The Pennsylvania Game
Absalom Jones, statues & a cartoon mountain
Season 5 Episode 2 | 27m 54sVideo has Closed Captions
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Absalom Jones, statues & a cartoon mountain
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- [Announcer] Wilkes-Barre was founded in 1770 by settlers from Connecticut, who named the county Westmoreland, thinking they owned it.
Today, we call it Luzerne County.
There's a mountain there named after a comic strip character.
Do you know what it's called?
You're invited to play "The Pennsylvania Game."
Test your knowledge of the Commonwealth's people, places, and products.
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(upbeat music) And by the Pennsylvania Public Television Network.
(upbeat music) Now let's get the game started.
Here's the host of "The Pennsylvania Game," Lynn Hynds.
(audience applauds) - Thank you very much, thank you, appreciate that.
Appreciate that.
We have a good show for you today.
We've got a fine audience.
And I believe we have some members of the AAUW from Lewis... - [Audience] Town.
- Town, Lewistown, Pennsylvania.
AAUW is the American Association of University Women, correct?
I got the first answer correct.
We've got a dynamite panel.
He's back again, he's a bon vivant, a raconteur, an author, a teacher, Bernie Asbell.
(audience applauds) We are both proud and delighted to have a man who has served Pennsylvania for many, many years, Dr. Maurice Goddard, Dr. Goddard.
(audience applauds) - Thank you.
- And I'm now able to say since recently she is an author and a radio announcer and many other things, Tina Hay.
(audience applauds) Connecticut settlers thought they owned the top strip of Pennsylvania and they named a county Westmoreland.
But we convinced them that no, they should go back to Connecticut, that we could do very well without them.
But we have a mountain up there.
- [Announcer] Just outside Wilkes-Barre in Luzerne County there is a mountain named after a popular comic strip hero of the 1930s and '40s.
Is the mountain called A, Mount Palooka, B, Mount Tracy, C, Mount Terry, or D, Mount Starr?
- Now, before we go any further, let's have a preliminary question of who all these were.
Mount Palooka would be what, Bernie?
- [Bernie] Joe Palooka.
- And, Tracy, of course, every knows, Dick Tracy.
- Dick Tracy.
- Terry.
- And the Pirates.
- Terry and the Pirates, and Starr, with two r's.
Tina.
- [Tina] No, don't embarrass me, please.
- Oh, Brenda.
- Brenda Starr.
- Okay.
- You remember Brenda Starr.
The question is, which of these comic book characters is the mountain up there named after?
And it really is named after one.
Bernie, you're first.
- Well, if I were naming it, I would name it Mount Palooka.
- [Lynn] Would you?
- Oh yeah.
- [Lynn] Okay, Dr. Goddard.
- [Bernie] I say Starr.
- [Lynn] Brenda Starr, all right, Mount Starr.
- Where is Bart Simpson, is what I want to know.
(audience laughs) Mount Palooka is tough to resist.
- [Lynn] Is it?
- Yeah, I like that.
- Okay, Terry and the Pirates, I gotta tell you, was my favorite comic strip, but what do I know?
What's the answer here?
- [Announcer] The answer is A, Mount Palooka.
(audience applauds) Joe Palooka's creator, Ham Fisher, was a native of Wilkes-Barre and based his comic strip characters on the colorful personalities he met while a local reporter.
Joe Palooka was one of the most popular sporting heroes in the history of the funnies.
Legend has it that when he appeared on a Coast Guard recruiting poster during World War II, enlistments doubled.
- Everybody wanted to be Joe Palooka.
Well, okay, we got a couple of 'em right on this first one.
Let's go right ahead with the second question.
See if we can stump 'em right quick.
Absalom Jones and Richard Allen were two famous African-Americans back in Philadelphia.
- [Announcer] Absalom Jones was one of the founders of the Free African Society, a Philadelphia group formed to provide services to the community.
Along with Richard Allen, he formed the first African-American organization based on self-determination.
Which of these facts is true of Absalom Jones and Richard Allen?
A, neither could read or write.
B, both were runaway slaves.
C, Each founded a church.
Or D, both emigrated to Africa.
- Okay now, this is a case of only one of these is correct.
Three are not correct.
And I want to know of these two famous African-Americans, Absalom Jones and Richard Allen, which of these facts is true of both of them?
The African-American organization was really the first of self-determination for Black people in America.
And quite a record that these two had.
But Maurice Goddard, you're first.
