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

_ IMPERTINENT PORTRAIT TEDDY HART Like Gene Tunney, Teddy Hart reads Shakespeare. But Mr. Tunney and Mr. Hart are not the same man. One is a prizefighter. The other is an actor who recently went to Hollywood to play the part of ‘‘Frankie’’ in Warner Bros.’ ““Three Men on a Horse.’’ Mr. Hart is a little man. With his shoes off he stands five feet two and weighs 124 pounds. He might have been a jockey but the first time he ever had anything to do with a horse was when he joined the cast of the play in New York some sixty weeks ago. Born in New York City in 1904 ... Mr. Hart does not remember the exact day ... he attended grammar school. He never got to college for some reason or other but he isn’t sorry because he says one can’t eat a college degree. As a boy he wanted to be an actor. He feels that he has now achieved his ambition, although, he says, there are some critics who have disagreed with him. A. H. Woods gave him his first part in a play and that play was ‘‘Parlor, Bedroom and Bath,’’ which as the title suggests, was a farce. Before he became an actor, Mr. Hart sold books, brushes, silver polish, ant poison and fly swatters. He even wrote songs. He says that if he had to leave the stage now he could make his living writing gags. Mr. Hart was discovered, for the screen, by Director Mervyn LeRoy who saw him in the stage version of ‘‘Three Men on a Horse.’’ One of Mr. Hart’s first acts on reaching the film city was to fill out a studio questionnaire in which he listed his suppressed desire as Jean Harlow and his favorite foods as grapenuts and gin. He did not reveal whether he poured the gin on the grapenuts. In addition to Shakespeare, gin and grapenuts, Mr. Hart is fond of DeMaupassant and Balzac. He isn’t married and likes to watch girls’ swimming races. His favorite extravagances are Cigars and his best friend is Sam Levene, another actor. He hates to get up early and once lived for over a year in Rochester, New York. His favorite color is blue and he likes Folks Meet ‘Oiwin’ They couldn’t cash a bet until ‘‘ Oiwin hinee Dumb Chicks Guy Kibbee Proves to Be Real Greeter Guy Kibbee, who plays the part of a greeting card publisher in the First National picture, “Three Men on a Horse,” which comes to the ............... Theatre OMS aaaarivsnes <9 » used to publish greeting cards. Several years ago, Kibbee and his brother operated a printing and publishing business in San Francisco. In addition to printing house organs, the firm published greeting cards for all occasions. ,’’ the greeting card poet, stumbled into their lives in a series of episodes that make the funniest film to come out of Hollywood. Left to right they’re Sam Levene, Allen Jenkins ond Teddy Hart. They’re three of the comics in ‘‘ Three Men on a Horse,’’ which opens at the ........... ie Sees Theatre on ... Mat No. 201—20¢ roses. He shaves to protect his good looks. He once worked in a furniture factory and likes Casino. When he isn’t working he gets up at 2 p.m. He has a turtle good luck charm and is superstitious about putting shoes on a shelf. All his shoes rest on the floor-of his closets. He writes greeting cards, picks winning horses and is afraid of his wife and his boss in ‘‘Three Men on a H orse,’’ the picture First National made from the funniest play that has hit Broadway in ten years. Actually ‘Otwin’ is Frank McHugh, shown above in three poses from the film, which opens at the ................... baae Theatre OM ooicccccececcccccccccccne Mat No. 221—20c¢ Page Twenty-siz Carol Hughes Is Anxious To Repay 8-Year Old Debt Carol Hughes has issued a standing luncheon invitation to Melvyn Douglas, motion picture actor. It’s good any day of the week at the First National studio and Carol Hughes will pay the check, And here’s the reason. Miss Hughes revealed it during the production of “Three Men on a Horse,” now showing at the....... Begotten Theatre, Ten years ago, when Carol was eleven, she spent a summer at Madison, Wis. Her aunt, Loretta Parsons, singer, introduced her to Douglas who was playing in stock there. And Douglas took the girl to lunch. “I ordered a big lunch but I was So overawed at lunching with a real actor that I could hardly eat a bite,” Carol explained. “I just sat and stared at him. And when lunch was over I never even thanked him.” Now Carol is going to make up for her youthful rudeness. She wants Douglas to lunch with her. Miss Hughes has the role of Frank MecHugh’s tearful and suspicious wife in “Three Men on a Horse,” a rollicking comedy based on the famous stage play by John Cecil Holm and George