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Divorced. Philip Crosby, 32, one of Bing's much-married offspring (seven brides for four brothers); by Mary Joyce Crosby, 26, his second wife, who is expecting their second child; on grounds of cruelty; in Los Angeles...
WAYNE AND SHUSTER TAKE AN AFFECTIONATE LOOK AT BOB HOPE AND BING CROSBY (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Canada's top comics, Johnny Wayne and Frank Shuster, have a little harmless fun with some of the century's most celebrated comedians in a series of film-clip profiles starting with Bob and Bing. Premiere...
...HOLLYWOOD PALACE (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Bing Crosby is host, and his visitors include Tammy Grimes, Nanette Fabray, Jackie Mason and David Frost. Repeat...
...State Department, huffed Rudolf Bing, apparently does not think that the Metropolitan Opera "is important enough to be sent abroad." The Met, he said, cannot afford the trip, and "the State Department has given us nothing. We have to beg, and we are tired of begging." So he took matters into his own hands. Last week, with a gift of $140,000 from private donors, Bing packed up 50 tons of scenery and costumes, bundled 163 members of his company onto two chartered jets, and took the Met to Europe for the first time in 56 years...
Still, it was strictly an economy-class operation. Bing would have liked to have staged something extravagant, such as Aida or Turandot. Instead, the proud company was restricted to a measly six performances of two low-budget chamber operas - Rossini's Barber of Seville and Mozart's Marriage of Figaro - at the small (1,200-seat) Odeon Theater in Paris. Thus programmed, the Met's venture was bound to run into trouble...