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Show Released by Weitern Newspaper Union. By VIRGINIA VALE pARAMOUNT'S studio pres: i bureau reported an unusu al number of requests frorr servicemen to visit the Bett; Hutton-Sonny Tufts sets foi "Cross My Heart." Thej 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 corpj lieutenants, Robert Drew and Bruc 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 Sundaj MBS program; the press agent's ob ject, a "romance Item" that hr could send to radio editors (who ge awfully sick of those same phonej "romances"!). But this time t fm , vk X V f ' t J NANCY NORMAN worked differently; Nancy and Dick will be married In September, when , his brother comes home from the South Pacific. The same thing happened hap-pened when that same publicity man introduced Pattl 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 backfire just let a gal say she won't fall In love, and next thing you know, she'i 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 network, net-work, to rediscovering America. He wants mail on "What War Has Done to Your Community." Alfred Hitchcock, who recently completed "Spellbound" and is now preparing "Notorious" for David 0. Selznick, is about to send tome 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 be-come be-come so frightened they likely will turn it off." David 0. Sclznlrk, who developed Ingrld Bergman into a star, again has cone to Stockholm for his latest "find." He's Frank Sundstrom, star of the same Royal Dramatlo theater the-ater in which Miss Bergman studied, stud-ied, and hat appeared in right European Euro-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 oncl (Wm ASt) ESDS-Ginny Simmt Hn a tperial "hoipital dretn," a bright tlourred print, uhich the u-eart uhen tha ii'fiici to u-ounded toldier; tha boyt in tha mWi like it. . , , V or hint jrl Hour a iuy, 7 ivi a stwcrV, Conrad Vogrf, director o tht oi'r'i "Silver 7 he-ifcr," he-ifcr," earned l.'jO per utek uhen he Marled hit tareer at on actor. , , . Oomfit Gram ille, uhn'U portray a imart hn I ter in her rola in "Tha U Detector,'' j juil 22: ine'i hem an artren tmre the lent three. Arthur Lake of tha 'lllondie" eriet ihinkt ma) Of he hnuld ha intuited a foal, mairnHfa-Wcmafe mairnHfa-Wcmafe o umoui rare hmte, hut ern named "Dogwood," lor him! |