Erring Guest

When confident Impresario Dan Golenpaul offered $500 to anyone who could completely stump his Information Please experts on all parts of a question, he figured on losing once in every five programs. For ten straight programs, the experts parried the thrusts. The break came last week on No. 11.

The question: "Can you identify these characters from novels that were later made into movies?" Two of the misses were routine, the third was most embarrassing to the evening's guest star: "In the book he disappears off a boat, in the movie he is destroyed in a burning mill." The answer that nobody knew: "The monster in Frankenstein." The embarrassed guest : Boris Karloff, who won fame as the movie monster.

At the end of the program came an excited call from a woman in Forest Hills, N.Y. She wanted to know if it was a three-year-old question submitted by David Fey, her son, now Corporal David Fey, in a rest camp after three years' action in the South Pacific. It was.

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