Abbott. Others in the cast include Joan Blondell, Guy Kibbee, Allen Jenkins, Sam Levene and Teddy Hart. The picture was directed by Mervyn LeRoy from the sereen play by Laird Doyle. Leap Year Brings Luck Instead Of Proposals To Wed Some persons think of Leap Year only in connection with its “girl-propose-to-boy” traditions. Others believe these quadrennial twelvemonths are occasions of rare good fortune, when Lady Luck is most likely to put added warmth into her smiles. Certainly 1936, leaping toward its conclusion, has been kind to a number of movie players, whether they hold to the superstition or not. Take Frank McHugh, for instance. It has brought him stardom. For years this roly-poly redhead has been a more-thanadequate comedian, his laughgetting adding to the excellence of many a big picture and Saving the day for many a small one. But he starred in none. At last Frank’s reward has come—in Leap Year. He is now seen on the screen as the lead in “Three Men on a Horse,” the comedy riot of stages all over the world during the last couple of years. It comes to the ................ ct VaR es pein ca le conan ae Frank plays, of course, Erwin Trowbridge, the timid little greeting-card poet who has a rare faculty of picking winners in the horse races. “It’s Leap Year luck,” says MeHugh. “It was a Leap Year— 1932—when I joined Warner Bros. In 1928, 1924 and 1920, I was doing all right on the stage. But this is the tops.” “Three Men on a Horse” is a swift-moving comedy, adapted by Laird Doyle from the stage play by John Cecil Holm and George Abbott. The cast includes Joan Blondell, Carol Hughes, Guy Kibbee, Allen Jenkins, Sam Levene, Teddy Hart and Edgar Kennedy. It was directed by Mervyn LeRoy. Allen Jenkins Denies He Is As Dumb As He Acts There are several ways to commit suicide. One can jump off a high bridge. One can drive one’s car in front of a train. And one can walk up and say the following to Allen Jenkins, now playing the role of a dumb eluck in the First National production, “Three Men on a Horse,” which COMPBS=tO2thOGasca, Theatre LS Saye ee a ara “Mr. Jenkins, I understand you don’t have to act — that you just play yourself in pictures.” That always annoys Mr. Jenkins. You can’t blame him. For years he has been portraying vary dumb characters on the screen. “I may be dumb, but I’m certainly not as dumb as ‘Charlie’ in ‘Three Men on a Horse,’” says Mr. Jenkins. Mr. Jenkins doesn’t mind the parts he plays. He likes them. He is very fond of ‘Charlie, a race track follower who is downright stupid. As long as First National wants to cast him as a dumb cluck, he won’t complain. He feels that it takes ability to play a numbskull convincingly. “I can’t play juveniles,” he says. “I don’t look like a juvenile. And I can’t play straight parts amy-more because I’m typed as a comedian. But I do object when newspapers print stories that ’m not acting.” Others in the cast of “Three Men on a Horse” include Frank McHugh, Joan Blondell, Guy Kibbee, Carol Hughes, Sam Levene and Teddy Hart. The picture was directed byMervyn LeRoy. « Red Schoolhouses Trained Actors, Says Guy Kibbee Memorizing dialogue is an art one can’t learn by mail. After taking a mail order memory course, a man may be able to remember Addison Sims of Seattle, but that wouldn’t help a bit in learning lines from a motion picture script. That’s what Guy Kibbee, First National comedian, believes. Mr. Kibbee aired his views while playing the part of the greeting card company president in “Three Men on a Horse,” which comes to the Theatre on OPO a eee ee eens sreeeeseeeseeseereverecs The finest memory school in the world is a theatrical stock company. Every actor or actress who has played in stock memorizes dialogue easily. “One has to in stock,” he Says. “Sometimes a different play is given every night and the actor has to be quick at learning lines.” Kibbee says that the little red schoolhouse of yore was a memory school. “There you had to memorize lists of dates a yard long, a poem a day, and the line of British sovereigns—just for good measure. It was sweet training, even if we didn’t appreciate it at the time,” he says. “Three Men on a Horse” is x rollicking comedy based on the famous stage play by John Cecil Holm and George Abbott. Besides Kibbee, the east includes Frank McHugh, Joan Blondell, Carol Hughes, Allen Jenkins, Sam Levene and Teddy Hart. The picture was directed by Mervyn LeRoy from the screen play by Laird Doyle. All Dressed Up Oo. Frank McHugh, who has reason to smile at the immense hit he makes in ‘‘Three Men on a Horse?’ the First National comedy now playing at thé. Theatre. Mat No. 119—10c