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V & tv:-':-- -- Clark Gable Stood Hie Ground Long Enough to Satisfy Lor Angeles Federal Court of the Falsity of Charges of Mrs Violet Wells Norton That He Was the He-M- SjijS: Father of Her Daughter By Marjorie Driscoll cause he knew nobody would believe him He rallied his best eloquence and eventually persuaded the young woman to put on he clothes and leave Wallace Beery escaped being too-willi- where the big HOLLYWOOD— scared rabbits away from the little girls It’s no gag masFor nearly every culine star director or casting bureau Thirteen-Year-Ol- d Gwendo- line Norton (Above) Who Came from England A) Be Central Figure in One of Hollywood’s Most Bizarre Courtroom Dramas the object of the old badger game because the husband of the wpman In the case talked too much in the hearing of a friend — who head knows from experience — costly happened to be a lodge Mothexperience in some cases— that for er of Beejry’s convention is still an unpleasant memsheer deadly persistence melodramatic The plot was reaching ory in Hollywood The men who sell ideas and nothing-barre- d technique climax in Beery's its exhibto the the there is no equal to the young woman producers product own home with the "initors these often bring exhibitors to who wants a chance in the movies or jured” husband dramatia tribute from her film favorite annual conventions and the companies cally making his deThe feminine stars usually are more try to stage entertainments that will mands and the "erring" wife dissolved in tears — when Beery gave a signal and in walked a troop of large and husky witnesses Robert Taylor recently had to cut short a vacation in Honolulu because of a sudden outLoquacious Accusative Mrs Norton Was Conbreak of gossip connectvicted of Misuse of the Mails and Clapped Behind ing his name with that Bars But Declared She Still Believed Gable Was of an heiress credited Her Former Lover with movie ambitions When radio gossip-reporteherself around the neck of her prey began to chat about romance blooming in the moonlight he sailed long enough for a candid camera to do its dastardly work — and then trouble! for the mainland on the next boat a makes while Taylor Consequently Approach to stars by letter or telepicture in England he'll have a male phone is well safeguarded Few stars bodyguard along delegated by MOM or directors will answer telephones un-t- ii to be the star's shadow a3 a preventive they know who measure against gossip and extortion of them won’t answer at all a ists caller must leave Movie notables are fib more1' safe name and number from extortion plots in England than and is called back if in the United States Recently one both are recognized John Michael Biggs a recently discharged soldier pleaded guilty in London's Old Bailey Court to attempting to mulct Evelyn Laye beautiful singing star of stage and screen of $5000 He had previously attempted to obtain n money by menaces from Beryl Sidney another actress A similar ' attempt at extortion in d screen which Nancy Carroll beauty was involved recently came to Sometimes Police Guarding Stars Against Feminine Admirers Make a Mistake In Hollywood Barbara Stanwyck Is Shown' Mussed Up After Officer Who Didn’t Recognize light Recently driving through HollyHer Forcibly Detached Barbara from Robert Taylor at Hollywood Premiere wood Clark Gable was pursued by four women in a car who got so close send them home lp a pleasant mood fortunate although the recent trouble that they scraped his fender before he of Joan Crawford Is fresh in mind Several weeks after this party whirled his big car into a welcome aland there’s hardly a woman screen nowhich took the form of a dance in a ley stepped on the gas and escaped table who hasn’t received obscene let- - Western picture set a charge was Returning to his studio dressing-roomen ters from perverse made by a girl who said she was one day Gable found a wide-eye- d a guest that she had been assaulted Most of the cases of girl calmly sitting there waiting are merely annoying now and then Several stars “Were named as being for him He fled as she snatched at’ one develops serious proportions him Smong the guests present ' The district attorney's office ’Checked ’Clark Gable won the plaudits of “I just wanted to touch him” she told studio police' They didn’t find out Hollywood when he chose to face in up the etory then the investigation open court the wild accusations of was dropped-- but studios hastily put how she got into the carefully guarded barn parties od the list of Inadvisable Violet Norton the dumpy middle-age- d studio “ Englishwoman who Insisted — and still entertainments for sales conventions Hollywood secretaries and chauf- n beinsists— that Gable is the father of Long before the feurs especially those employed by strike her daughter Gable’s two came popular in labor strifethe tech- - male- - stars and- - directorsda' double 7 wives bore himTHd“cSiIdreh nlque was being used by persistent duty The other half of their job is to feminine admirers and ambitious girls fend off the movie-ma- d ladles who are Through' a barrage of rambling letA famous 'director came back to bis ' thrillingly ready to “do anything in the ters from Mrs Norton Gable kept his But when She wrote a deapartment one night and there sat a world” for a chance on the screen temper mand for money she was arrested In public places the orly recourse perfectly strange young woman clad tried and convicted of misuse of the in a’pair of his pajamas and wtth her of badgered stars and directors Is “igAGaown garments casually scattered about nore and duck” They 'have no hesitamails sweetheart who rejected ble's suit ih his lumberjack days came the room tion about taking to their heels when e girl neadinglFeiF at the IjlmeTMrsr Norton said he was blinked in astonishment wifh determination in her eye w way In England It happened to be his secretary’s day The advent of the candid camera has The aftermath nf the MGM “hayoff so there he was all alone with brought a new terror into thaJives of mow party” at the HS1 Roach studio trouble be so' easyTor thepursued that was ii featureLof a film salesmen's - He didn’t dare to call for help be-- some designing young lady to wrap well-know- n V- rs star-pesteri- NF’ Wallace n Beery Screen Famous Villain Narrowly Escaped Badger Game 'Now He Is Seldom Seen With- out His Adopted 'Daughter Carol Ann But She Has Been Threatened by Kidnapers Even long distance calls are treated thus Fahatical fans have called stars by phone from as far away as London! Secretaries and studio staffs keep watch on the mail and sidetrack-anythinthat looks suspicious Anything really menacing goes into a cellophane envelope to preserve fingerprints and then to the authorities Most of the time the stars never hear of the letters until they read in the newspapersthat someone has been arrested ' system's pfotecTTiouses and estates watchmen patrol grounds at night assisted by large and Mrs Jane Bates 38 of Oakland Calir Mother or Four Was Arrested on the Charge of Attempting to Extort $500 from John Bolesi short-tempere- dogs and the first word In the vocabulary of every Hollywood butler is “No” But still the masculine stars and the directors rely principally upon two safety rules: “Take plenty of“” witnesses along” ‘’When in doubt ' —run” ' Gable with One Girl He Didn't Run from — Fran Docr-fle- r Sweetheart Who Turned Him Down in flis Oregon Lumberjack Her TestiDays mony Helped Upset Mrs Violet Norton’s Charges -- - It-w- Copyright :L v 1337 ' v- I : ! 7" |