Which of these do you think is true of both of these gentlemen?
I don't know how you don't know this.
- I don't have the slightest idea.
- [Lynn] Well, that's not untypical on this program.
- Repeat those again.
- A, neither could read nor write.
B, both were runaway slaves.
C, each founded a church.
Or D, both emigrated to Africa.
- Runaway slaves, I say, B.
- All right, that's C, B, B, you say both were runaway slaves.
Tina, could be.
- They all seem plausible.
Or at least the first three do.
- [Lynn] We like to put plausible false answers down, as you know.
- It's on purpose to try to trick me.
And the last one seems the least likely, so it's probably a trap, but I'll fall into it.
(audience laughs) - Okay, all right, what do you say?
- There was a very active return to Africa movement at that time, but I think I will go with A.
So many slaves were self-taught, but some didn't, just had great lives without it.
- Okay, a A, a B, and a D. What did you choose at home?
What is the correct answer?
- [Announcer] The answer is C, each founded a church.
(audience applauds) Both were born slaves, Jones in 1746 and Allen in 1760, but both managed to gain an education and each worked to buy his freedom.
Each founded a church in 1794, but a white congregation decided to seat all Black worshipers in the rear of the church.
Absalom Jones founded the African Episcopal Church, Richard Allen the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church.
Both churches have a continuous history to today.
Out of the Bethel AME church came the largest independent denomination in the world, and the building, on the same site as the 1794 church, is a national monument.
- Each was a slave, but they bought their way to freedom, don't you see?
- [Maurice] Didn't run away.
- That's right, so each did found a church when they were forced to sit in the back of the white church, and quite a thing.
Talked to Dr. Goddard a little bit.
Dr. Goddard is from Massachusetts, he tells me, but he came to Pennsylvania about 1935 to Penn State to be head of the Department of Forestry here.
And since then, this is a question just for you, Dr. Goddard, you've served Pennsylvania under five governors.
Can you name all five?
- Yes, sir, Leader, Lawrence, Scranton, Shafer, Shapp.
- And we've had Dr. Goddard, of course, in questions before about state parks and founding a state park within 25 miles of every Pennsylvanian.
And you accomplished that goal.
- That's right, with a lot of help, with a lot of help.
- [Lynn] We're very proud of you in Pennsylvania.
- Thank you.
- And delighted to have you as our guest tonight.
- [Maurice] Hope I can get some of the answers.
- Well, that's not important, just having you here is- - [Tina] It'll come to you.
- Tina Hay, we said you're a lot of things.
You work on radio and all kinds of things, work for Penn State, but you're also an author.
Talk a little bit about your book.
- A colleague and I, Bernie Badiali and I developed a book to encourage older adults to write about their lives.
It's called "Recollections" and it prompts you with specific questions to get your memories going so that you might write down some of the things you remember about your family and your early childhood.
Not you, you're not old enough yet.
- [Lynn] How old do you have to be?
- Well, you'd have to be considerably older than you.
- I'm getting there.
- Yeah.
And then you would have something that you could pass on to your kids and your grandkids.
- That's nice, that's really a good idea.
I'd like to ask Bernie about one of his books, but when Bernie starts talking about his books, we run out of time.
Do you wanna mention the last three you've written?
Just real quick.
- Well, it depends when the show goes on.
- See, see, he's writing all the time.
Let's go on with the next question instead.
And let's go to Bellefonte, because they had a man born there they're real proud of in Bellefonte.
- [Announcer] The well-known sculptor George Grey Bernard was born in Bellefonte in 1863.
His statue of Abraham Lincoln in Cincinnati, Ohio created a public outcry in 1917 because of the rugged face and the slouching stance of Lincoln.
But the outcry that George Grey Bernard created in Pennsylvania was because of a sculpture he did of 31 allegorical figures.
Is that famous sculpture outside, A, the Museum of Art in Philadelphia, B, the Capitol in Harrisburg, C, the Cathedral of Learning in Pittsburgh, or D, the courthouse in York?
- Okay, George Grey Bernard did a sculpture of 31 allegorical figures and it created something of an outcry when it was put up.
But where was it put up in front of is the question?
Tina Hay, you're first this time.
- Wow, I don't have a clue.
- [Lynn] Museum of Art in Philadelphia, the Capitol in Harrisburg, the Cathedral of Larnin' at Pitt, as we used to call it, or the courthouse in York, which of those four, Tina, do you think?
