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With Jean Harlow, May Robson and Myrna Loy in “ Wife v. Secretary.” Clark Gable, in his U.S. Army Air Corps uniform. T HE success of the first Picture Show Annual dated 1926 was, without any exaggeration, sensational, and its popularity increased year by year until with the 1943 issue, the world-wide shortage of superfine printing paper suspended further publication. This, the nineteenth issue of Picture Show Annual comes to you assured of the welcome heralded by many letters of enquiry. There are many good reasons for the popularity of this publication given by readers who each have their favourite feature. For my part the greatest charm of Picture Show Annual has always been that it brings back memories of favourite films and it revives recollections which have become somewhat dimmed. It has for me the same fascination that my collection of shapshots has. In going through these snapshots I not only see the faces of friends but also the towns and places where they were taken, and I recall the many memories of happy holidays at home and abroad. It is the same with Picture Show Annual. It is not just the faces in any particular photograph, not merely the memory of that particular film, but many other recollections come tumbling into my mind. The photograph showing Clark Gable and Norma Shearer in A Free Soul, for instance. This film was shown in January 1932, when Clark Gable had been in pictures only a few months, his first film being The Painted Desert, shown in 1931. A Free Soul put Clark Gable on the road to stardom, and I well remember at the time the big discussion as to whether a gangster, as Clark Gable was in that film, could be the next most popular film star. A VERY GENTLE LADY A S regards Norma Shearer, my recollections are most pleasing. She was always one of my favourite screen stars, one in the first few, not only for her acting, which was of a high quality, and she was one of the first to put acting before looks. At a time when few producers would have asked a star to sacrifice her beauty to play a role, however good from the standpoint of acting, Norma Shearer volunteered to do so. But