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

Guy Kibbee Hollywood’s favorite film comedian, Guy Kibbee, has the laugh of his life as a cantakerous publisher of greeting cards in ‘‘ Three Men on a Horse,’’ First National’s picturization of Broadway’s record breaking laugh hit, which is now playing Gt the ..........cc.cccce Theatre. Mat No. 109—10c Guy Kibbee Plays His Biggest Part In Laughing Film Guy Kibbee, whose bald, bland and jovial presence has added zest to so many comedies, plays his most convineing part in “Three Men on a Horse,” the First National sereen version of the Broadway stage success— which comes to the ................05.05 pery Old Man Carver, proprietor of a Greeting Card manufactory and employer of the meek and hen-pecked Erwin Trowbridge who composes the rhymes and in secret jots down his prognostications about probable winners in horse races and his imaginary winnings. Guy Kibbee’s impersonations are so real because he has seen so much of life and so many people of all sorts ‘and conditions —in the more than a quarter of a century during which he toured the country in stock. The fates were not kind to him until he got his belated chance on Broadway in “Torch Song” as the seller of tombstones who described his wares as ‘underground novelties.’ Hollywood sat up and took notice immediately after the Metropolitan erities wrote their blurbs about Kibbee in “Torch Song”——and he has been emoting on the sereen at top speed ever since, Mr. Kibbee is a Texan and though he left his home town—E! Paso—when a mere lad, he still has a strong affection for the Lone Star State. Like George Ade he says his home state is one he will never go back on—or to. He is married to a non-professional and is the father of a girl of six and another of fourteen months. Guy Kibbee is an ardent angler —and might well be ealled the Isaac Walton of Hollywood. “Three Men on a Horse” features Frank McHugh and Joan Blondell. Others in the cast be sides Mr. Kibbee—are Sam Levene, Teddy Hart, Allen Jenkins, Harry Davenport, Carol Hughes, Kdgar Kennedy, Eddie Anderson, Tola Nasmith and Hily Malyon. Mervyn LeRoy directed. “Three Men on a Horse”—the play from which the picture is taken—is still going strong on Broadway after more than two years, and there are seven road companies on tour. Frank McHugh Has New Inventions For Camera Hogs Having been given the top role in the First National picturization of ‘*Three Men on a Horse,’’ which comes to the ................ TheaBie at) Vesteacaeeemerre rss » Frank McHugh decided it was about time he started to branch out in another direction. As a consequence, he has crashed through with some pretty good ideas on handy mechanical devices as an aid to aetors. Frank’s first device is known as the ‘*‘McHugh Little Gem Scene Stealer.’’ It is in the form of a false nose which any actor can adjust to suit his own measurements. In the middle of an important seene — somebody else’s — the actor presses a button which starts the nose in motion. The synthetic proboscis begins to grow at the rate of two inches a minute. Naturally, no one ean pay any attention to the other person in this case, and the scenc legitimately belongs to the actor who has purchased MeHugh’s false smeller. McHugh’s next device is an automatic camera finder for use by actors who are near sighted, and are unable to see the camera lens, thus making it difficult for them to keep their respective profiles turned properly for the full length of the scene. The device is worked with photo-electrie rays, similar to the radio-beam landing device em ployed by airplane pilots landing blind. When the actor is facing directly towards the camera lens, the concealed gadget rings a bell and the thespian knows all is well. McHugh’s other inventions include the Little Giant Dialogue Prompter and the McHugh Invisible Inflated Rubber Pillow for use of comedians expected to make at least six falls downstairs. Frank has the role of a greeting card writer who has the ability to pick the winning pony every time in §‘ Three Men on a Horse,’’ a rollicking comedy based on the famous stage play by John Cecil Holm and George Abbott. . Race Track Gets Fame Through Movie Scenes Beautiful Santa Anita racetrack, though only two years old, is becoming — because of the many scenes made on it for the movies — the bestknown course in the world. It is only a few miles from the Hollywood studios. The races portrayed in the First National comedy, “Three Men on a Horse,” which comes to the tre on .... og With Frank McHugh as star, were photographed at Santa