From February 1937: One of the shortest flights on record was Clark Gable’s trip to New York. He planned a 10-day vacation to see plays, especially “Idiot’s Delight”, which he is to do for the films. He saw “Idiot’s Delight”, but he also discovered it was the delight of his fans to mob him wherever he went. So Mr. G., disguised as an unidentified citizen, sneaked through the Holland Tunnel to Newark and grabbed a plane back to Hollywood. Incidentally, when he left for the East, the Sunday airport sightseers were treated to something a little extra when Carole Lombard handed her hero quite a demonstrative send-off. ______ New this…

I’m not going to make a promise I can’t keep like that I promise to post a new blog update every day. But I decided it would be nice to have a weekly feature. So every Friday, I will be posting a new gossip item from vintage newspapers or magazines about Clark. Sometimes I’ll post one about his costars too. These will all be little gossip blurbs that appeared in magazines or newspapers at the time. Some even from vintage radio shows. Today’s the first Gossip Friday, so here’s our inaugural blurb from August 1937: The deepest mystery of the month: why Clark Gable sat on a curb before Carole Lombard’s house…