Wine, Women and Horses (Warner Bros.) (1937)

PUBLICITY Mat 202—20c TRYING HIS LUCK. Barton MacLane tests his familiarity with the goddess of chance at the gaming tables in a tense moment from ‘‘ Wine, Women and Horses,’’ a drama of the racetrack coming Friday to the Strand Theatre. Ann Sheridan and Charley Foy look on. LOOKS TOUGH ON SCREEN, MacLANE IS REALLY MILD He’s a fellow that would scare you to death by his size and fighting features if he stepped out of his car at your invitation to settle a dispute over a traffic mishap: But after he had convinced you it really was your fault — as you had known when the fenders of the ears scraped — the chances are he would offer ta pay the damages for both ears. That’s the sort of fellow Barton MacLane is. Recently while on location for Warner Bros.’ ‘‘ Wine, Women * Horses,’’? with Ann Sheridan which opens next Friaay at cht Strand Theatre, he invited a group of grips and electricians to have lunch with him at a nearby restaurant. They trouped in and sat down at a table, but the waitress refused to serve them. *“You’ll have to sit at the lunch eounter,’’ she said. ‘Nothing doing,’’ Barton said. “At home I eat at a table covered with a table cloth and my friends and I won’t eat at a lunch counter here.’’ Still the waitress refused to ‘serve them. Finally she won and so did MacLane. With well-chosen but gentlemanly remarks concerning the restaurant and its policy he departed with his friends — to drive several miles in to Hollywood where they lunched in style at an exclusive cafe. Barton MacLane first won fame on the screeen with deeds of violence and villainy, and essentially he is today the film’s most outstanding portrayer of virile heman roles. On his five-acre ranch at Encino, where he lives with his father and mother and two sisters, he raises blooded horses and pheasants. He and his father laid the 3500 bricks in the patio of their ranch home and did much of the actual construction work on the ranch. Bart works hard and plays hard. This interviewer’s final chat with him was on one of the most colorful sets ever visited —— the famous Santa Anita race track. Hundreds of extras, some fashionably gowned and others representing every humbler walk in life, thronged the clubhouse and grandstands. Before them on the track were being run as thrilling races as were ever run during the Santa Anita season and they were making the most of it, betting and cheering wildly. MaclLane lost his voice that day and was sent home early with the company ‘‘shooting around him’’ for the balance of the day. Several days of cheering the bangtails had raised havoe with vocal cords already weakened by a severe attack of laryngitis. Page Two | Bridle of Ghampicn | men awit bw endl PIO Uncovered In Studio Horse racing history of a quarter century ago was relived at Warner Bros. studio recently with the discovery by a property man of a bridle worn by Dan Patch, whose world record for pacing has never been broken. In assembling stable and and riding equipment for “Wine, Women and Horses,” a melodrama of the racetracks featuring Barton MacLane and Ann Sheridan, the prop man made the interesting discovery. Identity of the bridle was established by a small silver plate bearing Dan _ Patch’s name, the inscription, “To the greatest of them all,”’ and the initials, ““B.D.H.” Dan Patch, owned by M. W. Savage, established his record in the early 1900's. “NITA" NOT DUM, KNOWS FEED TIME ‘*Nita,’’? the trained movie horse, recently bolstered her claim to being the smartest creature in the equine kingdom. Nita, well-known to the theatregoers through her work in ‘‘ Three Men on a Horse,’’ ‘‘Down the Stretch’’ and other pictures, now has an important role as the thoroughbred race horse, ‘‘ Lady Luck’’ in the Warner Bros. film, ‘“Wine, Women and Horses,’’ featuring Barton MacLane, Dick Pureell, Peggy Bates, Ann Sheridan and Walter Cassel. In this movie Nita suffers a badly injured leg. MacLane and *Purcell bandage the injured mem ber and take the horse to be nursed back to health. ‘*Nita understands everything,’’ explained Ike, the horse’s trainer, to Director Louis King. ‘‘T7’ll just bandage her leg, tell her to limp and she’ll limp.’’ Sure enough, Nita understood. She obligii gly limped into the scene during several rehearsals and then, as the camera started turning for the ‘‘take,’’ things went wrong. Although Nita’s right front leg was bandaged she limped with her left! ‘<Tt’s no use, Mr. King,’’ he said. ‘‘Nita won’t work until after lunch. It’s 12:30 now and she’s hungry.’’ As the company disbanded for lunch Nita knowingly trotted to her feed bag in a corner of the stage and after lunch the scene was filmed with no further trouble! ‘<Wine, Women and Horses’’ opens next Friday at the Strand. PURCELL GADGET DETECTS PLANES Inspired by costly de’avs in the filming of excerior scenes for ‘Wine, Women and Horses’’ at Warner Bros. studio, caused by innumerable airplanes that fly daily over the lot, Dick Pureell DICK PURCELL Mat 105 10c and Chuck Lag, sound technician, are perfecting an invention which warns of approaching. aircraft that spoil certain ‘‘takes.’