- The lamp presents Teen Beat.

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- And now here is your Teen Beat host, George Yoko.

- Thank you.

- Hi everybody, and welcome into the lab.

We got some wild things going on today.

This is my friend here.

This is a little stuffed animal.

It's a white dog.

Come over here.

Come over here.

What's your name?

Carol.

Carol, what do you think of this?

Isn't this pretty?

Yeah.

- You gonna give it to me?

- Can we give it to her?

She's trying to stump me here.

No, I'm afraid I can't.

We're gonna talk about this.

There's a little something different about this dog that you don't find in most stuffed animals.

Back here in the back is a little switch, and we turn this on And he's got a little radio on.

It's kind of a little different, a unique type of gift that you might give to your girlfriend or your boyfriend.

So we're gonna talk about some unique gifts today that you could give to guys and gals, okay?

And also, we have a very famous, and also a very delightful lady with us this afternoon who we're gonna talk to.

She's appeared on Broadway.

She's also appeared in movies, and she's had 12 years experience in television on a show called Queen for a Day.

Her name is Miss Jean Cagney, and she's with us this afternoon.

We're gonna talk about show business a little bit.

Let's get to music here in the lamp.

Okay?

This is Bill Cosby, his first attempt.

Little old man, - A little old man - Was sitting on the steps and a tear kind of trickled down his cheek.

- I - Said, what's the matter?

He said, A train.

How often does this happen?

He said, every day about this time.

I said, well, why do you just sit out here?

- Then?

- He said, because I cannot believe.

Let this happen hot.

I said, reach out, take my - Hand.

- You'll understand - Little - Old man sitting on the same and - Down cheek.

- I said, where's the man elephant?

I said, saying, - Mm.

- I said, how often does this happen?

He said, day, - I have half.

- The train runs over.

I said, reach out.

Take my same old man, trickle down his cheek.

I said, Hey, how you doing?

After that train ran over, he said, what?

Train?

I said, the train that ran over you a half hour before the elephant, Lord.

He said, what else?

I said?

He said, you a young boy, soon as you got a to - Learn.

- All right, uptight, not as sight.

That's a little Stevie Water song done over with a background by Bill Cosby.

And that's called Little Old Man.

I'm gonna stand over here admiring this picture of Marlon Brando.

Isn't that kind of outta sight?

Alright.

All right.

Mae West is back.

I, I don't know if you can see May West back.

Well, you better not see May West.

Hey, stay away from there.

She's back here.

And her buddy WC Fields is over here in the corner.

We're gonna talk about unique gift ideas.

I wanna talk to you.

What's your name?

Janet.

Janet.

If I had a girl who had a birthday coming up in the next, you know, week or so, what could you gimme as an idea to buy her a prison?

Could you gimme something that, you know, it'd be kind of cool.

- I really couldn't think of anything really.

- I dunno.

How about you?

What's your name?

- Kathy.

- Kathy, could you gimme an idea?

Well, - I think that little dog you have in your hand's, kind of cute.

- Yeah.

Well, this is cute.

This is the one with a transistor radio in it.

This is kind of one we're gonna talk about some ideas, and maybe if you have somebody with a birthday or possibly, you know, an anniversary of some kind for your people, you know, you can buy 'em one of these gifts.

It's a little different than normally what you would buy with us today is send Jackson, my co-host distance send.

How are you this afternoon?

- Oh, just find George.

I've been playing around with these gifts and I can't believe some of the ideas.

I've never thought of them before.

What we have, I'm just gonna have to go out and find people to give gifts for.

That's all.

Well, I have some very interesting gifts and they're rather unusual too.

They - Look like it from here.

I won't say - That.

The first one I wanna show you is an import.

It's from Taiwan and it's called The Little Holy God.

And the idea behind this gift is you give it to whoever your friend is and you tell him to rub his tummy every day in the morning.

And then you'll have good luck for the entire day.

And this gift is carved, hand carved from stone tools in Taiwan.

- If you rub his tummy, you have good luck.

Yeah.

- Okay.

Rub his tummy and see if you get good luck all tomorrow.

Be sure and tell me, because if you do, I'm gonna go out and buy a thousand of them.

Okay?

I need lots of luck.

I'll let you - Know tomorrow.

All right.

Okay.

What are these things you got?

- These are called popsies.

- Let's get rid of this little fella.

Yeah, - I put 'em down.

These are called popsies.

And they each have a little story behind them.

When you press down on the popsie, there's a little sign that comes up like this.

Yeah.

