Radio: Vocal Varieties

In Hollywood, where fame is half measured by the company one keeps, Peggy Webber is her own best company. In three years her lastex voice has supplied radio with 150 different characters on some 2,500 broadcasts.

Last week she was a fluttery French ingenue, an English schoolgirl, a Southern belle, a young bride, a cackling 85-year-old murderess, an Irish landlady, a Mexican shrew, a neurotic. She was also rehearsing her normal voice for a new role in Herbert Marshall's The Man Called X (NBC, Tues. 10 p.m., E.D.S.T.).

Peggy, who is still shy of 21, started trouping early. As a toddling three-year-old—spurred by...

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