Troy, the famous Trojan horse, I saw... Also, a jackpot is frequently opened under such conditions. Mr. Levant, did you have another answer for that one? In a succinct way, I was going to say the Trojan horse. Trojan horse. Very good. Well, that was rather easy. Now, let's see if we can get a little more difficult. A question. Here's one from Dr. C.D. Larson of Bethesda, Maryland, to get three out of four again. Who was the first president of each of these countries, the first president of Czechoslovakia? Mr. Ludwig. Mazalik. Mazalik. Yes. The best man we had in Europe. And we're going to have others just as good in the future. Now, that date of Mazalik's assumption of the presidency was what? When did he come? 18. In 18. Yes. The first president of Colombia. The first president of Colombia. Nicholas Murray Butler. He's a president, president. He's not merely the president, but probably the permanent president, of course.

4:13He always was. That isn't the Colombia I met. It's hard to get in. I met Colombia, yes, Mr. Adams. Thank you. The South American country of Colombia had as its first president to whom? Colombia's first president? Colombia. No. Simon Bollabar. Simon Bollabar is right. Yes. Boliva. Boliva. Boliva. Boliva or not? Yes. I don't think we're ever going to get used to saying Boliva here, Mr. Ludwig and Mr. Kirin. Boliva, we say. In 1819, yes, it was the first president of Colombia. Mr. Ludwig was too modest to answer that question. I knew he knew the answer. The first president of Turkey. First president of Turkey. Mr. Kirin. A month to Pakemo. How do you suppose we pronounce that? Pakemo. Pakemo. Can't you make Mr. Kirin? Pakemo. Pakemo. Yes. Most of Pakemo. He was given another name. Remember the name he was given later on? Yeah. Ataturk. Ataturk. What does it mean, Mr. Ludwig? The strong, I think, head Turk, number one Turk, as it were.

5:18Now, the first president of the Philippine islands, gentlemen, was who? Mr. Kirin. Well, I think it's Manuel Caeson. Yes. He elected in 1935. Well, that gives us four presidents out of four. Now, how about this one from Mrs. H. F. Durgan of Upper Montclair, New Jersey? This is a musical question. You're going to hear three musical selections. I want you to identify for us the composer of them and the person who was honored in each of them, in whose honor this selection was composed. Let's have the first. I have two hands, Mr. Ludwig. Who was the composer of it? Not Steve. The motto of the Auroly Council. Yes. Well, you say that as if it were obvious to everybody, but it is an obvious to me. That's your story of Napoleon. Yes. It was an honor of Napoleon. Mr. Levant had his hand up and was no doubt going to say the same thing. Mr. Levant is the true that the heroic and wise composer to honor Napoleon is there some

6:18question about that? Well, he originally had the name on the manuscript and he scratched it out after Napoleon betrayed ideologically what Beethoven thought he was. But I don't see that an answer is anything. You mean, Mr. Ludwig? It was not actually dedicated to Napoleon. No, but it began when he first composed it, he did intend to honor Napoleon with it. At least that's the story. Mr. Ludwig? It wasn't a certain sense dedicated because he wrote in Italian Buona parte Luigi da Beethoven. That's enough for me. That settles it as far as I'm concerned. All right. Listen to the next musical selection and identify for us the composer and the person who was honored in it. Mr. Levant had his hand up. That's beautiful. That's by Ravel. Right. What's the selection called? Manuel. Yes. And the selection was Tombo de Cuperan? Tombo de Cuperan. Yes.

7:19Who was Cuperan? It was dedicated to one of the soldiers. There are seven, I think, pieces I'm not sure in this suite. In each piece is dedicated to a fallen French soldier, a contemporary of the last war of Ravels. The Antosuite is not dedicated to Cuperan. It's in the style of Cuperan. Oh, it's not intended to honor Cuperan then? No. I think it's the French tribute to the essence of French music which Cuperan and others represented of an early period. Thank you. But the pieces individually were dedicated to soldiers. That's perfect answer. Thank you. Now, how about the third and last of these musical selections? I get a blank look from no idea. I get to have a Mr. Kearon on this. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jones. Yes. There isn't much question that's supposed to be honored there. Right. Now, the next question comes from Frances McGuire of Brooklyn, New York. And it's about famous knights. This is K-N-I-G-H-T-S. Knights. Who were these knights? The first is the knight of the Rufel countenance.

