Mae West: Viva Vaudeville

MAE WEST and other vaudeville legends were fondly recalled in a Canadian article that draws attention to an ambitious variety show being planned in Ontario. Performers are needed.
• • Laurel Beechey begins "Vaudeville show planned for Annandale" by offering some history. She writes: What form of entertainment included the following: singers, dancers, musicians, comedians, trained animals, impersonators, comedians, jugglers, acrobats, lecturing celebrities and short one act plays? Here is a hint. If you were bad they threw tomatoes and other produce at you! You are right — — Vaudeville!
• • There are not a lot of people around anymore who know what Vaudeville was all about, but that will be rectified by Annandale National Historic Site's Vaudeville exhibit this summer. To top off the exhibit, the museum would like Theatre Tillsonburg to help by producing a Vaudeville show.
• • So let me give you some background on Vaudeville so you can work up the perfect act for the show. ...
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• • Article: "Vaudeville Show Planned for Annandale"
• • By Laurel A. Beechey
• • Published by: Tillsonburg News [P.O. Box 190, 25 Townline Road, Tillsonburg, N4G4H6, Ontario, Canada]
• • Published on: 11 February 2010
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Mae West: Easy Rider

MAE WEST adored ragtime. She once told an interviewer about grooving very early to "the black man's sound." Whether she was imitating the sultry Shimmy she watched in a Chicago club or swinging to the latest jam she heard in Harlem, Mae's musical taste was in formation: "we copied it because it was the greatest. [Black people] had been developing it for years."
• • In 1928, she performed a rag that she especially loved onstage in "Diamond Lil" and its Hollywood counterpart "She Done Him Wrong" [1933]. The lyricist and composer of this song — — "I Wonder Where My Easy Rider's Gone" — — was Shelton Brooks [4 May 1886 — 6 September 1975], who published it around 1913. He was good friends with Mae's maid Bea Jackson; his nickname for her was "Hot Story Telling."
• • Born in Amesburg, Ontario, Canada, Shelton Brooks moved to Detroit in 1901 with his family; his parents were Native American and Black. His father was a preacher and Shelton and his brother would play the organ during services.
• • Surrounded by music, Shelton wrote his first big hit in 1910 — — "Some of These Days" — — using his own lyrics. He had already introduced the song in his own vaudeville act when Sophie Tucker's maid introduced both him and the tune to Sophie. The vaudevillian, who would eventually style herself as "the Last of the Red Hot Mamas," made this number her very own theme song.
• • "Walkin' the Dog" • •
• • His 1916 instrumental tune "Walkin' the Dog" inspired a dance that first swept dancehall-crazed New York City, and then the rest of the country. That year, the variety act "Mae West and Sister" performed "Walkin' the Dog" as their grand finale.
• • A lifelong lover of black culture, Mae's ears were drawn to the relaxed, finger-snappy Shelton Brooks sound.
• • "I Wonder Where My Easy Rider's Gone" — — Shelton Brooks's playful song, which Mae performed in 1933 in her first blockbuster hit film, was also been recorded by a diverse group of song stylists such as Tampa Red & His Hokum Jug Band, Sophie Tucker, Liza Minnelli, Frankie "Half-Pint" Jaxon, Peter Bocage, Kid Thomas Valentine, Le Petit Jazzband de Mr. Morel, and others.
• • On September 6th, Shelton Brooks died in Los Angeles in 1975 when he was 89 years old. He is buried at Rose Hills Memorial Park.
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• • "I Wonder Where My Easy Rider's Gone" [lyrics] • •
• • • • Miss Susie Johnson is a crazy as can be
• • • • About that easy riding kid they call Jockey Lee
• • • • Now, don't you think it's funny, only bets her money
• • • • In the race friend Jockey's goin' to be
• • • • There was a race down at the track the other day
• • • • And Susie got an inside tip right away
• • • • She bet a hundred to one that her little Hon
• • • • Would bring home all the mon
• • • • When she found out Jockey was not there
• • • • Miss Susie cried out in despair....
• • • • I wonder where my easy rider's gone today
• • • • He never told me he was goin' away
• • • • If he was here he'd win the race
• • • • If not first, he'd get a place
• • • • I never saw that Jockey trailing anyone before
• • • • I'm losing my money, that's why I am blue
• • • • To win a race, Lee knows just what to do
• • • • I'd put all my junk in pawn
• • • • To bet on any horse that Jockey's on
• • • • Oh! I wonder where my easy rider's gone
• • • • Oh! I wonder where my easy rider's gone
• • • • He went to put my brand new watch in pawn
• • • • I see him comin' round that turn
• • • • What a trail that man can burn
• • • • He's gonna win because my dough is on the nose
• • • • Just watch my Jockey's easy rider stance
• • • • He'll hit that home stretch, win it by a mile
• • • • I want him to win this spree
• • • • And keep a-goin' till he comes to me
• • • • Oh! I wonder where my easy rider's gone
• • • • Oh! I wonder where my easy rider's gone
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Mae West: Apes & Grapes

