Gable's long rod

[entredeuxguerres]

Those of you whose daily routine doesn't include a perusal of ebay's "vintage rod" category may have overlooked this bibelot:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Actor-Clark-Gab ... 3ccc98ebbf" target="_blank

Been listed at the same price for months. However, another at a considerably higher price actually sold...or at any rate, disappeared from the listings.

Despite the dramatic look of intense concentration on the King's face, this has to be a posed photo, because one doesn't flyfish from a seat on a rock, with rod case & other paraphanalia spread at one's feet...or (not that it would be particularly unpleasant) a beautiful blond clinging to one's shoulder.

[bobfells]

I've seen photos of Gable skeet-shooting with John Barrymore circa 1935. Perhaps we could label those as "Gable's long gun." In any event, the perplexed lady sitting next to the King, is his wife at the time (late 40s), Lady Sylvia Ashley. She got around - not only was she married to the King of movies of that day, but she was the widow of Doug Fairbanks Sr, the King of the Silents (so to speak).

[entredeuxguerres]

the perplexed lady sitting next to the King, is his wife at the time (late 40s), Lady Sylvia Ashley. She got around

Indeed she did--a bosom friend of Shearer & Swanson, but I wouldn't have recognized her; swell shirt she's wearing. Swanson related (without any apparent remorse) that her introduction of Sylvia to Doug destroyed her long friendship with Mary Pickford.

[sepiatone]

the perplexed lady sitting next to the King, is his wife at the time (late 40s), Lady Sylvia Ashley. She got around

Indeed she did--a bosom friend of Shearer & Swanson, but I wouldn't have recognized her; swell shirt she's wearing. Swanson related (without any apparent remorse) that her introduction of Sylvia to Doug destroyed her long friendship with Mary Pickford.

Swanson seemed to always be instigating or matchmaking. I recently read somewhere, I believe in the new Raoul Walsh book, that when Walsh finally divorced Miriam Cooper, Swanson threw Walsh a party. On the flip Von Stroheim and ?someone else threw Miriam a party.

[Sisterluke]

You know when I first saw that title, I was thinking of something else for some reason

Anyway, there were some funny exchanges between Lady Sylvia Ashley and Mary Pickford according to Whitfield's book. Apparently the ladies were on the same flight at one point during the 1930s and Pickford was carrying her box of diamonds and rubies in her lap. When Lady Sylvia Ashley insisted on sitting next to Pickford she asked about the jewels and Pickford bragged that Douglas Fairbanks had given her this jewel and that jewel "as a tuesday gift" etc.etc.

[Lokke Heiss]

I've seen photos of Gable skeet-shooting with John Barrymore circa 1935. Perhaps we could label those as "Gable's long gun." In any event, the perplexed lady sitting next to the King, is his wife at the time (late 40s), Lady Sylvia Ashley. She got around - not only was she married to the King of movies of that day, but she was the widow of Doug Fairbanks Sr, the King of the Silents (so to speak).

Wow. So she went 'from King to King'?