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CURRENT PUBLICITY —“DUST BE MY DESTINY”
(Opening Day)
GARFIELD AND LANE TEAM STARRED
IN STRAND DRAMA
“*Dust Be My Destiny,’’ the new film opening today at the Strand, has John Garfield and Priscilla Lane in the starring role, and although this is the third picture in which they have been teamed, it is the first one in which they achieve what promises to be lasting marital happines.
For all its happy ending, however, the new picture carries the young couple over a hard and rocky road before they reach the end of the rainbow. Throughout most of the film’s poignant and often melodramatically exciting course, the two youngsters flee like a couple of hunted animals from officers who believe the boy has murdered his girl-wife’s stepfather.
Yes, they’re married very early in the proceedings, but it is a long time before they are able to lead a normal, happy married life. And, in the end, it is only the noble courage of the young wife which brings about this happy consummation.
For, sick and weary of being hunted, she dares the hatred of her husband, and turns him in to the police. He is convinced that a couple of ‘‘nobodies’’ can’t get a square deal, and when he is tried for the supposed murder of the old man, who actually died of heart trouble, it seems indeed as if circumstantial evidence is about to twist a noose around his neck.
Aside from the two stars, the cast includes Alan Hale, Frank McHugh, Billy Halop, Bobby Jordan, Charley Grapewin, Henry Armetta, Stanley Ridges, John Litel, Moroni Olsen and Victor Kilian. The screen play, written by Robbert Rossen, was based on a novel by Jerome Odlum, who also wrote the novel from which ‘‘ Each Dawn I Die’’ was adapted. The production was directed by Lewis Seiler.
Priscilla Lane (Mat 105—15c)
John Garfield, Hollywood's newest dramatic star, now appearing in “Dust Be My Destiny” at the Strand. (Mat 101—15c)
A Faithful Lover
John Garfield has been remarkably constant in his screen affections to date. In three out of his six Warner Bros. pictures, including the latest, “Dust Be My Destiny,’ which is opening today at the Strand Theatre, he has fallen in love with Priscilla Lane. As Porfirio Diaz in “Juarez,” he had no sweetheart. Gloria Dickson was his girl friend in “They Made Me a Criminal.”
(Review)
John Garfield And Priscilla Lane Triumph In ‘Dust Be My Destiny’, Sincere, Poignant Film Romance
An emotional experience seldom encountered within the walls of a theatre is provided by the new Warner Bros. picture, “Dust Be My Destiny,” which opened yesterday at the Strand Theatre.
And it is the superb playing of the film’s two young stars, John Garfield and Priscilla Lane, that makes it the intensely moving piece of drama that it is. They bring to their portrayals such sincerity, such vivid truthfulness, such understanding of the characters they are creating that the spectator is utterly convinced of their reality.
Given this belief in their reality, it is impossible for anyone not to be moved deeply by the pathetic quest for happiness of the two hapless youngsters about whom the film tale centers. They travel a hard and cruel road, and, just as you share their heartbreak along the way, you share also the great happiness which comes to them finally.
Aside from the intrinsic interest of this story by itself, it has a particular interest for admirers of the two stars in that it finally shows a romance between them happily consummated. They’ve been teamed twice before, it may be remembered, in “Four Daughters” and “Daughters Courageous,” and in the first instance, they were separated by death and in the second by Garfield’s desertion.
Romance and happiness come to them very early in the new picture, for they are married almost at the outset. But it’s a short-lived happiness, for they are forced to flee like hunted animals from the officers of the law, who believe the boy has murdered the girl’s drunken step-father, although the old man actually died of heart failure.
They take to the road, hitchhiking, hoboing and occasionally able to enjoy a short respite from pursuit. Twice they even manage to settle down, work for a living
John Garfield and Priscilla Lane, starring in the Strand Theatre’s new hit, “Dust Be My Destiny,” Warner Bros., romantic drama. (Mat 204—30c)
and have a reasonably normal life. But each time the minions of the law become hot on the trail again.
At last, sick and weary of what promises to be a lifetime of being hunted, the girl dares the hatred of her husband and turns him over to the police. Her only reward, at first, is the hatred she foresaw, for her husband believes only in flight, feeling that a “nobody” like himself can’t get a square deal from the world.
At his trial, with the supreme eloquence of humble simplicity, she tells the jury the story of herself and her husband; she makes the jurors understand them. As she ends her pathetic little tale, she adds, almost parenthetically, that now her husband hates her for giving him
up, and that’s a hard thing for a woman to bear. Her moving plea turns the jury in her husband’s favor and he is acquitted.
