Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-11-15 | Page 9 | Second Marital Venture of Clark Gable Crashes

Second Marital Venture Of Clark Gable Crashes p 4 6 J 7 I a E 1 Et I w r L. L tg I 4 i A I f L C S 3 Clark Gable and Mrs 1 Gable HOLLYWOOD Nov No 15 UP UP-A UP A strange sequence of real life romances which have colored the career of Clark Gable leading man of the films toda today reached a new milepost with the announcement announcement announcement announce announce- ment that Gable and his second wife formerly Rheta Lachman Lucas wealthy Texas widow had s separated I I Gable made the statement by Ion long on distance telephone from irom New York while Mrs rs Gable left behind in their West Vest Los Angeles home nome when the actor started on his latest vacation vacation Vacation Va cation tw two months mo ago conferred with Ivar Parker her lawyer Mrs Gable mother of two children children children chil chil- dren and 11 years the actors actor's senior married him in 1931 They separated ed once onee before and it lasted seven weeks Gables Gable's only comment made to studio officials who sought confirmation confirmation mation of rumors of oC the parting was Mrs Gable and I have separated and a property settlement has been reached Any statement on a divorce must come from rom Mrs Gable An arrival in Hollywood from New York was Mrs Clark Gable No nee 1 1 Josephine Dillon dra DIllon dra dramatic matic teacher who pulled Clark off oft offa a telephone trouble shooters job to I start him on tho the road to cinema fame tame cinema Film colony gossips whetted their tongues with reports of a rift in the Gable home for tor some weeks after tho the actor left suddenly on a trip to South America The haired dark gra gray eyed eyed actor son of or a Cadiz Ohio oil all man had tried everything from traveling salesmanship to oil drilling in Ok Ohm Okla Oklahoma la- la homa before beCore Miss Dillon took hImin him himIn himin in hand 12 years ago married him I and made a stock company actor out of the future screen lover of Greta Garbo and Jean Harlow I f It was not until seven years later that Miss Dillons Dillon's training bore re re- re suits Gable acting in a astock stock company company com corn pany version of The Last Mile written by an Oklahoma murderer caught the eye of Lionel Barr Barry Barry- m more ore He got Gable a screen test at Metro Mayer the actor signed a contract and a year later was was' divorced by Miss Dillon Two weeks afterward Gable married the former Miss Lachman his present wI wife c. c