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Show Released by Western Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE PARAMOUNT' S studio presi bureau reported an unusu al number of requests fron servicemen to visit the Bett; Hutton-Sonny Tufts sets foi "Cross My Heart." The couldn't figure out the rea son for that avalanche o: requests, till some bright boy cami up with .the answer. Seems tha somebody had announced in prin that Betty had posed for photo graphs on the set with two air corp: lieutenants, Robert Drew and Bruct Shaw, P-38 pilots stationed at near by Van Nuys and Betty had sat 01 one officer's lap while the camera: clicked! It all turned out perfectly. A pub licity man introduced Nancy Nor man, pretty singer with Samm; Kaye's orchestra, and Dick Brown who's featured on his own Sunday MBS program; the press agent's ob ject, a "romance item" that hi could send to radio editors (who ge awfully sick of those same phonej "romances"!). But this time i i I 1 I i - l --'' .... I j ? - XAXCY NORMAN worked differently; Nancy and Dick will be married in September, wher his brother comes home from the South Pacific. The same thing happened hap-pened when that same publicity man introduced Patti Pickens of the Pickens Sisters and tenor Robert Simmons, also for publicity purposes. pur-poses. They've been married four years. Newspaper columnists get lots of "no-romance" items. The latest concerns con-cerns Lizabeth Scott, making her screen debut in Hal Wallis' "You Came Along." There'll be no romantic roman-tic interest for her. we're told, till her film career is definitely established. estab-lished. Announcements like this usually backfires just let a gal say she won't fall in love, and next thing you know, she's eloping with somebody. Helen Mack, who's producer of NBC's "Date with Judy" and the new "Beulah Show," gets no vacation vaca-tion this summer. In addition to handling the direction of the two network shows Helen has been signed for two movie roles enough to keep any woman busy. Ted Malone wants you to help him. He's keeping a promise made to his G.I. friends overseas by dedicating dedi-cating his broadcast scries, heard week days over the American neU work, to rediscovering America. He wants mall on "What War Has Done to Your Community." Alfred Hitchcock, who recently completed "Spellbound" and is now preparing "Notorious" for David O. Selznick, is about to send some of his spine-chilling yarns over the airways. "Too many mystery programs pro-grams come on the air asking people peo-ple to turn out the lights, lock the doors, and prepare to be frightened to death," says he, "when actually nothing takes place that would scare anybody. When my program comes on, it will probably be a failure. While listening, the audience will become be-come so frightened they likely will turn It off." David O. Sclznltk, who developed Ingrld Bergman Into a star, again has gone to Stockholm for his latest "find." He's Frank Sumlstrom, star of the same Royal Dramatic theater the-ater In which Miss Bergman stud-led, stud-led, and has appeared In eight Kuro-pean Kuro-pean films. Members of the "Duel In the Sun" company who have been on location, loca-tion, have organized the first Cactus and Iodine club. All members who have been stuck by Arizona's Cholla cactus are eligible; Jennifer Jones' make-up woman, Clare Kaufman, Is a charter member, she sat on one! ODDS AND ENDS-Cinny Simm, hat a nipcifd "hnipiltd ilrp" a briitltl (loujrvri print, which nhn wt"(ir wht'ti iltu niiiK In wfiunilrfl gnldirri; ihe hnyn in tha umriU ItUv it. . . . W iirUtnu 16 htntrn a ll'iy, 7 dny a wrrk, Cnnrml nnclt dirt'ctnr of tha air'n "Silurr 7 hf. Her," rtirnrd t7..ri() prr wrrlt when lit ttftrlrd hit crirci'r ns an actor. . . . lltmita f',ranvii', uho'll portray a nmarl law-icr law-icr in her roh: in "7 hp. Lit Detector," J fM( 22: the' Iteen an urtrrm wncn ihe wa three. Arthur t.ahe ttf tltn 'lllnrt'ttc" terici tlurtlti rnayhtt hit hoitttl ha infilled - a float, macot-t,t. 'ttemaltt nf a fatntittt tni q hone, hai ten named "Itanwood" fitr hitnl |