Mae West: Much Hotter

John Chapman, drama critic for The New York Daily News, was nicknamed “Old Frost Face,” however, his pen warmed up to MAE WEST. Let’s enjoy his review of “Diamond Lil,” published in that newspaper in 1949. This is Part 3.
• • Same Old Mae in Same Old Play — — “Diamond Lil” Is Funnier Now • •
• • Mae West gets away with the single entendre • •
• • John Chapman wrote: On the strength of one of the curtain lines, "Come up and see me some time," Hollywood asked Miss West to come out and teach the movie how to get away with the single entendre instead of the double entendre. She went and taught.
• • John Chapman wrote: Now she is back to instruct another generation of playgoers, and she doesn't look or act a day older or better. Saturday evening's premiere in W. 49th St. was an event, with a platoon of cops keeping a big gallery of gawkers across the street. Miss West was hot, much hotter than she was 20 years ago.
• • Lots of Competition on 9 April 1928 • • . . .
• • Source: The New York Daily News; published on Monday, 7 February 1949.
• • On Monday, 26 April 1926 on Broadway • •

• • Written by "Jane Mast" and starring Mae West as Margy LaMont, "Sex" opened in April — — on Monday, 26 April 1926. The Broadway debut occurred a few blocks north of Columbus Circle at Daly’s 63rd Street Theatre, the only playhouse available at the time.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Mae West guest-starred on Louella Parsons’ blackmailing program Hollywood Hotel on Friday, 26 April 1935, with featured guest Paul Cavanagh in an adaptation of her (then most current) screen gem: "Goin’ to Town."
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "I never found anyone I liked well enough.  I might have, I suppose, if things had been different in my set-up. But I didn't."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • Lilah Ramzi wrote: In her seminal essay on the subject, Susan Sontag attempts to define the sensibility known as camp with examples — instances in popular and unpopular culture that manufactured or exude the camp aesthetic.
• • Lilah Ramzi wrote:  Many of these cited works are cinematic: Mae West’s she-womanness in “She Done Him Wrong,” camp. . . .
• • Source: Vogue; published on Friday, 19 April 2019
• • 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 4,200 blog posts. Wow!  

• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started fourteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4200th 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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