Mae West: Wad of Bills

MAE WEST was a soft touch for a hard luck story. Mae rarely discussed her generosity in an interview, however, which makes this seldom seen piece in Screenland worth reading. This is Part 13 of 18 segments.
• • Mae West’s Secret Self • •
• • Mae West: Keeps a wad of dollar bills in her sock • •
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: She writes her own scripts for pictures, invents bits of business, gags, wisecracks, is the author of books, but she's never too busy to lend a helping hand, to listen to a tale of woe, or to give the other fellow a lift up.  
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: She's especially thoughtful of old comrades.
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: To her dressing-room at the studio or the theatre comes a steady procession of those in trouble.  
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: She keeps a wad of bills in her sock, and before the day is half over, the money is gone — found its way into the empty pocket of some needy comrade of a day gone by.
• • Mae West: She has known hardships, too • • …
• • This will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: Screenland; issue dated for October 1933.   
• • On Monday, 3 August 1942 • •

• • The issue of Newsweek dated for Monday, 3 August 1942 included this very oddly-worded and misleading headline: "Mae West divorces after 21 years of marriage."
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Mae West had a pet monkey sent out from New York.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "I've always liked athletes because they don't smoke, don't drink, and understand the importance of keeping their bodies in top working order — — and a hard man is good to find."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article about a theatre mentioned Mae West.
• • "Mae West Sold Out Here" • •
• • Kelly Lincoln wrote: Before the NJPAC was the Paramount Theater. Opened in 1895 as a the Newark Vaudeville house, it was converted in 1917 by Newark's own architect, Thomas W. Lamb into a movie palace, with a neo-classical interior that became known as "Adam-esque." In 1932, it was renamed the Paramount. It operated as a movie house until 1 April 1986, when a 500% increase in insurance forced the 2003 seat Newark theater and the Adams theater to close. Among the stars that trod the boards here was Mae West, according to Variety.  ...
• • Source: The Examiner; published on Wednesday, 28 July 2010
• • The evolution of 2 Mae West plays that keep her memory alive • •
• • A discussion with Mae West playwright LindaAnn LoSchiavo — —
• • http://lideamagazine.com/renaissance-woman-new-york-city-interview-lindaann-loschiavo/
• • The Mae West Blog celebrates its 18th anniversary • • 
• • Thank you for reading, sending questions, and posting comments during these past eighteen years. Not long ago, we entertained 3,497 visitors. And we reached a milestone recently when we completed 5,000 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started eighteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 5,051st 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: Thrilling Situations

MAE WEST inspired more than one columnist to analyze her business acumen after the release of "I'm No Angel." This feature was printed in a Michigan newspaper.
• • "Here goes on Mae West" [Part 1] • • 
• • Few names have been more publicized this past year than that of Mae West. One rather expects that when her day is over, and It probably will see its sunset within a very few months, for some little time folk will talk of those motion pictures as those that "made money out of playing up the obvious."
• • Mae West must be an exceedingly shrewd business woman to know how to play upon all the catch words, sure-fire properties, and the thrilling situations to which the majority of humans react.
• • Take her recent picture. She gets off on the right foot by calling it "I'm No Angel." Great knowledge of human psychology that. For most of us lean over backward to convince the world that we are quite "devilish fellows."
• • Left-Handed Compliment, Isn't that so? • •
• • Well, go over your list of acquaintances. Most men and women who are really grown up ought to be thrilled, happy, and proud if they are told: "I told him (or her) that I'd trust him (or her) alone with you even on a trip across the ocean." About eight out of ten persons to whom such a tribute is paid would say audibly something to the effect: "I appreciate your trust. It's great to hear you say that." But likely the same eight would think to themselves: "Huh, I don't know that I am so slow as all that. Guess I am as human as anybody else."
• • We are scared to death of being considered "good" — — most of us.  So the title: "I'm No Angel" starts a provocative fellow-feeling of guilt.  . . .
• • This is Part 1 of a lengthy feature. It continues tomorrow.
• • Source: Article (page 3) in The Ironwood Times (Ironwood, Michigan); published on Friday, 15 December 1933.
• • On Monday, 15 December 1930 • •
• • On Monday, 15 December 1930 this material was copyrighted: "Frisco Kate, a play in 3 acts" by Mae West.
• • Mae listed her address as 200 West 57th Street, New York, NY in 1930.
• • On Friday, 15 December 1933 • •
• • The release date for "She Done Him Wrong" in France was on Friday, 15 December 1933. In that country, the film's title was "Lady Lou."
• • On Wednesday, 15 December 1937 • •
• • An article "Mae West Script Angers Listeners" ran in The Hollywood Reporter in their issue dated for Wednesday, 15 December 1937. Except it was a script by Arch Obler, a male.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • "Tropicana" at Columbia is the film which brings Mae West back to the screen.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said:  "The nerve of a brass monkey."
• • Quote, Unquote • •

