The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Dec. 2, 1940

Horse Fever (by Eugene Conrad, Zac & Ruby Gabel; produced by Alex Yokel). A poor attempt by Producer Yokel to repeat the success of Three Men on a Horse, this preposterous comedy is like one of the more demented comic strips come to life. It is the story of a family that inherits a race horse which won't start with the rest of the field. Unfortunately the family has an inventive cousin who has already cluttered up the house with a shoe-shining device that pops out of the wall, a musical chair that plays...

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