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Show By INEZ GERHARD pDGAR BERGEN has what many " a man longs for, an outlet for a side of his character that otherwise other-wise would be buried. Bergen isp'4 funny; Charlie McCarthy, Mortimer Morti-mer Snerd and the other Bergen-created Bergen-created characters are. Bergen is polite; Charlie is the rudest person per-son on the air. People look for- I - feiv..,Ti-,, Mi ... i., fa, ara .in m iiii . i BERGEN AND MCCARTHY ward to tuning in on CBS Sunday nights to hear him say the kind of things they'd like to say. Bergen is kind; the Bergen Foundation lends money to student nurses, without interest, to finish their training. He also maintains 12 scholarships in speech at Northwestern North-western university the school where he couldn't finish because he had not quite enough money. For a scene in Goldwyn's "Our Very Own" Ann Blyth was to be licked on the cheek by Rags, a shaggy canine. He did fine until it came time to kiss Ann; heartily disliking the makeup she wore, he refused to have anything to do with her. Trainer Jack Pack solved the problem by rubbing her cheek with a chunk of beef, and Rags' performance per-formance was enthusiastic. Lou Steele was just visiting the Paramount studio when Hal Wallis spotted him. Steele was given a screen test which resulted in a supporting sup-porting role in "September Affair"; Af-fair"; Wallis saw the rushes and put him into "The Furies." |