• • The Daily Mail mentioned Mae West.
• • They printed a pictorial:  "Boulevard of broken marriages: Courtroom pictures document the moment Hollywood stars from Mae West, Elizabeth Taylor, Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley got divorced."
• • Actress Mae West checks over a few legal details in documents as part of her divorce case against her husband, Frank Wallace in Los Angeles on 21 July 1942
• • Source: Pictorial review by Daily Mail Reporter; published on Saturday, 15 December 2012
• • The Mae West Blog celebrates its 11th 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 3,200 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • • 
• • The Mae West Blog was started ten years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 3333rd 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: Harlan Thompson

At Paramount Pictures, MAE WEST worked with Harlan Thompson who was born this month on September 24th.
• • Harlan Thompson [24 September 1890 — 29 October 1966] • •
• • Born in Hannibal, Missouri on Wednesday, 24 September 1890, Harlan Thompson wrote for newspapers. By 1923, he was writing for Broadway.  He transitioned to working in the film industry as thy tried to adapt musicals to the screen. Eventually, he wound up at 20th Century Fox.
• • After moving to Paramount, Thompson collaborated with several people on screenplays for this major studio.
• • Harlan Thompson was assigned as a "continuity writer" to the Mae West vehicle that became "I'm No Angel" (Paramount, 6 October 1933).   Though Mae had fired two writers who had been assigned by Paramount Pictures, it is said that she accepted help from Thompson, who wrote a lot of the script and some of Mae West's dialog. According to Thompson's wife, "How much she contributed I don't know, but she moved in, as she always moved in on anything, and got credit for the story, the screenplay and the dialogue."
• • Harlan Thompson died in New York City Sunday, 29 October 1966. He was 76.
• • Starting on Monday, 24 September 1928 • •
• • "Pleasure Man" written by Mae West was shown at the Bronx Opera House from 17 September until 22 September 1928.  Then the play moved to the Boulevard Theatre in Queens for a single week starting on Monday, 24 September 1928.  Then Mae's provocative piece opened at the Biltmore Theatre on Broadway on 1 October 1928, at which point the police padlocked it, despite its heavy advance sale.
• • The stage play "Courting Mae West" dramatizes the police raid and the aftermath.
• • On Monday, 24 September 1934 • •
• • After a long battle with the Hays Office, "Belle of the Nineties" won its approval. Despite that, several state censor boards deemed certain portions of the motion picture objectionable. They went on to take the scissors to some of Mae West's songs and snipped bits of dialogue, reported the Boston Herald in their issue dated for Monday, 24 September 1934.  Sigh.
• • On Wednesday, 24 September 1941 • •
• • "Ex-Husband Loses Mae West Suit — Monthly Maintenance Denied Wallace" • •
• • United Press informed the world on Wednesday, 24 September 1941, that fortune-hunter Frank Wallace lost his $ 1,000 a month temporary separate maintenance suit against Mae West in a ruling that questioned his good faith in bringing the action against his actress-wife. Their article was widely syndicated.
• • On Tuesday, 24 September 1946 • •
• • Playing a sultry, irresistible detective, Mae West took the starring role of clever Carliss Dale in the stage play "Come On Up (Ring Twice)," which toured during 1946 in California and elsewhere. This comedy was written by Miles Mander, Fred Schiller, and Thomas Dunphy.
• • A local drama critic had written a review. The title was: "Come on up to Suite B-3, Bellflower Apartments, and ask for Carliss." This was published on Tuesday, 24 September 1946.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Well, anyway, Mae West took all their names and addresses and sent all of the Midget Village folks a present the next day, and to the little Mae West midget she sent a diamond ring. 
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said:  "She who laughs lasts."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • Screenland Magazine mentioned Mae West.

• • Out at Warner Brothers, little Sybil Jason, her sister Anita, and her uncle Harry Jacobson and I had lunch together in the Green Room.  . . .
• • She'll do a sophisticated impersonation of Mae West one minute, and the next she'll be crying for her dolly like any baby girl. She'll talk like an adult one minute, and the next she'll be a little girl that you can't resist cuddling. I'm afraid she's what I've always avoided — a child prodigy. But so help me, I'm crazy about her.
• • Sybil Jason was born in Capetown, South Africa [23 November 1927 — 23 August 2011], and at the early age of two began to startle South Africa by her vocal accomplishments, her ability to play the piano and sing, and to mimic celebrities such as the "come up and see me" star.   . . .
• • Source: Article on child actresses in Screenland; published in the issue dated for September 1935
• • The Mae West Blog celebrates its 11th 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 3,200 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • • 
• • The Mae West Blog was started ten years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 3274th 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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