Mae West: More Penetrating

Starring Australian actress Melita Jurisic as the American icon MAE WEST, a new play “Arbus and West” is onstage in Melbourne until March 30th. Naturally, Mae would have stipulated that her name was placed first in the title. Let’s enjoy a spirited review by drama critic Cameron Woodhead. This is Part 5.
• • “Arbus and West mere mouthpieces for Sewell's 'ideas' play” • •
• • Such bald dramatic over-emphasis • •
• • Cameron Woodhead wrote: Such bald dramatic overemphasis leaches credibility from character and subtlety from the dialectic Sewell is trying to establish.
• • Cameron Woodhead wrote: Goodes struggles valiantly to minimise the play's weaknesses, diverting the playwright's meandering artifice into a more penetrating, emotionally driven flow. The performances she helps marshal are impressive, no question, and West's inimitable wit is strip-mined for our entertainment.
• • how power shaped and constrained their lives • • . . .
• • To be concluded on the next post.
• • Source: Sydney Morning Herald, stage review; published on Monday, 4 March 2019.
• • On Wednesday, 26 March 1958 • •

• • Rock Hudson, age 32, and Mae West performed the song “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” together, in point style, at the 30th Annual Academy Awards on Wednesday, 26 March 1958.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Mae West is now working on her new contract by the terms of which she gets $100,000 a picture.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "I picked my company with care and never became part of the social life of the town — — and I resented their intrusion into my love life — — the stories in the magazines."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • The Daily Variety mentioned Mae West.
• • “Every Day’s a Holiday” • •
• • By whatever standard posterity judges the acting career of Mae West, it never shall be said that she was dull.  “Every Day's a Holiday,” written by herself, is a lively, innocuously bawdy and rowdy entertainment.  …
• • Source: Variety; published on Thursday, 31 December 1936
• • 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 • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started fourteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4177th 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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