Mae West: Qualifications

Shortly after "Diamond Lil" was declared a success by New York's critics in 1928, articles poured forth about the actress, playwright, and all-around dynamo MAE WEST.
• • . . . Previous to her precipitate emergence in "Sex," Miss West had as recommendation the qualifications of Brooklyn nativity, apprenticeship as a child actress in that borough with Hal Clarendon's stock company, and the aforementioned experience in vaudeville and musical shows," the New York City newspaper ran on.
• • She takes some little pride in the fact that, during the variety era, two young men were associated with her as pianists who have since done fairly well on their own. One of them was Harry Richman, who became a somebody in the night clubs and in the last "Scandals," and the other was Jack Smith, whose claim to fame is that he combines the simultaneous accomplishments of whispering and singing baritone.
• • Among the song-and-dance pieces which boasted the blond actress's services were "Sometime" with Ed Wynn and several Shubert extravaganzas. The rumor will not down that in one of these latter she was the shimmying Cleopatra of a song called, with happy inspiration, "Shakespeare's Garden of Love," which Marc Connelly, among others, can — — and will — — still sing for you. ...
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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