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Show STAGESCREENjDADIO Released by Western Newspaper Union. 1 By VIRGINIA VALE PARAMOUNT'S studio pres; bureau reported an unusu al number of requests frort servicemen to visit the Bettj Hutton-Sonny Tufts sets foi "Cross My Heart." Thej :ouldn't figure out the rea son for that avalanche o; requests, till some bright boy cami jp with the answer. Seems tha somebody had announced in prin. that Betty had posed for photo graphs on the set with two air corpr lieutenants, Robert Drew and Bruct Shaw, P-38 pilots stationed at near by Van Nuys and Betty had sat oi 3ne officer's lap while the camera clicked! It all turned out perfectly. A pub licity man introduced Nancy Nor man, pretty singer with Sammj 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 hi could send to radio editor! (who go awfully sick of those same phonej "romances"!). But this time i) ' - NANCY NORMAN worked differently; Nancy and Dick will be married in September, when lis 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 pears. Newspaper columnists get lots of "no-romance" items. The latest con-. :erns Lizabeth Scott, making her screen debut in Hal Wallis' "You Dame Along." There'll be no romantic roman-tic interest for her, we're told, till ler film career is definitely established. estab-lished. Announcements like this jsually backfire 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 tha lew "Beulah Show," gets no vaca-:ion vaca-:ion this summer. In addition to handling the direction of the two letwork shows Helen has been signed for two movie roles enough to keep any woman busy. Ted IVlalone wants you to help lim. He's keeping a promise made to iiis G.I. friends overseas by dedi-3ating dedi-3ating his broadcast scries, heard week days over the American network, net-work, to rediscovering America. He wants mail on "What War Has Done to Yow Community - Alfred Hitchcock, who recently :ompleted "Spellbound" and is now preparing "Notorious" for David O. Selznick, is about to send some of lis 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 ioors, and prepare to be frightened ;o death," says he, "when actually lothing takes place that would scare mybody. When my program comes n, it will probably be a failure. While listening, the audience will be-:ome be-:ome so frightened they likely will :urn it off." David 0. Selznick, who developed ngrid Bergman Into a star, again las gone to Stockholm for his latest find." He's Frank Sundstrom, star )f the same Royal Dramatic the-itcr the-itcr in which Miss Bergman stud-ed, stud-ed, and has appeared In eight Luro-)can Luro-)can films. Members of the "Duel in the Sun" :ompany who have been on loca-lon, loca-lon, have organized the first Cactus ind Iodine club. All members who lave been stuck by Arizona's Cholla :actus are eligible; Jennifer Jones' nake-up woman, Clare Kaufman, is i charter member, she sat on one! ODDS AND ENDSGinny Simms a special "hoipilnl fire.is," a briiiht lmr'Teii print, which uprr.i when he tiniis In icaundrd soMirri; the linyl n the wards like it. . . . Worliirm I ft wurs a fliy, 7 days a wf.i'k, Conrad npel, director of the ni'r'j "Sili'er 7 hitter," hit-ter," earned S7JjO piT week when he t'irted his career as an artor. . . . lionita rram ille, uho'll portray a smart laic-er laic-er in her role in "I he Lie I)cleclor," s just 22; she's been an actress since he was three. Arthur Lake vj the Hlmidic" series thinks maybe he hould lie insulted a float, mascol-sta-ilemate of a famous rare horse, has ccn named "Dagwood," A- hunt |