- I don't even have a bluff, I have no idea.
Well, let's see, let's pick the least likely one, which would be the least famous.
- [Lynn] Okay, which would that be?
- Now, wait a minute, the courthouse in York might have some historical significance there.
- [Lynn] That's where the Continental Congress met and all that stuff, that's pretty famous.
- How much time do I have here?
- [Lynn] You've about run out.
- Okay, D. (audience laughs) - [Lynn] You're going for York, Bernie?
- [Bernie] Well, if somebody's going do something scandalous, it's likely to be at the state Capitol.
- [Lynn] You think so?
- [Bernie] Yeah, so let's say Harrisburg.
- [Lynn] Dr. Goddard, what do you say?
- [Maurice] The Capitol.
- [Lynn] Really?
- Yep.
- [Lynn] You're pretty sure of that, are you?
- Yeah, I'm pretty sure of that.
- [Lynn] Well, Tina, they're pretty sure up here.
- [Tina] Can I change?
- Very often, Tina, they're pretty sure and they're pretty wrong.
Let's see, where is that famous sculpture?
- [Announcer] The answer is B, the Capitol in Harrisburg.
(audience applauds) George Grey Bernard's 31 allegorical figures representing broken laws and laws we keep were done between 1902 and 1912.
The controversy created when they went on display in front of our state capitol was not because of what the figures represented, but because of what they were not wearing.
- [Maurice] They uncovered them.
- [Tina] Is that right?
- So I heard a little kid say to his mother, "Are those men or women?"
And the mother said, "I don't know.
They're not wearing any clothes, I can't tell."
That's why they're so scandalous, though.
They are in the buff, or in the altogether.
How is the score doing?
Well, it's real close.
Bernie has two, Maurice Godard has two, and Tina Hay has one, and Tina Hay has one, real close.
- I only have one.
- [Lynn] Let's encourage them, they're doing well.
(audience applauds) It's anybody's ball game.
- [Tina] Gotta get to work here.
- [Maurice] Yeah, we gotta catch him.
- We don't really care much who wins.
We care that you have a good time.
You probably got more right at home anyway, don't you?
Here's our Mystery Pennsylvanian first clue.
We have three clues during the course of the show to the identity of a Mystery Pennsylvanian.
Born in the small community of Smithton, she won a beauty contest in nearby Pittsburgh and studied acting there.
She was born in the small community of Smithton and she won a beauty contest in nearby Pittsburgh and studied acting there, that is, in Pittsburgh.
And the clues will become more obvious if you don't have it on that first one.
This next one, by the way, happens to be about a famous Pittsburgher.
He was painting a house when something happened called Pearl Harbor, and he joined the Army.
- [Announcer] Chuck Kelly was a 20-year-old Pittsburgher working for a painter on Pearl Harbor Day.
Five months later, he was a soldier.
When he came home from Italy in 1944, he was the only enlisted man to hold both the Congressional Medal of Honor and the Silver Star.
He also had a new nickname.
Was he called A, Machine Gun Kelly, B, Kilroy Kelly, C, Commando Kelly, or D, Two-gun Kelly?
- They gave Chuck Kelly quite a welcome in Pittsburgh, where parades and the whole thing.
He was sort of the Sergeant York of World War II.
You'll all remember Sergeant York of World War I, Sergeant Alvin York, I believe his name was.
But what was Chuck Kelly's new nickname?
- It's interesting, one of the great, the first hero of World War II is Colin Kelly.
The Kelly's really took over that war.
- [Lynn] That's right.
- Machine Gun Kelly has a kind of rhythm to it.
- [Lynn] Colin Kelly was the first American- - Colin Kelly was the first American casualty.
- Now, that sounds good to me too.
- [Lynn] You like that too, huh?
- Yeah, that sounds good to me.
(audience laughs) - I don't see any reason to... - [Lynn] Tina, Tina!
(audience laughs) - Anything but A.
- Tina, I sort of like Kilroy Kelly myself, because Kilroy was here in World War II.
What'd they call Chuck Kelly when he got home from the war?
- [Announcer] The answer is C, Commando Kelly.
(audience applauds) Commando Kelly was one of many Americans to win the nation's highest military award for bravery beyond the call of duty and at risk of life.
In World War II, Pennsylvania led all the states with 35 winners of the Medal of Honor.
- I didn't know that either, but when I found it out, I was very excited.
