Spent the rest of the morning and early afternoon working on Hilary and the Beasts. Hilary storms upstairs, packing and demanding that her sisters be brought to her, because they're going home. Maple and Betty do not want to go home. Maple wants to see if Eagle comes out again. (He wasn't at dinner.) Betty wants to get to the bottom of this mystery. Bear (Scott), deeply upset that they're abandoning them, doesn't want them to go, either. There's also the fact that it's late, it's starting to snow, and cabs are hard to find in this part of Pittsburgh. Hilary is determined to walk to the nearest bus station. She storms out, with Maple and Betty on her heels to attempt to talk sense into her. None of them see a certain Eagle (Victor) watching from his perch on a tree...or Bear duck inside to get help...
Switched to rock albums while I worked and had lunch. "With a Little Luck" was the major hit on Wings' 1978 London Town. Most of the other songs don't get close to that, although "I've Had Enough" and the title track aren't bad. The 1988 Huey Lewis and the News album Small World also spun off a decent-sized hit single, "Perfect World." "Walkin' With the Kid" and the two parts of the title song are also fun.
Headed to work after Small World ended. Other than we were busy for most of the afternoon and I had a hard time keeping up with the carts, there were no problems whatsoever. I'm surprised I didn't have more help. There's usually at least two people working in the afternoons. It wasn't until the last hour that I was finally able to gather all of the carts. I never did get to the trash or the bathrooms. Everyone must be restocking after the 4th of July weekend, or they were just out enjoying the sunny, breezy, hot but not too humid weather.
Went straight home and into dinner and tonight's Match Game marathon. Gene Rayburn loved his long, thin microphone that could telescope up and down, but it caused him no end of problems. In one episode, the entire panel spent at least five minutes in the opening looking for his spare. Stagehands put a paper lightning bolt on it in another episode to keep it from crackling. It fell apart all together at the end of a PM episode. There was also the time he lost the ball on top, and a stagehand had to give him one. (Gene found it later by the Star Wheel.)
That wasn't the only type of microphone Gene used. Sometimes, they'd give him an older one as a gag, like the time when he tried to haul around a heavy older model from the early 30's. (This was also the infamous episode where Fannie flirted with handsome high school teacher Ron Valenti.) Another time, someone handed Gene a slightly more recent but still older model, the kind they would have used around when Remember WENN is set. One of the audience members gave him a champagne pink microphone covered in sequins, which the panel dubbed his "Cher" microphone. He had to use a short and sturdy microphone in a later episode...but as short and sturdy Arte Johnson reminded him, some people have to deal with more than a microphone being small!
Check out the ongoing saga of Gene and his favorite piece of equipment onstage in this hilarious marathon!
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