Mae West: A Personal Recollection

Jonathan Williams Remembers Mae
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. . . I remember in the 1930s, during a family visit to Hendersonville, ending up in the movie palace on Patton Avenue, Asheville.
In the sideshow between movies was a lady named Mae West. How this came to pass I have never found out. Mae West was a phenomenon far beyond the Heaven, Hell, and Earth of my righteous Baptist relatives. I made it a life's work to find more people like Mae West. I've done pretty well.
(One enticing instance: On Christmas Day, 1951, Marlene Dietrich, prepared dinner for just Francine du Plessis and modest, rustic me. It was at the home of Francine's step-father, Alexander Liberman (art director of Condé Nast), in the East Sixties of New York City. The host and hostess were out at a party, and so were the other house guests: Salvador Dali and Francis Poulenc. Marlene took charge: beluga caviar, with Dom Pérignon champagne. . . .

a personal recollection written by:
Jonathan Willliams, Skywinding Farm, Scaly Mountain, North Carolina
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