Gossip Friday: Life Doesn’t End at Forty, Clark

From May 1937, this is a reader letter in response to this article where Clark claims that life ends at forty:

If Clark Gable really believes that “Life Ends at Forty”, let me remind him of a few gents who are over forty and doing very nicely, thank you. Lewis Stone is a fine example of what a man can do after he is forty; Wallace Beery isn’t slipping; Lionel Barrymore is not exactly on the shelf; although Warner Baxter may have a few gray hairs , we don’t stop to count them when we go see one of his pictures.

Wake up, Clark! You sound like an old maid school teacher worrying about the Townsend Plan. We are going to enjoy your pictures as long as you will let us, and if you are worried about Robert Taylor, ease your mind. You never were a Screen Lover, thank goodness, but you’re a whiz of an actor. –Mrs. R.A. Collins, Wichita Kansas.