Mae West: Very Reticent

MAE WEST was a soft touch for a hard luck story. Mae rarely discussed her generosity in an interview, however, which makes this seldom seen piece in Screenland worth reading. This is Part 2 of 18 segments.
• • Mae West’s Secret Self • •
• • Mae West: An easy-to-get, hard-to-forget gal • •
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: You know her only as that easy-to-get, hard-to-forget gal, who says she got that swaggering gait of hers "walkin' over men.''
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: But after you've been around her a while you find there are things about her you've never known before — never even merely suspected — and she's very reticent about this secret life of hers.
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: I asked her one day to tell me something she had done to help a girl along. She couldn't think of anything at all.
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: "I don't know much about girls," she said, as she drew her maroon velvet peignoir about her lily-white and shapely shoulders.
• • Mae West: Is Mae bad or is she good-hearted? • • …
• • This will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: Screenland; issue dated for October 1933.   
• • On Thursday, 19 July 1956 in Maine • •  
• • Fred E. Crockett, 96, who died on 25 April 2008 asked Mae West to come up sometime to Camden, Maine. And Mae arrived on Thursday, 19 July 1956.
• • July 2004: Mae West Blog launches • •
• • What are we up to, writing about the Brooklyn-born bombshell for eighteen years now?
• • 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 • •
• • Mae West strolled into a Hollywood that wasn’t ready for her. Tinseltown, run by men, preferred women to be young, thin, and quiet. Mae was none of those.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "I like to live up high.”
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • The Biloxi Daily Herald mentioned Mae West.
• • By Walter B. Clausen (Associated Press Staff Writer)
• • Hollywood, Calif., July 17 — (A.P.) — John Barrymore is virtually down to his last yacht. Joan Crawford has more jewels than "Diamond Lil" Mae West. Charles Chaplin is the wealthiest movie star. Harold Lloyd is the screen's largest landholder. These are some of the facts written into the records of the county tax collector, now that the time approaches again for collecting taxes, many of the stars own property outside Los Angeles County, of course.  …
• • Source: The Biloxi Daily Herald; published on Wednesday, 17 July 1935
• • 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 18th anniversary • • 
• • Thank you for reading, sending questions, and posting comments during these past eighteen 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 eighteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 5,040th 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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