Gossip Friday: Teacher’s Pets

From December 1939:

You can bet your bottom dollar that the dramatic students at Christian College, Columbia, Mo., are going to do a lot of hanging around after class to ask questions of their new coach.

Because the new coach is Josephine Dillon Gable–first wife of Clark Gable. And Mrs. Gable isn’t going to answer any questions about him in class. But afterwards she’ll be glad to.

And she thinks she knows just about what they will ask. “People always ask the same things about Clark,” she told me…

“Are his teeth false?” “Yes.”

“Are his ears pinned back?” “Yes.”

“What does he like best to eat?” “Cheese and crackers and milk.”