8:20The knight of the Rufel countenance. Who was that? Mr. Ludwig doesn't know what Rufel means. I can help it. Mr. Ludwig. I tell you what Rufel means. It means sorrowful or melancholy. Christmas. No, no, he was a sad knight, that's true. But that's not the one I mean. It's Don Quixote, Don Quixote. Sometimes it's translated as knight of the Rufel figure, but Rufel countenance is the description generally given to him. Now, here's another. The knight of the swan, the knight of the swan. Mr. Lovac. Lovac. Lovac. Yes. And a very parfid Gentile knight. Who was that? Parfid? Parfid is right. Ice cream? Not in this case. Mr. Adams? Probably, you read a Gala Had or a Lancelot. Posify. No, no. This is a specific knight, and I've quoted the exact one. Knight and Chaucer. I wish it said that first, Mr. Adams, because that's quite right.

9:23I'll have to count it wrong, because he gave us the wrong answer first. Yes, it's Chaucer's knight, as described in the prologue to the Canterbury Tales, a very parfid Gentile knight. And the word Gentile, G-E-N-T-I-L, what does that mean, used in Chaucer's language? Kind. I think something more specific than that. I think it means of high-born Gentile blood, meaning of good lineage. That gives us too wrong and sends a $50 defense bond to Mr. McGuire and a set of the Britannica. How about this one from Mary Cursey of the City? Now we all listened on Washington's birthday to President Roosevelt's speech. In this speech, the President mentioned four main lines of communications, and he also mentioned four freedoms. And I think he wanted us to understand by that, the four freedoms can only be achieved by keeping the four lines of communication open. Now what are the four main lines of communications? Mr. Levant. First, I'll do the southwest line, which is from southern California to Australia.

10:28That's one line. That would be the southwest line. South Pacific. Yes, quite right. You want some more? I'd like three more. Three more. Well, here in Texas. From here, northeast to England, another would be... Yes, so let's call up the North Atlantic. North Atlantic? Then there's the two ways in the South Atlantic, one around the Straits of Magellan and the other around the Cape of Good Hope. Well, one would be the South Atlantic and the other would be the... What through what ocean? I would go around the Indian Ocean. Into the Indian Ocean? Yes, that would be the fourth line of communication. The North Atlantic Lane, the South Atlantic Lane, the Indian Ocean and the South Pacific. Now the four freedoms, for which the United Nations are fighting, we should know those by heart. The four freedoms, Mr. Adams. Press? I think not press. Those buttons? Religion is one. Speech is another. Speech is another. The choice of religion, I think. Pardon? Religion, but it's phrased so that you can choose your religion. Yes, so a complete freedom of religion and freedom of speech gives us two of the four

11:28freedoms and the other two, which are now included in our Bill of Rights, but which are perhaps the... Freedom from. Freedom from. From fear. From fear and freedom from... Gentlemen, we should get this. What is right? Yes. Freedom from want and freedom from fear. Now the next question comes from Sally Weissman of Webster, Massachusetts. Get three out of four on this. Suppose, gentlemen, that you were serving a full dinner and you wanted your guests to drink all of the following wines, that I'll mention, with which course would you serve each wine? Now, the first wine is claret, with what course would you serve claret, Mr. Ludwig? For the meat, for the roast beef. Yes, so that's quite right. What's spaghetti, too? What's spaghetti, if spaghetti isn't course? Sure. And how about dry sherry? What would you serve dry sherry with, Mr. Levant? If you want to make a guest sleepy, you always give him dry sherry. I would do it before dinner. Yes, you could serve sherry before dinner, but if you were serving it with the dinner,

12:32what course would Mr. Adams? Probably with the soup. With the soup? Yes, quite right. Now, how about... You can have it in the soup, too. You can have it in the soup, if it's turtle soup. How about shabli? Shabli, Mr. Curin? I'd serve that with the fish, slightly chilled, not the fish. What is shabli? The white wine. It's a white wine, comes from, or it did come from what country? Well, I think the shabli comes from a burgundy. Yes, it's in the burgundy. It's in the burgundy, burgundy. Of France, that's quite right. A very dry... Well, somewhere not dry enough. Somewhere not dry enough? Then they're not shabli. They're just shabli under that... Similar label. How about... Now we come to Port. Port, what would you serve Port with, Mr. Ludwig? I would serve it to the sweets, on the end. Yes, I think most of us would, with the dessert at the end, Mr. Curin. Or your cheese. Or sometimes the cheese, I think probably you'd serve in the burgundy. You'd serve in every English story, too. And then you always get gout. Generally.

