Guadalcanal Diary

Luck present Hollywood. Luck radio theater brings you William Bendick, Destin Foster, and Lloyd Nolan in Roddle Canal Diary with Richard Jacob. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

Fifty years from today, an old man slowly walks down Main Street. All his life, he's been justly proud that he was one of the famous few. And as he walked his neighbors pointed him out as a stranger in town.

That man was at Guadalcanal, they say. And perhaps they add, I wonder what it was really like. Right now that old man of the future is a youngster, with a confident set to his shoulders and a hint of a swagger in his walk. And rightly so, because he is a United States Marine. A Marine who helped

to turn the great retreat in the Pacific into a great attack, a Marine who made American history. But behind the confident shoulders and the slight swagger lingers the memory of other Marines, the rest forever in the green jungles of Guadalcanal. The war correspondent Richard Togasquitz wrote the story in Guadalcanal just as he saw it happen. From that book, 20th

Fox made one of the really great motion pictures of the war, and tonight we bring it to you, for the same stars you saw on the screen. Preston Foster, William Bendik, and Lloyd Nolan. They happen to be free of Hollywood's dizziness, citizens.

Lloyd Nolan is just back from a bond tour. Bill Bendik is currently adding radio laurels to his screen island, with a weekly show called The Life of Riley. A Preston Foster runs a 600 acre ranch in addition to a four-pister schedule.