3 Men on a Horse (Warner Bros.) (1936)

RACE TRACK ‘SLANGUAGE' 5-DAY This five day contest is built up around the characters in the film who talk the language of the race track. Contestants are asked to reply to the one sided conversation shown in the illustrations with snappy come-backs in the same slang. Winning contributions published daily. Five illustrations available in one mat.. Order Mat No. 502—250c. (Lead-off Story) Many Prizes For *3 Men On Horse” Slang Handicap Are you a social asset at the race track? Can you engage in hand-to-hand conversation with a bookie or a dopester or with any of the numerous hangers-on? In other words can you speak our American ’slanguage? If in any way your mode of expression leans to the vernacular, the talk of the man on the streets, the patois of the stable, read further for we have important news for you. Starting tomorrow and continuing for five days, we are running a contest which will give you an opportunity to cash in on your ability to speak the lingo of the racetrack. The booty for each day’s contest will be 5 pairs of guest tickets to the First National picture, ‘‘ Three Men on a Horse,’’ which comes to the ............. Leer Teor (heatre Ons ih Sce isso This comedy is the last word on ‘figuring horses,’ and is a first primer for anyone wishing to get a complete picture of what goes on behind the scenes out at the track. Featured in it is Frank McHugh who plays a meek little greeting card writer with a knack for doping out the racing charts. He falls into the hands of as merry a group of chiselers — played by Joan Blondell, Allen Jenkins, Sam Levene and Teddy Hart — as have ever appeared on the screen. They’re the slangiest bunch of mugs — fast-talking — and plenty tough. Now here’s the information on this contest. Each day for five days we will print a scene from the picture showing this colorful group making their plans to break the bookies’ hearts. One of them will be doing the talking and — we warn you — it’ll be the most gibberish, dog-latin talk you’ve ever heard. After you’ve spent some of your valuable time translating this racetrack jargon, the idea is for you to think up a good snappy answer, plenty slangy, too, for one of the other characters who will be indicated. Get in all the horsetalk or poolroom-argot you’ve ever heard, and make it funny. Each contest is exclusive of the others, and, don’t forget, five pairs of tickets will be awarded each day for the best comebacks. It ought to be plenty of fun — it’s certainly simple enough — and all it requires is a knowledge of downto-the-earth, old-fashioned or newfashioned American slang. So practice up today, start talking out of the corner of your mouth. Prime yourself for tomorrow when the ‘‘3 Men on a Horse Handicap’’ begins. ‘¢Three Men on a Horse’’ is based on the screamingly funny stage play which alypady has played on Broadway for over two years. To insure its success on the screen, Warner Bros. imported Sam Levene and Teddy Hart to play the same roles in the film version as they had on the stage. They’ll have you howling in the aisles. It’s certainly worth seeing and the easiest way to get to see it is to win a pair of tickets. Page Ten Sling Your Best Slanguage And Win Theatre Tickets If you understand the language used in the above illustration, and can write a snappy reply in the same vein, yowll have a good chance of winning a pair of guest tickets to the funniest comedy ever filmed, “Three Men on a Horse” which comes to the ............ Theatre on .................. . Here you have. (left to right ) Sam Levene, Allen Jenkins, Teddy Hart and Frank McHugh. Now you write a come-back for Allen Jenkins. The ‘‘Three Men on a Horse Handicap’’ starts today. This is the first of a series of five which this paper is conducting in connection with the showing of ‘‘Three Men on a Horse’’ which comes to the .................... Theatre on. seacns All you need in this contest is the ability to murder the King’s English. It’s a ‘slanguage’ contest and no college degree is needed—in fact, if you have a sheepskin, tear it up and think up some snappy answer for Allen Jenkins in the above scene to make to Frank McHugh. These fellows are racetrack followers and they coin words like the mint coins money. The thing for you to do is to translate what Allen is saying into everyday English, and then think up a snappy reply for Hart to make. The five best replys for today’s contest will win a pair of guest tickets to “Three Men dn a Horse,” the screamingly funny comedy, First National has made from the successful stage play. Not only should your replies be snappy but they should be written in the slangiest form possible. Make them fairly short, and be sure the Contest Editor of this paper has them before ........ Le urte o'clock tomorrow when today’s entries close. What counts in this contest is not how ably you speak but how badly. Unbend and join the many others at the post. Needless to say your replies should be couched in the most difficult racetrack terms your teeming brain can think of. If you’re not one of the lucky five in today’s contest, you'll have another chance tomorrow and the three days thereafter. Get going right now. RULES OF CONTEST . All answers must be limited to 50 words. Replies should be written on one side of the paper only. The name and address of the contestant sheuld be printed in the upper left hand corner of the page. 4. No replies will be returned. The decisions of the judges will be final, and the LEADER cannot enter into a discussion of them. Awards will be given only on the sense made by the answer. No attention will be paid to handwriting, spelling or literary ability. Contestants may submit as many replies as they wish. In no case, however, will more than one prize be awarded to a single contestant. Winners will be announced in the LEADER as soon as the judges hand down their deci sions, . Each day’s contest is independent of the others. . All replies must be sent to the “Three Men on a Horse’? Contest Editor of the LEADER before six o’clock of the day following the publication of each day’s contest. Replies should prove in them selves that the contestant understands the “slanguage” used. . It is umnecessary to print the replies in the balloon spaces shown on the illustrations. These are only to indicate the character who makes the reply. Humorous replies. couched in the language of the race track stand the best chance of win ning. (2nd Day Publicity) Can You Speak Bad Enough English To Earn A Prize? Here are three racetrack touts figuring the horses for today’s races. The chances are they won’t pick the right ones but that should be no concern of yours, and anyway it’s only a scene from the picture ‘‘Three Men on a Horse’’ which comes to: the: ....,-.ceanat TT CRLIS BOS Fic0 io 5i2..., It’s Teddy Hart who’s doing the talking while Allen Jenkins and Sam Levene are helping him ‘dope out’ the winners. The Contest Editor is asking movie fans, racetrack fans, and slingers of slang, especially, to write in the reply Allen Jenkins would make to Teddy’s remark. The reply has to be clever and at the same time must have that racetrack flavor. The more exaggerated the better and don’t pull your punches. The first five contestants -past the judges’ stand will be awarded a pair of guest tickets to “Three Men on a Horse.” You’ll have a lot of fun writing them, but not nearly as much fun as you'll have when you see Frank McHugh as Erwin Trowbridge, a meek greeting card writer with a genius for picking the horses. Xou’ll howl] with delight when he gets involved with Allen Jenkins, Joan Blondell, Teddy Hart and Sam Levene. They’re the funniest bunch of muggs you’ve ever met and their use of the English tongue would literally burn the ears off of 3 stickier for good form. It’s up to you to outslang them, so start your brain tick ing and go ‘vernacular.’ Tomorrow’s deadline is ............ vies o’clock. Remember, you don’t have to be a literary genius to win in this contest. What you are required to do is to show by your answer that you really understand the racing language used. Of course your reply should be in the same terms, and the funni@r it reads, the better your chances are to win. Don’t forget, either, that brevity is the soul of wit, and while you are allowed 50 words, you may just as easily win with 10 or 15. It’s the quality, not the quantity that will count. Prizes will be awarded as soon as the judges hand down their ~ decisions. Winners of the first day’s contest will be announced tomorrow, and all winners will be eliminated from further contests. Any one may enter as many replies as he wishes, but no one will be awarded more than one pair of guest tickets. Don’t be discouraged if you don’t happen to win today. You'll have another chance tomorrow and for two days after that. (2nd Day Contest) Free Strand Tickets For Best Slanguage Replies Everyone’s doing it now — talking track ‘slanguage’ and writing in smart replies to the kick-outs shown in this new five day contest. Here’s another chance. Just see what you would say if you were Allen Jenkins (left) to whom Teddy Hart is speaking while Sam Levene (right) listens in. The above scene is from “Three Men on a Horse,” the First National comedy coming to the ................... Theatre on .................... :