Mae West: Certain Element

Malcolm H. Oettinger profiled MAE WEST for Screenland. Since this interview has rarely been seen, let us enjoy it together. This is part 5 of 13.
• • “Going West” • •   
• • Mae West: Her next film is "Rings on Her Fingers" • •  
• • Malcolm H. Oettinger wrote: Mae West acquired that hour-glass figure especially for “She Done Him Wrong.”

• • Malcolm H. Oettinger wrote: Her next film is "Rings on Her Fingers," and it will be a jewel or we miss our guess.
• • Malcolm H. Oettinger wrote: "I have that certain element, I guess," said Mae. "People like it, and I give it to 'em."
• • Malcolm H. Oettinger wrote: No one knew about Mae West [sic] when she was singing and dancing in vaudeville, in revues with Frank Tinney and Ed Wynn, and in cabarets.
• • Mae West: In 1928, during Prohibition, "Diamond Lil" offered free beer between the acts • • ...
• • This will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: Screenland; published in the issue dated for June 1933.
• • On Sunday, 29 April 1928 • •
• • Percy Hammond wrote an article about Mae West. The title was “The Rewards of Virtue” and it was published in the New York Tribune on Sunday, 29 April 1928.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Mae West was one of the greatest comedians in American culture. She was larger than life, a myth, who managed to be so controversial that both critics and audiences can hardly agree on what and who she was exactly. Everybody can only be certain that she was an iconic figure who made a difference.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "I have had to do my share of outsmarting men through necessity."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article in The Orlando Sentinel mentioned Mae West.
• • "In Days Before Dolly, There Was Mae West" • •
• • "I met her, Mae West, not Catherine the Great, very briefly" • •
• • Allen Rose of The Sentinel Staff wrote: "Mae West was headed for her suite at the end of the hall as I came out of my room," he said. "I told her something about how great she was in her show 'Catherine Was Great.' And she really was. Of course, she was going to bed with everybody in the court. Especially the big guards." …
• • Source: Orlando Sentinel; published on Wednesday, 20 April 1988
• • 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 17th anniversary • • 
• • Thank you for reading, sending questions, and posting comments during these past seventeen years. Not long ago, we entertained 3,497 visitors. And we reached a milestone recently when we completed 4,900 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started seventeen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4,983rd 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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Mae West: Peculiar Magnetism

Malcolm H. Oettinger profiled MAE WEST for Screenland. Since this interview has rarely been seen, let us enjoy it together. This is part 4 of 13.
• • “Going West” • •   
• • Mae West: Looks less spectacular in person • •
• • Malcolm H. Oettinger wrote: You would hardly recognize the lady off-screen.  
• • Malcolm H. Oettinger wrote: She looks smaller, less spectacular of course, and lacking in that peculiar magnetism with which her stage personality is so richly endowed.  

• • Malcolm H. Oettinger wrote: She is blonde, forty-ish, and informal.
• • Malcolm H. Oettinger wrote: For her stage appearance Mae bolsters those hips and pads that corset until she resembles a calendar girl of the 1890s.  
• • Malcolm H. Oettinger wrote: Then she adjusts her "Merry Widow" hat to a rakish angle, and sweeps onto the stage, where she is nothing less than dynamic.
• • Mae West: Her next film is "Rings on Her Fingers" • • ….   
• • This will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: Screenland; published in the issue dated for June 1933.
• • On Wednesday, 28 April 1926 in Variety • •
• • On Wednesday, 28 April 1926, Variety (usually hostile to Mae West and nasty) took an early stand against the play "Sex," which had just opened on Broadway.
• • Variety wrote: “Mae West … has broken the fetters and does as she pleases here."
• • Variety wrote: "After three hours of this play’s nasty, infantile, amateurish, and vicious dialog, after watching its various actors do their stuff badly, one really has a feeling of gratefulness for any repression that may have toned down her vaudeville songs in the past."
• • Variety wrote: "If this show "Sex" could do even one week of good business, it would depart with a handsome profit, it’s that cheaply put on.”
• • Note: “Sex” starring Mae West ran for 10 and a half months on Broadway at Daly's 63rd Street Theatre.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Hollywood gossips are predicting Mae West's new picture, scheduled to start soon, will be her last. ... She will collect £60,000 though, for her work in the new motion picture.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "The best way to hold a man is in your arms."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article in The Orlando Sentinel mentioned Mae West.
• • "In Days Before Dolly, There Was Mae West" • •