? ‘¢Wine, Women and Horses,’’ co-starring Barton MacLane and Ann Sheridan, opens Friday at the Strand Theatre for three days. Mat 201—20ce LOVELY ANN SHERIDAN, Warner Bros. starlet, who appears in ‘*Wine, Women and Horses’’ at the Strand. ANN SHERIDAN OF MOVIES LAUGHS AT DIETING IDEA Ann Sheridan was delightedly enjoying a chocolate eclair filled with rich cream. And that was the last straw. Here in front of our very eyes she had consumed a lunch before which, according to theory or legend or something, any movie star: with a thought for her beauty and figure should have quailed in horror. California Boast Again Made Good The boast that any location typifying any country or section of the United States can be found in Southern California was made good again a few weeks ago. Required to provide a large, old-fashioned house of the square, box-like type common to the Middle-West, for scenes in *“‘Wine, Women and Horses” featuring Barton MacLane, Dick Purcell, Ann Sheridan and Peggy Bates, Warner Bros. location experts found just what they wanted within five minutes drive from the studio. Located in a quiet residential section of Glendale, the house is one of the city’s landmarks. *““Wine, Women and Horses’? comes to the Strand Theatre next Friday. THE STORY At a race track near Chicago, Jim Turner (Barton MacLane), inveterate gambler and incurable optimist, and Valerie (Ann Sheridan), a square shooter and good sport like Jim, part company after winning and losing huge sums. They agree to meet at Saratoga with Jim stopping off at Barrowville enroute. At Barrowville Jim meets George Mayhew (Dick Purcell) and Eight Ball (Eugene Jackson), a barbershop bootblack, and replenishes his bankroll gambling on pitching horseshoes. George’s mother (Lottie Williams) and his sister Marjorie (Peggy Bates) run a boarding house and Jim goes there to live. George, a kindred soul in gambling, and Jim go to Bellport Park, nearby, where there is a race meet. Jim meets Broadway (Charley Foy), owner of “Lady Luck,” a thoroughbred racehorse. A mutual bond is established between Jim and Lady Luck. He bets on her and wins heavily. Jim falls in love with Marjorie and wins her away from Preston Barrow (Walter Cassell) when he forswears gambling and promises to get a $20 per week job which represents her idea of respectability. Chirstmas Eve, 1934, finds Jim a night clerk in a small Chicago hotel, playing the horses on paper for his amusement. Jim is given some money by Joe (James Robbins), a pal of Jed Bright (Kenneth Harlan), gambler and owner of race horses, in appreciation for a racing tip. After planning to send the money to Marjorie’s needy mother, Jim uses most of it to pay a broken down actor’s hotel bill. Then he goes out and | runs the remaining money into a big roll gambling and accepts a job from Bright. Marjorie, Jim, Bright, and Joe go to California to the opening of Santa Anita. There Jim is supremely happy but Marjorie is thoroughly disgusted with the track life. Valerie wins thousands on Lady Luck through Jim’s tip on New Year’s day but Marjorie refuses to help them celebrate. Jim, Valerie, and Broadway make a night of it gambling, and Jim wins $20,000. He gives $1,000 to Valerie and the remainder to Marjorie the next morning, George has become a bookmaker and on a visit to Bellport to induce him to quit, Jim discovers Broadway is forcing Lady Luck to run with a bad leg. George and Jim buy the horse after she falls on the track and Jim nurses her back to health. A test run weeks later shows she still has speed. There is a showdown with Marjorie and it develops she has stuck io him through pity and he to her through a sense of responsibility. They part happily — Marjorie to marry Preston; Jim to return to the track and Valerie and Lady Luck. COMol tale 29) wro™ + + Waxy Unany ‘‘Starches and calories 9 sweets! What of your diet what — what — .’’ ‘Don’t you speak of diets to me,’’?’ Ann said severely. ‘‘I think it is a sin the way girls diet. A speck of dry toast, a shred of pineapple — phooey! Some girls don’t eat enough to keep a mosquito alive and believe me, sooner or later, they are going to pay for ate? ‘*But if you don’t diet don’t you pay for it sooner?’’? we asked because we like an argument. ‘““You know — curves in the wrong places and —————.?’’ ‘“Well!’’? Ann snapped back in playful laughter. ‘‘So you are criticising my figure now, are you? You’re warning me of dangerous curves ahead, eh?’’ “‘Not at all,’’ the writer stammered embarrassedly with a quick, admiring glance at her trim figure. ‘*But how do you do it?’’ ‘*¥ never have any trouble putting on weight,’’ she explained, ““because I keep fit through exercise. And, while I don’t want to set myself up as a know-it-all, I believe if other girls would do the same thing they could eat anything they desired without worrying about the consequences. ‘“The trouble is that most girls are too lazy to exercise. They take the easiest way out and often even are lazy in that. I know one girl who starves herself all day only to eat an immense dinner in which she avoids starches but which she _ finishes with cake, pastry or some other rich dessert. — TSKEG iy acan “Of course all girls don’t care for athleties,’’ she said, ‘‘but there is a form of exercise or some sport that should appeal and serve the purpose for every girl. And so she hurried over to the set of ‘‘Wine, Women and Horses,’’? in which she is featured with Barton MacLane, Dick Purcell and Peggy Bates by Warner Bros., and our secret operatives report she consumed two candy bar.’ and a dish of ice cream during the afternoon as a further defy of dangerous curves.