Mae West: Lord Baltimore

On Monday, 17 January 1949, MAE WEST had to cancel some performances. This was such a rare occurrence, that it became front page news.
• • Mae West Ill; Engagements for 2 Weeks Off • •
• • BALTIMORE. Jan. 16 — [U.P.] — Trooper Mae West, much sicker than she admitted when she insisted on leaving a hospital, was forced today to cancel the next two weeks' engagement of her stage play, “Diamond LiI.”
• • After a long consultation in her (Lord Baltimore) hotel suite, doctors said her condition, caused by an “abdominal obstruction,” was too serious to permit her removal to a hospital until tomorrow.
• • Albert H. Rosen, co-producer of the play, disclosed he had called off Miss West’s appearance this week In Toronto, Canada, and for next week in Buffalo and Syracuse, N.Y. He said she complained Friday of severe pains in her side but insisted on filling her starring role in the production Friday night in Baltimore.

• • Early yesterday she was taken to University hospital. But soon afterward she demanded and was granted her release so she could return to the stage for last night’s scheduled closing.
• • However, Rosen and Co-Producer Herbert J. Freezer said they overruled the veteran blonde star and cancelled the performance. Rosen said physicians told him they were considering surgery but assured him Miss West still would recover in time to appear In New York on Feb. 3.
• • He reported she was in "fine spirits” but her temperature was "quite high.”
• • On Tuesday, 23 April 1935 in The Hollywood Reporter • •
• • A review of "Goin' to Town" appeared in The Hollywood Reporter in their issue dated for 23 April 1935.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Mae West is as great a favorite with a section of the world's reading public as she is with motion picture audiences, it was revealed recently on the arrival in Hollywood of the president of the company acting as her publishers.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "Despite the sensational aspects of my past on the stage and the screen, personal scandal has passed me by. To be frank about it, I've always been too busy. And busy people don't sin. Sinning takes time."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • The Daily Variety mentioned Mae West.
• • The "Lil" Controversy Sorta Simmers Down • •
• • Stockholders in "Diamond Lil" • •
• • The show is continuing to earn $14,000 weekly. Tommy Guinan, 10 per cent stockholder, is figured as having brought Linder and Miss West back to their former friendliness, at least in a business way.  However, the "Diamond Lil" song, authored by Robert Sterling, remains out of the show.  It was Miss West's deletion of the latter number that steamed Jack Linder up to bring the charges. Robert Sterling is another "Lil" stockholder and this is his maiden effort in the song writing line.
• • Despite the recent patch-up, it is problematical at this time if Miss West will take "Diamond Lil" on tour after the New York run. It is reported Miss West's contract with Linder can be abrogated after the New York run on two weeks' notice.  It is said Miss West may go in another of her own plays or she is figuring to revive "Sex" in an out-of-town spot where the play has already been okayed by censors in script form. 
• • Miss West is in on "Diamond Lil" for 60 per cent of profits in addition to half royalties. …
• • Source: Article in Variety; published on Wednesday, 1 August 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/

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