January 12, 1933 - Not quite so cold. Nurnbergs still gone. The boys shelled about 9000 bushels of corn today. Every day this week Ronald has been giving me half of his orange if I'd peel it for him. Delmar gave me an apple after school. Read some in the new American after school. Listened to radio after supper, washed 4 pair of hose and embroidered on a block of Evie's new quilt. Mayme called up, the rubbernecks were quite busy.
January 13, 1933 - Nurnbergs absent. Finished giving exams. It just about drove me wild yesterday and today answering foolish questions. Got through early and dismissed at 3:10. I took lesson assignments up to Nurnbergs. Wittlers came after me about 4:00. We played 500 this evening and ate kid candy. Lydia and I talked until 2:30.
January 14, 1933 - Got up at 8 o'clock. Read, talked and tried to help Lydia. Mrs. Wittler is in Atkinson. Her mother is quite ill. We went to Norfolk to the Granada tonite. Saw Clark Gable and Carol Lombard in "No Man of Her Own." It was good. After we went to bed we talked the whole thing over. We were too tired to talk as long as we did last nite.
Here's an interesting bit about "No Man of Her Own" (from wikipedia, of course):
During filming, Gable and Lombard were entirely indifferent to one another, with Lombard in a foul mood due to her recent unpleasant loan-out to United Artists. She spoke of that experience with her usual colorful vocabulary, which Gable was not certain he approved of. No romantic relationship between the stars came about during the making of this picture, with Lombard still married to actor William Powell and still very much in love. While Gable was still married to socialite Rhea Langham, he could not say that he was in love, but he was certainly not interested in Lombard. He was not so distant from Lombard, however, that he did not give her a nickname, calling her "Ma", as his character did in the film. Lombard retaliated by calling him "Pa."
On the last day of filming, Gable presented Lombard with a pair of ballerina slippers with a card attached that said, "To a true primadonna." Lombard got him back when she presented him with a large ham with his picture on it. Gable kissed her goodbye and they did not stay in touch, as Gable found Lombard to be bawdier than he was willing to handle, and Lombard found Gable to be overly conceited. It was not until four years later that their romance began to take off. Gable and Lombard never appeared together in another film, primarily because they became major stars at different studios, which didn't like to lend them out.
And here's the plot:
Gambler Babe Steward (Clark Gable) is in trouble with the law and decides to lie low in a small town. There he meets librarian Connie Randall (Carole Lombard) and attempts to seduce her. They flip a coin to decide whether or not to get married. The coin forces them to get married and Connie soon falls in love with Babe. Babe, meanwhile, continues his conning while telling Connie that he is working on Wall Street. Connie does not suspect anything until she finds Babe's marked cards in his desk. She shuffles the cards and when Babe plays a game of poker, he loses. Babe wants nothing more to do with Connie and leaves for Rio de Janeiro to win big money at cards. But, realizing that he loves Connie, he gives himself in to the police to serve his jail sentence. When Babe returns to a pregnant Connie, he does not suspect that she knows of his deception, but she does not say a word about it and in true Hollywood fashion, we are left to assume that the couple lives happily ever after.
