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Show By INEZ GERHARD JJEEEY KROEGER, typed on a recent Hollywood trip as a young Charles Laughton, is currently heard as "Sam Williams" on "Young Dr. Malone". He got his first radio contract when the narrator nar-rator of Louella Parsons' show collapsed col-lapsed in the middle of his impersonation imper-sonation of Ronald Colman, back St??"" ; 'J BERRY KROEGER in 1940. Berry picked up the script and carried on. He had broken into radio in 1930, when versatility was a "must"; in one local half-hour show he had carried 11 parts, for which he received $2.50! When Charles Laughton was being be-ing interviewed at luncheon in New York's Algonquin- the other day complete silence reigned at neighboring neigh-boring tables; his voice was so beautiful that everybody within range wanted to listen to it. "Stromboli", which quickly leaped from first to second-run movie houses, is getting bad word-of-rriouth publicity. People report that it just seemed so dull and tiresome tire-some that they walked out before the picture was half over. Walt Disney discovered while doing research for his "Cinderella "Cinder-ella that the famous glass slipper wasn't glass at all, but fur. Charles Perrault, when he wrote the famous story more than 300 years ago. slid th" shpper was "pantouffle en vair (fur slipper). The translator trans-lator mistook the last two words for "en verre". or gs! So there goes another legend! bbie ReTiToTds made her screen debut in Warners' 4hl Daughter of Rosie O'Grady" re tnMbMd "Ihree Utte Words" ai M-Cr-M with Fred Astai Vera Triio , Astaire and and one for bakine Cklng |