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...Tonight a year and a half ago, she was simply a garden-variety pop singer. Now she can fly across the stage via hidden cables like Peter Pan, do a tap dance, play dramatic skits, deliver commercials for Helene Curtis spray net, and nimbly field and return an ad lib...
...Lib Tribute. His most recurrent headache results from having to adjust to a brand-new set of stars on every show: "Each one has to be indoctrinated into our way of doing things. Jimmy Durante worked with us as though we'd been together for years. Perry Como gave us an ad-lib tribute at the end of his show. The only time we've had real difficulty was on the first [Betty Hutton] program. It's a matter of accident whether the personal chemistry works...
Sponsored by two Paris newspapers, Parisien Libéré and L'Equipe, the 51-year-old classic took an anxious four months of preparation. At every stop on the route, Advanceman Elie Wermelinger, onetime Ivory Coast banana planter, had to prepare food and lodging for no competitors, plus an army of 1,400 managers, trainers, handlers, masseurs, timekeepers, mechanics and assorted camp followers. Bawling, cursing and exhorting, Wermelinger careened across France, waging a one-man war to bring temporary order out of wild, Gallic confusion...
Often, S.P.E.B.S.Q.S.A. men fell to in the lobby for some "woodshedding," a term for ad-lib singing by members who have never worked together. Naturally, woodshedding is considered a complex form of quartet work, since it calls for correct harmony and a working repertory of dozens of songs. This is no place for a crow (a nonsinging member who might sometimes toss in an ad-lib dum-dee-dee-dee), but calls for S.P.E.B.S.Q.S.A. men who can drop (the bass singer drops down one octave at the close of the song), scoop (hitting a note on the flat side...
...playing records.") Allen's pressagent, Jim Moran, is a weekly visitor, and he ordinarily arrives toting a stuffed bearcat or boa constrictor that he claims to have bagged while crossing Central Park to the studio. Allen ends each show with a visit to his studio audience for ad lib conversations. In startling contrast to most TV interrogators, he sometimes asks sensible questions and gets sensible answers...