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It was on a Saturday, 3 June 1939 when MAE WEST was performing in Cincinnati that she was spotted at a popular "Cincy" night-spot.
• • The Indianapolis Recorder wrote: The Cotton Club had a pleasant surprise surprise on May 13, by none other than the best loved actress Miss Mae West, who was playing at the Talk auditorium. Miss West liked the band's music, and gave the Scat man $25 for playing her favorite song, to the others $5.00 apiece. Good luck to the Scat man and his band.
• • On Friday, 8 June 1979 • •
• • The date was 8 June 1979. Vincent Canby, then the film critic of The New York Times, pursed his lips and gave "Sextette" starring Mae West a sound spanking. Another article in the paper was "Mae West, 87, Does an Encore:Trying for 6th Marriage."
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • In "Now I'm a Lady," which delighted the Olympia audience on Saturday night and which will conclude its showing to-night, Mae West has gone modern, and In this picture becomes a socialite with countless admirers among the bluebloods.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: “Other producers tried to bring out plays like mine, but they didn’t know how."
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• • A Baltimore daily mentioned Mae West and a favorite Italian eatery.
• • Maria D. Velleggia, whose cooking skills helped to transform a small corner tavern into a popular landmark Italian restaurant, died in her sleep on Sunday in her apartment above Velleggia's Restaurant at High and Pratt Streets in Baltimore's Little Italy neighborhood. She was 89 years old. . . .
• • Visiting celebrities also stopped at Velleggia's, including baseball great Joe DiMaggio and actor Danny DeVito. Actress Mae West always brought Mrs. Velleggia a corsage when she dined at the restaurant after appearing in a show at Ford's Theatre. . . .
• • Source: Item in The Baltimore Sun; published on Thursday, 20 June 1996
• • The Mae West Blog celebrates its 12th anniversary • •
• • Thank
you for reading, sending questions, and posting comments during these
past eleven years. The other day we entertained 3,497 visitors. And we reached a
milestone recently when we completed 3,700 blog posts. Wow!
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started ten years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 3721st blog post.
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MAE WEST, Rosemary Clooney, and Sammy Davis, Jr. were onstage 6 December 2009, thanks to a trio of talented impressionists dedicated to the goal of raising funds for tots.
• • The 20th Century Theatre in Oakley hosted this Benefit, announcing that "celebrity impersonators of all America's greatest legends will perform." All proceeds were intended for their local Children's Hospital.
• • Designed by Fred W. Stritzel in the Neoclassical Moderne or Art Moderne style, the 20th Century Theater opened in 1941 on Madison Road in Cincinnati, Ohio. That's a fine setting for Mae West and the audience was well pleased with the stagebill assembled for this charitable cause.• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/________
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MAE WEST posed for George Hurrell. "She'd drop her clothes at the drop of a hat," the Tinseltown photographer once told John Kobal.
• • A master lensman, Hurrell [1 June 1904 — 17 May 1992] was the darkroom genie responsible for many memorable photographs of Mae along with top-flight Hollywoodites during the 1930s.
• • Disliking the trend towards soft focus, George Hurrell preferred to sculpt an actor or actress's face with light and shade, using a movable boom light to illuminate cheekbones or create moody depths under a nose or the eyes — — as if he made new contracts with artificial lighting. “The most essential thing about my style was working with shadows — — to design the face instead of flooding it with light,” he said. Ah, the mastery of hinting at mystique. Ooooh, that such carefully orchestrated chiaro-scuro could bring heightened attention to a movie star, an individual who might have no more mental acuity than a vintage snow globe.
• • An article printed days ago in The Kentucky Enquirer got thoughts flowing along the black-paved Hurrell highway.
• • George Hurrell, an art student who would set the standard for the glamorized publicity stills in Hollywood, was born in Covington in 1904, according to John Schlipp, Enquirer contributor. While some sources list Cincinnati as George Hurrell's birthplace, Hurrell himself clearly states in correspondence that he was born in Covington, Kentucky. He was raised in Cincinnati until age 5, when the family moved to Chicago, writes John Schlipp.
• • Browse his August 30th article — — "Covington native was 'photographer to the stars'" — — inside The Kentucky Enquirer — — http://nky.cincinnati.com/• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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