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An announcement of a wine event in The Keystone State mentioned MAE WEST.
• • "Wine Circle: The Mystery of Fortified Wines" refers to any wine to which a distilled beverage (usually brandy) has been added, for instance, port, sherry, Madeira, etc. Friday 14 January 2011 is the "Wine Circle" date and the venue is the Hotel Fauchere [401 Broad St., Milford, PA].
• • Hotel Fauchere was established by Switzerland native and master chef Louis Fauchere in the mid-1800s. Notable guests who have spent the night at the "French hotel" have included Mae West, Andrew Carnegie, Robert Frost, Babe Ruth, Ogden Nash, and three U.S. presidents — — not all at the same time, however, nor in the same room.
• • Adolph Zukor's Birthdate • •
• • Mae West worked with everyone from A to Z — — and, at Paramount Pictures, she met the biggest AZ of all.
• • Born in early January as "Adolph Cukor," Adolph Zukor [7 January 1873 — 10 June 1976] was a film mogul and founder of Paramount Pictures.
• • The Hungarian journalist Farkas László writes: Throughout the 1920's Zukor used to receive about 40 letters a day from a Hungarian nation proud of his fame and stature. He never forgot the land of his birth, and was never ashamed to let people know where he was from. He hired many Hungarians to work in his studio.
• • Mae West's former agent Jerry Martin dies • •
• • According to The Hollywood Reporter: Jerry Martin’s clients included actresses Mae West, Ava Gardner, Betty Grable, Alice Faye, Gwen Verdon, and others.
• • When Martin repped Mae West, he was with the William Morris Agency.
• • The Philadelphia native also worked at Henderson Hogan, International Famous Agency and the Fifi Oscard Agency, and before that he headed the tour guide staff at NBC in New York. Jerry Martin, a former agent at WMA, died 16 December 2010 in his sleep at his home in Santa Monica. He was 80. [This death notice was printed on 6 January 2011.]
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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When MAE WEST was on Broadway during the 1920s, her "shady lady" characters smoked onstage. Offstage, the Brooklyn blonde was seen lighting up in nightclubs and restaurants. 
• • At the time, a lot of actors and actresses who smoked were being tapped to appear in well-paid endorsements for tobacco products — — and Mae promoted the Old Gold brand. Years later, when she had contracted maturity onset diabetes and was being more careful about her health, she quit smoking. Thus began the tall tales about having had her stage cigarettes "de-nicotinized" — — as if this was [ahem!] a common request during the Prohibition Era.
• • As much as Mae enjoyed playing the bad girl on Broadway, in her private life she really delighted in something even more rebellious: going off her diet and high-diving into rich German food. Tillie was always reminding her five-foot-tall daughter to take smaller portions. She told an interviewer that one reason she never taught Mae to cook or bake is because she feared her darling would overdo it, stuffing herself on homemade Black Forest Cake, Apple Torte, Spritzkuchen [crullers], and other fatal forkfuls.
• • The Triangle Hofbrau, 1893 — 1999 • • 
• • Occasionally, Mae sneaked away for culinary thrills on Hillside Avenue at the Triangle Hofbrau, a comfortable place where she could smoke and eat far from her mother's scrutiny. One evening, as her cigarette burned in the ashtray, Mae was gorging on a Wiener Schnitzel and didn't notice the tablecloth caught on fire. A quick thinking waiter put out the flames.
• • Where Myrtle Meets Hillside Avenue • •
• • According to a local Queens County historian Carl Ballenas: "A part of Richmond Hill was unofficially known as 'Berlin' in the 1800s on account of its large German population."
• • According to The Wall Street Journal's real estate reporter Kavita Mokha: The intersection of Myrtle and Hillside Avenues is a historic landmark unto itself and illustrates the changing landscape. It was once home to three iconic businesses that have each closed their doors in recent years after nearly a century in existence: Jahn's, a German-owned ice-cream parlor; the Triangle Hofbrau, a German eatery; and Salerno's, a longstanding Italian restaurant. ... And a few steps from where Jahn's once stood is a medical office building that until the year 1999 housed the Triangle Hofbrau, once the oldest restaurant in Queens. The Hofbrau, opened in 1893, is said to have been a favorite haunt of Babe Ruth and Mae West. ...
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• • Article: "New Immigrants Put Stamp on Richmond Hill"
• • By: Kavita Mokha
• • Published in: The Wall Street Journal
• • Published on: 20 August 2010• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/________
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During the month of March 1924, MAE WEST was trouping through the southwest, where she had accepted a four-week contract to perform on the Interstate Vaudeville Circuit. Covering Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Arkansas, this was one of variety's least desirable routes and a far cry from the bath of light at Times Square.
• • Perhaps a motion picture promotional tour during the 1930s took her back to Tulsa — — because the new management of a local inn is displaying her portrait, claiming Mae slept there. Since they did not furnish gritty specifics such as which of the 600 rooms she booked, which floor she breezed through, or what year, you'll need to call them up and ask: T: 918-582-6296. [Do let us know!] • • Eighty-four years ago architect George Winkler designed the Mayo Hotel [at 115 W. Fifth Street, Tulsa, OK 74103], which went up in 1925, sparing no expense on the very cool marble and terrazzo flooring.
