Mae: "Wicked Age" 1927

By September 1927 Mae West was rehearsing the new play she wrote: an expose of the crooked bathing beauty competitions of the 1920s. Anton F. Scibilla - - who was also a producer of Texas Guinan's revue "Padlocks of 1927" - - was billed as the producer of "The Wicked Age."
• • The play's setting is a small seaside town: Bridgeport, New Jersey.
• • The role Mae played was that of the high-strung, ambitious, impatient leading lady Evelyn "Babe" Carson. When her manager takes Babe to task for her ill temper, reminding her that she is hardly the Queen of Sheba, she shoots back with a spritz of Yiddish: "That piker. She was only queen over some Pollacks - - while I'm the queen of all the bathing beauties!"
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Mae West
• • Photo: Mae West • • circa 1927-1928 • •
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