Mae West: Mere Pawns

The British can’t get enough of MAE WEST. Emily Hutt’s 50-minute cabaret style “tell all” on Mae West was offered on April 15th at a small jazz club and starred Bella Bevan. Though the short-lived show is over, here is a review. This is Part 4.
• • Better Than Sex: The Story of Mae West • •
• • suggestive lyrics • •
• • Terry Eastham wrote:  My personal favourite was “A Man What Takes His Time” which – depending on how you read the lyrics – was both suggestive and heartwarming at the same time.
• • Terry Eastham wrote: All told, Better Than Sex is a lovely introduction to an amazing icon of a bygone age, where men thought they had all the power, but a suggestive look or comment from the right lady could reduce them to mere pawns in the game of love. My one criticism is that I would have loved the show to be longer and gone more into Mae’s private life and career after she left Hollywood. But, having said that, the show really whetted my appetite to find out more.
• • her scandalous career • • . . .
• • This review will be concluded on the next post.
• • Source: London Theatre1; published on Wednesday, 17 April 2019.
• • On Thursday, 16 May 1946 • •
• • The stage play "Ring Twice Tonight" opened in Long Beach, California on Thursday, 16 May 1946 before moving forward on its cross-country tour. The title was changed and became "Come On Up."
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • If you are wondering what Alice Faye looks like, I can best describe her as being like a young Mae West.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "Well, they've sued me for everything else."
• • Quote, Unquote • •

• • The Independent.ie mentioned Mae West.
• • Meadhbh McGrath wrote: This year's Met Gala theme issued guests with a challenge: how would the A-list interpret the intellectual concept of "camp"? 
• • Mae West: "Camp is the kind of comedy that imitates me." • •
• • Meadhbh McGrath wrote: In 1964, Susan Sontag devoted an essay to the notoriously slippery, hard-to-define term, in which she describes it as an aesthetic "sensibility," citing Tiffany lamps, Mae West and the Enquirer as canon. It is this essay that forms the basis of the Met's exhibition and sets the dress code for the Met Gala. …
• • Source: Independent.ie; published on Wednesday, 8 May 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 4214th 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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