Modern Screen (Jan-Jun 1945)

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Louis MacLoon was about to present Jane Cowl to Los Angeles in "Romeo and Juliet." The call went out for tall men to play the guards of Verona. Being six foot one, Gable was hired. Through the twelveweek run, MacLoon watched him. He was getting ready to produce "What Price Glory?" One of the characters, Sgt. Kiper, was described as lean and hungry-looking. Clark was lean and hungry-looking. The producer offered him the job. His first speaking part on a professional stage. That was fine enough. Yet finer things were to come. MacLoon proved his good angel. When Sgt. Quirt gave notice, he said, "Like to play it, Clark?" All through Clark's opening performance, he stood in the wings, coaching, encouraging. When the curtain fell, he said: "You'll do, my boy." Gable stayed with him till the end of the season, appearing in six plays. One was "The Copperhead," with Lionel Barrymore. Like Josephine Dillon, Barrymore found qualities in Gable that promised well. The two became friends — a friendship that was to bear fruit. Meantime Clark took a job as second lead with a Texas company. Again the leading man left, again the newcomer stepped in. Earning two hundred a week, he saved most of it. Then back to Los Angeles to seek MacLoon's advice — "What do you think of my going to New York?" •"I don't have to think. Go while you've still got money in your jeans. Or you'll never get there — " Josephine went with him. They'd been married almost four years, not too successfully. For months they'd been drifting farther and farther apart. This was to be their final try together. It didn't work out. Early in '29, Clark's wife returned to Los Angeles and filed suit for divorce. To Arthur Hopkins, he presented a let Dear Mr. Delacorte: Once you printed a story about me, called "Sixteen's Er-ker." The reason I mention it is in case you've forgotten that er-ker means okay. Well, I hope fifteen's er-ker for Modern Screen, and twenty and twenty-five, and as long as you care to have it go on living, which is practically forever, I suppose. I really meant to write long ago about the last color layout you did at our house. Mom and I thought it was simply super, and we couldn't get over how wonderful the reproductions turned out. That's one thing I love about your magazine — the beautiful colors. They make me feel cheerful, which is my favorite way to feel. You sort of expect to see the big portraits in color, that's not so unusual. But you turn a black-and-white page, and out pops a home sitting of Deanna Durbin or someone, all red and blue and just laughing with colors. Sometimes, when math gets me down, I take time out for a couple of extra peeks — which is bad for math, but good for morale. Maybe it's good for math too, because you go back feeling sort of refreshed. 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