And it says what it, whatever your little message is.

This one says, we need each other.

And there's all kinds of messages and each different little popsie.

There's four others here.

Let's - Try - This one.

What does he say?

Wish you were here.

I think I'd like to send that to maybe someone away at school or something.

How - About somebody in Vietnam or something like that?

- These kind of gifts are being sent all over the world.

Foreign exchange students are sending them back home, you know?

And I guess they've really caught on everywhere in Europe.

They're beginning to manufacture 'em just in whole big gobs.

- Let's look at this one.

I'll see what it has to - Say.

Wild about you.

Are you?

No, George.

- Okay, let's look at this one.

What does this one say that doesn't know - They're really, like I said, a very variety of categories that you can talk about in these little gifts.

- Okay, you did you all see what that said?

You wanna pass it around and look at that.

- This is another, there's all kinds of gifts like this and have little names on them and little signs.

- This looks like the devil.

I mean, it looks nice, but it it's not, not, it doesn't look like - The devil.

It's not.

It's not the devil.

This is the kind of thing that, well, you've just met someone and they've invited you to their house and you've gone there and then you just send them a little gift to say how friendly you are and everything.

See his eyes move.

That's what I like.

He's kind of giving you the eye.

That's a nice one.

You better watch it.

But there's all kinds of them too.

- Okay, what's this now?

- Well, it's another it gift.

They don't have any name.

They're just called it gifts.

And the sign on this one says, I wanna hold your hand.

And then in real small print under there, as soon as I can find it.

I think this guy's having a hard time.

You - Don't have any eyes or anything?

- No eyes.

It's just, just all kinds of hair reminds me of some people I know today.

But then, no, I wasn't referring to any one particular George.

Okay.

But then maybe, maybe you've got the, you wanna give a guy something a little bit more practical?

Suppose he's going away to school or he is going into a profession or something.

And then this is always a basic, a good basic idea that a lot of girls don't think of a nice pen and pencil.

Set.

Something very nice to give.

- That is nice.

It's very practical.

Okay, what do we have here?

- Oh, these are my favorites.

These have something to say.

They have a little message behind them.

And the name of this book is A little Bit of Wisdom and they're very cute little pictures.

And as you can see, all of them has something to say, maybe a little quote picture.

And they're all in color.

This one says what you would seem to be be really, I can't read it upside down.

That's the reason I'm having a terrible time here.

Okay.

But the but the pictures are nice and they're little quotes.

Something that you can remember your guy by.

Maybe, - Oh, what is this?

This?

Oh, - Oh, these are the, oh, these are really popular, George.

They're the peanut series.

All of these books, the peanuts books come in in all of the characters.

You know, Lucy and Snoopy and the dog.

And they all have something to say and they have a little story behind them.

This one is a security book, security knowing the one, can you read upside Down?

Yeah.

Over here, security, security, security is who the babysit, who the babysitter is.

And then there's another one and it's called Home.

And this is with Snoopy.

And this is what he has to say.

And it goes on.

There's all kinds of stories behind each one of them, and they all have a little message.

Some guys never really learned to do anything, right?

Have you ever felt that way, George?

No matter how your day goes, you just keep falling off the dog house right - Now.

Yeah.

Okay, here's another one.

This one is, let's see, it's called Love is Walking Hand in Hand.

And this is kind of cute.

Love is walking hand in hand out.

Look to the right one inside.

Dude, that's amazing.

- I, the best thing about these books, George, is that they really say something.

And when you meet someone you really like, you could maybe sign it under that, sign your name or something.

This is the way I really feel.

And that's what's unique about giving gifts.

You have to find the right gift for the right person.

And here's another set of books by peanuts.

It's called Peanuts Philosophy.

And each one of these gifts books, they come in a volume type.

And the first one is The Wood of Wisdom by Snoopy.

And all of the characters have a book.

Meditations of Linus Loosely looks at life.

And then the last one, Charlie Brown's reflections.

Do you think you know what you wanna give your girlfriend now?

- Yeah, I want to give her this - One right here.

I want that one.

I - Wanna show everybody what they say.

It's got a little pocket in the back.

We got a second here.

See here's, does it come - Out?

Can you get it out - There?

It's just a little transistor radio that's in the, in the back of the dog.

- And when you go go to bed at night, you can cl to your little doggy and listen to your song.

- You know, this is kinda your security doggy.

Listen, SNDA, thank you very much for giving us some unusual gift ideas.

Can - I keep him now?

Yeah, you keep, oh good.

Good.

Thank - You.

