Gossip Friday: Carole Says Pay Up!

From November 1938:

Ever since that ancient Christmas day when Lew Cody tied a holly and red ribbon bedecked cow to Mabel Normand’s front porch, the film colony has had its ribbers and jokers.

Carole Lombard and Clark Gable, of course, are its ace gagsters. Carole’s latest contribution to humorous Hollywoodiana was made when she had the renewal of her contract with Artist Manager Myron Selznick so adroitly reworded that instead of having to pay him 10 percent of her salary, he was to pay her the same percentage of his daily business. Having signed and filed it, you can imagine the consternation of the astute Selznick when Carole’s attorney called to demand her first day’s cut!