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Do you do a great Sophie Tucker? How is your Jimmy Durante? Your W.C. Fields? MagicCom Inc. of Minneapolis is looking for actors to volunteer to play a variety of celebrities for the NFL pre-game salute to Bob Hope in this year’s Super Bowl airing Jan. 31.

A production team will be in town Dec. 12-13 to interview great pretenders to the names of Ethel Merman, Bing Crosby, Harry Houdini and Edgar Bergen in addition to that of the great and very much alive Mr. Hope himself.

For further information on these and other parts (such as tap dancers and sedan carriers), contact Barbara A. Lutz, production manager for MagicCom, in Minneapolis.