In World War II, Pennsylvania led all the states with the number of Congressional Medal of Honor winners, and I think Pennsylvania can say we're right proud of that from World War II.
- [Maurice] The Francis Bear Dam is named for one in this county.
- There was a Machine Gun Kelly, was he a bad man?
- He was a guy that worked with Al Capone back in the '20s and '30s, that's exactly right.
(audience laughs) - [Tina] Another part of our history.
- You're all doing so well.
(audience laughs) Let's go from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia to a little bit earlier, 1912, when somebody bought a passel of land over there.
- [Announcer] In 1912, Siegmund Lubin of Philadelphia purchased the 500 acre Betzwood Estate on the banks of the Schuylkill River across from Valley Forge.
Did he use the estate as A, the country's first drug rehabilitation center, B, the country's first retirement community, C, the largest private racetrack in the world, or D, the most expensive movie set in the world?
- Okay, Siegmund Lubin, 1912.
He bought this Betzwood Estate and turned it into something, but was it the country's first drug rehab center, the country's first retirement community, the largest private racetrack in the world, or the most expensive movie set in the world, Goddard?
- I'll say B.
- You're going with the country's first retirement community.
- [Maurice] Right.
- [Lynn] Okay, retirement sounds good to me, Tina?
- Wow, well, drug rehabilitation, 1912 seems a little early.
Retirement community seems plausible, but plausible doesn't get you anywhere on this show, right?
- [Lynn] No, not on this show.
- [Tina] Okay, private racetrack, who knows?
- [Maurice] Never heard of it.
- Let's try a racetrack, I don't know.
- Try a racetrack, okay, $2 on a racetrack.
Yes, go ahead.
- Well, if he didn't buy the world's most expensive movie set, he should have.
- [Lynn] Really, why's that?
- Well, it's just, Valley Forge, a cast of characters.
- Does that sound like a movie producer, Siegmund Lubin?
What's the answer to this one?
- [Announcer] The answer is D, the most expensive movie set in the world.
(audience applauds) Siegmund Lubin was the first movie-made millionaire.
He not only produced movies, he made the cameras that shot them, processed the film, and owned a chain of theaters.
He happily spent over $2 million to transform Betzwood into a director's paradise.
Its gothic mansion, exotic gardens, log cabins, railroads, covered bridges, woods, and streams were the setting for film starring such luminaries as Marie Dressler and the notorious Evelyn Nesbit.
But a series of disasters struck in 1914, and four years later, Lubin was forced to liquidate.
The new owners continued to make films on the property, but the industry had moved West.
The production ceased at Betzwood in 1922.
Today, few traces remain of what a 1913 movie magazine called Betzwood the Great.
- That's the way it is with showbiz.
One day you're on top and the next day you're just... Somebody should write a song about that.
Okay, the score, Bernie now has three correct.
Bernie's still in the lead.
(audience applauds) - Bernie, we've got one each.
- Wave of luck.
- But as we say, the game is not over until the identity of the mystery guest is known.
All right, mystery clue number two.
On Broadway, it was corn as high as an elephant's eye.
Then onto Hollywood where she won fame working in a library.
On Broadway, aren't these clever clues?
It was corn as high as an elephant's eye.
Then onto Hollywood where she won fame working in a library.
Clue one was she was born in Smithton, won a beauty contest in nearby Pittsburgh, and studied acting there.
And by the way, if you'd like to write into us with a suggestion for a question or just write to us our address, The Pennsylvania Game, Wagner Annex, University Park, PA 16802.
Okay, you ready for the next question?
Let me see what it is.
Oh yes, this is another first in Pennsylvania.
There's a community, there is a community named Lima that has a first.
But first what?
- [Announcer] Lima in Delaware County was the first location in the nation to get one of these.
The year was 1938.
What did Lima get first?
A, parking meter.
B, drive-in church.
C, traffic cloverleaf.
Or D, Volkswagen dealership.
(audience laughs) - Well, it's possible.
They started selling VWs in 1930, Tina.
Lima, Delaware County, that's in the east over near Philadelphia, was first in the nation nation to have one and the year is 1938.
Parking meter, drive-in church, traffic cloverleaf or a Volkswagen dealership.
- There really was, there really were Volkswagens in 1938?
She asked naively.
- I think so.
- [Tina] Yeah?
- Yeah.
- That's very tempting.
- [Lynn] Well, Hitler was the guy that really invented, I mean, he didn't invent it, but he really saw that the Volkswagen became a folks or peoples car.
