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Perhaps Jann Haworth was inspired to create her collage of MAE WEST, W.C. Fields, and Shirley Temple after working on the male-dominated album cover for The Beatles. 
• • Clearly, we must thank Jann Haworth [born in 1942 in Hollywood] and Peter Blake [born in 1932 in the UK] for any female figures that appeared on the iconic "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" in 1967.
• • Jann Haworth, Peter Blake's American wife and an artist in her own right confirmed: "To be perfectly honest, Peter and I chose about 60 percent of what's there because they didn't come up with enough. So we're to blame for some of the inequalities that were there. But having said that, the Beatles chose no women. The only women chosen were by Peter and I."
• • During 1967, Jann's father, the Oscar-winning art director and production designer Ted Haworth [1917—1993], was in London, working on the film "Half a Sixpence." When she visited him on the movie set, he advised her not to make a background piece for the album. He thought the idea was too Hollywood and too expensive for the budget. Consequently, Jann Haworth selected a simple blue paper for the sky and used black-and-white cut-out photographs for the heads and bodies.
• • The three-dimensional artist created an intriguing mixed media piece the same year fashioned out of fabric, wood, and plastic.
• • White-gloved Mae West makes an unlikely (and disinterested looking) mother to the moppet that dances on her lap: a white-socked Shirley Temple. Similarly white-gloved, W.C Fields looks stiff and sullen in his commanding paterfamilias pose. The piece is 50 inches high, 31 inches wide, and over 4 inches deep. The Mayor Gallery said that this work is still available for sale.
• • The Mayor Gallery: 22A Cork Street; London, W1S 3NA [UK].
• • Jann Haworth currently resides in the USA [in Sundance, Utah].• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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Mae West
• • Photo: • • Mae West • • 1967 • •
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Mae West.
MAE WEST holds her own in Liverpool at the new Hard Days Night.
• • Calling 2008 "the year that Liverpool is Europe's Capital of Culture," The London Telegraph welcomed the new Beatles-themed boutique hotel in the heart of the city, which took more than two decades of planning and debate before it opened.
• • Telegraph reporter Max Davidson gushed a bit, spinning it as a place "that oozes class and sophistication. Like Malmaison properties, it offers gracious 21st-century urban living — — high ceilings, clean surfaces, all the mod cons and gizmos you could ask for — — at a price that is some way short of exorbitant. Enthusiastic staff, mostly with ripe Liverpudlian accents, are a bonus. ... Money can't buy you love, but £650 will buy a night in the Lennon Suite, ..."
• • Though the "location, in a chunky old commercial building in the Cavern Quarter, is uninspiring," wrote Davidson, he found elements to suit him.
• • According to Max Davidson: "Dinner in the Blake's restaurant is good rather than exceptional. The food is modern English with twists (with items such as Knickerbocker Glory, you wonder whether it needed a few more twists). It is another delightfully furnished space, with pride of place occupied by photographs of the celebrities who featured on the iconic Sergeant Pepper cover designed by Sir Peter Blake. What an odd, eclectic assortment they were — — from Jesus to Oscar Wilde, from Jung to Marlon Brando, from Mae West to Aldous Huxley."
• • Davidson explains: "But when you see them displayed like this, properly contextualised, you realise the richness of the cultural roots the Beatles were tapping. They were far, far more than just a group of likely lads from Liverpool."
• • Visit online or phone: The Hard Days Night Hotel [www.harddaysnighthotel.com — — 0151 236 1964].
• • Visit The London Telegraph — — www.telegraph.co.uk/ — — to learn more about Hard Days Night and see the photographs.
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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Mae West
• • Photo: • • Mae West • • Beatles album cover • •
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Mae West.
