Evening star., 1931-12-13

might be considered his greatest hit In "A Free
Soul" opposite Norma Shearer.
He cast with Greta Garbo in Susan
Lenox Her Fall and Rise" Sporting Blood"
brought him and Madge Evans together. And
in his latest film, Hell Divers" he has one
little love scene with Dorothy Jordan.
Hell Divers" incidentally, is his favorite film
for the very reason that he has only one love
scene It's a mans picture throughout-and
Gable is mans man. % ra~~-s
His chief interests outside of his work are
hunting and fishing. He likes to get out into
the mountains, and 1t is almost impossible to
persuade him to talk at all about his popu-
larity among the women.
Nor is Clark the same man off the screen
that he is on. Like many others in Holly
wood, he has screen personality which out
shines by a considerable margin his real life
personality
Many of his screen roles have given him q
perfect opportunity to assume self-assured-
ness, an Indifference and q demand for COM
plete submission-none of which are apparent
in real life Off the screen Clark is regular,
likeable-and not so different from hundreds of
other men Nor does he pretend or want to be.
Again, perhaps there is reason for his dis
belief that women are crazy about him. Some
have gushed over him, to be sure. But almost
invariably they have been girls who formed
their first impressions from seeing him on the
screen and refused to recognize a difference in
the camera Gable and the real Gable.
THE women with whom he has had the most
intimate associations since coming into pic
lures have been the five he has played with
before the cameras. Not one of them has
"gushed" All of them like him tremendously
and all regard him as fine actor, a regular
fellow and a nice person to work with. He is
just Clark Gable, the real man-not the super
man they later the screen.
If you really want to know about the great
lover" ask Joan Crawford, Norma Shearer,
Madge Evans, Greta Carlo or Dorothy Jordan
five sane girls to whom he has made love.
Every one of them will tell you that he Is one
of the finest fellows she knows, but she won't
mention any of that cave man or great lover
business.
There is only one thing to fear in connection
with Gable. If he continues to be the great
lover, some people may start referring to him
as second Valentino. That not only would
be fatal to his career, but unjust as well.
There never has been and never will be an
other Valentino, despite the efforts of movie
moguls to create one Rudy followed in mo-
bodys footsteps, and nobody will follow in his.
Nor does Gable have TO-
IE is distinct personality within himself
about far removed from Valentino as he
Is from Will Rogers Were Rudy alive and at
the height of his popularity today, Clark still
would be enjoying his present success because
that success belongs to him. and nobody else.
In fact, that success is the very best proof that
can be offered that he is totally different from
Valentino. Nobody likes limitations. They want
the original nothing. There was one Ru-
dolph Valentino. There is one Clark Gable.
And there never will be another of either.
Incidentally, it happens that one of the best
places to hear the praises of Clark Gable sung
is on the M-G-M lot, where he works The
girls who work there are among the strongest
boosters the young man has.
Go talk with them and you will hear all
about him that he's wonderful, brutal
handsome, kind cave-manish heavens
gift to womankind. And when the people q
star works with rave about him that way you
can rest assured that he's out of the ordinary
But you can't get him to talk much about him.
self. He isn't the Dragging kind