Mae West: Clem Lines

The Greenwich Village restaurant-cabaret that inspired MAE WEST's play "The Drag" has closed. During 2006, there was a glorious exhibition here: "Onstage Outlaws: Mae West and Texas Guinan in a Lawless Decade." The attendees included Jessica Lange and Sam Shepard, who were thoroughly fascinated by this history-based exhibit.
• • Mae West worked on this gay drama-comedy during the latter part of 1926. This is the first time the line "Come up and see me sometime" was used in one of Mae's plays. That line was given to a drag queen.
• • Here is a tiny excerpt from "The Drag" — — by MAE WEST
• • • • Taxi-Driver: Do you boys want me to wait?
• • • • Clem: You better wait, you great, big, beautiful baby.
• • • • Taxi-Driver: I don't get you guys.
• • • • Clem: If you don't, you're the first taxi-driver that didn't.
• • • • Taxi-Driver: What do you want me to do?
• • • • Clem: Ride me around a while, dearie, and then come back for her, if you're so inclined.
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• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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