Mae West: Red Light Tart

A cartoon once depicted MAE WEST yanking G.B. Shaw's beard. If only the two controversial writers could chat during Shaw Fest, which is presenting “Sex” in Canada. Now Toronto put Glenn Sumi in the aisle seat. This is Part 2 of 5 segments.
• • Shaw Festival review: Sex feels relevant, even after nearly 100 years • •
• • Less controversial in 2019 — — but still relevant • •
• • Glenn Sumi wrote: To today’s jaded eyes, there’s little that’s controversial, but its themes of hypocrisy, class and female empowerment all feel very relevant.

• • Glenn Sumi wrote: Margy LaMont (Diana Donnelly) is an in-demand prostitute in Montreal’s red light district, a popular destination during the Prohibition era. After cleaning up a mess involving her brutal pimp, Rocky (Kristopher Bowman), she travels the world, meeting Jimmy (Julia Course), a young American millionaire, who doesn’t know of her past and wants to marry her. Also in her orbit are her friend Agnes (Jonathan Tan), a down-trodden prostitute, and Gregg (André Sills), a naval officer who’s one of Margy’s clients and has always carried a torch for her.
• • messy and melodramatic • •  . . .
• • Glenn Sumi’s review will continue on the next post.
• • Source: Now Toronto; published on Wednesday, 4 September 2019.
• • On Monday, 1 October 1928 • •
• • Mae West's gay play "Pleasure Man" had a $200,000 box office advance when it premiered at the Biltmore on Monday, 1 October 1928. The police raided the show, however, and shut it down the same night.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • No less an authority than Edna Woolman Chase, editor-in-chief of Vogue, a smart fashion magazine, has been widely quoted as declaring that "we are really going Mae West."
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "I'd add hot lines and jokes that I knew they'd cut."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • A Missouri daily mentioned Mae West.
• • "Every Day's a Holiday" is an original by Miss Mae West.
• • Miss West pays the part of a hard-boiled lass torn between a desire on the part of Walter Catlett to star her in a new revue and the insistence of Edmund Lowe, a captain of detectives, that she get out of New York because of an alleged deal in which she sold the Brooklyn Bridge to a would-be-millionaire.
• • The story is set at the turn of the century and takes in its stride a New Year's Eve celebration at Rector's famous restaurant, a mayoralty campaign — — into which La West Injects some showmanship — — the New York theatrical scene in the days of "Diamond Jim" Brady and the introduction of the automobile to the big city.  . . .
• • Source: Chillicothe Constitution Tribune; published on Saturday, 12 February 1938
• • 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 4,300 blog posts. Wow!  

• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started fifteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4313th 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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