was a surprise to see her on the recent Emmys. She came on the screen and talked a little bit about her first days in television.

I don’t remember the first days of television but have read that the fi rst experimental television show was about 1939. The first commercial broadcast was a Dodger’s baseball game in 1941.

Betty White was on a radio show before she

was on television. I think it was called Sketches of Comedy and it was

on for five hours in the

afternoon. It was really a

talk show, with Al Jarvis,

and calls would come in

from the public. They

would answer them on the

radio. In 1934, she hosted and produced The Betty White Show.

Through the years, I have watched her on different television programs. A few years ago, she was on a TV program with Rue McClanahan and two others whose names I can’t recall at this time. [Golden Girls, with White, McClanahan, Bea Arthur and Estelle Getty]

Betty White and I are the same age. She was born on January 1 and I was born on December 31 of the same year.