13:34Oh, you could serve the port with nuts and fruit sometimes at the end. But they're not away, sir. Generally. Now, so far, Lucky Strike has paid out $1.50 defense bond and one set of the encyclopedia Britannica. Now, Mr. Cross points out that the things you know about tobacco are much too useful to file and forget. Well, ladies and gentlemen, you know as well as anyone that in a cigarette, it's the tobacco that counts. But in actually choosing a cigarette, do you stop to think of tobacco? If not, you may be missing out on a lot of real smoking enjoyment. For mildness and better taste depend on fine tobacco. That's why Lucky Strike consistently pays the price to get the final leaf at market after market year after year. For example, at auctions in Williamston North Carolina, season of 1939, the American tobacco company paid 29% more for the tobacco it bought for its cigarettes and other tobacco products. Yes, 29% above the average market price

14:34published by the United States Department of Agriculture. And that crop, properly aged, mellowed and blended with other fine crops, is in the luckiest you buy today. Mr. Fatiman, are in facts like these worth every smoke as attention? Mr. Cross? The facts speak for themselves, and I timed you at just 58 seconds. Now, how about a question from Mrs. RT Parsons of New Madison, Ohio? I'm going to give you the names of two people who played an important part in the lives of celebrities of the past of present, famous people. I want you to name that celebrated person. Now, I'm going to name two Catherine's first. The first one is named Catherine, and the second is named Catherine to... Mr. Adams? Henry VIII. Henry VIII. Yes, what Catherine's were they? One who's Catherine Pars. Good enough. And Mr. Ergon. And Catherine of Ergon. Catherine of Ergon. And wasn't there Catherine Howard II in the case? Howard. So he ran to Catherine's. That was the Catherine of the cave, though.

15:35Catherine of the cave. Oh, makes sense. You ran away from the world. No. Now, I'm going to name two other people. Women. Frederica Breon and Charlotte von Stein. Mr. Ludwig. Good. Good, yes. And perhaps ladies were not the only ladies' names of one convention in connection with Good. Francis II and Darnley. Francis II and Darnley, Mr. Levent. Mary Queen of Scots. Yes, Mary Queen of Scots. And Hunter and Richards. Hunter and Richards, so Mr. Levent. That's Tennis Tilden. Tilden. Yes, they were... Contemporary. How were they connected with Tilden? If they were contemporaries, they were beating. Yes. Well, they were his double partners. Well, they may have been beating that they weren't singles, but they were his double partners, famous double partners of Mr. Tilden. Here's one from F.J. Brugier, Jr. of Oakland, California. Again, a musical question. Each of the musical selections that you're going to hear should suggest to you a particular time of day. What time of day?

16:35Seven, nine times with me. I don't care when I was with you. Now, you watch. Let's have a first. Mr. Devant. That's... At dawn. That's from here again. It's a... Yeah, da, da, da, da, da. Good morning, Jim. I don't know. It's a surprise that you know that. Why should I know it? I don't see how you can know it from experience. You should never have been up early. Every ballet dancer, late at night, dances to that. Oh, late, very late at night is the same as dawn. They try to tell you what's dawn, very late at night. Right, no. Greg's morning, very good. Now the second one. Mr. Woodring? Mr. Woodring. Have a good one. Sorry. It's wrong. It's afternoon of a fun. It's afternoon of a fun. Oh, don't worry, Mr. Woodward. You won't be a trumpester. Well, that's a typical German accusation but I just tried to. I don't think he didn't steal it. I'll defend W.C. anytime. They don't seem very reminiscent, but I'm not much of a judge. Just the Bruce's afternoon of a fun.

