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Show Star Appears In $10 Slacks,' ZZ$18(HECoat By RHEII.AH GRAHAM Copyright. 1937, for The Telegram HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 14 Dear diary: FRIDAY . . . Carole Lombard Is ths height of Incongruity in slacks (price $10) and a sable coat (price radio rehearsal. She is nervous, but calms down when Clark Gable makes an unexpected appearance. This is the first time Mr. Gable haa felt all the emotions of love, and he looks and acts well, just like a man In love which is a little unusual in this city of sterilized emotion. 8ATIRDAY ... It Is lucky for Mrs. Basil Rath bone that Mr. Basil Rathbone is a very good actor and draws a very good salary. Otherwise, Other-wise, how could she give so many, and such large, parties? . . . Interesting Inter-esting couples present include Bin-nie Bin-nie Barnes, with fiance Jean Negu-lesco; Negu-lesco; ditto the always-ready-for-a-party Virginia Bruce and J. Walter Wal-ter Ruben, who march altarward next Saturday; Norma Shearer, with new boy friend David Niven and the rest of filmland's "who's VhoZ SUNDAY . . . To the early showing show-ing of "Club Des Femmes," starring Danielle Darrieux. For sheer gaiety of motion, this is one of the best films seen by your correspondent this year. The picture is French, but completely explained by subtitles. sub-titles. MONDAY '. Lunch in the green room at Warner's. . . . The costumes here are colorful perhaps per-haps more than those inside them. Henry Fonda plows through some baked halibut in the dazsling uniform uni-form of a gentleman of the Civil war period. Sideburns give his face a somber express. . . . Bette Davis, her hair a cluster of cute curls, wears a dressing gown and talks shop with Director Willie Wyler. TUESDAY . . . On Santa Claus lane (nee Hollywood boulevard), just in Urns to catch the nightly evening parade to advertise Christmas Christ-mas i. e., a brightly lighted float with six golden reindeer pulling a sled containing Santa Claus and film folk tonight Anne Shirley, Mickey Rooney, and 13-year-old Leatrice Joy Gilbert, very attractive and the image of her mother. WEDNESDAY . . On stage for the premiere of Warners' "Your Hollywood Parade." . . . Ths performers per-formers are very nervous. . Gary Cooper fiddles with his watch chain, pulls his hair, scratches his neck. . . . Bette Davis gulps water, coughs, rubs her forehead and wiggles wig-gles from one foot to the other. So does Olivia de Havilland. . . . Basil Rathbone looks near collapse. . . . The show is the best to emanate from a studio. THURSDAY ... The whole town dines at the Troc cellar before M.-G.-M.'s preview of "Man-Proof." . . . Gary Cooper munches sedately sedate-ly with wife Sandra. . . . Fred MacMurray and his not-so-well wife are with Barbara Stanwyck, who wears a woolen beret old tweed suit, and is the least glamorous-looking glamorous-looking woman In the room. But Robert Taylor loves her, so why worry T |