Gossip Friday: Crowd around Mickey

From February 1937:

Outside the commissary at MGm we saw Spencer Tracy, Clark Gable and about forty other big stars and directors huddled in a group around something, so interested and awed by what they saw that their mouths were practically hanging open down to their knees. After forcing our way through to the center of the group to see wgar so fascinated these sophisticates, we discovered that Mickey Rooney was keeping them all agog with his skill at hi-li, that little game where you hit a ball against a paddle. All were clamoring for the first chance to try it after Mickey got through!

Mickey and Clark had a sort-of friendship.  Mickey apparently idiolized Clark which Clark at first found flattering then irritating. Mickey is one of the few classic stars alive and well today. No word on if he still plays hi-li!

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