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Date Posted: 10:45:52 07/12/04 Mon
Author: Rick
Subject: Applause Meters....
ATT: NTKHC64, timholycross, sader1970, hc69, TS1970, BeatBC....and any other 'old-timers' I may have missed.
Waiting for this ECAC thing, and Mercyhurst getting the call that they've been eliminated, kinda reminds me of that Gawd-awful 50's t.v. show 'Queen For A Day'.
I feel like HC is the next woman in line to have that applause meter clock register how much the Ivies loved our story. I guess poor Mercy didn't generate much clapping.
Wonder if Niagara is sitting to our left on stage....
( For the younger folks here, Queen For A Day was basically a daily morning show where poor women would 'compete' against other equally poor women with genuine tales of woe afterwhich the studio audience would vote via applause ( with this horrible meter/clock registering apparant favorites ) for the 'best' tale. The winner, usually desparately in need of money, a car, a vacation or a job, almost always got something totally useless like a Singer sewing machine to go along with a cape, a crown and a dozen roses. In hindsight, the show was barbaric to say the least. )
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Re: Applause Meters.... -- HC1843, 10:56:05 07/12/04 Mon
Let's just say that Howard Stern has given this show a modern twist for several years now, but seeing that this is a PG-13 site I'll just leave it at that.
As to the ECAC's decision, it is time to just get the announcement over and done with and let us know...for better or for worse.
Cheers.
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Ahhh, memories -- sader1970, 10:59:27 07/12/04 Mon
Rick, my recollection was that most "queens" ended up with a refrigerator (or, yes, a sewing machine, so they could sew clothes for their 12 kids) but never something as nice as a car!
Ed Bailey (I'm pretty sure I remember the name right) was the long time host. Truly a show for the homemakers of America in the early 50's (could this really have been the "Golden Age" of television?)
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Re: Ahhh, memories -- Another 65er, 14:25:36 07/12/04 Mon
Ed Bailey (if my memory serves) was the Cincinnati Reds (known as the Redlegs then)catcher in the mid-50s with a team that had Ted Kluszewski at first base, Johnny Temple at second, Bobby Adams/Rocky Bridges at third,Roy McMillan at shortstop and an outfield that included Jim Greengrass, Gus Bell and Wally Post. Frank Robinson replaced Greengrass in 1956. So far as I know, none of the Redlegs ever appeared on "Queen for a Day" although Mel Queen Sr. pitched in Cincinnati post World War II.
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Re: Applause Meters.... -- timholycross, 11:00:35 07/12/04 Mon
I am old enough to remember that show. It was pretty sick, reality TV of its time.
I was thinking more of the ECAC being the Vatican and everyone anxiously awaiting the puff of white smoke...
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Re: Applause Meters.... -- HC '85, 11:22:22 07/12/04 Mon
Or maybe the Supreme Court finally got involved and told the ECAC to halt the counting, hanging chads or not!
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Re: Applause Meters.... -- Rick, 12:15:46 07/12/04 Mon
1970 -
Yup on an 'ice box'....weren't they Fridgedair's ???
And Ed Bailey sounds right....guy had a mustache, no ?
Today I wonder what the heck the consolation prizes were for the 'losers' back then....a 'Queen For A Day' board game from Milton Bradley maybe coupled with a quick good-bye, "thanks for playing" and a "Good Luck" ????
According to Mercey's AD, he thinks they get to come back on the 'show' as a contestant again someday !
tim & '85 -
I went for light humor on this whereas you two....well, I do believe you both tied for 'first' on the Applause-O-Meter with those respective offerings....LOL !
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Re: Only Our Board is Broad-Based Enough for This -- NTKHC64, 12:22:08 07/12/04 Mon
Queen for a Day
Definition:
Four women were selected from the audience. Their task: to convince everyone that they are the most pathetic. The audience judged their sob stories with the applause-o-meter, and awarded the "loser" with her wishes, plus a crown and roses.
Premiered: January 3, 1956
Catch phrase: "Would you like to be queen for a day?"
Hosts:
Dick Curtis
1969-1970
Jack Bailey
1956-1964
Ben Alexander
Steve Dunne
Jack Smith
Dennis Day
Don DeFore
Walter O'Keefe
(substitute hosts)
Announcers:
Carl King
1969-1970
Gene Baker
John Harlan
1956-1964
Fashion Commentator:
Jeanne Cagney
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Re: Only Our Board is Broad-Based Enough for This -- Rick, 12:48:22 07/12/04 Mon
Geezus, that show made a COMEBACK in 1969 ?
Dennis Day ? THE Dennis Day ?
HC would have 'won' in an Applause-O-Meter landslide with the hepititus football disaster that year !
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Re: Only Our Board is Broad-Based Enough for This -- HC '85, 13:06:53 07/12/04 Mon
NTK,
Evidence that a good Jesuit liberal arts education yields well-rounded individuals!
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Only Our Board is Broad-Based Enough for This -- sader1970, 13:39:05 07/12/04 Mon
Hey, I'm pretty proud of myself for getting the host's last name right. Recall that I'm the guy that couldn't remember Jack Donahue's last name and called him "Donovan!"
But NTK, I KNOW you couldn't have recalled all that stuff! You found it on the Internet, didn't you! That just tells you that you can find almost anything on the web.
As for the Vatican and white puffs of smoke, I'll bet there are a lot of younger alums on here whose only memory of a pope is JPII and have no idea what the reference is to. Heck, I remember thinking that Pius XII was the one and only pope when I was younger.
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Re: Only Our Board is Broad-Based Enough for This -- NTKHC64, 14:00:26 07/12/04 Mon
What I posted I found on the Internet, true. But I do remember the show and watching it as a child. Dreck! I did recall but I didn't post that the host's name was "Jack". Instead of making the correction, I put up the info from the Net. It just goes to show you what a rainy day at the Jersey Shore can produce!
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