• • Unfortunately, the venue's guests since 1981 were mostly ghosts. An extensive renovation is under way, apparently, and new residents will start hanging their hats there by August 22nd. By Hallowe'en they ought to be in good spirits.
• • According to Macy Snyder, sales manager at the Mayo, workers are polishing the finials, spit-shining the doorknobs, and completing the $40 million renovation, equipping the landmark with 102 hotel rooms, 76 apartments, seven meeting rooms, and a new restaurant space. In 1980 the (then forlorn) Mayo was added to The National Register of Historic Places.
• • Tulsa World's Robert Evatt interviewed Ms. Snyder recently. Macy Snyder told him: "Those rooms will be unique as well because more than 100 different large photos of historic Tulsa and the Mayo's history, from famous guests to its recent reconstruction, will be scattered throughout the rooms and the hallways. ..."
• • The Mayo Hotel boasts of these famous connections, noted Robert Evatt: Oilman J. Paul Getty lived at the Mayo when he was a Tulsan. Mae West, John F. Kennedy, Bob Hope, Charles Lindbergh, Charlie Chaplin, and Babe Ruth are among its famous guests. Richard Nixon once spoke there. ...
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• • Article: "A milestone for the Mayo"
• • Byline: Robert Evatt, Tulsa World Staff Writer | Research by Hilary Pittman
• • Published in: Tulsa World — — http://www.tulsaworld.com/
• • Published on: 6 August 2009
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MAE WEST once lived in the area of Queens (then Long Island) known as Richmond Hill. The actress was an enthusiastic smoker in those days. Once she was banned from The Triangle Hoifbrau because she almost burnt down one section of the aged dining room.
• • The Queens Courier featured a gazetteer on this neighborhood. Here's what they wrote.
• • Richmond Hill — — Where
• • Richmond Hill is a neighborhood in central-southern Queens, New York City, USA. It is bordered by Kew Gardens to the north, Woodhaven and Ozone Park to the west, South Ozone Park to the South, and South Jamaica to the east. The neighborhood is split between Queens Community Board 9 and 10.
• • History
• • The hill referred to as Richmond Hill is a moraine created by debris and rocks collected while glaciers advanced down North America.
• • Richmond Hill is rich in history. The Battle of Long Island, one of the bloodiest battles of the Revolutionary War, was fought in 1776 along the ridge now in Forest Park, near what is now the golf course clubhouse. Protected by its thickly wooded area, American riflemen used guerrilla warfare tactics to attack and defeat the Hessians.
• • Richmond Hill's name was inspired either by a suburban town near London, England, or because of Edward Richmond, a landscape architect in the mid-1800s who designed much of the neighborhood. In 1868, a successful banker named Albon P. Man bought the Lefferts and Welling farms, and hired Richmond to lay out the community. Over the next decade streets, schools, a church, and a railroad were built, thus making the area one of the earliest residential communities on Long Island. The area is well known for its large-frame single family houses, many of which have been preserved since the turn of the twentieth century. Many of the Queen Anne Victorian homes of old Richmond Hill still stand in the area today. The area first became developed in 1918, when the BMT Jamaica Avenue elevated train line (today the J/Z lines of the New York City Subway) was extended in the neighborhood.
• • Landmarks
• • The Triangle Hofbrau was a restaurant which was frequented by such stars as Mae West in the 1920s and 1930's. It sat on the triangular piece of land bordered by Hillside Avenue, Jamaica Avenue, and Myrtle Avenue.
• • Near the northwest corner of Hillside Avenue and Myrtle Avenue sat an old time ice cream parlor, Jahn's. It closed in late 2007. Not far away is Lefferts Boulevard which, with Liberty Avenue, define the central core of Richmond Hill.
• • Diversity
• • Originally, many German, Italian and Irish families had lived in Richmond Hill. Now Richmond Hill has many Punjabis, Trinidadians, Surinamese, Hispanics, Guyanese, other West Indians, South Asians, Indian and some Europeans living in the community. Today a minor Jewish population live along a larger group of Sikhs, Christians, Hindus, Muslims. Richmond Hill has many Guyanese people and is often thought of as "Little Guyana."
• • Historical Places of Interest in Richmond Hill
• • 1864 The Triangle Hofbrau — — This restaurant was at one time the oldest running restaurant in Queens (1893-1999). The building originally housed the Post Office and was also a hotel named Doyle's Hotel.
• • The first eatery opened its doors in 1893 under the name Wheelman's Restaurant. It was later named The Triangle Hofbrau and was said to have been the favorite eating spot of such celebrities as Mae West, Babe Ruth, Lefty Gomez, Robert Wagner Sr., Earl Sande, and Ernest Ball. Recently the Hofbrau had changed owners and was called Little Europe Restaurant, reflecting the change to a recent Russian immigration influx to Richmond Hill. Unfortunately, the restaurant falling under hard times sold the property to a medical facility which promises not to alter the building structure.
• • 1867 The Steel House — — This mansion once owned by Daniel Eldridge of the notorious Tweed Ring, is still located at 87-61 111th St. ...
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• • Article: "Richmond Hill"
• • Written by: The Queens Courier staff
• • Published in: The Queens Courier — — www.queenscourier.com
• • Published on: Tuesday, 27 May 2008
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