Another guessing game

People love guessing games and so here’s the third in a series I started last month for interesting people and places of our contemporary past.

The Wimbledon championships just concluded and it looked like a blast from the past with Roger Federer and one of the Williams sisters. Who is this Mr. Pogi Filipino champion who won the Asian Games gold for the sport in Jakarta in 1962?

The Philippines was a movie-making powerhouse in third place to Hollywood and India in terms of output in the 1950s. We won many regional awards and even made waves in Cannes and the US. Who was this Ateneo graduate who went from award-winning screenplay writing (1955 Asian Film Festival Best Screenplay for Ifugao) to directing and producing (1958’s Day of the Trumpet starring John Agar and Pancho Magalona for international release)

A recent ad highlighting a model’s racial mix elicited a social media opprobrium. In the late 1950s and early ‘60s there was a wave of nationalism that cut through all aspects of our national life. Aided partly by the centennial of Rizal’s birth, this wave influenced art, architecture ... even advertising.

Who is this ‘60s TV compére interviewing a Manila suburban housewife for an ad?

Instead of preferring white-skinned models for products, Philippine advertisers rode this crest of nationalism and put brown-skinned beauties (and with the male — brawn ... albeit with much too oily hair) in their ads, as seen in this 1962 ad for a soft drink. Who was the model (a beauty queen)?

Here’s a beautiful mother and daughter duo featured in a Pond’s cream ad from the late ‘50s. The lady was the wife of a popular senator, and mother of 10 children (an average number in the 1950s), including this teenager posing with her. Name the duo.

This coed was the “crush ng bayan” in the early ‘70s. This photo was from a pictorial shot in Kalayaan Falls in Laguna. She was a fashion model and worked PR for the old Philbanking Corporation. Who is she?

This famous leading lady endorsed Camay soap, “…the soap of beautiful women.” She played feisty women and became mother to “the bad boy of the Philippines.” Who was she?

Who is this crush ng bayan from the early ‘70s?

This is not a who but a what question this time. This famous ‘60s clothing material was pushed to swinging teens of the era with the tag line “Yeyeh….! What was the product?

This was a favorite TV host or compere in the ‘60s who graduated from radio to TV. At home in English and Pilipino he made a name for himself in both mediums and languages. Who was he?

The second duo in our quiz is from show business. Here is a picture of the two in Hong Kong after their wedding in 1967. Who are the two?

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The answers: 1) Johnny Jose, 2) Cirio H. Santiago, 3) Lalaine Bennet, 4) Mrs. Lily de las Alas-Padilla and daughter Josie, 5) Carolyn Masibay, 6) Alicia Vergel, 7) Vonnel, 8) Chris de Vera, 9) Amalia Fuentes and Romeo Vasquez.