We're gonna get back to music on Team Beat here in the land.

This is a wild thing and it's kind of new.

It's done by the Procal Harem called Hum, - Your Mul and the the and - Oh hi.

Glad you dropped.

I hate people that do that on television.

You see this approach used all the time with a guy sitting with his back, looking over here and he goes, oh, hi.

Glad you dropped in.

Now you people can see how it is with all these cameras around here.

Never worked.

Listen, we have a very interesting person with us, and she's done so much.

She's been on the, you know, the Broadway stage.

She's been in movies, she was on television on a program called Queen for Day.

Do y'all remember that?

Yeah.

Do you?

Yeah, it was a long time ago.

She was on there for not that long.

How did you say?

I, I I was little when I saw it, so I don't remember.

Okay.

Yeah, it has, it has been a while.

Not that long, but we have with us the lady who was on that show for about 12 years, her name is Ms. Jean Cagney.

Would you welcome her to the lamp please?

Oh, forgiveness - Sake.

You're absolutely right.

It was a long time ago.

It's been off the air for about three years now.

And you were little.

- Oh, Jimy Christmas.

There's so many things that I want to ask you and I - Want, I just, I just wanna tell you, I think you have a wonderful party going here and a very good group.

I've enjoyed the show so much already.

- Well, - Thank you very much.

It's great to be a spectator.

- Thank you very much.

Let's talk about your career and where you gotta start and when and what you did.

- Well, gosh, after college, I, I went ahead to college in New York and I came to California and did some plays and I was signed right away for picture contract.

So I was a, an actress, a starlet at Paramount for a while.

And then I found out I didn't know a very great deal.

And so I went back to Broadway and tried to learn some, some more.

And I think the fun of it has been for me is that I was able to dip into every medium.

You know, I was able to, to be in pictures, I was able to be on Broadway.

I was in radio.

In the, in the days that you hear people talk about now in the days of Helen Trent and Young, we Brown and Boston Blackie and Hearts and Harmony.

And this was great, marvelous fun.

It was, I look back on it now and think about the calls we would have in one day, you know, one agency would think of you as a model type, you know, and I played models on their, their shows, and another one would think of me as a gun mall type.

So I would play tough girls for them.

And, but in the one day, you know, there'd be all three different kinds of things.

And it was a marvelous variety.

And I was young at the time.

I was 19 or 20, and I loved the chance to play older people.

So it was, it was, that was great experience.

And then most of us who were in radio at the time would do plays on Broadway.

This was how we sustained ourselves by, but we'd work in radio and then the, then we'd, we'd take a flyer and see if the show would be a success, you know, and then we were all right, if, if the show was a hit and it ran longer than three weeks while we were in, - What was it like, I don't imagine they remember too much about what it was like to work in radio.

Could you give us, you know, a little picture of, of what went on, say you had a radio play that you were in, what was it like?

- It it, it meant, you mean why, how was it different from television or this, this kind of thing?

Is that the kind Yeah.

- What kind of atmosphere was it done in?

- High tension, quite a lot like television now.

But it was much easier than television because you didn't have the makeup, you didn't have the costume.

What you did have to do was summon all your energy and put that into your voice, near your imagination, you know?

And the thing that was hard about radio and wonderful, wonderful too was that you would get the, the, you'd walk in, you'd get the part, you'd get your character up very fast, no fooling around.

There was no time, you know, it worked very quickly.

And so in, in an hour you'd get a characterization worked out.

And I'm sorry, I was fascinated at the ballet.

Excuse me.

So it was a matter of, of getting your talent up quickly.

That was what, this is what my brother says about vaudeville, George.

He, he had a training in Vaudeville that, see, by the time I came along, Ville was dead, but my brother worked in Vaudeville and he said, this was what vaudeville did for you.

It made you work quickly and really, you know, get set to deliver the groceries to the audience very fast.

- We better clear up one thing.

Yeah.

For those of you who may not remember, I'm sure all of you do, but her brother is, is James Cagney, who I'm sure all of you have heard of too, right?

Yes.

Okay.

I want to clear that up a little bit.

Well, if somebody's just starting out today and they're going to pursue a career in show business, whether it's acting or television, while there's a difference, there's movie acting, there's Broadway acting and there's television acting.

What kind of advice can you give someone who may pursue a career in that?

- Well, you know, what I think is, is marvelous now, and one of the reasons that I'm so thrilled that we're here and that my husband is the dean of the College of Fine Arts, is that we can be close to university theater.

And I think this is the chance for young people now.

