Gossip Friday: Sick and Bored

From May 1937:

Notes on how to pass the time while in bed with influenza, as demonstrated by Clark Gable: Bored by reading, he had a mop handle, minus the mop, brought to him. He tied a paintbrush, artists’ size, on the end, drew funny cartoons on the ceiling! Tired of that, he got a rubber band and a sheet of newspaper, and gean shooting spitballs at the flies in the room. After eight misses, he bagged a horsefly “right between the mirror and the window.” And finally, allowed to leave his bed by his doctor, Clark had the driver’s compartment of his station wagon glassed in, installed a heater and a radio, and took a drive!

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Someone get the man an iPad!