• • Born in Pennsylvania, Ned Wayburn [30 March 1874 — 2 September 1942] was a choreographer. His promotional campaigns pictured some of his most successful dance pupils — — and though Mae was not featured on those testimonials, Ned taught her to dance and cast her in several shows, adding heft to her resume and stage career.
• • Tira Titillates on TV • •

• • Paramount Pictures was too terrified to show Mae's hip movements. Her gyrations are merely suggested in the opening segment of "I'm No Angel," when she appears in an outrageous kootchy-kootchy harem costume and is introduced as "Tira the incomparable," the gal who realized you didn't need feet in order to shimmy.
• • In his column "Notable TV Screenings," Ken Hanke writes: Depending on your stamina — or your DVR or DVD recorder hard-drive capacity — you could easily start at 11:15 p.m. on Wednesday, March 30, on TCM and just keep watching till about 10 a.m. on Thursday, March 31, without hitting a single clunker. It starts with Wesley Ruggles’s Mae West film "I’m No Angel" (1933). This is Mae’s second starring film — and her second with Cary Grant. It’s also perhaps her most elaborate film and definitely one of her best and most pre-code racy vehicles. Nothing quite matches Mae singing “They Call Me Sister Honky Tonk” and then surveying her leering audience and saying, “Suckers,” though telling Louise Beavers, “Beulah, peel me a grape,” ain’t bad. This is followed by Ernst Lubitsch’s "Trouble in Paradise" (1932) ....
• • Source: "Cranky Hanke’s Weekly Reeler March 30 — April 5" written by Ken Hanke for Mountain Express; posted on 29 March 2011.
• • 30 March 1927 • •
• • By 30 March 1927, twelve male jurors had been selected for Mae West's "Sex" trial set for Jefferson Market Court on Sixth Avenue in Greenwich Village.
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• • Sportswriter Patrick Kennedy jokes: Coach Evan Robinson, who is to over-confidence what Mae West is to chastity, would be lying if he said he wasn't concerned. His edginess stems from the club's sudden lack of grit and no-guff approach, both large, loud factors in the Game 3 defeat in Oakville. ...
• • Source: Sports Page: "Voyageurs desperate for victory" written by Patrick Kennedy, The Whig-Standard, Kingston, Ontario, Canada; posted on 24 March 2011
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started seven years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 1884th blog post. Unlike many blogs, which draw upon reprinted content from a newspaper or a magazine and/ or summaries, links, or photos, the mainstay of this blog is its fresh material focused on the life and career of Mae West, herself an American original.
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