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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 from servicemen to visit the Bettj 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 cam) up with the answer. Seems tha somebody had announced in priu that Betty had posed for photo graphs on the set with two air corpi lieutenants, Robert Drew and Bruci Shaw, P-38 pilots stationed at near by Van Nuys and Betty had sat oi one 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 he could send to radio editors (who ge awfully sick of those same phonej "romances"!). But this time 1' v -'A ' . v i NANCY NOKMAN worked differently; Nancy and Dick will be married in September, when his brother comes home from th 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 con-i 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'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 yon to help him. He's keeping a promise made to his G.I. friends overseas by dedicating dedi-cating his broadcast series, 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 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. Selznick, who developed IngTld Bergman into a star, again has gone to Stockholm for his latest "find." He's Frank Sundstrom, star of the same Royal Dramatic theater the-ater in which Miss Bergman studied, stud-ied, and has appeared in eight 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 one! ODDS AD EVD.S Ginny Simms has a special "hospital dress" a bright flowered print, which she wears when ihe sines fo wimnded soldiers; the boys i In the wards like it. . . . Working 16 'lours a day, 7 days a iveek, Conrad Voce, director of the airs "Silver 1 he' iter," earned l"50 per week when he I itarted his career as an actor. . . . llonila Qraniille, who'll portray a smart latv-rer latv-rer in her role in "The Lie Detector," j J just 22; she's been an actress since ihe was three. Arthur Lake of the 'lllondic" series thinks maybe he hould be insulted a goal, mascot-sla-'tlcmate of a famous race horse, has een named "Dogwood," himl |