When food writers attempt to use a MAE WEST reference, they can easily grate on one's nerves.
• • Unafraid of appearing uninformed or ridiculous is Canadian consumer Rita DeMontis, who offered this ham-fisted opening for her July 30th column ["Great Grapes"] in The Sarnia Observer.
• • Rita DeMontis writes: Oh, Beulah — — peel me a grape! This was Mae West's famous other line, from her film "I'm No Angel," when the queen of double entendres managed to elevate a request for her favourite fruit into something akin to soft porn.
• • The legendary sex siren single-handedly made the grape a luscious object of desire.
• • Grapes have always held an air of mystique . . . .
• • • • Of Apes and Grapes • • • •
• • In our opinion, if you believe grapes have mystique, then you need to get out more often. And if that familiar Mae West quip seems "akin to soft porn," then one hour on the Internet must present a great deal of unspeakable peril to such a timid reader.
• • As many Mae-mavens know, the movie queen's pet monkey Boogie appeared with her in "I'm No Angel." Boogie would not eat grapes unless they were peeled. When the director asked the movie star to ad lib a line — — to round out a shot with Tira and her maids — — his request prompted Mae West's remark, "Beulah, peel me a grape."
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• • Published in: The Sarnia Observer [140 S. Front St., Sarnia, Canada] — — www.theobserver.ca
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Mae West: Screened in Canada

MAE WEST was very proud of her wildly popular motion picture "She Done Him Wrong" [filmed in 1932 and released in the USA on 9 February 1933].
• • Word comes that Canadian cinema historian Reg Hartt will be screening Mae West's first starring film "She Done Him Wrong" (based on her stage play "Diamond Lil" with its Bowery setting) until July 2nd. Reg Hartt will be introducing the film.
• • Born in New Brunswick, Canada on 12 June 1946, Reg Hartt is a film archivist and collector in Toronto, Canada, who is passionate about old, important movies. In an interview, he once told a reporter about a bus trip he took to Los Angeles in the early 1970s along with a strange fellow he met at the end of it, a Charles Manson type. The oddball slipped him a elephant tranquilizer and predicted that Reg would be dead by morning. Whereupon Reg meditated — — and decided to write a letter to Mae West to pass the time.
• • The Cineforum is the unique movie emporium that Mr. Hartt operates out of his Bathurst Street living room in Canada.
• • Though the Cineforum has existed for the past four decades, it was not until 1992 that it was moved to his parlor. British painter Peter Moore described the intimate, old-fashioned Cineforum as “the most perfect place in the world to watch a motion picture.”
• • WHERE: Cineforum — — 463 Bathurst Street, Toronto, Ontario.
• • WHEN: Since Saturday, 27 June 2009 and until Thursday, 2 July 2009 at 7 PM.
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Mae West: Hijinks Jenkins

