MUNICIPAL THEATRE
OEAMD DOUBM BUi. One of the most thrilling pictures of horse racihg' ever filmed, "Down the Stretch, ' ' sereens at the Municipal Theatre this evening. Mickey Kooney, Patricia Ellis, Dennis Moore and William Best have the , leading roles'. Though the raees represent the running of the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Handieap, the Arlington Classic and the Gold Cup at Ascot, in England, the scenes aetually were filmed at the fainous Santa Anita track in California and at the training stables and track at Encino, with all the warmth, colour and excitement of the real. races found in the scenes. Mickey Rooney, who made such a hit as Puck in "A Midsfimmer Night 's . Dream, ' 7 and in many other films, has the- principal role, that of a jockey whom no one will engage because of his father, a famous jockey, who was disbarred for throwing a race. William Best, negro stable boy for Mickey, adds no incofisiderable amount of comedy to the thrills of the picture, Others in the. cast deserving special inention are ' Gordon Hart, Gordon Elliott, Virgihia Brissac, Charles Wilson, Joseph Crehan'and Mary Treen. . "Blue Smoke," also on the programme, is an open-air comedy-drama of gypsies and hoxing. "
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 66, 5 April 1937, Page 3
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