play Three Men on a Horse

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"Three Men on a Horse" is a 1935 Broadway comedy play about a mild-mannered greeting card writer with an uncanny knack for picking winning horses, leading to chaotic entanglements with gamblers.

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instanceOf stage play
countryOfOrigin United States
firstPerformanceDate 1935
firstPresentedAt Broadway
genre comedy
hasCharacterType gamblers
hasSubject greeting card writing
horse racing
intendedAudience general theatre audience
mainCharacter mild-mannered greeting card writer
medium theatre
narrativeFocus horse race betting
narrativeTone comic
notableFor portrayal of an everyman with an uncanny knack for picking winning horses
originalLanguage English
plotSummary A mild-mannered greeting card writer with a talent for picking winning horses becomes entangled with gamblers.
setting United States
structure three-act play
theme gambling
luck
ordinary life disrupted by chance
timePeriodOfWork 1930s
workType dramatic work

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Jerome Chodorov wrote play Three Men on a Horse