Mae West: Pepped Up

The Winnipeg Evening Tribune was letting their Canadian readers know more about the MAE WEST radio scandal.  This is Part 1 of their coverage in Manitoba, Canada.
• • On Sunday, 12 December 1937 Mae West made a risque guest appearance on NBC's “Chase and Sanborn Hour,” which ended by banning her from radio.
• • The Winnipeg Evening Tribune editors explained: Their "Adam and Eve" rankles. It was innocent fun in the script, and innocuous enough for N.B.C. officials in the final rehearsals, but the actual broadcast of "Adam and Eve," as done last Sunday by Miss West (particularly) and Don Ameche, Sunday, drew shouts of protest from all over the continent.
• • Mae as Eve Rouses Flood of Protests • •
• • Script, Rehearsals Harmless, But Actress "Pepped Up" Inflections on Air, and Sponsors Promise "Never Again"
• • New York, Dec. 17. — — Ever since the Mae West—Charlie McCarthy frolic Sunday night, N.B.C. has been flooded with protests.
• • Headquarters in the R.C.A. building here were bombarded with telegrams, mail, phone calls. Each day the volume of kicks from all over the country increased. Women's clubs passed angry resolutions, sent copies to N.B.C.

• • The broadcasting company explains the situation thus: The script was inoffensive. The trouble was caused by the sexy implications Miss West read into the lines.
• • Mae never completely rehearsed the Adam-and-Eve skit • •  . . .
• • This vintage article will be continued on the next post with Part 2 of 3 segments.
• • Source: The Winnipeg Evening Tribune [Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada]; published on Friday, 17 December 1937. 
• • Note: A very glammed up Mae West poses with Edgar Bergen's well-known and impudent ventriloquist's dummy Charlie McCarthy, based on a mouthy Irish street kid.
• • Mae West on NBC, Sunday, 12 December 1937 • •
• • Perhaps no other radio segment of "The Chase and Sanborn Hour" has sparked more commentary than the Sunday, December 12th, 1937 broadcast starring Mae West, the 44-year-old movie queen, who usually hid the fact that she was unable to read a script without eyeglasses.
• • The popular star of Paramount Pictures rarely appeared on radio. When she did, the sole purpose was to promote one of her films.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Owen Moore [12 December 1886 — 9 June 1939] portrayed Chick Clark, Mae West's imprisoned ex-lover in "She Done Him Wrong." The novel “Diamond Lil” opens with the prison inmate chafing at Lil from behind bars, angry that she's done him dirt, planning to escape from his cell and follow her to the Bowery.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success — — the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights . . . into that big black space where the audience is."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • A Hudson Valley daily mentioned Mae West.
• • Two to New York — — Melodramas:
• • "Diamond Lil" — Mae West in a lively picture of evil on Chatham Square.
• • Source: Irvington Gazette; published on Friday, 14 December 1928
• • 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 4,100 blog posts. Wow!  

• • By the Numbers • •
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