Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Mae West: Set a Record

Lent's Music Store In Ithaca, New York made a recording by MAE WEST their record of the month in April 1933.
• • Lent's (based at 116 N. Aurora St.) sold pianos and platters. They regularly posted "The Week's Best Platters."
• • WAYNE KING plays — Evening Star Prince Charming VICTOR YOUNG rumbas — Tony's Wife Juanita GLEN GRAY does — Casa Loma Stomp Dardanella
• • RECORD of the MONTH — — "Easy Rider" — — "I Like a Guy What Takes His Time" sung by MAE WEST
• • Source: Item in The Cornell Daily Sun; published on Friday, 21 April 1933
• • On Sunday, 22 April 1928 in The N.Y. Times • •
• • On Sunday, 22 April 1928, The New York Times was purring about Mae West. 
• • On the theatre page was an announcement that "Diamond Lil" was the most prosperous of all the recent stage productions. Broadway backers paid attention, noticing that Mae had given the Royale Theatre its first hit — — a non-musical, no less, but with a cast of 35 and a piano man.
• • Sold on Friday, 22 April 1994 • •
• • The silver gelatin print "Mae West and Adoring Musclemen" by Dean Loomis was sold at an auction held at Swann Galleries on Friday, 22 April 1994. Someone at this NYC auction house mis-dated the original as 1961 when this photo was clearly taken six years earlier.  Tsk.
• • On Tuesday, 22 April 2008 • •
• • It was on Tuesday,  22 April 2008, that the DVD  "Mae West — The Glamour Collection" was released for sale.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Mae West  and Jean Harlow are getting away with it, columnists say. 
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said:  "Public toilets were so filthy I couldn't face them."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An Illinois newspaper mentioned Mae West.
• • "Married? Not Me, Says Mae! Never Heard of Him!" • •
• • Screen Star Denies Report of Purported Husband • •
• • HOLLYWOOD [U.P.] — Mae West, the buxom blonde movie thriller, decided today someone had done her wrong when they dug up a report she once had a husband. Reports from Milwaukee, Wis., said a wedding certificate was discovered in the dusty files of a clerk's office listing the marriage of Mae West, actress to an actor, Frank Wallace .  . . .
• • Source: Article from the wire services rpt in The Urbana Daily Courier (Illinois); published on Monday, 22 April 1935     
• • The Mae West Blog celebrates its 10th anniversary • •    
• • Thank you for reading, sending questions, and posting comments during this past decade. The other day we entertained 1,430 visitors. We reached a milestone recently when we completed 3,100 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • • 
• • The Mae West Blog was started ten years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 3162nd 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.

• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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• • Mae West • in 1928

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