Mae West: Barnstable Seniors

MAE WEST is one of the brain-exercising topics in a delightful free program for seniors in New England called "How to Remember Not to Forget Mini University."
• • Given from late April until June 18, 2015, here's what the course description promised:   The program explores skills to increase our brain cell functions. The additional session  will test your memory by presenting new topics and personalities such as Mae West, the Beatles, and Frank Sinatra. We will practice and evaluate our results.
• • If you are on Cape Cod, inquire here: The Barnstable Senior Center, 825 Falmouth Road, Hyannis, MA 02601.
• • On Monday, 29 April 1935 in the Cornell Daily Sun • •
• • The caption read: Autograph seekers drive Miss Lyn Olson, 22-year-old beauty parlor operator of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, "crazy" because she resembles Mae West, blonde screen actress of many marriage licenses. And the Associated Press b/w photo reveals so startling a likeness that Lyn Olson could have had a second career as a Mae West look-alike.  Were Lyn's eyes blue, too? 
• • Source: page 6 of Cornell Daily Sun; published on Monday, 29 April 1935.
• • On Friday, 29 April 1938 in the Boston Herald • •

• • Beantown readers were treated to this titillation on 29 April 1938, announced with a boldface headline:  Clutching, Squealing Crowd Greets Mae West with Mob Scene Here.
• • The Boston Herald reporter wrote: Complete with the publicized curves and husky, slurring accents that have made her practically a symbol of what she is pleased to call “the sex personality,” Mae West crashed into Boston yesterday morning through a clutching, squealing crowd of 3000 eager admirers who turned the South station into a mob scene.
• • The Boston Herald reporter noted: Cries of pain mingled with shouts of “There she is!” and “Give us a smile, Mae!” as the mob, in a surging onslaught, trampled on toes and barked shins to get closer to the object of it all. The plump blonde actress, in a trailing satin dress, with make-up thick on her features and a huge bunch of orchids clutched in a heavily jeweled hand, gave them the smile and was taken off to the Ritz-Carlton, where she is staying while appearing in person at the RKO Boston Theater this week.
• • On Saturday, 29 April 1950 in Pittsburgh • •
• • Pittsburgh's Mayor David Lawrence and Mae West shared the stage of the Nixon Theater on Saturday night, 29 April 1950, after the final performance of her play, "Diamond Lil." The 47-year-old playhouse was booked for bulldozing, making way for the new headquarters of the Aluminum Company of America.  Tsk.  But what do the citizens of Pittsburgh know about the magnificence of the theatre arts anyway?
• • On Sunday, 29 April 1984 in The N.Y. Times • •
• • N.Y. Times reporter Francis X. Clines was reviewing Peter Conrad's book and gave his 29 April 1984 column this spunky title: "Walt Whitman's and Mae Wests's New York."
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Mae West will visit Las Vegas soon to complete plans for building a gambling casino and restaurant. She will be featured in floor shows at the new establishment, which will be named "Mae West's Diamond Lil Casino Restaurant."
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said:  "Mr. Dwight Eisenhower's a leader, and a leader has drive and decision and power, and that makes a man a sexy man."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • The Los Angeles Times mentioned Mae West.
• • "Mae West named Woman of the Century" • •
• • It was on Wednesday, 12 May 1971 when Mae West, UCLA’s Woman of the Century, spoke to students after a screening of her 1933 classic movie “I’m No Angel.”  . . .
• • Source: Item in The Los Angeles Times; published on Saturday, 15 May 1971
• • The Mae West Blog celebrates its 10th anniversary • •    
• • Thank you for reading, sending questions, and posting comments during this past decade. The other day we entertained 1,430 visitors. We reached a milestone recently when we completed 3,100 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • • 
• • The Mae West Blog was started ten years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 3167th 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: Overland in Ashland

MAE WEST is being commemorated in Ashland, Oregon today, 18 August 2012.

• • At the restaurant Blue, Greek on Granite (5 Granite Street), performer Gwen Overland will portray the legendary screen queen, singing 16 songs from her motion pictures in between offering mouthfuls from Mae's biography. Showtime is 6 o'clock this evening. Sounds like such fun.  

• • Jeron Criswell King [18 August 1907 — 4 October 1982] • •

• • All but forgotten is the man born in the month of August as Jeron Criswell King, who became known by his stage-name The Amazing Criswell. Criswell was Mae's personal psychic for awhile.

• • Born in Princeton, Indiana on Sunday, 18 August 1907, Jeron Criswell King wrote several books of (erroneous) predictions, including 1968's "Criswell Predicts: From Now to the Year 2000." In it, he offered peculiar predictions about Mae West, forecasting that she would be president — — or that Mae would fly to the moon with Liberace.  Hmmmf.

