Mae West: Her Philosophy

MAE WEST met her fans on the silver screen and between the pages of the day’s popular fan magazines, all of whom skated dizzily on the surface of facts and never did any fact-checking. This is the first section, Part 1, segment 11 of 32.
• • "The Real Mae West" • •
• • Mae West: Her philosophy • •
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: "Take all you can get, and give as little as you can" is the philosophy of Mae West, the celebrity.

• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: But as you will see, the philosophy of the real Mae West is: "Give where you can, give generously, unsparingly of yourself, of your money, of your time, to your work, to your friends, to those who are weaker than yourself."
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: It takes more than merely acting to become a national figure — an emblem — which, strange and contradictory as it may seem, is exactly what Mae West is.
• • Mae West: How she’s influenced popular culture • • ...   
• • This will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: The New Movie Magazine; issue dated for June 1934.
• • On Monday, 31 May 1999 • •
• • There was a 30-minute episode "Mae West" on TV's E! Mysteries and Scandals: Season 2, Episode 14. It aired on Monday, 31 May 1999.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Mae West seems to be growing vaguer all the time about her own background.  
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "I'd never marry a man who drinks to excess, or one who cannot carry his liquor like a gentleman. For one reason, the man I marry has got to be interested, not in liquor, but in Mae West!"
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article about public sculpture mentioned Mae West.
• • "Rita McBride undresses the Museu d'Art" • •
• • Art Daily wrote: Mae West is McBride’s definition of the difference between ‘sculpture’ and ‘architecture’. In the exhibition, McBride exhibits Mae West 52-meter Drawing (2010), a one to one drawing in progress. A plotter will work daily during the exhibition to produce a one-to-one scale drawing of the Mae West tower.  ...
• • Source: Art Daily for Art Daily (dot) org; published on Saturday, 19 May 2012
• • 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 5,000 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started seventeen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 5,005th 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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Mae West: Celebrity Persona

MAE WEST met her fans on the silver screen and between the pages of the day’s popular fan magazines, all of whom skated dizzily on the surface of facts and never did any fact-checking. This is the first section, Part 1, segment 10 of 32.
• • "The Real Mae West" • •
• • Mae West: Remarkable and fascinating • •
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: Mae West, the woman, is just as remarkable, and just as fascinating a human being as Mae West the celebrity.
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: But totally different and at opposite poles are Mae West the star, and Mae West the woman.  
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: And it is the woman as I have seen her that I want to introduce to you.
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: You all know, Mae West the star, whether you live in Hyde Park, London, Charlottenberg, Berlin, or Chillicothe, Ohio.  
• • Mae West: Her philosophy • • ...      
• • This will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: The New Movie Magazine; issue dated for June 1934.
• • On Tuesday 30 May 1950 • •
• • On Tuesday 30 May 1950, Mae West made the front page in Australia. This tantalizing tidbit was featured in The Argus and elsewhere.

• • Las Vegas, Monday: Mae West will open soon a gambling restaurant — casino in Las Vegas. Her lawyer Charles Catt, announced today that Mae West would be a featured attraction in the casino's floor shows.
• • Note: The "Mae West Revue" was not assembled until a few years later. However, it's clear Mae was mulling over her prospects with her manager and her lawyer. Aware that there were opportunities for live entertainment in Nevada's big rooms, the performer was already putting out feelers in 1950.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • The Legion of Decency has had its effect. Mae West will finally come forth in "I'm a Lady," leaving behind her "I'm No Angel," "She Done Him Wrong" and the like.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "Harry Richman was one of my pianists. And so was Whispering Jack Smith."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • Motion Picture Herald mentioned Mae West.
• • Did the Hays Office See It? • •  
• • Balaban and Katz's theatre advertising copy announcing the opening of Mae West's "Belle of the Nineties" in Chicago said that it is "Paramount's Picture Presented Exactly as Produced."  
• • If this advertising is truthful, then we are all wrong in our recollections of Paramount having returned the original version to its studio in Hollywood for a scrubbing and toning down that necessitated more than a few retakes. …
• • Source: Motion Picture Herald; published on Saturday, 29 September 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 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 5,000 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started seventeen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 5,004th 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: Scared of Mice

MAE WEST met her fans on the silver screen and between the pages of the day’s popular fan magazines, all of whom skated dizzily on the surface of facts and never did any fact-checking. This is the first section, Part 1, segment 9 of 32.
• • "The Real Mae West" • •
• • Mae West: A woman of great sympathies • •
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: Ostentatious in her love of jewelry, nevertheless Mae West has contributed large sums unostentatiously to worthy causes.  

• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: The only party she ever gave in Hollywood was for the little orphans at the circus, where pink lemonade and peanuts were the refreshments.
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: Mae West is a woman of great sympathies, great courage, and it is obvious she is remarkably abstemious in her private life.  
• • Mae West is afraid of mice • •
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: Mae said she never smokes [sic] or drinks, yet being feminine, she's scared to death of a mouse.
• • Mae West: Remarkable, fascinating • • ...   
• • This will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: The New Movie Magazine; issue dated for June 1934.
• • On Friday, 27 May 2005 • •
• • Talented artist Tom Tierney released his wonderful "Mae West Paper Doll" book on Friday, 27 May 2005. Dover published it.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • The case of Mae West's picture, "Belle of the Nineties," is one in point.
• • After New York censors refused to pass the Mae West production, it came back to the studio for retakes, and general refurbishing.
• • This cost the Production Code intends to eliminate in future by suggesting changes when a script is just a glint in a writer's eye, long before the scenario is introduced to the camera.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "Say what you want about long dresses but they cover a multitude of shins.”
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • Motion Picture Herald mentioned Mae West.
• • Good Stunt • •
• • Completely satisfied was Manager George S. Baker, of the Publix Newman Theatre in Kansas City, with his 23-hour continuous run to introduce Mae West in Paramount Pictures' "Belle of the Nineties" to the public.  
• • Estimated boost in the weekly gross for the run of $2,000 is the reason for the Baker elation.
• • In preparation is Miss West's novelization of the film.  ...
• • Source: Motion Picture Herald; published on Saturday, 29 September 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 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 5,000 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started seventeen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 5,003rd 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: Cash in Stockings

MAE WEST met her fans on the silver screen and between the pages of the day’s popular fan magazines, all of whom skated dizzily on the surface of facts and never did any fact-checking. This is the first section, Part 1, segment 8 of 32.
• • "The Real Mae West" • •
• • Mae West: Reaches down into her stocking • •
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: Her success on Broadway never changed her, and her success on the screen has not made a particle of difference in her attitude toward life in general and toward those less fortunate than herself whom she frequently has encountered in her long journey into the various phases of the theater.

• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: Mae West has a level, as well as a clever head, on her shapely shoulders, and I have never known anyone representing a worthy cause to ask her for financial help that she did not immediately reach down into her stocking — which serves as a bank — and roll off a banknote from her wad.
• • Mae West: A woman of great sympathies • • ...   
• • This will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: The New Movie Magazine; issue dated for June 1934.
• • On Wednesday, 26 May 1999 • •
• • Wednesday, 26 May 1999, TV viewers and Mae mavens were able to watch “Intimate Portrait,” Season 5, Episode 28: "Mae West." This was the original air date and it was shown on LIFE.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Mae West made it known she still was "burned up" over claims made by her "husbands" who have been identifying themselves as Mr. Mae West in various parts of the country.
• • "I'll have to meet them all some time," she said.  
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "I never kissed a man in my plays, and seldom on the screen. I always felt that the look before the kiss was more important than the kiss itself."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • Motion Picture Herald mentioned Mae West.
• • Screen Marathon • •
• • A continuous showing, 23 l/2 hours, at the Publix Newman, will introduce Paramount's "Belle of the Nineties," with Mae West as the "belle," to Kansas City.
• • George Baker, manager, who has tried the stunt before, said it increased overhead but paid for itself, and it was good publicity. …
• • Source: Motion Picture Herald; published on Saturday, 22 September 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 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 5,000 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started seventeen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 5,002nd 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: Never Forgot

MAE WEST met her fans on the silver screen and between the pages of the day’s popular fan magazines, all of whom skated dizzily on the surface of facts and never did any fact-checking. This is the first section, Part 1, segment 7 of 32.
• • "The Real Mae West" • •
• • Mae West: Wanted to reach the top • •  
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: Miss West, as I said before, never forgot that her aim was to reach the very top.  

• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: And there is something else she never forgot — something many women do forget in the bitterness of struggle for success.  
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: She has never forgotten to be a woman, and it is this warm, gracious quality which has helped her to become the celebrity she is today.
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: Despite the fact that she is now a world-wide figure, those who knew Mae West "when," and "after," find her the same kindly, unaffected, hard-working woman she was when she first became known in show business.
• • Mae West: Reaches down into her stocking • • ...   
• • This will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: The New Movie Magazine; issue dated for June 1934.
• • On Saturday, 25 May 1912 • •
• • When Mae West made her solo debut at Hammerstein's, the act was eleven minutes of dances and songs that were delivered in a Bert Williams like manner — — talking her way through.  [Think of Rex Harrison's talking his way through his numbers in "My Fair Lady."]  Mae selected "Parisienne," "Dancing-Prancing," and "Rap, Rap, Rap."  She closed her act with a sultry cooch.
• • Reviewing this variety artist in their issue dated Saturday, 25 May 1912, The New York Clipper felt that a number of well-placed comrades in the audience were there, helping her along.
• • On 25 May 1912, Variety's critic called her a "freak." In their opinion, Mae's presentation lacked "that touch of class that is becoming requisite nowadays for first-class houses."
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • National reports on Mae West's latest Paramount picture, "Belle of the Nineties," indicate that the film is doubling previous average business in many situations, according to Paramount.  
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: “Don't cry for a man who's left you — — the next one may fall for your smile.”
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • A Florida newspaper mentioned Mae West.
• • "The Myth of W.C." • •
• • Roger K. Miller wrote: This is not to say that W.C. Fields [1880 — 1946] did not drink; he died at age 66 of cirrhosis of the liver due to chronic alcoholism.
• • Roger K. Miller wrote: But in the public mind he has been the stage drunkard, rather than the irreverent toper that was the style he cultivated, just as he is commonly linked with Mae West, when in truth he made but one film with her (“My Little Chickadee”). …
• • Source: The Sun Sentinel; published on Sunday, 6 April 2003
• • 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 5,000 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started seventeen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 5,001st 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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