Mae West: Angus McBean

MAE WEST posed for Angus McBean and those portraits will be displayed next month in the United Kingdom.
• • Writing for London's paper The Sunday Times five years ago, Joanna Pitman remarked: One talismanic figure throughout his career was Mae West, who first visited McBean’s London studio in 1948 after a performance of her show Diamond Lil. It is lovely to see the model that McBean made of West, a bizarre stick-like creature, its arms and legs operated by long sticks like Malaysian puppets. West was amazed by the doll when she saw it and McBean was able to demonstrate that it could, like its progenitor, pat its hair and put its hand on its swinging hip. ...
• • Word comes that the National Museum Wales will host a series of events, exhibitions, and activities to celebrate LGBT History Month in February 2011.
• • Moreover at National Museum Cardiff, "People, Personalities and Power: Faces from Wales" is a display of Welsh portraits from the museum’s collection, assembled to celebrate LGBT History Month, that will be on view until Sunday, 8 May 2011.
• • Recently acquired pictures by Angus McBean will be displayed, including a surreal self-portrait by McBean and a pair of portraits of legendary Welsh actor and playwright Emlyn Williams. Angus McBean’s biographer and close friend, Adrian Woodhouse, will talk about McBean’s work on Friday, 11 February 2011.
• • Adrian Woodhouse will explain how McBean’s sexual orientation influenced his photography, for instance, his astonishing images of famous women and beautiful men. Woodhouse will focus particularly on McBean's notable images of screen stars like Mae West, Audrey and Katherine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, and Shirley Bassey along with silver gelatin prints of ravishing males in their prime — — Howard Keel and Laurence Olivier and others.
• • Born in London, Angus McBean [8 June 1904 — 9 June 1990] was a Welsh photographer associated with surrealism.
• • WHERE: National Museum Cardiff, Cathays Park, Cardiff CF10 3NP; Tel: (029) 2039 7951
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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Mae West: Usherette

A 91-year-old usherette still remembers the time she seated ticket-holders for a live performance by MAE WEST on the West Coast.
• • Born during 1917 in San Francisco, Agnes Chan offered this recollection to a San Francisco Gate reporter: I started ushering when I was a student at San Francisco State. One of the courses had as a requirement that we do volunteer work at the Geary Theater. So I went and ushered for Mae West — — she was doing her one-woman show. I took a fellow to his seat and he tipped me a dollar. I thought, "Wow, that's great." ...
• • Constructed in 1909, and opened to the public on 10 January 1910, the 1,024-seat Beaux Arts auditorium has been a venue for performers of the likes of Mae West, Sarah Bernhardt, Helen Hayes, Isadora Duncan, Clark Gable, Laurence Olivier, Boris Karloff, and others.
• • The building is located here: 415 Geary Street [at Mason Street], San Francisco, CA 94108.
• • And speaking of live entertainment and tiered seating, on Thursday evening, 20 August 2009, you can enjoy a FREE showing of "She Done Him Wrong" [1933], a motion picture classic starring Mae West and Cary Grant.
• • WHERE: Minneapolis Institute of Arts — — Pillsbury Auditorium [2400 3rd Avenue S, Minneapolis, MN; T. 612-870-3131].
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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Mae West: 100 Years

Formerly known as the Columbia Theatre and the Geary Theatre when MAE WEST trod the boards, this magnificent San Francisco showplace will soon celebrate its 100th birthday.
• • Constructed in 1909, and opened to the public on 10 January 1910, the 1.024-seat Beaux Arts auditorium has been the headquarters of the A.C.T. acting company since former director Bill Ball relocated the group to the West Coast from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1965.
• • The Geary Theater was nearly destroyed in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake; the extensive damage caused to the structure shuttered it for seven years.
• • American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.) Artistic Director Carey Perloff announced the lineup of the company's 43rd subscription season today. The season will welcome some of the best American and international artists to the Bay Area and also celebrate the 100th anniversary of this national landmark, a celebrated architectural icon in a city renowned for its urban beauty.
• • During its storied past, this has been a venue for performers of the likes of Mae West, Sarah Bernhardt, Helen Hayes, Isadora Duncan, Clark Gable, Laurence Olivier, and others.
• • The building is located here: 415 Geary Street [at Mason Street], San Francisco, CA 94108.
• • Its near neighbor is the Curran Theatre — — where Mae West performed her blockbuster success "Diamond Lil" in 1929 — — located at 445 Geary Street (San Francisco, CA 94102).
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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