Not so, she said, and issued a call for prospective hosts to come forward with times, places and formats.

Indeed, some prospective hosts are turned away after being screened by Miss Conner's department and adjudged incompatible.

Matches are based on shared interests as described in questionnaires that prospective hosts and guests complete.

Their prospective hosts were away but a pile of grains had been left outdoors and, amazingly, not even the birds were eating it.

Best not to display him to prospective hosts in his present condition.

There is even a Texas-based Web site, Houseconcerts.com, which is selling a "how to" book for prospective hosts and artists.

Still, the site announcements tomorrow will be broadcast live to several of the prospective hosts, who remain eager observers and enthusiastic bidders.

But these types are brazen, and unless the prospective hosts match them in this respect, they win out.

This year, Ms. Brown said, the commission received dozens of inquiries but, finally, just 12 formal bids, only 3 from prospective hosts in the West.

The decision greatly disappointed the prospective Indonesian hosts.