Anita, although in the story they occur at Belmont Park, New York. Film Actors Bet On Horses To Keep Play’s Mood When two of the members of the New York stage play, “Three Men on a Horse,” stepped off the Santa Fe Chief in Hollywood, the first thing they did was to purchase a racing form. “We don’t like to bet on horses,’ confided Sam Levene, the original “Patsy” in the Broadway hit, “but we do just the same to keep in the play’s mood. Isn’t that right, Teddy?” Teddy Hart, also of the original company, nodded. The two New Yorkers left the “Three Men on a Horse” company, after playing 625 performances, to appear in the roles they created in the First National film version of the comedy which comes to the 0.0.0... by Frank MeHugh, who plays: the meek greeting card poet with an uncanny knack of picking out horse race winners. Others in the cast include Joan Blondell, Guy Kibbee, Carol Hughes, and Allen Jenkins. The picture was directed by Mervyn LeRoy from the screen play by Laird Doyle. — Oiwin’s Double Life When a fellow has a scrap with his wife, and wakes up in a strange room, in an unfamiliar bed, with a beautiful blonde like Joan Blondell acting as nurse — well it’s enough to make a fellow scowl even as does Frank McHugh in. the above scene from ‘‘ Three Men on a Horse,’’ the First National comedy hit coming to the ............ Theatre on Mat No. 206—~-20c Sam Levene (left) Teddy Hart (centre) and Allen Jenkins (right) together with Frank McHugh, Joan Blondell, Guy Kibbee and Carol Hughes are members of the greatest laugh-crew ever assembled for a Warner Bros. production and will come to the Set Se ERCOWES ON a es UN the hilarious First National comedy ‘‘Three Men on a Horse.’’ Mat No. 207—20e Meeting His Hero Flat Tire Cures Causes Comedian To Lose Tongue Ever since Sam Levene became, an actor, his one ambition has. been to meet Paul Muni. For years he has planned on what he and Muni would talk about when they met; what questions he would ask the man who to him is the greatest star in pictures. Levene achieved his ambition. He met Muni. He ate dinner with him. And he didn’t say a word. It was Director Mervyn LeRoy who brought about the meeting between Levene and Muni. Le Roy was directing the First National picture, “Three Men on a Horse,” now showing at the ....... Re eee Theatre, and Levene was playing the part of a horse tout. When Levene went to Hollywood he told LeRoy he wanted to meet Muni. One night LeRoy invited Levene to dinner. “ve asked Mitchell Weisenfreud and his wife—you’ll like them. They’ll meet us at the restaurant,” LeRoy said on the way to Perino’s eafe. Levene didn’t know until LeRoy led him to the table where Mr. and Mrs. Muni sat that Muni’s real name was Weisenfreud. Telling about the meeting, Levene said: “T was so taken aback I couldn’t talk. I must have swallowed my tongue because I didn’t say two words all evening.” “Three Men on a Horse,” is an uproarious comedy taken from the Broadway stage hit, by John Cecil Holm and George Abbott. Others in the cast include Frank McHugh, Joan Blondell, Guy Kibbee, Carol Hughes, Allen Jenkins and Teddy Hart. Joan Blondell Of Lapse Of Memory Joan Blondell, who has the leading feminine role in the First National production, “Three Men on a Horse,” now showing at the Fain. (sons So Sigs tien cite ES Theatre, left her old Hollywood hills home some time ago and moved to a place in Toluca Lake, scarcely a stone’s throw from her studio. One night she left the studio and automatically drove miles over Cahuenga Pass and nearly to her old home before it occurred to her that she had moved. Then she had to drive back to her new home, beside the studio she had left three-quarters of an hour before. Another evening, due to some repairs on her car, a studio car took her home. Joan, busy studying some dialogue for next day’s scenes, didn’t realize until the driver stopped at her old home that he didn’t know, and she hadn’t told him she’d moved. “That won’t happen again,” she promised herself. But it did, just three days later. And that time a flat tire checked her before she’d gone more than a block toward the Pass. It was a harsh cure, but an effective one, and she hasn’t had any lapses of memory since. Miss Blondell has the role of an ex-chorus girl, playing -opposite Frank McHugh, in “Three Men on a Horse,” a riotous comedy based on the stage hit by John Cecil Holm and George Abbott. Others in the cast include Guy Kibbee, Carol Hughes, Allen Jenkins, Sam Levene and Teddy Hart. The picture was directed by Mervyn LeRoy from the play by Laird Doyle. Page Twenty-five