OCR Text |
Show CLARK GABLE IS FEATURED IN NEW DRAMA Steamship and travel services were enlisted by the "ever-bnsy studio stu-dio "prop man" to aid in one of the oddest searches ever brought about by the exigencies of talking picture production. Passports with attached visas, for a journey from . Chicago to Paris, thence to Morocco, thence to Moscow and thence to China had to be duplicated in detail for "Clear All Wires," Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's hilarious drama of the trials and tribulations of a European Euro-pean news correspondent, coming Sunday to the Rivoli theater. From travel services people who had made trips to these different places were located, their passports borrowed, and copied by printers. Finally the entire "set" was complete com-plete for use by Lee Tracy, who plays the principal role as Buckley Buck-ley Joyce Thomas, the fast-talking newspaperman hero of the hilari- ous : thriller. Clark Gable will come to the Rivoli theatre on Wednesday and Thursday in the leading role of "No Man of Her Own," a new drama in which the popular star is supported by two leading women, Carole Lombard and Dorothy Mackaill. Gable has the role of . Babe Stewart, suave card-sharp and devil with women. Because he tries to walk out on her, Dorothy Mackaill, his come-on for his card games, threatens to turn him over to the police, and he is forced to leave town until she cools off. In a small town, he meets Carole Car-ole Lombard, so bored with small town life she's ready for anything. They take a gambler's chance-flip chance-flip a coin. Gable loses and has to marry her. To the girl, however, how-ever, the marriage is the real thing, and before he knows it, the hard-boiled gambler is beginning to fall in love. There is, however, the ex-girl, Dorothy, to be taken care of when the newlyweds get back to New York. Author Zane Grey's fifty-odd novels, among them "The Mysterious Mysteri-ous Rider,' 'the film version of which has been produced by Paramount Para-mount and Is coming to the Rivoli theater Friday and Saturday have an annual sale of approximately 2,500,000 with an all-time record sale of 16,000,000. Harold Bell Wright is said to be the only other contempoiary writer who rivals Zane Grey in this respect. One publishing pub-lishing house in Chicago prints from 5,000 to 7,000 copies of Grey's novels daily. |