Gossip Friday: Tennis Can Get You a Gable!

From October 1936:

What’s the most necessary requisite for a young actor or actress coming to Hollywood, we are often asked. And here’s our answer, children. Learn to play a cracking good game of tennis.

 Tennis has broken more ice in Hollywood than a spring thaw. Tennis has been the means of young people breaking into important friendships.  Tennis has been the ladder in which young hopefuls have climbed. Albeit, it hasn’t kept them there.

 Why, believe it or not, it was Carole Lombard’s ability to smack the ball across the net at a certain prankish party that convinced Clark Gable she was the girl. And if tennis can get you Gable, it must be a good game in Hollywood.