• • "I met her, Mae West, not Catherine the Great, very briefly" • •
• • Allen Rose of The Sentinel Staff wrote: "I met her Mae West, not Catherine, very briefly," Dick Gordon said.
• • Allen Rose wrote: "It was on the 17th floor of the hotel," Dick Gordon continued. "I was stationed at a B-29 training base in Nebraska [Offutt Air Force Base]. A friend and I were in Chicago, Illinois for the weekend and saw Mae West in the show." …
• • Source: Orlando Sentinel; published on Wednesday, 20 April 1988
• • 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 17th anniversary • • 
• • Thank you for reading, sending questions, and posting comments during these past seventeen years. Not long ago, we entertained 3,497 visitors. And we reached a milestone recently when we completed 4,900 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started seventeen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4,982nd 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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Mae West: Ten Deep

Malcolm H. Oettinger profiled MAE WEST for Screenland. Since this interview has rarely been seen, let us enjoy it together. This is part 3 of 13.
• • “Going West” • •   
• • Mae West: Smashed attendance records • •

• • Malcolm H. Oettinger wrote: New Orleans reports smashed attendance records on "She Done Him Wrong" (the first West starring picture) and in Scranton, Pa., they stood up ten deep  to see it.
• • Malcolm H. Oettinger wrote: Meeting Mae West is like attending a convention.    
• • Malcolm H. Oettinger wrote: You meet people going, coming, waiting, and there is an air of confusion strewn thickly about.  
• • Malcolm H. Oettinger wrote: She was in her Paramount theatre dressing-room, resting between two of her five performances daily.
• • Mae West: Looks less spectacular in person • • …   
• • This will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: Screenland; published in the issue dated for June 1933.
• • On Wednesday, 27 April 1927 • •
• • On Wednesday, 27 April 1927, shortly after daybreak, Mae West was released from her jail cell at the Women's Workhouse and then wrote about her experiences for Liberty Magazine.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • How much should Miss 1935 weigh? Considerable controversy had been aroused over an edict of the American Society of Beauticians that said the ideal American girl of 1935 should weigh only 100 pounds.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "I never found anyone I liked well enough to marry. [sic] I might have, I suppose, if things had been different in my set-up. But I didn't."
• • Note: By the time she got to Hollywood, Mae West had wed twice and kept both relationships a secret — from her parents and from the world.
• • Note: In April 1911, Mae wed her skinny vaudeville partner Frank Wallace. There's a suggestion that perhaps Mae thought she might have been pregnant at the time they were on tour, in the same show ("A Florida Enchantment"), and she agreed to a wedding. But they quickly separated when they returned home to New York.
• • Note: In 1913 or 1914, Mae wed a darkly handsome, muscular, successful Italian accordionist, Guido Deiro. After Mae secretly aborted their child, Guido Deiro wanted a divorce and (soon after) he married his fourth wife, who gave him a son.
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article in The Orlando Sentinel mentioned Mae West.

• • "In Days Before Dolly, There Was Mae West" • •
• • "I met her, Mae West, not Catherine the Great, very briefly" • •
• • Allen Rose of The Sentinel Staff wrote: It was 1944, at the height of World War II. Stevens Hotel in Chicago.
• • Allen Rose wrote: Mae West was starring in a Windy City mainstage production of "Catherine Was Great," a comedy about Catherine the Great of Russia, who also found men to be the perfect pastime during a humdrum 18th century marriage to Grand Duke Peter. …
• • Source: Orlando Sentinel; published on Wednesday, 20 April 1988
• • 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 17th anniversary • • 
• • Thank you for reading, sending questions, and posting comments during these past seventeen years. Not long ago, we entertained 3,497 visitors. And we reached a milestone recently when we completed 4,900 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started seventeen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4,981st 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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Mae West: Twice as Many

