Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 24, 1931

Monday, Aug. 24, 1931

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Born in Cadiz, Ohio 30 years ago, Cinemactor Gable got his first stage experience as prop-boy in a stock company. He got his broad shoulders at a lumber camp after the stock company disbanded at Portland, Ore. An impressively ugly stage performance as Killer Mears in The Last Mile caused Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to select him for subordinate roles in half a dozen gangster pictures. In A Free Soul he was the gangster whose rude but persuasive gallantries caused Norma Shearer to violate the Producer's Code.* Nicknamed "Dutchy," Actor Gable receives more letters than any other male star in Hollywood, hopes to retire in ten years, likes horses. A salad named after him is made of lettuce, grapefruit, cottage cheese.

^{*Stating the moral requirements and restrictions governing
U. S. cinema productions and theoretically adhered to by the (Hays)
Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America, Inc.}