Gossip Friday: a Clark Gable Salad and a Greta Garbo Sandwich

From December 1931:

Clark Gable has become a second Greta Garbo. No, no, little Oscar, he’s not walking in the rain and going mysterious on the home folks. It’s simply that he’s become so popular with the lads and lassies who go to the movies that scores of reporters follow him wherever he goes, trying to get hot news about him.

Our faithful secret service makes us follow burning discoveries:

He hates dark suits. If he had his way he’d only wear grey. He dislikes tuxedos because he doesn’t dare have them made in light material.

His one objection to pictures is that he can’t wear grey suits on the screen.

He has a new polo costume and two horses laid by against the day when he’ll have a string.

And–oh, thi is fame–a salad has been named for him.

The Clark Gable Salad, on the MGM commissary menu, consists of green chicory chopped with romaine, a deep covering of hard-boiled eggs and a circle of slivered beets. French dressing.

Which reminds me that the Garbo sandwich now appears on the menu, as well as Garbo salad. But you’ll be fooled on the sandwich because it’s just plain Swiss cheese. The waitress confided that Garbo eats imported Swiss cheese “morning, noon and night.”