Show I E CRE N o Bf BT INEZ z GERHARD ERRY KROEGER typed on a B BERRY recent Hollywood trip as at a young Charles Laughton is ts currently heard h ear e a r d as Sam William on 00 Young Dr Malone lIe He sot lot hi his first radio contract when hen the nar nar- narrator narrator narrator of ot Louella Parsons Parsons' show col collapsed lapsed In the middle of hi his hb Imper- Imper Jm r- r of Ronald Colman back bade I I nA nAi i- i BERRY DERRY KROEGER In 1940 Berry Derry picked up the script and carried on He had broken Into radio In 1930 when versatility was wasa a must in one local hour half show he be had carried 11 parts for tor which ho received 2501 When Charles La Laughton ugh ton was be be- being beIn being ing In interviewed at luncheon In New NewYork's NewYork's NewYork's Yorks York's Algonquin the other day complete silence reigned at neigh neigh- neighboring neighboring boring tables his voice was so beautiful that everybody within range wanted to listen Us ten to it which quickly q u J c k I y leaped from first to second run movie houses is getting bad had word word- mouth of-mouth publicity People report that it Just seemed so dull and tire tire- tiresome tiresome tiresome some that they walked out before the picture was half halt over Walt Wall Disney discovered while doing research for Cor his Cinder Cinderella Cinderella Cinderella ella that the famous glass slipper wasn't glass at all all but fur far Charles when he be wrote the famous story more than years ago aco said the slipper was en vain fur Cur slipper sUpper The trans trans- translator translator translator lator mistook the last two words for en OIen or glass So there goes gocs another legend Joan Evans was booed the other day at a sneak preview of Samuel Goldwyn's Our Very Own and felt so upset that she slipped out of ofa ofa ofa a side door after the showing But the booing was really a tribute tri ute she plays a female heel Hattie Hattle McDaniel star of CBS' CBS Beulah has a set of at china given given en her by the late Margaret Mitch Mitchell ell cli author of ot Gone with the Wind Miss McDaniel prizes It as highly as the Oscar r she won for her performance in the picture Debbie Reynolds R e y n o 0 Ids l d s made her screen debut In Warners' Warners The Daughter of Rosie OGrady re reo recently re- re recently did cUd Three Little Words at M M-G-M M G M with Fred Astaire and Vera Ellen Vera Ellen and now has been signed by that studio to a term contract Next shell she'll do The Ten Ten- Tender Tender Tender der Hours Debby is top Girl Scout of her district has 42 merit badges including one for tor cooking and one for baking Wendell Corey Corcy starred with Margaret l Sullavan In Colum Colum- Columbia's blas bla's No Sad Songs for Me Is one former stage actor who won von top lop rank In Hollywood be be- before before fore forc ever appearing In a Broad Broadway way hit lilt After 12 flops Oops In Ina a row roe he be beas was as rehearsing for Dream Girl when a Holl Hollywood wood scout saw uw him and md got him to sign a contract and leave at once Dream Girl was a smash hit Brad Barker Darker animal imitator had quite a time in a recent Lets Pretend broadcast He played a mule a rooster a cat and a dog who vho made typical noises more or orless orless orless less simultaneously under the im impression Im- Im Impression that they were making music Lyle Bettger Paramount's new neu screen menace has bought a home borne and settled down for a long stay In filmdom He scored a hit in Nc Man of Her Own with Barbara Barban and John Lund is cur cur- currently working In Union Station Barbaras Barbara's policy of not making makin screen tests with other actors was wa abandoned when she did it for the first time with Bettger the test brought him a contract ODDS AND ENDS E DS Mj M Friend Irma is going to travel after My Friend Irma Goes Goei West V v est e s t Hal Wallis plans My b Friend Irma Goes Abroad taking the original casts cast's principals tc London Paris and Rome Terry Terr Jordan lordan year old son of at Doris Day Young Man with a Horn HomI Is taking singing lessons ly Luis Van Rooters of Crime Photographer Is I the voices of the tbt excitable comical king and of the thi grand duke in Cinderella J t r |