She's smart; she's articulate; and when she takes her glasses off (when we see what line she's in), she shows how really beautiful she is outwardly, too. Thank you very much for sharing this with us!!!!!!
I remember going to the OKC stockyards in the 1970s. They had three full time auctioneers and when the cattle were coming in from the Oklahoma and Texas Panhandles, feeder cattle receipts could run 20,000 head per day with the auction running 24 hours a day on Wednesdays and Thursdays. Now that was an auction.
I think this girl is adorable AND smart! I love how she stands up to Dorothy without being disrespectful and points out that she's asked several questions. Actually all of the regulars are guilty of this question "packing" so to speak. I was also quite disillusioned with Arlene in this clip. She flat out lied. She clearly asked if the contestant had something to do with TRAINING. John didn't hear clearly and he said did you say this or that and Arlene lied and claimed she had said "trading".
She was laughing about it and open though...You would at times see that on this show. But they should not have let it go really. John should have corrected her and I think the girl may not have liked it. Justified!
8:57…What fascinated me most was when Miss Wightman dramatically switched vocal gears just before she gave an example of her auction shtick, as if she were switching from one part of her brain to another. 7:11… I’m also fascinated that it was Miss Wightman, not John Daly, who flagged the panelist for asking three questions.
Marshall Curtis Why did you have the impression that lowering her voice resembled switching from one part of the brain to another? It’s only a bit deeper and a singsong that I cannot understand for the life of me.
The panel was probably typical of most Americans' thinking of the day -- even today. The amazing part of this program was how it showed little girls all over the USA all the jobs women can do if they want to do them.
Very hard to believe this one-that they didn’t know this. I got this a few minutes in. So easy, people! Especially in 1959 when women were not hired as auctioneers. Panel is much too smart not to know this one. They must’ve known in advance to fake it.
Men don't make 'passes' at girls who wear glasses... A very attractive girl who possibly hides that attractiveness behind her spectacles Ben Gazzara taking a 'drag' on a coffin-nail at 3.39. Diagnosed with throat cancer 1999; died of pancreatic cancer 2012.
Has anyone made the connection that the panel's questioning "worked around" that she was an auctioneer much the same way one would mistake the wording of a pastor/priest or the likes, when they "marry a woman". (I may not have written this concept correctly, but I believe it to be the same type of concept)
Sheila Dreaden Do you mean that the panelists probably already knew (or had already figured out) that she was an auctioneer before the show, but they were instructed to drag out the questioning in order to bump up the show’s ratings? I believe the concept you’re referring to is called “payola”.Yes, this occurred to me too. But then it is easy for an audience member to assume this being that the audience is told what her line was in advance. On the other hand, if the audience did not know what her line was in advance, how could anyone have guessed her line? If you look up “unassuming” in the dictionary, one might expect to see Page Wightman’s picture next to the definition.
I have been a cattle auctioneer all my life. I can tell you thsi girl was terrible. she won't last in the ring, as buyers will quit coming. She would be close to 90 years old and most likely deceased by now.
