• • Variety contained a half-page advertisement for Guido — — "The Master of the Piano Accordion, The Incomparable in His Line," and Mae — — " The Original Brinkley Girl, A Style All Her Own," who were "Engaged Jointly as Headline Features."
• • Despite this public nod to their union, by December 1958 when Mae West was at work on her memoir, she could not bring herself to use Guido Deiro's name in the manuscript, referring to her former mate cryptically as "Mr. D."
• • Though their marriage was supposed to be a secret — — probably because in 1914 Mae West was still legally wed to Frank Wallace — — in fact, Variety printed an announcement about "Mr. and Mrs. Deiro" [that is, Guido Deiro and Mae West together, as a vaudeville act] who were playing at Shea's in Toronto, Canada, for the week beginning 29 November 1913.
• • Mae filed for divorce from Guido Deiro on the grounds of adultery on 14 July 1920. The divorce was granted by the Supreme Court of the State of New York on 9 November 1920. Guido almost immediately re-married for the third time. Mae later said, "Marriage is a great institution. I'm not ready for an institution."
• • Fast forward to 1958. Why was Mae still hiding the truth?
• • By the late 1950s, Guido Deiro [1886-1950] was safely silent in his grave.
• • Mae West's disapproving parents were also dead by then.
• • And even Frank Wallace had been divorced and dispatched by this time.
• • Perhaps the powerful feelings that had attracted her to this Latin lover when she was 20 years old were so overwhelming, it was better to leave that bewitchment without a proper name.
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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