• • The Flint Séance • •
• • Medium Jack Kelly at Lily Dale • •
• • From “The Spirit Book” comes this: Mae West was an ardent Spiritualist and visited the Spiritualist community of Lily Dale, New York many times. Her favorite medium there was Jack Kelly. After Kelly’s death, Mae claimed that his spirit appeared to her, dressed in a tuxedo.
• • From “The Spirit Book” comes this: Another of her psychics was Kenny Kingston, in Hollywood, who said that he knew that the spirit world was Mae’s first priority.
• • Though we’ll stop here, feel free to read the book written by Leslie Flint, who met Mae in Britain.
• • Leslie Flint [1911 – 16 April 1994] was a British medium.
• • Sources: Flint, Leslie: Voices in the Dark [NY: Bobbs-Merrill, 1971]
• • Recounted in ”The Spirit Book: The Encyclopedia of Clairvoyance, Channeling, and Spirit Communication," editor Raymond Buckland [Visible Ink Press, 1 September 2005].
• • On Saturday, 19 March 1927 • •
• • Mae West signed the "Sex" checks. Three promissory notes dated for Saturday, 19 March 1927 were from the Moral Producing Corporation.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Last week Mae West sniffed at a proffered check to be present at the opening of a new hotel in Pittsburgh, and similarly said no to a radio offer of 13 programs for $75,000.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "Don't believe that in my search for realism in the plays I write I invite police interference. My last trouble with the police cost me a small fortune in litigation and a lot of headaches."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • The Daily Variety mentioned Mae West.
• • Mae West's astonishing box office reaction through repeats and re-repeat bookings on her “She Done Him Wrong” film has established the you-must-come-up-and-see-me-sometime gal as a cinch for the other out-of-state advertising men. They're assured that Miss West would be a cinch on the air for mike-appeal. The big headache now is bow to fit her rough style into an air show that goes into a home. ...
• • Source: Variety; published on Tuesday, 5 September 1933
• • 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,
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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 4172nd 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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In my own research delving into Mae West's interest in the psychic world, I have uncovered this interesting quote from her. “I thought seriously about the door I was going to try to unlock and I made up my mind to find the key. I was world famous. There were no material things I could not reach. I was bored, and I had reached a point where I would either live a very wicked life or develop spiritually. I was indeed at a point where I had to make up my mind to go either way.”
ReplyDelete• • That is an interesting quote from Mae West and thanks for sharing it, Mark.
ReplyDelete• • However, Mae West was NOT "world famous" in 1926 when she had already begun having séances in her backstage dressing room in 1926 in NYC.
• • At first Mae was seeking career advice (from the ghost of R. Valentino, who told her to watch out for enemies, and others).
• • When her mother died in January 1930, Mae [still not famous] was trying to communicate with Tillie.
• • Many things indicate she was a deep believer in such things -- vs acting out of boredom. These séances pre-date her wealth and her fame. Mae was a believer years before a Paramount Pictures contract was even a possibility.
Don't you think so, too?
I greatly appreciate your feedback. I wish I had shared the date when Mae West had made this comment in my original post. I believe she was quoted as stating this when she was nearing 50. I don't know if you ever had a chance to read her book (heavily contributed by Larry Lee) "Mae West on Sex, Health, & ESP," published in 1975. I have seen correspondence between West and a U.S. publisher stating "boo hoo, the book is not for us," and in the end W.H. Allen Publishing House in Britain printed the book. Lots of fluff, but fun reading. This comes up for sale on eBay from time to time.
ReplyDelete• • Yes, I do own "Mae West on Sex, Health & ESP" [published in 1975] in a hardcover edition. It has some fascinating bits.
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