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Show Apologizes for Shortcomings f: . ':7y k : l a : Clark Gabl and horse . '. . CUrlt't popular bacaut h rib himself him-self ... not th hors or fallow players. 'Gone With the Wind' Players Vote Gable 'Regular Fellow' Ing fit aa a fiddle before I start, he says. Powell Is back at his hotel apartment apart-ment after resting in the desert. Myna baa been down In Arlxona recuperating from the flu. It may very well come about that Alan Marshall, who played the murder mur-der victim la "After the Thin Man," will be the screen's leading man of tha year. Ha haa coma along remarkably re-markably since David O. Selanick tint aigned him two and a half yean ago and put him In a minor part in "Tha Garden of Allah" with Mariano Dietrich. Later be waa loaned to M-G-M to play aide-de-camp to Charlea Boyer in "Conquest." Then he was loaned to several of the smaller companies for leading rolea in "B" picture. He ahowed up ao well M-G-M borrowed him again for the top male role oppoaite Luise Reiner and Pauiette Goddard in "Dramatic School." And this summer SeUnlck will cash in by starring Marshall in "Flashing Stream." Marshall may shoot up into sudden sud-den popularity juat as Douglas Fairbanks Fair-banks Jr. end Cary Grant have. When Fairbanks signed to do "The Prisoner of Zen da" for Selanick Sela-nick he received $26,000 for tha assignment as-signment under a three-picture contract con-tract Now he get $100,000 per picture, but he atiU haa two to do for Selanick at the old $26,000 rate. I 1 By MILTON HARKEB HOLLYWOOD, March 21 (INS) Clark Gable' frequent ribbing of himself has made him just aa popular popu-lar at Selmlck as on his bom lot, M-G-M. A good example cornea aa ha makes the seen In "Gone With the Wind" in which he la Insulted befon a large group of men by Rand Brooke, portraying Charlea Hamilton, Scarlet O'Hara's firat husband. Clark, as Rhett Butler, say to Brooks: "I again muat apologise for all my shortcomings." Then he must turn to Leslie Howard, How-ard, playing Ashley Wilkes, excuse himself, toss a barbed remark at Brooke and stride from the room. Gable goes through the scenes, struts out and then turns with a laugh and says: "Boy, waa that exit a hameroo. Does anyone smell anything around here?" Everybody laughs, too, and Howard How-ard pate Clark' on the back. It takes a regular fellow to make fun of himself before a big audience and Cable does It all the time. Looking his old chipper aelf, hut still weak from a year of illness and operations, William Powell probably won't resume screen work unUI May at tha earliest. M-G-M had hoped to get Bill and Myrna Loy going in Tha Return of the Thin Man" ahortly after April L but Powell doesn't feel equal to tha strain. "I want to make aun I'm feel- |