Radio varieties (Sept 1940-June 1941)

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Down on the Farm By Clark Gable FARMER IN THE DELL (upper left) C4ark Gable "rakes the meadow sweet with hay" as he perches precariously atop the hurricane deck of a land-lubbing clipper on his new twenty-acre Encino ranch. AT HOME ON THE RANGE (upper right) Farmer Clark Gable spends his days idly playing with his dog, or pet turtle, inspecting his trees, riding his horses, in his workshop, "fixing up" the place H FTER ALL these years, here I am right back where I started from — down on the farm. As I ride my bucking tractor over my newly-acquired few acres out here in California, I am carried back to the beginning of these reminiscences which, in compar ison with life on the farm today, is unforgettable proof that times do change. My earliest recollections of farm life goes back to the shores of Conneaut Lake in Pennsylvania. My mother had died when I was seven months old, so I spent my earliest years on the farm of my grandparents, Charles and Nancy Gable, near Meadville. About all that I recall now of those farm days is that I led a lonely life for a child. The active years in many varied occupations have erased the more WHEN A SPADE'S A SPADE (lower left) Clark Gable's answer to that one is, "When you've got to turn dirt with one." IT'S "FARMER GABLE" NOW (lower right) Joctkey to a tractor is but one of the many chores engaged in by Gable on his ranch.