• • Charles H. Hoyt, for instance, wrote the immensely popular musical comedy "A Trip to Chinatown." The story focuses on a widow who connives and contrives to bring romance to several couples and herself in a big city restaurant [think of "Hello, Dolly!"].
• • Still capitalizing on the "Trip to Chinatown" craze, clever showmen reworked the play again and presented it under a new title: "A Winsome Widow."
• • Nineteen-year-old brunette Mae West was featured in the show "A Winsome Widow" as La Petite Daffy in 1912. This musical was produced by Charles B. Dillingham and Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.
• • This box office smash was presented at the Moulin Rouge, then located at 1514 — 1516 Broadway [West 44th Street], New York, NY. This showplace was demolished in 1935.
• • Charles Bancroft Dillingham [30 May 1868 — 30 August 1934] • •
• • Born in Hartford, Connecticut — — in late May — — on Saturday, 30 May 1868, Charles Bancroft Dillingham became very fond of the dramatic arts. He secured employment in NYC as a theater reviewer for the New York Evening Post. Gradually, he increased his influence and became an impresario, a director, producer, and theatre operator.
• • From 1902 — 1934, C.B. Dillingham either produced shows on The Great White Way or participated via talent management or leasing the auditorium for the production.
• • Charles Bancroft Dillingham died in New York, New York on 30 August 1934. He was 66.
• • On Wednesday, 30 May 2007 • •
• • Christie's held this auction of a Mae West movie collectible in New York City, Rockefeller Plaza on Wednesday, 30 May 2007.
• • A costume design for Mae West, circa 1970s, by Edith Head possibly for "Sextette" [1978]. The sketch of this elegant pink gown is pictured in the auction booklet. A collector paid $900 to possess it.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "I have been in love at various points in my career, but as long as my mother lived I shied from marriage. When she died, it released the only governor of possible marriage inclinations."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An Australian news item from 1939 mentioned Mae West.
• • "Conditions Delay Mae West Greetings" • •
• • It may not be possible after all for film star Mae West to send her greeting to the opening of Jack Lester's 'Ziegfeld Follies' at His Majesty's Theatre tonight.
• • Protracted negotiations were successfully concluded with the actress during the week, but the scheme was threatened by unfavourable atmospheric conditions over the trans-Pacific radio link. ... This was despite the fact that at 7:49 AM (Perth time) successful two-way contact was made between His Majesty's Theatre and Hollywood. Arrangements were completed for Mae West to talk later in the day. ...
• • Source: Article: The Daily News (Perth, Australia); published on Friday, 8 December 1939
• • By the Numbers • •
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