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...Edgar Bergen's lap-a new not-so-dummy named Effie Klinker. From advance hints last week it appeared that McCarthy would find the rebuttal of Effie Klinker by no means so easy as, for five years, he has that of the gap-toothed, apple-knocking Mortimer Snerd...
...wary of female dummies as McCarthy is likely to be after his first encounter with Effie Klinker. Long ago Bergen had a bad vaudeville flop with the effigy of an eight-year-old. But ten months ago, asked to perform on an NBC show without either McCarthy or Snerd, he folded his handkerchief over his fingers, threw his falsetto voice, and one Ophelia began to talk. "All of a sudden," recalls Bergen, "it dawned on me that women can get into many more situations than men, particularly a bachelor maid." Bergen has kept Ophelia in his act, as a sort...
...ogling of the girls. No sooner has Ray Bolger done some hilarious hoofing than hard-working Gracie Fields sings Albert Hay Malotte's soulful version of The Lord's Prayer. No sooner has Edgar Bergen traded wisecracks with his lively pieces of lumber, Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd, than Katharine Cornell engages in a bit of Romeo and Juliet with a soldier who remembers his Shakespeare. Ethel Waters has scarcely finished syncopating with Count Basic's Afric jazz band when Yehudi Menuhin steps forward to render Schubert's Ave Maria on his expensive violin...
Booked for a six-day tour and 25-minute shows, Bergen & friends Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd stayed twelve days, did 51 shows of 45 minutes each. At Dutch Harbor, where Charlie got the biggest laugh, he gave 13 straight shows. "Hello, stinky," Charlie would chirp from inside his floppy sheeplined coat & hat, and Bergen would reprimand him for his discourtesy to men in uniform. Thereupon Charlie would crack: "Don't give me that lieutenant routine." That was enough to split the sides of the soldiers. But what really spilled them into the aisles was Charlie's comment...
...vaudeville house near Chicago's stockyards, doing four shows a day for $8 a week and enduring a smell Charlie didn't notice. Bergen's radio and motion picture earnings this year should total over $150,000. He has in reserve a second dummy called Elmer Mortimer Snerd...