Gossip Friday: Mob Scene Expert
From March 1934:
Kansas City–When Clark Gable gets back to Hollywood he can tell Cecil B. De Mille a few things about mob scenes.
The actor paused here last night on his way west and was engulfed by a mob of 2500 women, all screaming for autographs.
The more cunning of his admirers descended to the tracks below the union station and climbed over coal cars to waylay him. The train was held ten minutes while Gable made a personal appearance at a theater.