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M R. PEEPERS, the TV situa¬ tion comedy which appeals even to high-brows, owes much of its success to miraculously good casting. A case in point is the part of the scatterbrained school¬ teacher, Mrs. Gurney, handled by an actress virtually unheard of in America, Marion Lome. Marion, like another American actress, Tallulah Bankhead, had to go to England in order to become theatrically established. Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., she ventured forth on a theatrical ca¬ reer more than 35 years ago and hasn’t tired of it yet. She started out playing bit parts without much success. Then she married Walter Hackett, an American newspaperman and playwright, and the two went to England for a holiday that lasted 30 years. He wrote comedies and she starred in them. For 30 years she re¬ mained one of England’s top comediennes. In 1942, Marion and her hus¬ band returned to the U.S. He died soon after their arrival. Because of the war, Marion was stranded in the U.S., but she soon caught on with the national company of Harvey, playing the fluttery sister of the alcoholic Mr. Dowd for some five years. Alfred Hitchcock then shanghaied her into a film, Strangers on a Train, where her portrayal of the mother of a psychopath won her critical accolades. Still, she was unknown IEastI Marion Lome: Wilkes-Barre to England. to the general American public. Then came Mr. Peepers. As Mrs. Gurney, a part that seems to have been hand-tailored for her, Marion has become one of the genuinely lovable characters on television. Frightened to death of TV, Marion finally came around under the gentle persuasion of Bill Nichols, casting director of the show, and became an immediate success. Now living comfortably in a fashion¬ able Manhattan hotel, Marion is de¬ lighted by her latest triumph.