17:37Well, that gives us morning and afternoon. Let's have the third and last. Mr. Kearn? It's evening. Star of evening. Batman. Yeah. Tant, very good, Mr. Kearn. Good enough. Of course, having morning and afternoon is pretty hard not to get evening, I suppose. That gives us two out of three. How about this one from Helene Zannen of Greeley Colorado? Now, in each of these types of literature, gentlemen, name a work in which someone refuses to pay a debt. Someone refuses to pay a debt. Now, what poem can you think of in which there is someone who refuses to pay a debt? This is not an easy question. This would be a famous English poem. Well, it's a tough one. It's in the Pied Piper of Hamillin. Oh, you. Mr. Levant, what are you going to say? I'm going to say, Bradley, can you spare a dime? I accept that I don't think I would apply. Remember, in the Pied Piper of Hamillin,

18:38the mayor refuses to pay the Pied Piper after the Pied Piper has rid the town. Two thousand of the rents, I think, or something like that. I knew you knew everything about it, Mr. Kearn. Once I'd start you off. How about an opera? Can you think of an opera in which someone refuses to pay someone else a debt? Yes. Mr. Kearn. Fouls. In Fouls? Name the circumstance. Well, he's trying to refuse to pay his debt to the devil. That would be right, Mr. Ludwig. Very good. Yes, very good. And I think also in the Ryan Gold. Mr. Ludwig isn't the only thief in my life. That's all that, that's true. Emily Golds. The German Golds are all thieves. They are Ryan Golds. Yes. Six thieves. Six thieves in life. Goodness, great. Well, you remember, in the Ryan Gold, Votan had promised the giants to have promised them Freya in return for the building of Valhalla. And then he refused to give her to the giants. Is that right? It took us four nights after that to find that out. Now, how about a short story in which someone refuses to pay a debt?

19:42This, again, is an American short story? Is that 20 grand? No. I don't think it is. Now, there may be several answers, but the only one I can think of is in Stephen Vinson Benay's famous story, the Devil and Daniel Webster. There, the Faust theme comes in again. You remember that the hero, or villain, had sold his soul to the devil when he gets Webster to get him out of it. I think that loses us a $50 defense bond going to Mr. Zahnin plus a set of the Encyclopedia Britannica and passes us on to a question from Martin C. Brooks of Worcester Mass. Who or what has replaced each of these recently? Replaced. The Springfield. What has replaced the Springfield? Mr. Levent. The G-A-R-A-N-D, the Julie Gollum there, whatever it is. The Garand. The rifle. Yes, the new air-cool rapid. General McIron said it was a better rifle recently. Yes, he's given it as okay. He didn't say it from here, say, I don't know. Philippine New Betty did. Now, who has replaced David Margerson?

20:43Mr. Levent. A man named Gregs. Sir James Griggs. Yes, I'm Mr. Levent. Mr. Levent. Wait a minute now. What portfolio is that? Give me ten chances. No. No. War. War is right. Yes, Secretary for War. The British Cabinet. I don't know whether it's Griggs or Greg. Greg. I think it is, thank you, Mr. Adams. I don't know what people say. Tibbets for Lawrence Tibbett. I don't know what it is, eh? They probably say Levent. How about the replacement for Thomas Charles Hart? H-A-R-T. Who has replaced Thomas Charles Hart? Mr. Levent. He's a Dutchman. A member of the Dutch fleet. His name starts with H. That's right. Very good. That's pretty good. That's very good. I didn't say it wasn't. I didn't even remember the name of the... It's the Dutch commander in the... Yes, right. Parties. What's his name? Naval commander. I think we should know the name. Very important too. Us, the Dutch Admiral Helfreck. That's how the chief of the... Southwest Pacific Fleet of the United Nations. I'll call that right. Now, who replaced Boris Karloff?

21:45Mr. Levent. In Chicago, Eric von Stoneheim. No, I don't mean replace them. Where? Oh, around here. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Where? Oh, around here. Or less. Well, I mean... Can you remember, Mr. Kirin? James Carrady. No. No. You don't... It's a minor... It's a charming man, which... Well, on February 13th, Mr. Karloff was supposed to be on this program. T. T. Barrett. Yes, but I gave it to you, didn't I? Well, it's a silly question, Frank. Oh, what? Sometimes the question that you don't get do seems silly. Well, that gives us three out of four, nevertheless. Remember that Mr. Karloff was afraid to come on this show on February 13th. Then Mr. Barrett substituted in his stead. Here's one from Frederick L. Gwynne of Chevy Chase, Washington. Why is... Uh, beg your pardon, Washington, Maryland. Why is the Iliad so-called? Why is the Iliad so-called, Mr. Adams?

