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The Big Shots
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Those In The Movie Game Like To Take Chances
Schcnck luvcb pmuchle for unique and odd stakes. They tell the story of a pinochle hand Schenck played with his old friend Al Jolson, with a de luxe apartment as the prize. It seems that Schenck owns an exclusive apartment building (he owns several of them) and he said to Al, who was looking for a place, something to this effect: "We'll play a little game of pinochle and if I win, you'll take that apartment and pay double the rent for a year. If you win, you'll get it without charge for the same length of time."
Jolson won, but whether or not .^1 took the apartment I don't know. He's very innocent about that pinochle hand.
"Joe and I are always playing some game for pretty high stakes," he admitted when pressed for details, "but we usually call them off. Sure, we usually call them off," he added with a burst of inspiration.
Lucky Thirteen Thousand
AS an explanation, it saved details — and "crowing." ^ No good gambler likes to gloat over his haul. It just isn't done except in a rare case like Raoul Walsh's sensational scoops at Caliente, which reached the newspapers.
It happened that Walsh took his new bride on a honeymofjn trip to Agua Caliente, where they have, among other things, an interesting gambling salon. Just for the fun of it, he dropped a five-hundred-dollar bet on the oo of a roulette table; and the joke was on the Casino, because that was just the time the oo showed up, earning the Hollywood director seventeen thousand dollars and making a nice honeymoon trip. Hut even at best that was just Luck riding at high tide. Raoul likes to believe he backed his judgment with that racehorse he bought. According to the papers, he purchased the fleet little animal for thirteen thousand dollars. The first race she ran earned him thirty thousand, checking up another scventeen-thousand-dollar win for the director of "The Cock-Kyed World."
"I don't believe [ have the makings of a 'big stud'
f ambler," protested Edmund Lowe. The stifFest bets ever make are on football games. I figure I have about five hundred dollars' worth of fun out of the football season and 1 usually pyramid my losses to try to keep that much ahead. Last year I guessed wrong on the University of Southern California three times. I bet Stanford would beat them. I bet they would beat the University of California and Notre Dame. It seems
that I got on the wrong end of those decisions each time — which meant I was out fifteen hundred dollars.
"'All right.' I said to myself, 'I'll give those boys just one more chance,' so I {Continued on page (jS)
The "unluclcicst " of them all IS John Gilbert itopi, who ha* lost thousands in the stockmarket. JosephSchenck and Al Jolson Heft' once played pinochle with a de luxe apartment as the prixe
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