Modern Screen (Dec 1949 - Nov 1950)

MY PLANS FOR GABLE (Continued from page 52) Then I closed my eyes and was somehow perfectly content. I was" just another tired traveler as far as the people of this hamlet were concerned. They didn't know me from Adam nor did it make any difference. I was just a man who wanted to sleep, and what could be more natural? Fm not sure why. but I got a feeling out of that which I have since tried — and almost always unsuccessfully, to recapture many times. Because that would be the perfect life for me when I am not working: to be able to go among people, mix closely with them and be accepted just for myself. Actually I can't, of course. Now. people don't mob me and tear off my sleeves for souvenirs, or anything like that. They always seem nice and friendly — sort of treat me as an acquaintance. But still — well I know they're really looking on me as a curiosity, as a movie star. Not that I'm crying bitter tears about the situation. I worked hard to get where I am. I wanted it. and I am grateful for the way things turned out, But the longing to mingle as just an ordinary citizen is always there and it gets stronger whenever vacation time comes around. forbidden pleasures . . . It's vacation time now. By the time you are reading this. I'll have left Hollywood for . . . Tm not just sure where. I know what I'd like to be doing. Fd like to be in Chicago, for instance, just meandering through the Loop or getting all confused finding my way through the maize of aisles in Marshall Field's store on State Street. Fd like to be in New York, caught in the thick of its sidewalk life; maybe trying to force myself through the lunch crowd in the garment section just below Times Square or gawking along Broadway watching the window chefs in the quicksandwich joints slice away at their monstrous turkeys and j hams. There's a stroll I could make up Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, or through Grand Circus Park in Detroit, or winding around with Milk Street in Boston. All these things I did once — when I was a struggling actor. But they are not for me any more. If I tried it now. . . . Once I saw a Philadelphia policeman heaving and pushing in his efforts to rescue a beautiful movie starlet from an admiring crowd and, in the midst of the melee, he looked at her and said, "Girlie, you may be a queen in Hollywood but right here in Philadelphia, you're a public nuisance!" Well, I don't think Fd be a public nuisance. As I say, people on the streets don't mob Clark Gable, movie star, even in the big cities. But let's face it: I do attract that uncomfortably "special" attention. So — while I'll probably head for New York on my vacation, it will be just to pop out here and there along Times Square to catch the shows, and then pop back to more secluded surroundings again. I may go to Europe afterward. 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