Mae West: A Wad of $3,400

The architect of the MAE WEST jewel robbery was Harry Voiler. Let’s hear about how he wormed his way into Mae’s circle and set up the con job, according to the true crime writer Patrick Downey. This is Part 2 of 3 segments.
• • “He Done Her Wrong” • •  
• • Harry Voiler had a thing for easy dough • • 
• • Patrick Downey wrote: Because Mae’s limousine was in the garage, Harry Voiler took to chauffeuring the actress around. On one occasion, Mae opened her purse and pulled out a wad of $3,400. This plus the thousands in jewelry that Mae was always draped in was too much for Voiler to ignore. Knowing that he would be driving her around that night, he got in touch with a couple of Los Angeles hoodlums and set up a robbery.
• • Patrick Downey wrote:  That evening, on September 28, Voiler picked up Mae at the Paramount Studios and drove her and her manager back to Mae’s house. As Mae’s manager ran up to her apartment to feed her pet monkey, a man stepped up to the car and jerked open Mae’s door. With a gun hidden under a handkerchief, he demanded Mae’s purse and her jewelry. 
• • Patrick Downey wrote:  Once he got what he was after, he told Voiler to take off.
• • Would the robbers try to collect a handsome ransom? • •  . . .
• • To be concluded on the next post.
• • Source: Writers of Wrongs; posted on Thursday, 1 December 2016.
• • On Saturday, 19 November 1927 • •

• • When Mae's play "The Wicked Age" opened, The New York Times reacted with alarm: "The whole was in the best Mae West school of playwriting . . . ." Yes, you're right; this was never meant to be a compliment.
• • The curtain clanged down on "The Wicked Age" on Saturday, 19 November 1927.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • The suasively undulating Mae West is back on the Paramount screen with a new and engagingly robustious.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "In person I am boring — — so I made up the walk and the talk.”
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • A campus newspaper in Illinois mentioned Mae West.
• • Cinema-guild presents The Marx Brothers in "Go West" and Mae West in "She Done Him Wrong" on Friday and Saturday — in 112 Gregory Hall 8 pm — Open to students, faculty, staff . . .
• • Source: Item in Daily Illini; published on Wednesday, 19 November 1969 
• • The evolution of 2 Mae West plays that keep her memory alive • • 
• • A discussion with Mae West playwright LindaAnn LoSchiavo — — 
• • http://lideamagazine.com/renaissance-woman-new-york-city-interview-lindaann-loschiavo/

• • The Mae West Blog celebrates its 14th anniversary • •  

• • Thank you for reading, sending questions, and posting comments during these past fourteen years. Not long ago, we entertained 3,497 visitors. And we reached a milestone recently when we completed 4,000 blog posts. Wow!  

• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started fourteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4086th 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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