• • Correspondent Elizabeth Yeaman thrilled her readers by announcing, "Excitement will pick up when Mae West gets into town on Sunday."
• • Yeaman explained, "This actress-playwright has had a stormy career, on more than one occasion being hailed into New York courts to defend herself against the charges of immodesty on the stage. You may have seen her a couple years ago when she came to the Biltmore Theater [California] in Diamond Lil, of which she was both the author and the star."
• • Added Yeaman, "Paramount is bringing her out from New York to make her film debut in Night After Night. Since, on the stage, she is fond of playing scarlet ladies, it is presumed that she will have a similar role in this picture. At least the title suggests that the picture might contain such a part.
• • Of course, Mae West would not be only attraction in the film.
• • According to Elizabeth Yeaman, Mae "will have strong competition in Nancy Carroll, Wynne Gibson, George Raft, and Allison Skipworth. The plot concerns the dramatic events that take place during twelve hours in an aristocratic old mansion that has been converted into a speakeasy."
• • And here's the line that will whip your cream: "With the exception of Nancy Carroll, all the players selected for the cast are quite capable of playing heavy character roles," Yeaman noted, "so you may look for some curdling melodrama in Night After Night when it is released. But do not count on that title, for it may be changed again before it reaches the theaters."
• • Along the way, Paramount Pictures dropped Nancy Carroll and cast Constance Cummings instead for the role of the heiress Jerry Healy.
• • Source: Hollywood Citizen News
• • Byline: Elizabeth Yeaman
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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