Mae West: Dummy Package

On Thursday, 10 October 1935, MAE WEST was in a tense situation.
• • Mae West’s Latest Stunt Blows Up • •
• • By United Press —Hollywood, Oct. 10 — — The task of a dramatic hunt for an extortionist, who was alleged to have threatened Mae West film actress, was without a principal today. George Janios, the bus boy in a studio cafe, arrested when he fumbled with a dummy package planted in a vacant lot, was released.
• • Three other men. questioned by Blaney Matthews, chief investigator for Buron Fitts, district attorney, also were released.
• • Source: United Press coverage rpt by Healdsburg Tribune; published on Thursday, 10 October 1935.
• • On Sunday, 11 October 1936 • •
• • On Sunday, 11 October 1936, Los Angeles Times readers saw this intriguing news item: "Mae West's Driver Hunted." Provocative, eh?
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • CBS-News announced the line-up: Stage-and-screen star Mae West and "Dragnet" star Jack Webb are visited by new host, Charles Collingwood.
• • Instead neither West nor Webb would appear on the broadcast with Collingwood.Tsk-tsk.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: “First you gotta know your man and then go after him in the right way.”
• • Quote, Unquote • •

• • The New York Morning Telegraph mentioned Mae West.
• • According to Mae West, “There is one play which we never grow weary of seeing. That is the great show of life as it flows along. ‘The Drag’ is the second of what I am calling ‘comedy-dramas of life’." …
• • Image: The New York Daily Mirror's front page on Friday, 11 February 1927 when Bayonne police raided Mae's stage play "The Drag."   Quite a commotion in New Jersey.
• • Source: The New York Morning Telegraph; published on Tuesday, 1 February 1927
• • 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 14th anniversary • •  

• • Thank you for reading, sending questions, and posting comments during these past fourteen years. Not long ago, we entertained 3,497 visitors. And we reached a milestone recently when we completed 4,000 blog posts. Wow!  

• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started fourteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4062nd 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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• • Photo: • • Mae West • • raid on "The Drag" in 1927 • •
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Mae West: August 1957

In 1955, sleazy Confidential Magazine tried to blackmail MAE WEST over her romance with a BLACK MALE: prizefighter Chalky Wright.
• • On 12 August 1957, just before he was to testify in this lawsuit about extortion, Albert "Chalky" Wright [age 45] died suddenly in Los Angeles in the bathtub of his mother's house. Mae West insisted that her dear friend had been murdered.
• • On the fiftieth anniversary of his untimely death [murder?] in August 1957, we are remembering a dark-skinned prizefighter Mae West was more than fond of.
• • Swing by for some prized time with Mae West on Friday evening 17 August 2007, when a guided tour will explore Manhattan's WEST-side during the "Mae West Side Story" walking tour. The event — — open to the public — — is timed to salute Brooklyn's own sexpot on her birthdate. [See the Annual Mae West Gala posting below.]
• • Only 3 more days until Mae's birthday on August 17th!
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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• • Photo: • • Mae West's lover Chalky Wright • • in 1941 • •
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