Dust Be My Destiny

Luck presents Hollywood. What's radio theatre brings you John Garfield and Claire Trevor in Just Be My Destiny. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil V. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

When Mark Twain said that, it's better to be a young Junebug than an old peacock. He expressed my sentiment exactly. But sometimes we old peacocks use the Junebugs pretty roughly when they're trying to conquer the world in their own youthful fashion.

Fortunately, most of them bounce right back and try again. But when they don't bounce back, well, that's why a story called Dust Be My Destiny was written. Why one of brothers made a motion picture out of it, and why we're giving you this play tonight, with John Garfield in his original screen roll, co-starred with Claire Trevor.

Dust Be My Destiny is the drama of a young man with a chip on his shoulder, just daring anybody to knock it off. And it takes a girl to do that job. A girl who's in love with him, and then it's the two of them against the world.

When a boy and a girl in love face the world in a fair fight, they usually lick it and make a thrilling story for us into the bargain. It's a very different kind of play that we're presenting tonight.

Something quite off the beaten track. But I believe it's on the right track for your enjoyment. Just as you're on the right track, if you use luck toilet soap. And the number of people who do use it is pretty good evidence of the way American women feel about our products.

I'm afraid this theatre, I mean the actual building where the plays go on, just isn't big enough to bring you all backstage, but I wish that were possible, so that every one of you could see what happens back here from the minute the first rehearsal is called until the play begins.