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Good & "Loverly." Because there are so many eager applicants for the workshop, roles are often double-cast; e.g., at last week's rehearsal there were two Rodolfos (Lindsey Bergen alongside Tenor Surface), and all of the singers double as members of the chorus. In all, nine singers were gathered in the rehearsal studio (each one had brought a score and paid 50? for the studio's weekly rental). "Straight through, and this time it will be very good," said Conductor Allers, and then he pounded out the famous score on a battered concert grand. Sight-reading their roles...
...leave so little to chance that TV has spawned a group of craftsmen who call themselves "audience participation comedy writers.'' Not only do they interview prospective participants and write the ad-lib banter between contestants and M.C.s on such shows as Two for the Money and Edgar Bergen's recently ended Do You Trust Your Wife?, but their lines are carefully rehearsed...
...lordship found himself on the defensive. Is it not true, asked M.C. Bergen Evans, that "you in England refer to what we call slums as depressed areas? Do you refer to unemployed people as a redundancy of workers? Do you refer to a moving van as a pantechnicon?" All too true, said his lordship, and added sadly that Britain's ratcatchers-"a most admirable set of men"-have decided it would be more dignified to be called rodent operators...
...Much less than California Construction Engineer Erik Gude, 29, and his wife, Helena, 26, will keep of their winnings on Do You Trust Your Wife? This week their take from the Edgar Bergen quiz show went up to $84,400-but it will be paid out $100 a week over a period of 16 years and taxed accordingly at the rate of $5,200 a year...
...Last Word (Sun. 2:30 p.m., CBS). Robert Graves and Gypsy Rose Lee join Bergen Evans and John Mason Brown...