Mae West: Obscene Performance

A Los Angeles Times cartoon showed MAE WEST yanking G.B. Shaw's beard. Since she avidly followed theatre gossip, it’s possible Mae was familiar with his prostitute play, “Mrs. Warren's Profession,” featuring a streetwalker who is now a wealthy madam. If only they could chat during Shaw Fest, which will present “Sex” this summer.  This is Part 2 of 10 segments.
• • Shaw Festival revives Mae West’s racy Broadway hit “Sex” • •
• • begins in the red-light district of Montreal • •
• • J. Kelly Nestruck wrote: Mae West, the Hollywood film star with the husky voice who battled the Hays Code by double-entendre to become the highest-paid woman in the United States in the 1930s, first came to prominence a decade earlier as she attempted to escape vaudeville by performing in plays she wrote for herself on the New York stage.
• • J. Kelly Nestruck wrote: Sex, which begins in the red-light district of Montreal, was a box-office hit that ran nearly a year on Broadway before West was arrested and then sentenced to 10 days in jail for “giving an obscene performance.” The scandal made the Brooklyn-born performer/playwright front-page news for the first, but far from the last, time.
• • Controversy as fuel for fame • • . . .
• • This preview article will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: The Globe and Mail; published on Monday, 6 May 2019.
• • On Wednesday, 30 May 1934 • •

• • One more installment of the very interesting week-long article "Mae West in Roads of Romance" by Harry Lee and Winfield Meggs, Side Glances columnists and illustrators for The Winnipeg Evening Tribune, was published on Wednesday, 30 May 1934.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • The screen star Mae West once managed Maxie Rosenbloom before the prize-fighter decided to turn actor.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "A man has more character in his face at 40 than at 20 — — he has suffered longer."  
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • Photoplay mentioned Mae West.
• • On other lots, Mae West was knocking over exhibitors and audiences, Marlene Dietrich was spreading glamour thicker than honey and Greta Garbo, who invented glamour but couldn't patent it. Then came Queen Jean Harlow, God bless her, who was the platinum blonde dynamo and — well, everybody had glamour. All Hollywood's gals had glamour.  All but the actress Irene Dunne. ...
• • Source: Photoplay; published in the issue dated for May 1939
• • 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 4224th 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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