MAE WEST met many characters — — and more than a few were men of the cloth.
• • According to old newsprint, Leroy Jenkins, who had charmed his way into Mae West's circle, was a man of convictions. Some of those oddball beliefs got him sentenced to a 12-year prison term in 1979. That probably crimped his style a bit. Imagine how it must feel to be an Elmer Gantry type of revivalist, setting up a tent and taking up collections from those who feel they are listening to a prophet. All that undeclared income can buy a lot of flashy outfits and sequined capes befitting Moses. Then one day the law burst in onto the scene like an overzealous stage manager, unexpectedly bringing the curtain down. Show's over.
• • Born in 1937, Jenkins, a self-promoting salesman and faith-healer, has been accused by some individuals of being a heel and a swindler. But the spiel goes on. And on.
• • Out of the blue, Canadian columnist Dave Goulet started writing about this shady slicker and roping in Mae West (ouch!). Goulet exclaims: Just when I thought I’d seen every crazed TV preacher on the market, I ran across Reverend Leroy Jenkins this past week. . . .
• • Dave Goulet continues: But what really caught my eye was the physical appearance of the preacher. Between the coiffed hair and obvious facelift, he looked like a cross between Elvis and Joan Rivers. His eyebrows, more appropriate for a supermodel, were stuck in a perpetual slant, which gave him a fierce frown.
• • I was so curious to know more about Rev. Leroy Jenkins that I looked him up on the Internet. According to his website, he’s been a faith healer since he himself was healed by a preacher as a young man. He started his own church and one day God told him to drill a well outside the building. This well gave forth miracle water. Armed with this healing H20, Leroy became quite famous in the Bible Belt as a faith healer.
• • Profound • •
• • Dave Goulet adds: Screen siren Mae West, in her later years, was a close friend of Rev. Jenkins. In the early 1990s [sic], a movie was made about Jenkins (produced by Leroy Jenkins), titled "The Calling" [released in December 2002]. Actress Faye Dunaway [born in Florida on 14 January 1941] played Mae West. For some reason, the good reverend feels this adds stature to his ministry, because we all know what a profound theologian Mae West was. . . .
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• • Essay: "Drawing from Reverend Leroy's well"
• • Byline: By Dave Goulet | "Two Cents" columnist
• • Published in: Barry's Bay This Week [Ontario, Canada] — — www.barrysbaythisweek.com
• • Published on: 2 June 2009
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Mae West: Toronto

A new exhibition in Canada will feature artwork inspired by MAE WEST.
• • "The Surrealists were the sly, decadent, mocking enemies of everything in modern culture that encouraged simplicity," writes Robert Fulford — — unintentionally (perhaps) conjuring up the Empress of Sex who was a sly, mocking pooh-pooher of everything in American culture that encouraged old-fashioned simplicity for women.
• • Until the end of August 2009, Mae and artistic mayhem are on display at the show "Surreal Things" — — Art Gallery of Ontario [Musée des beaux-arts de l’Ontario], 317 Dundas Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5T 1G4. Toll free: 1-877-225-4246.
• • Fulford's article in Canada's National Post comes billboarded with a large, luscious photograph of the Mae West Lips Sofa. Here's a bite-size portion of his frisky essay.
• • Robert Fulford writes: It's a surprise to glimpse the worried faces of Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck flickering across a wall in the midst of an exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario. But Surreal Things (to August 30) is a surprising show. It's an engrossing, revealing essay in what we can call Applied Surrealism, the process by which avant-garde European artists started out as revolutionaries and ended up as fashion designers, advertising artists, and all-purpose idea mongers.
• • An enemy of Surrealism could say that this far-ranging collection of outlandish objects proves that the Surrealists became handmaidens of consumerism by turning art into a comic turn. An admirer, on the other hand, could argue that they simply made themselves useful according to the standards of their (and our) time. Either way, they stretched their influence far beyond the Parisian art world where their ideas were first cobbled together.
• • In Spellbound — — Alfred Hitchcock's 1945 thriller — — Bergman and Peck play a psychiatrist and her amnesia-victim patient. Scenes from that film appear at the AGO because Hitchcock hired Salvador Dalí to design the Peck character's dreams. Dalí of course turned out Dalí-esque nightmares that Bergman decoded, saving her patient and solving a murder.
• • Dalí was the man for that job. He loved to blur the borders of art and show business and loved to play with Freud-inflected images. He emerges as the undoubted star of Surreal Things — — and deserves to, no matter what we think of his art. A large constituency has always restrained its enthusiasm for his painting. Even in his best days, each Dalí picture would begin as a sensation, develop into a curiosity, and then calcify into a bore.
• • His pictures are slick, superficial and forgettable — — less interesting by far than Max Ernst's paintings, less memorable than René Magritte's, less piquant than Man Ray's.
• • Even so, Dalí emerges as a titan in any account of how the Surrealists infiltrated the fashionable imagination. When artists rushed to the marketplace like 21st-century geeks auctioning their great ideas for computer games, Dalí led the pack. In the mid-1920s he was a newly-minted Spanish Surrealist, alive with what looked like inflammatory desires. By the mid-1930s, in New York, he was designing windows for Bonwit Teller, a high-end dress shop on Fifth Avenue. Using Surrealism as a marketing tool, he titled his first window, "She was a Surrealist Woman. She was like a Figure in a Dream."
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• • The most numerous and memorable of the things in Surreal Things are Dalí products, like the loveseat that reproduces Mae West's lips, the telephone with its receiver shaped like a lobster, and a brooch in the shape of a mouth with lips of ruby, teeth of pearls. Dalí illustrates the thesis of Ghislaine Wood, the curator who put the show together for the Victoria and Alberta Museum in London two years ago: The very themes of Surrealism lent themselves to commercialization. (The AGO gift shop gets right into the spirit by offering "Parfums Salvador Dalí.")
• • Ghislaine Wood took the show to Rotterdam and Bilbao with great success and presents it here in a somewhat altered version, with some 40 pieces from the AGO's own collection and several other North American museums, most notably the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Conn., which became, in the 1930s, the first North American museum to take Surrealism seriously.
• • "Surréalisme," coined by Guillaume Apollinaire in 1917 to describe his own writing, was later confiscated by André Breton for his plans to free humanity from the twin curses of capitalism and sexual repression. Ideally, Surrealism would create a culture of unfettered dreams. Humanity, granted this intellectual and spiritual liberation, would build a revolutionary society. . . .
• • Article continues at the National Post site — — and go see the Mae West Lips photo.
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• • Article: "You’ll want to dilly Dalí"
• • Byline: By Robert Fulford
• • Published in: Canada's National Post — — www.nationalpost.com
• • Published on: 11 May 2009
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Mae West: Ontario