• • The record "Criswell Predicts" was written — — at Mae's request — — by Bob Thompson [a native Californian who was born on 22 August 1924 in San Jose].

• • Criswell died of cardiac arrest in Burbank, California on 4 October 1982. He was 75 years old.

• • On Sunday, 18 August 1935 • •

• • In 1935 the discovery of Mae West's marriage license was still big enough news that The Gleaner carried a story on 18 August 1935 saying that Frank Wallace and Trixie LeMae were visiting her mother, Lena Carey.

• • "Yesterday, incidentally, was Miss West's birthday," revealed her former husband Frank Wallace to the news media, "and — — she was 42."

• • "The nerve of a brass monkey," was Mae West's response.

• • On Monday, 18 August 1952 • •

• • The Lake Whalom Playhouse in Fitchburg, Massachusetts was happy to invite a Broadway star to delight its New England audience. Mae West was featured in their Program dated for the week of 18 August 1952.  Mae was starring in the play "Come On Up" (first known as "Ring Twice Tonight").

• • On Wednesday, 18 August 1954 • •

• • In her Hollywood column, syndicated on Wednesday, 18 August 1954, Louella Parsons wrote: "Mae West, who knocked them for a loop in Las Vegas, is at Malibu taking a vacation before she opens in Reno."

• • Mae West Movie Dialogue • •

• • Enjoy this frisky dialogue between Mae West as Flower Belle Lee and actor Dick Foran as Wayne Carter.

• • Wayne Carter: Yes, and I think that you could turn a man’s head very easily — — if he wasn’t careful.

• • Flower Belle Lee: Mmm, well there’s no fun in being too careful.

• • Wayne Carter: Aren’t you forgetting that you’re married?

• • Flower Belle Lee: I’m doing my best.

• • Source: "My Little Chickadee" [1940]

• • In Her Own Words • •

• • Mae West said: "If you don't think you're wonderful, why should anyone else?"

• • Quote, Unquote • •

• • A new DVD set and its reviewer mentioned Mae West.

• • Dave Kehr wrote: The first thing you may notice about “Universal Rarities: Films of the 1930s,” a fine new box set from TCM’s limited edition Vault Collection, is that all four features it contains were actually produced and released by Paramount Pictures. “Million Dollar Legs” (1932), “Belle of the Nineties” (1934), “Artists and Models” (1937) and “Souls at Sea” (1937) are indeed Universal rarities in the sense that (a) they are rare and (b) they figure among the 700 or so pre-1950 Paramount sound films that through a series of acquisitions and mergers, ended up under the control of Universal’s television division. ...

• • Dave Kehr explained: Mae West was Paramount’s biggest star in the early 1930s, and the objections of church and civic groups to her exuberantly risqué humor was a major reason the Production Code was fortified in 1934. Her screenplay for “Belle of the Nineties” suffered major interference at the hands of the industry censors, though even with her character forcibly watered-down (she’s a blues-belting nightclub entertainer who heads for New Orleans when St. Louis gets too hot for her), her delivery turns even the most innocuous line into an invitation to unspeakable delights. It’s West’s film all the way, although the director, Leo McCarey (“The Awful Truth”), allows his fine hand to show in a few scenes that allow West to drop her mask and utter some world-weary asides, humanizing her in a way that her other films do not. ...

• • Source: Article: "New on DVD: ‘Universal Rarities: Films of the 1930s’" written by Dave Kehr for The N.Y. Times; published on 17 August 2012

• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started eight years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 2399th 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: In Georgetown

Come up and see MAE WEST in New England on 29 August 2011.
• • New England's Delvena Theatre Company will present "W. C. Fields and Mae West" on Monday at 2 pm on 29 August 2011 at the Trestle Way Community Building, 23 Trestle Way, Georgetown, Massachusetts. This show is a live performance that examines the lives and relationships between the two comedic actors. This educational and entertaining production will feature Lynne Moulton, Joseph Zamparelli Jr., and Fran Baron in multiple roles. Zamparelli will direct.
• • Actor Joseph Zamparelli, Jr., is also the producing/artistic director of BostonAlive. Based in Lynn, Massachusetts, The Delvena Theatre Company was founded in 1992 and has performed at various venues, frequently at the Boston Center for the Arts.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West wrote this: "I wrote the story myself. It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.”
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • Kathy Caldwell, president of the American Society of Civil Engineers, recently served as one of President Barack Obama’s 20 Champions of Change. Interviewed by Business Editor Anthony Clark, the 56-year-old ticked off her "Dream partners for lunch" as Mae West, Amelia Earhart, and First Lady Michelle Obama. ...
• • Source: Article: "Civil engineer Kathy Caldwell helps President Obama improve the country’s infrastructure" written by Anthony Clark for Gainesville.com; posted on 28 August 2011
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started seven years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 2037th 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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