Under the skillful direction of Lewis Seiler, the production is well acted throughout, notable support being given to the stars by Alan Hale, Frank McHugh, Charley Grapewin, Henry Armetta, Stanley Ridges and Moroni Olsen. Others who contributed fine performances included Billy Halop, Bobby Jordan, John Litel and Victor Kilian.
The screen play, a persuasively written piece of work, was an adaptation by Robert Rossen of a novel by Jerome Odlum, who was also the author of the novel which was the basis of another fine Warner Bros. picture, “Each Dawn I Die.”
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EDITORIAL
In a social order as complex and busy as ours has become, there are bound to occur problems and situations which bear handling by those of us who have more material things, more heritage and more understanding.
There are today hundreds, perhaps thousands of individuals, many of them youths, who are drifting around the country — homeless, jobless and friendless. Circumstances of one kind or another have driven these unfortunates into the folds of the country’s skirts, and for some these folds have been anything but comforting. Wanting more than anything to find a place where they “belong,” the very nature of their vagrant mode of life leads them into trouble. Through circumstances often beyond their control, they are stamped — crim
inals.
By the light of such a situation, it must be said that the thousands of boys wandering over the face of the country today, looking for their little spot in the sun, are “criminals” too. We cannot let them believe that — we cannot brand them criminals and kill them all off... a criminal’s grave must not be their destiny . .. it must not be their share of this earth we
call America.
A recent motion picture entitled “Dust Be My Destiny” touches this problem acutely. It is an interesting treatment, finely enacted, of another phase in the American scene.
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Garfield Bitten By Camera Bug
John Garfield acquired a new hobby from his role of a newspaper cameraman in Warner Bros.” “Dust Be My Destiny,” now playing at the Strand Theatre. He is now a rabid camera bug.
When he started the picture, Garfield knew nothing about operating cameras. He spent most of his time between scenes taking lessons from Mickey Marigold, the company “still man.” He owns a camera now, is rapidly acquiring a collection of candid shots, and is even talking of buying a movie camera outfit.
JOHN GARFIELD'S "YEN" [STO CONTINUE ACTING
John Garfield is one Hollywood actor who likes his work so well that he doesn’t yearn for some other fellow’s job.
Ask most actors to name their ultimate ambition and they’ll say they want to become directors. or producers. A few confess to writing aspirations and some say the height of their desire is to get together enough money to live comfortably on a farm in their favorite section of the country.
Garfield, however, says he feels the same way about acting as he did when he decided to make ‘it his profession.
“T thought then it was the most fascinating career a person could have,’ he said on the set of “Dust Be My Destiny,” the Warner Bros. picture which is currently showing at the Strand Theatre. “I was willing then to skirt the edge of starvation to break into the game. I'd still rather act than do anything else.
“To me, it’s by far the most interesting phase of the theatrical business, and I don’t know anything other than theatre. I’d never had any desire to direct or produce plays or pictures. I’d like to write, but I can’t and know te
With some years yet to go in his twenties, Garfield faces a long stretch of acting. He isn’t afraid of ever getting tired of it, but admits the thought of the public getting tired of him causes him some concern.
“Maybe I can’t stay in pictures or on the New York stage many years,” he said, “but I’ll be aeting somewhere as long as I can move around. There are still a lot of one-night stands, and the town drama clubs. Maybe Ill wind up with them, but wherever it is, Pll still be acting.”
Chinese Strategem Works On Film Set
Clever, the Chinese, as Cameraman James Wong Howe demonstrated with a neat bit of strategy on a “Dust Be My Destiny” location. Lewis Seiler, director of the Warner Bros. production, which is opening today at the Strand Theatre, wanted a sizable pile of small rocks at a certain spot. His “grips” and prop men were busy on other jobs, but Howe said: “You wateh. J’ll fix 1b.22
Very unobtrusively, he put a tin can on the spot where Seiler wanted the rock pile. A moment later, he picked up a small rock and threw it at the can. Immediately, and without the slightest idea of the job they were doing, the thirty extras on the set followed suit. In less time than it takes to tell, Seiler had his rock pile — a job that would have taken at least two hours.
Action from “Dust Be My Destiny,” new film now at the Strand starring John Garfield (above coatless) and Priscilla Lane. (Mat 206—30c)