Right?

I see, I see a reaction here.

There's a girl who believes as I do, but actually, you know, years ago there were all kinds of places where you could go to, to learn your craft, but now the, the university theater is it, as far as I'm concerned, you can get marvelous experience there.

They always have wonderful theaters and good lighting, you know, and all the elements that make your efforts worthwhile.

And at the same time, you can get another thing that's terribly important.

You can get balance, balance of interest.

You see, it's, it's not like show business kids years ago with no one thing.

They'd learn how they'd know either tap and acrobatic dancing and that was it.

Period.

End of sentence, you know, that was all.

Whereas now with university theater, you can get marvelous professional preparation and at the same time develop yourself as a whole human being.

And this is terribly important.

It's important in living your life, you know, that's, that's bigger than anything.

And it's also important in knowing how to conduct yourself.

And also important in, in giving you a sense of how to round out your interests.

- How young can you be before you start, you know, entering into dramatic efforts?

I mean, is there any age that, - Well, I don't think there's people should start.

No, no.

You mean like ballerinas starting at the age of three or something?

Yeah, no, - Can you start, you know, in dramatics at three?

- I think it depends upon the child.

I think I would, I would be more inclined to let a child play and develop as a, as a human being first.

And then if, if that child was mad about plays and was not happy.

I remember a girl that, that I knew when I was little.

We used to play together.

She had costumes, trunks and trunks of costumes.

I didn't even know I was interested in the theater at the time when I was playing with her.

And she, all she wanted to do was play Gilbert and Sullivan.

And so I would go along, I was a nice girl.

If she wanted to play Gilbert and Sullivan, I would play this with her.

But she had this from the time she was seven years old.

You know who she is now.

She's the producer, the most important Gilbert and sold the company in the United States.

But see, that child should not have been doing anything else.

You know?

I mean, if if this was what she wanted with her whole heart and soul, then that was fine.

She, Dorothy was happy that way.

Now there are some children like that, but I, in general, I think, oh, I keep saying balance, balance, balance.

But you know what I mean, don't you?

Well-rounded, it's so that life is good.

Yes.

And that you're not narrow.

- Well, do you advocate in a college education for people who are planning a career in, in show business or enact especially?

- I really do now.

I think it's terribly important more now than ever before.

When I started, they said to me, don't tell anybody you have a Phi Beta Kappa key.

And, but this was my secret.

You see, I wasn't to tell a soul because this was then not considered attractive.

But now that, particularly since the thing we were talking about before, George, about the pressures on a young person starting out now, the more that, that you can know to prepare yourself for all the pressures that are going to be exerted on you.

For instance, if you're a television star, young person starting in a series, you will have to go out and meet the people.

You will have to know the president of the company that sponsors your account.

You will have to meet the general public at all times.

You'll be meeting people in government, you know, it's a very full life.

It is not just what you're doing in front of the camera.

You count.

- So, so it's important to, to be able to conduct yourself in a proper manner at all times, in all situations.

This is very important and this is what a college background will help to give you.

Right.

There was a question, I'm trying to, I had it and it was just there.

Now wait a - Minute.

I probably talked so much.

I put it right outta head.

- No, not at all.

And I had it and I can't think, well anyway, I'll go on to another one.

Alright.

I wanna know, you've worked with a lot of people, you know, who's probably the most enjoyable person that we'd all know that you've worked with, you know, do you have a favorite actor or actress right now?

- Yes, my brother.

He's a wonderful man.

He's a darling and I'm just crazy about him.

He's great.

Mickey Rooney is marvelous.

The real thing.

Perfect talent.

Raymond Burr, wonderful, big man, big heart, big head.

He's great.

And a man named Jim Barton that maybe you all don't know, but he was a charact actor and pictures in a very big star on Broadway.

Those are my darlings - And I love them all.

Escape me.

I wish we had more time - To sit here and talk.

I do too.

George, - Maybe we can come back again and, and we'll talk a little more about this.

All.

- Wonderful.

I'd love it.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

- Thank you.

We're gonna get back to music.

This is Lulu and it's called The Boat that I rode - Don't have a lot, but with me.

That's fine.

Whatever I got.

Well, I know it's, I don't, I don't what's in so you, the man alive can tell me what to say.

I choose my own side and I like it.

I don't worry about all the things I'm, there's only one thing I want.

- Hey, thank you very much for stopping by the lamp today.

We'll see you next week at the same time.

Thank you so much.

Later.

- But you, - I'm - Seeing, so you, so you understand.