Gossip Friday: Keeping His Promise

From April 1940:

Clark Gable and a friend dashed out of the Waldorf-Astoria in New York and entered a taxi, on their way to the broadcasting station. Clark was due to go on the air in a national hook-up, and they already were frightfully late.
The crowd espied Gable. And that was that. They threatened to overturn the vehicle unless he emerged for all to see, and signed his autograph for then. When he didn’t leave the taxi, and the friend in his excitement shouted to the driver to go through the crowd, the mob actually started to make good their threat.
The actor solved the difficulty by leaning out the window and explaining the reason for his mad haste. He’d be back right after the broadcast, he promised, and would sign as many books and papers as they wished. With that, he was allowed to proceed. (Note: You BET he kept his promise. Clark’s like that.)