
• • Union Square • •
• • Over a century ago, when Union Square offered the best theatres, hotels, and opera house — — the Academy of Music — — B.F. Keith renovated a 14th Street playhouse between Fourth Avenue and Broadway.


• • During 1912 — 1913, when the Brooklyn comedienne was occasionally promoted as "The Nell Brinkley Girl," or the "scintillating singing comedienne," or "the firefly of Broadway," she was a fresh-faced brunette teenager with a reputation for fast tap dancing and acrobatic feats onstage combined with "character" [novelty] songs. Unlike others who had one act to offer the public, Mae was always trying out new approaches and buying new material.
• • In the newspapers on 29 December 1912, readers noticed that B.F. Keith was offering "Dinkelspiel's Christmas" along with "MAY WEST — singing comedienne" [see the 29 Dec 1912 ad]. The 14th Street theatre is long gone but here is a glimpse of what you missed if you didn't dial STuyvesant 3400 to reserve your ticket.
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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• • Photo: • • Mae West • • 1908 photo; 1912 news clip • •
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