1937 JANUARY 23 Collier’s Magazine Earl Hurst Cover Skiing Hollywood Horse

Description: Acceptable condition. This Week January 23, 1937 Cover by Earl Oliver Hurst THOMAS WALSH Woman Expert. He didn't know about love. Page 7 THE SHORT SHORT STORY Strip-Tease Sal, by Heywood Broun. Page 10 J. D. RATCLIFF Turn On the Light. Death rays for germs. Page 11 W. B. COURTNEY Rehearsal in Spain. Show window of the next war. Page 12 FREDERICK HAZLITT BRENNAN Hollywood Horse. Movie madness at the race track. No images scanned yet. Note: there are two OCR-algorithms you can select between. Asgård and Ceylon. Both are good algorithms. If you get blank with one, try the other ----------- 2 ----------- A stableful of reasons why a good man in his own line shouldn't take up horse racing, this being the his- tory of the Horn-Pont silks, the track's most sensational headache Believed in Gunga Din? Thrice phooey and a couple of horse laughs, fella. Now, don't get me wrong. Z. M. Hornzer is the greatest living genius in pictures today. When it comes to putting something up on that screen Z. M. is tops. But Z. M. should ought to know better than to set himself up as a race-horse man. Listen, look -horses took Z. M. for the worst ride he ever had. And that includes Wall Street in '29 and his second wife in '34. I ought to know, shouldn't I? Ain't I been the chief's stooge for fifteen years? TT WAS terrific. This horse thing, I mean. And none of us had a moment's notice. For two years Z. M. never gave Santa Anita a tumble. Whilst the rest of the picture mob was over there losing their shirts every Saturday afternoon, Z. M. stuck to the picture business. He called story conferences for Sat- urday afternoon. The writers on the Mastodon lot said it was Little Napoleon stuff, but that's very un- fair. Z. M. don't look like Napoleon and he never tried to act like him. Z. M. is too tall, for one thing; and he's too gentle, for another thing. Z. M. kept away from Santa Anita simply because horses hadn't en- tered into his consciousness. Y'know? Well, one Saturday afternoon at the close of the spring meeting Irene Delpont drags Z. M. over to Santa Anita. It was romance-the love thing, see? So Z. M. goes over to Santa Anita; and not knowing which horse is which he starts to betting. Of course, he can't lose. He hits two long shots on the nose, wins on the daily double and winds up with a wild parlay on the last three races. "Why, Z. M., you big fraud!" squeals Irene, "You Page 14 EDWIN MULLER Down to Earth. Keep your skis under control. Page 16 ----------- 2 ----------- control. Page 16 GEORGE CREEL What You Pay For. savings account. Your Washington Page 17 SIDNEY HERSCHEL SMALL The Ghosts of Spring. Blindman's bluff. Page 18 ERNEST HAYCOX Deep West, Part IV. War on the range. Page 20 ALBERT RICHARD WETJEN The Lucky Man. Safe in slug harbor. Page 22 ROSE and BOB BROWN Hunting of the Snack. Hints for refrig- erator raiders. Page 28 FRELING FOSTER Keep Up with the World. Trifles. Page 48 FAITH BALDWIN The Heart Has Wings (Conclusion). Happy Landing. Page 63 EDITORIAL Four Fat Years. Page 70

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