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■^Grass-eater 'Boots' Bootzin, I., was paired with Kay Barker. he knows a great deal about them. Smith and others interview prospects, compiling information which is handed to Marx just before the show goes on. “It’s amazing,” Smith says, “what Groucho can do with one little bit of information. If he knows, for in¬ stance, that a man was born a block from the Fulton Fish Market, he’s got the basis for a dozen gags.” The sixth member of each week’s three teams is selected from the au¬ dience. Two or three people with the same occupation are looked up in advance and asked to attend, but are not interviewed. They compete for audience applause in a quiz or a sketch, and the winner is sent into the ring with Groucho after a quick chat with Smith or Bob Dwan, the other co-director. Some of the program’s most amusing contestants have come from unexpect¬ ed sources. Gonzales Gonzales, now a movie comedian, was recommended to Smith by a friend who watched him break up Walter O’Keefe’s Double or Nothing as an amateur deadpan art¬ ist. Habitual quiz-show guests all have applications on file and one got on the show by admitting his unusual oc¬ cupation: quiz-show contestant. One week Groucho had a woman who had climbed higher mountains than any other woman, and four months later, a woman aqualung diver who had gone lower. “Now,” he re¬ marked, “all we need on this show is a woman who never did anything!” Next week, he got 150 letters from women who had “never done any¬ thing”—never been kissed, never had an operation, never been anywhere. One of them wound up on the pro¬ gram—and spoiled her perfect record by winning $145.—Robert E. Johnson