22:45Because it is about Troy or Ilium. Ilium? Yes. That's the Greek name for it. How about the Bible? Why is the Bible so-called? Uh, Mr. Kirin? Because it's a book. The book. The book. Yes. Is it Greek for...? Well, it is Greek. I mean, the root is Greek. Yes, Greek for the book or the scripture. Now, how about an Atlas? We use an Atlas. Why do we call it that, Mr. Ludwig? Why the Atlas? But why do we call it that? What is Atlas? The man who has his word on his shoulders. Yes, the picture of Atlas supporting the globe. And the early maps of centuries ago, we used to show Atlas supporting the globe. It was kind of a sign of a map. Well, that gives us three out of three. Now, how about this one from Ada E. Gostler of West Lawn, Pennsylvania? Can you give me three quotations that express the general idea that if you don't like me, I won't like you, Mr. Adams. Well, is, uh...

23:45No, I don't know. Take it back with Mr. Adams again? Mr. Karen, well, Mr. Adams, thank you. If she be not fair to me, what can I how fair she be? That would be a very good one. Uh, what's it from, Mr. Karen? It's from Waller, I believe, isn't it? Well, it's from Wither, I think. George Wither. George Wither. The Shepherd's Resolution, I think, is the name of the poem, Mr. Lever. Mine won't come out straight. If you could like a lady, or the ukulele, you could like a lady like me, something like that. Come on, again, understand it. Uh... It's... I guess that's not a poetry, isn't it? It doesn't come out quite right, no. All right, I... You don't like me, I won't like you. I care for nobody known, not I, and nobody cares for me. That's a dandy, Mr. Adams, what's it from? That's from the River D, I think. Yes, uh... Miller. Jolly Miller, or the River D. Well, that gives us two. What do you mean the world is mine? That wouldn't express the sentiment, exactly, at all. It's not a bad return on Love Me Not So Bad. Mr. Karen? When you walked out, someone else walked right in.

24:45That's a challenge. Uh... That's antagonistic. That isn't exactly opposite, as Mr. Levant reminds us. Uh... There's a line from Burns. Nobody cares for me, I care for nobody. Uh... Except he writes it in Scotch, Mr. Adams, which I'm not going to reproduce. That's like, I'm nobody's baby. Yes, except it didn't get royalties on it in those days. Uh... There's another line, I don't know about this. It's just a song, I guess. I don't want to play in your yard if you won't be good to me. Yeah. Well, you know it, Mr. Adams. That gives us only two, I'm afraid, and sends a $50 for 10 bond to Mrs. Gaston. Uh... Here's one for Mrs. Donald Doer of Byron, Illinois. Can you name three well-known people, members of the same profession, who play these instruments. Double bass, shallow, and piano. Now, they're all members of the same profession. Yeah. Mr. Levant. Conductes. Cosovetsky, the double bass. Right. Artera Tusconini, the shallow, piano, Bruno Walder, Fritz Reiner. Nobody wants me to conduct, and I don't conduct very well, but I play the piano.

25:45How about... I want you. How about the washboard, the harmonica, and the fiddle? Washboard, harmonica, and fiddle. Mr. Levant. St. Louis Cardinals, when they had the musical combination. Fend them again. That's great. Pepper Martin. Go ahead, John. Thank you, Bortica Ray. That's great. And the harmonica, the accordion, and the piano, gentlemen. What is that? Harmonica, accordion, and piano. Well, that can be called... That can be John Kirin. It's Adams. Kirin and Levant. Oh! Now, Mr. Cross points out the very obvious fact that an excellent way to find out where such and such a famous line of Shakespeare appears is simply to ask Mr. Kirin. Yes, ladies and gentlemen. And by the same token, if you want to find out about the milder, better-tasting tobacco, ask the independent tobacco experts. For they know tobacco, as Mr. Kirin, knows his Shakespeare. Backward and forward. At markets all over the South, these independent buyers, auctioneers, and warehouse men see just who buys what tobacco and the price is paid.

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