He did a couple good things, not very many.
- That's a very tempting answer.
What I want most of all is to get one of these right.
- [Lynn] Do you?
- Yeah, it would be nice.
- [Lynn] You got one right.
- [Tina] Oh, okay, now I want two, now I want two.
- [Lynn] You can relax now.
What do you think, what did you go with?
- [Tina] I said Volkswagen.
- [Lynn] You went with the VW, huh?
- [Tina] Why not, sure.
- [Lynn] Okay, what are you going with, Bernie?
- Well, actually I bought my first Volkswagen in Lima.
- [Lynn] Did you really, is that right?
- Yeah.
- [Lynn] Okay.
(audience laughs) - I'll say A.
- [Lynn] You're going with parking meters.
- Right.
- The first parking meter.
Okay, whatever it is, it's kind of unusual, I would say.
What do the folks over in Delaware County around Lima point to with pride as being first?
- [Announcer] The answer is C, traffic cloverleaf.
(audience applauds) The nation's first traffic cloverleaf connects Route Number 1 and Pennsylvania Route 352.
Carries about 67,000 vehicles each year.
- Well, somebody had to be first to get one of those cloverleafs, I guess, why not Lima?
- [Bernie] The lucky cloverleaf.
- Congratulations, Lima.
- I thought they had that on the turnpike.
- This next question is one of, I think, the most unusual, bizarre even, questions we've had.
It's about a bizarre character named Daniel Sickles.
- [Announcer] Daniel Sickles was instrumental in getting Gettysburg declared a national military park.
Which of these facts is not true of Dan Sickles?
A, was the last surviving Gettysburg general.
B, he killed Francis Scott Key's son.
C, he donated his leg to a museum.
Or D, he saved the battle at Little Round Top.
- Now, this means three of those facts are true of Dan Sickles, only one is not true.
And I want to know which one is not true, that he was the last surviving general from Gettysburg, that he killed Francis Scott Key's son, Francis Scott Key being the fellow what wrote the national anthem, of course, that he donated his leg to a museum, or that he saved the battle at Little Round Top, Gettysburg.
And Bernie, you get to give the first weird answer.
- Ha, thanks very much.
Everybody knows, every school kid knows he was not the last surviving Gettysburg general.
- [Lynn] Okay, everybody knows that, Bernie says.
- [Maurice] B.
- Dr. Goddard said he doesn't know that.
He doesn't believe that he killed Francis Scott Key's son.
He was too nice a fella, Tina?
- Wow.
- [Lynn] Wow, she says.
- You wouldn't put that leg stuff on there unless it were true, probably.
I betcha he did do that.
(audience laughs) I betcha he did.
- [Maurice] He did do that.
- [Lynn] You've played this game before.
- Did he save the battle or kill the son?
You want me to pick C, don't you?
- [Lynn] What are you going with?
- I don't know.
Oh, what did Bernie pick?
(audience laughs) - [Lynn] Never mind that, go on your own.
- All right, D, D. - D, Tina says that he did not save the battle at Little Round Top.
Daniel Sickles lived for a long time and was one of the most unusual characters of American history.
- [Announcer] The answer is D. In fact, his mistake almost lost the battle at Little Round Top.
Sickles spent the rest of his life trying to prove that he was right and thus publicized Gettysburg.
Before the war, he shot and killed Philip Barton Key for having an affair with his wife, but was acquitted as temporarily insane, the first time that plea was ever used.
Sickles lost a leg at Gettysburg and often went to visit it at the Army Medical Museum.
The 93-year-old Sickles attended the 50th Gettysburg Reunion in 1913 and heard President Woodrow Wilson speak.
- He wasn't there for the Gettysburg Address of Lincoln, but he made it in 1913 for the Gettysburg Address of Woodrow Wilson, isn't that remarkable?
When he was wounded and his leg, he was bleeding so badly, they thought he was going to die, and they carried him off the field in a stretcher, and so that his men would not lose heart, he took out a cigar and lit it as they carried him with his leg hanging over the side of the thing and amputated it.
I mean, he was a character.
- [Tina] I guess so.
- But he did indeed do three of those things.
He lost the battle of Little Round Top, or almost lost it.
We need to move ahead, and I wanna say that Leola Golich of Johnstown sent this question in, and we're proud, from WPSX, with the the help of the publishers of "Pennsylvania Magazine," to send her a year's free subscription to "The Pennsylvania Magazine" for telling us about a guy named Hyman Lipman.