The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) will present The Nature of Diamonds, the most wide-ranging exhibition ever developed on the allure of diamonds — — and jewellery worn by MAE WEST will be on display during this show.
• • The ROM's walk-in Gem Vault houses some of the exhibition’s most dazzling objects. Included here is a stunning array of outstanding gems from around the world, including a corsage ornament belonging to Princess Mathilde, niece of Napoleon Bonaparte, comprised of an incredible 2,600 diamonds and the dramatic and delicate Question Mark necklace (1890) created by the famed House of Boucheron of France. The Vault’s Milky Way necklace consists of a platinum grid intricately adorned with 2,000 diamonds. A De Beers Diamonds International Award winner in 2000, the massive piece was created by Torontonian Dieter Huebner for Brinkhaus Jewellers, Vancouver in a salute to the millenium. The Aurora Butterfly of Peace, consisting of an astounding 240 multi-coloured diamonds, collected over twelve years and showing the astounding range of diamond colours in nature, is positioned near the Vault's entrance.
• • Nearby, jewellery pieces worn and enjoyed by the stars of yesterday including Mae West and Joan Crawford and, more recently, Salma Hayek are also on view.
• • When: From Saturday, 25 October 2008 to Sunday, 22 March 2009, the exhibition will be displayed in the Garfield Weston Exhibition Hall, located on Level B2 in the Royal Ontario Museum’s Michael Lee-Chin Crystal.
• • Visit the Royal Ontario Museum online — — www.rom.on.ca
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Mae West: Classical Gas

Named for MAE WEST was a famous flotation device, a certain style of radio, a palm-size dessert made in Canada, a soda bottle, and also an old-fashioned gasoline pump.
• • "They called this style the Mae West. The yellow stand is tall and lean, with curves in all the right places. Kind of," writes Maria Canton.
• • It is a vintage gas pump, after all, but its name and shape give a nod to the iconic actress who lit Hollywood on fire in the 1930s and 40s, about the same time the pump earned its nickname on the gasoline scene.
• • The Mae West gas pump is just one of more than a hundred in Cornelius Vlielander's sizable collection that he keeps on display in the front yard of his 100-acre farm near Chatsworth. . . .
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• • Byline: Maria Canton
• • Published in: The Owen Sound Sun Times [Ontario, Canada] — — www.owensoundsuntimes.com
• • Published on: 20 June 2008
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Mae West: Death of a Drag

