• • Mae West’s Spouse Invites Himself to Her Fireside; “Or Else” Half Her Fortune • •
• • New York, July 9. (U.P.)— Mae West, who says she hasn’t been kissed in 21 years of married life, tonight got a bonafide offer from her gone-but not-forgotten husband, Frankie Wallace, to dash to Hollywood and make up for lost time.
• • Wallace, vaudeville hoofer and admittedly the man who was married to Mae way back in 1911, announced through his attorney that he was ready to “settle down” with Mae in California, where they could spend their old-age together.
• • He Even Put It in Writing • • . . .
• • U.P.’s news coverage will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: U.P. coverage rpt in Healdsburg Tribune (California); published on Friday, 9 July 1937.
• • On Sunday, 17 July 1932 in Los Angeles • •
• • Interviewed for The L.A. Times by California reporter Muriel Babcock, Mae West told her, "The screen doesn't require as much acting of a certain type. The camera catches the slightest facial movements, the slightest twitch of an eye." The complete interview appeared in the weekend edition on Sunday, 17 July 1932.
• • July 2004: Mae West Blog launches • •
• • We’re here to keep Mae mavens up to date, correct errors, celebrate each revival of a play she wrote, post the latest Westian stage and book reviews. And answer our fan mail!
• • The light’s still on. Come up and see Mae every day.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • The portly Irishman had the opportunity to work with Mae West twice. In "I'm No Angel" he was "man at rooming house" and in "My Little Chickadee" he was a townsman.
• • Robert B. McKenzie had a fatal heart attack in Manunuck, Rhode Island on Friday, 8 July 1949. He was 68.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "Oh, you mean men! I haven't time for them now. I'm in Hollywood to make a success in pictures — — and you can only do one thing at a time."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • A Los Angeles daily mentioned Mae West.
• • “A Diamond Pendant Shaped Like a Champagne Bottle” • •
• • The missing jewels, she already has complained, included a diamond pendant shaped like a champagne bottle, with the "laughing water" fizzing from its mouth; a diamond bracelet two inches wide; and a diamond ring. The cash represented a week's pay for working in the movies.
• • "or else" • •
• • Today she said she didn't want her "rocks" back, but only to find out who really took them. Her bodyguard, Detective Lieutenants Joe Filkas and Frank "Lefty" James, were fulfilling their pleasurable task as a result of couple of anonymous telephone calls received by the blonde heroine of “She Done Him Wrong” and other screen hits, demanding that she stay away from Friedman's trial — — "or else."
• • However, those calls didn't bother the nonchalant Mae. . . .
• • Source: Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express; published on Tuesday, 16 January 1934
• • 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 15th anniversary • •
• • Thank you for reading,
sending questions, and posting comments during these past fifteen 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 fifteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4258th 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.
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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