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girls perched decoratively on the Long Beach City float in the 1941 Tourna¬ ment of Roses Parade. Shortly there¬ after she appeared in a Long Beach City College dramatic production of “The Old Maid.” Being short of funds, the college appropriated a newspaper picture of Miss Brantingham on the Rose Parade float and used it to pub¬ licize the play. A Paramount talent scout saw the picture and Miss Brant¬ ingham received a screen test. Because young girls are invariably required to play a scene opposite a young man in screen tests, Miss Brant¬ ingham was forthwith introduced to a Mr, Richard Denning. The arm of coincidence is both long and puckish. Miss Brantingham and Mr. Denning met again 11 years later when they were selected as the co-stars of a new TV film series, Mr. and Mrs. North. That’s Hollywood. As Barbara Britton, Miss Branting¬ ham (who is really Mrs. Eugene Czukor) is delighted with the turn of events. It has made her the only female-tsqje private eye in the busi¬ ness, and thus tends to set her some¬ what apart from the run-of-the-mine TV wife. As Pam North, her problem is not so much her husband as it is pure murder, for the Norths, as any hep magazine reader, movie-goer, ra¬ dio listener or TV viewer surely must know by now, deal exclusively in crime. A radio standby of some dozen years, Mr. and Mrs. North traces its literary geneology back to 1931 when it first appeared as a series of so¬ phisticated short stories written by Frances and Richard Lockridge. The Norths were at that time a “well- heeled, well-bred Eastern seaboard couple” who kept having gay adven¬ tures. Not until 1940, however, did they run into murder, a grisly state of affairs which so delighted the readers that the Norths have been in a veritable blood bath ever since. Asked how she explains the fact that a nice couple like the Norths get mixed up in a serious crime once a week like clockwork while most peo¬ ple never run into anything more gruesome than a lost cufflink, Barbara Britton has an unexpectedly straight¬ forward answer. “I think,” she says, “it’s because the sponsors more or less expect it.” The show’s new sponsors, Revlon and Congoleum-Naim on alternate weeks, have effected a few minor but important changes over last year’s format. Pam North used to be a shade on the scatterbrained side, a con¬ venient device for ffie writers, who Just testing: Mr. and Mrs. (Barbara Britton and Richard ning) having fun with police radio. Policemen having fun