Forty two years: the life of Mae West impressionist Craig Russell was short and bittersweet.
• • "Craig Russell" was the stage name of Russell Craig Eadie [10 January 1948 — 30 October 1990), a Canadian female impersonator. Craig Russell would have turned 60 during January 2008. But even though he died of AIDS-related illnesses, he lived long enough to establish himself as one of the best female impersonators of his or any other time.
• • His impersonations also included acclaimed actresses such as Carol Channing, Bette Davis, Barbra Streisand, Tallulah Bankhead, Marlene Dietrich, Bette Midler, Anita Bryant, Peggy Lee, and Judy Garland. While performing, he always spoke and sang in the voices of the celebrities he was impersonating. Not only did he speak like them, he joked in their particular idiom. Unlike most other drag queens, Russell didn't lip-synch. He didn't need to.
• • Born on January 10th in Port Perry, Ontario, Russell Craig Eadie was fascinated by show biz glamour from an early age. When he was 13 and still in high school, he formed the Mae West International Fan Club. By the age of 15, Eadie had moved to Los Angeles to work for Mae West, a pivotal experience in his show biz education. He soon returned to Toronto to finish high school but dropped out for good, toiling as an insurance clerk before returning to California in 1967.
• • Eadie moved in with Mae West, becoming her personal secretary for seven months, assisting with her fan mail and honing his impersonations of her. In 1968 Eadie returned to Toronto, moved in with Margaret Gibson, and enrolled in hairdressing school. By day, he worked as a professional hairdresser [1969 — 1971]. By night, he pursued a career onstage.
• • By 1971, he was a regular headliner in Toronto gay clubs and had a burgeoning international following.
• • In 1977, Russell starred in Richard Benner's wonderful film "Outrageous!" — — based on a short story written by Margaret Gibson about their time as roommates. Two more films followed.
• • Hollis McLaren's character was drawn from the troubled life of Margaret Gibson, a schizophrenic Toronto author who penned The Butterfly Ward, a debut collection of stories. One of the stories in the book is "Making It," based on her relationship with her flatmate Craig Russell.
• • Cinema critic Janet Maslin was not charmed by the character of Robin nor his schizo soulmate Liza Connors (played by Hollis McLaren). But in her New York Times write-up, Maslin conceded that the characters were "more than convincing," if "a little hard to watch." Hollis McLaren, wrote Janet Maslin, "is either a brilliantly skittish performer — — or an authentic nervous wreck."
• • Though he publicly identified himself as gay rather than bisexual, Russell wed close friend Lori Jenkins in 1982. They remained married until his death at age 42 from a stroke (related to complications from AIDS) in 1990.
• • "Outrageous!" was screened 21 January 2008 in the Cinematheque Ontario lecture series.
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Mae West: Ontario Oddity

Tabloids were abuzz recently with the news that a certain former athlete, who murdered his beautiful estranged wife, Nicole, was refused service at a restaurant not far from the Kentucky Derby. Perhaps that sparked this questionable "remembrance" about MAE WEST.
• • Writing for the Daily Bulletin, Canadian columnist David Allen recalls an Ontario diner owner who said, 'Go east, Mae West'!
• • According to David Allen: Ford Lunch was a cafe at Euclid and A streets in Ontario in the mid-century. Ford was sometimes visited by people headed for Palm Springs, including Hollywood celebrities, since A Street, now Holt Boulevard, was the pre-freeway route. But apparently not all of the notables were allowed in, according to Darlene Blocker of Ontario, whose grandfather, Gene Rock, cooked at Ford and at nearby Coffee John's.
• • "I remember a story of Mae West stopping at Ford Lunch on her way to Palm Springs," Darlene Blocker said. "The owner, Frank Hobart, wouldn't serve her 'type'." . . .
• • Source: The Daily Bulletin [Ontario, Canada]
• • Byline: David Allen, Columnist
• • Published: 20 May 2007
• • Can we trust Darlene Blocker's memory when it comes to Mae West?
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Mae West: In Spades

Those in Ontario, Canada ought to know that instructions for planting a "Mae West Garden" will be offered on Thursday 3 May 2007. Horticultural expert Trish Symons will explain that you can create this floral extravaganza by first imagining the types of flowers that can be associated with the legendary actress. Words such as big, bold, and beautiful will be translated into the floral realm.
• • Horticulturist Trish Symons is a judge, speaker, and garden designer who won first place at Canada Blooms for her design "Night Life in the City" last year.
• • Event takes place this week at the Caledon Centre for Recreation & Wellness [Canada].
• • Phone 905-857-1460.
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Mae West: Floral

Many have heard of MAE WEST - - but what the heck is a "Mae West Garden"?
• • From Caledon [Ontario] comes this announcement that there will be a May 3rd, 2007 meeting of the Bolton and District Horticultural Society at the Caledon Centre for Recreation & Wellness [in Bolton]. Topic: "Planting a Mae West Garden." Yes!
• • Canadians and others: contact: 905-857-1460. And then do let us know what it is.
• • Source: http://www.caledoncitizen.com/
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