Home in Indiana

Luck presents Hollywood. The Luck's radio theater brings you Walter Brennan, Charlotte Greenwood, Edward Ryan, Gene Crane, and June Haber in Home in Indiana. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

In his book, America learns to play. Foster Ray Dulles has told the history of our country in terms of sport. He points out something I never knew before. at the past time which has most intrigued us through the years, and which has most closely paralleled our history and development, is the trotting race.

Force racing, of course, belongs to the ages. But the trotting race belongs to America and to America alone. And tonight's Lux Radio Theater play, Home in Indiana, the 20th Century Fox hit, brings you some of the fascination and excitement of the harness race, a story of love and jealousy, of heartbreak and triumph,

against the background of thundering hooves and swirling dust. And in their original screen rolls, you'll hear Walter Brennan, Charlotte Greenwood, Jean Crane, and June Haver. When I saw a home in Indiana, it seemed so typically American in its background and color and spirit, that I was mighty glad that it would go by short ways to our soldiers overseas,

for whom the Lux Radio Theatre is, I think, a friendly and familiar link with home. We get a lot of mail from our overseas audience and from their parents. One mother forwarded us a letter from her son, a sergeant in New Guinea, who tells of doing his own washing in a tub of water seated with a homemade blow torch

and generously studded with luck slicks. His simple directions are our marvels. We just dump the data clothes in and then stare until the water's dead. Well, blow to our cheating, maybe something new in washing clothes, but not luck-splake, even in the South Pacific.