- [Announcer] In 1858, educators expressed alarm over something patented by Hyman Lipman of Philadelphia.
Did he invent A, flashcards, B, textbooks, C, pencils with erasers, or D, lined note paper?
- Yeah, teachers said this is not a good thing that Hyman Lipman has done.
In 1858, he invented something, but what did he invent?
Flashcards, textbooks, pencils with erasers or lined note paper.
Dr. Goddard, which of those do you think is the most dangerous for students?
- What'd you say, the flashcards?
- [Lynn] Flashcards, textbooks, pencils with erasers, or lined note paper?
- I'll say A.
- [Lynn] You're gonna go with flashcards, okay.
Those kids look at flashcards and memorizing stuff.
- I never heard of 'em.
- [Lynn] Yes, Tina?
- I betcha it's either pencils with erasers, because, I don't know.
I don't know what I'm thinking here.
It's either C or D. And D has been good to me, so.
(audience laughs) - [Lynn] D has been good to her, so she's gonna be good to D, all right.
- Somewhat, somewhat.
- The world began going down the tubes when they put erasers on pencils.
- [Lynn] I see, okay.
Do you know that teachers actually protested textbooks because they thought they'd be replaced with textbooks?
Well, what's the answer here?
- [Announcer] The answer is C, pencils with erasers.
Although generations of students would be grateful for Lipman's invention, educators at the time were not, saying that the easier it was to correct mistakes, the more likely it was that students would make them.
- [Maurice] It's amazing.
- And what do you supposed teachers think about computers?
'Cause you can just go back and correct stuff like that, willy-nilly.
Well, let's see what the score is.
Well, Bernie's ahead with four and Tina's right close behind with two.
Let's hear it for Bernie, he's doing all right.
(audience applauds) Clue number three for our Mystery Pennsylvanian.
On TV, she took her musical family touring.
On TV, she took her musical family touring.
She was born in Smithton, studied acting in Pittsburgh, on Broadway it was corn as high as elephant's eye and in Hollywood she won fame as a librarian, uh huh.
Miss Hay, you're looking puzzled.
Nothing has come to you, I presume.
- No.
- [Lynn] Nothing.
- No.
- [Lynn] Okay, Dr. Goddard, do you have a name?
- [Maurice] Nope, no I do not.
- [Lynn] Bernie, do you know this one?
- No, I know this is wrong, and I wish I remembered who sang "Marion the Librarian."
- Oh my goodness, you don't remember who sang "Marion Madam Librarian."
Well, here's who sang it.
- [Announcer] Shirley Jones was born in the small town of Smithton, home of Jones Brewery and Stoney's Beer.
She won a beauty contest in nearby Pittsburgh, studied at the playhouse there, and then it was on to New York.
Shirley Jones won a role on stage in "South Pacific," and then a starring movie role as Laurie in "Oklahoma."
Her movie career saw her starring opposite Glenn Ford, Jimmy Stewart, James Cagney, and many more.
But perhaps her most memorable role was as Marion the librarian opposite Robert Preston in "The Music Man."
Shirley Jones proved her versatility with an Oscar for her portrayal of Lulu Banes in "Elmer Gentry."
On TV, she's known for "The Partridge Family" and numerous variety shows.
Shirley Jones, a famous Pennsylvanian.
- What a lady, oh yeah, what a lady.
In Smithton, it is the Jones Brewery that produces Stoney's beer and so forth, and she is Shirley Jones of the Jones family.
They've been there for years and years and years.
And to me, the most remarkable thing about this great, great talented woman is that she went from playing the very innocent and naive Marion the librarian, you could sing it, I can't, Bernie, to playing Lulu Banes in "Elmer Gantry."
And Lulu Banes was not exactly a librarian.
I mean, she took out a lot of things, but none of them were books, you know what I'm saying?
Just a great acting talent, and what a beautiful voice.
- Few of us are how we appear, and you and I know that.
- We do?
Speak for thyself.
Dr. Goddard, what a pleasure to have you.
I hope you had a good time.
- Good to be here, thank you.
- [Lynn] Thanks for being here.
- I did, wished I knew more.
- Hey, these questions, they're hard to study up for.
Tina, thanks for being here, and Bernie.
- Thank you very much.
- And thanks to all of you and you at home.
And we'll see you, I hope, next time when we all gather right here to play again "The Pennsylvania Game."
See you then.
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