Gossip Friday: Mobbed by Fans

From May 1934:

Clark Gable came home from his personal apperance tour minus dozens of handkerchiefs, twenty-seven coat buttons–and a dress-shirt sleeve. The crowd in Kansas City was so dense that the crack train he was on was delayed thirty minutes while the police broke through the mob and got Gable aboard. In Baltimore, police refused to let him sleep in his own hotel! A huge crowd had massed in the corridor outside his room. He anticipated seeing many old friends in New York–but didn’t see one of them. He had no time, and they couldn’t crash through the crowds!

On that same page of gossip was this piece about the future Mrs. Gable:

After playing with Carole Lombard in “Bolero,” George Raft received a gift from her–a slice of ham cut in the shape of a heart.