Begonias v. Gable

In need of $374,915 for a series of exhibits, largely for children, planned for the next five years, Philadelphia's Academy of Natural Sciences held a meeting last week to discuss ways & means of raising money, invited some of the city's best brains and fattest purses. Also present were Princeton's patriarchal Zoologist Edwin Grant Conklin and Columbia's learned Paleontologist William King Gregory. Up rose Lawyer Henry Sturgis Drinker, an Academy trustee.

"Would you rather have your children more interested," inquired Trustee Drinker, "in the love life of marmots, magpies and mosquitoes than in the love life of Joan Crawford and Clark Gable? If you help us get this money . . . we will have your children so interested in the love life of birds, bats and begonias that they will forget all about Joan and the rest of the movie stars. Instead of the movie magazines, you will find the publications of the Academy on their reading tables."

Than normal, two-fisted, out-of-doors- loving Clark Gable, no man might sympathize more with Lawyer Drinker. Breaking out of a clinch before the cameras with Jeannette MacDonald last week in Hollywood, able Clark Gable declared: "Picturegoers don't want performances in which the actor mugs all over the screen. ... I mean, lingering embraces and prolonged osculation are no longer necessary."

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