What happened with Kerensky?
He had just written a memoir, and was on a book tour. He came to the theater and saw two acts of the rehearsal. I was in charge of the animal acts, and we had one that night. He took one look at what was going on in the theater and fled. We had to invent something to cover seven or eight minutes of airtime. We were live in those days, which was a great deal of fun. In the late ’40s, I worked on another game show called What’s the Story?, where you worked backwards. You described the assassination of Caesar in contemporary terms and provided clues until the panel came up with the story. I was the secretary, the researcher. I did everything for that show — I hawked the tickets at Rockefeller Plaza. I did the warm ups. I tried to explain image orthicon cameras, which I didn’t understand then and don’t understand now. Although you weren’t given the money or the title, there wasn’t anything that you weren’t allowed to do in those days. Every show was so understaffed and everyone was so ove