Malcolm H. Oettinger profiled MAE WEST for Screenland. Since this interview has rarely been seen, let us enjoy it together. This is part 2 of 13.
• • “Going West” • •   
• • Mae West: Pumping up the attendance • •
• • Malcolm H. Oettinger wrote: She knows her public, which threatens to be universal, and she knows precisely how to feed it what it wants.
• • Malcolm H. Oettinger wrote: In New York she drew twice as many people to see her as Ed Wynn drew to see him, both appearing the same week at different theatres, in conjunction with a picture.  
• • Malcolm H. Oettinger wrote: In Brooklyn she drew exactly twice as many people as the radio star.  
• • Mae West: Smashed attendance records • • …   
• • This will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: Screenland; published in the issue dated for June 1933.
• • 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.
• • "Mae West played a Canadian woman," noted Playbill, "with no time for those Mounties."
• • The N.Y. Daily News sent a reviewer who wrote: "Most of the 'Sex' appeal falls to the talents of Mae West, a vaudeville actress who somewhat resembles Texas Guinan."
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • In one of the funniest scenes of all her films, Mae West as Peaches O’Day is being romanced by crooked police chief Lloyd Nolan. But to stave him off she throws a temper tantrum saying the wine he serves her is from "1895! This horrible, horrible vinegar! Don't you know I'm delicate!"
• • Mae West has able support from veterans Lloyd Nolan, Edmund Lowe, and Charles Winninger, among others. She also insisted on getting Louie Armstrong and his band to play a number.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "I do things right because I follow what my astrologer says."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article in The Orlando Sentinel mentioned Mae West.
• • "In Days Before Dolly, There Was Mae West" • •

• • ''I met her, Mae West, not Catherine the Great, very briefly'' • •
• • Allen Rose of The Sentinel Staff wrote: Mae West was a bit like Cher, too. Outspoken. Only more so. Sultry voice. Her image was that of a lady who liked men. A lot. As in by the dozen.
• • Allen Rose wrote: Her trademark line: "Come up and see me sometime, big boy." …
• • Source: Orlando Sentinel; published on Wednesday, 20 April 1988
• • 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 17th anniversary • • 
• • Thank you for reading, sending questions, and posting comments during these past seventeen years. Not long ago, we entertained 3,497 visitors. And we reached a milestone recently when we completed 4,900 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started seventeen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4,980th 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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Mae West: Knows Her Public

Malcolm H. Oettinger profiled MAE WEST for Screenland. Since this interview has rarely been seen, let us enjoy it together. This is part 1 of 13.
• • “Going West” • •   
• • Screenland wrote an introduction to his piece: East is West, and South is West, and the whole country is West since Mae rolled in!
• • Screenland wrote: Mae is the newest sensation in Hollywood, New York, and points between. She is a star on Broadway — — but a personality anywhere.

• • Screenland wrote: She knows her public, which threatens to be universal, and she knows precisely how to feed it what it wants.
• • Malcolm H. Oettinger wrote: Meeting Mae West is like attending a convention.    
• • Mae West: Pumping up the attendance • • …
• • This will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: Screenland; published in the issue dated for June 1933.
• • On Thursday, 25 April 1935 in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune • •
• • "Mae West Still Denies Rumors" was the headline in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune [Florida].
• • Hollywood, Calif., April 25 — Associated Press — There may be a forgotten man in Mae West's life, but Mae went right along denying it today. "When I get married," said Mae, a little weary over the hub-bub over a marriage she swears she never experienced, "I'll concentrate on it. And I'll be the first to announce it." ...
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Instead of going to the dogs, Mae West has elected to go to the horses. She has just purchased three two-year-olds.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "If you have to resort to nudity, you just haven't got it."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article in The Orlando Sentinel mentioned Mae West.
• • "In Days Before Dolly, There Was Mae West" • •
• • "I met her, Mae West, not Catherine the Great, very briefly" • •
• • Allen Rose of The Sentinel Staff wrote: Dick Gordon of Indialantic still gets a laugh recalling the day he met Mae West, late star of stage, screen and radio, as they used to say, and self-proclaimed ''last of the red-hot mamas.'' . . .
• • Allen Rose wrote: Dick Gordon added, “Let's just say that Mae resembled Dolly Parton physically. Blonde wigs, fancy gowns and all that went with them.” …
• • Source: Orlando Sentinel; published on Wednesday, 20 April 1988
• • 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 17th anniversary • • 
• • Thank you for reading, sending questions, and posting comments during these past seventeen years. Not long ago, we entertained 3,497 visitors. And we reached a milestone recently when we completed 4,900 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started seventeen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4,979th 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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• • Photo: • • Mae West • • onscreen in 1933 • •
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