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During the month of March 1924, MAE WEST was trouping through the southwest, where she had accepted a four-week contract to perform on the Interstate Vaudeville Circuit. Covering Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Arkansas, this was one of variety's least desirable routes and a far cry from the bath of light at Times Square.
• • Perhaps a motion picture promotional tour during the 1930s took her back to Tulsa — — because the new management of a local inn is displaying her portrait, claiming Mae slept there. Since they did not furnish gritty specifics such as which of the 600 rooms she booked, which floor she breezed through, or what year, you'll need to call them up and ask: T: 918-582-6296. [Do let us know!] • • Eighty-four years ago architect George Winkler designed the Mayo Hotel [at 115 W. Fifth Street, Tulsa, OK 74103], which went up in 1925, sparing no expense on the very cool marble and terrazzo flooring.
• • Unfortunately, the venue's guests since 1981 were mostly ghosts. An extensive renovation is under way, apparently, and new residents will start hanging their hats there by August 22nd. By Hallowe'en they ought to be in good spirits.
• • According to Macy Snyder, sales manager at the Mayo, workers are polishing the finials, spit-shining the doorknobs, and completing the $40 million renovation, equipping the landmark with 102 hotel rooms, 76 apartments, seven meeting rooms, and a new restaurant space. In 1980 the (then forlorn) Mayo was added to The National Register of Historic Places.
• • Tulsa World's Robert Evatt interviewed Ms. Snyder recently. Macy Snyder told him: "Those rooms will be unique as well because more than 100 different large photos of historic Tulsa and the Mayo's history, from famous guests to its recent reconstruction, will be scattered throughout the rooms and the hallways. ..."
• • The Mayo Hotel boasts of these famous connections, noted Robert Evatt: Oilman J. Paul Getty lived at the Mayo when he was a Tulsan. Mae West, John F. Kennedy, Bob Hope, Charles Lindbergh, Charlie Chaplin, and Babe Ruth are among its famous guests. Richard Nixon once spoke there. ...
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• • Article: "A milestone for the Mayo"
• • Byline: Robert Evatt, Tulsa World Staff Writer | Research by Hilary Pittman
• • Published in: Tulsa World — — http://www.tulsaworld.com/
• • Published on: 6 August 2009
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MAE WEST is laced into the bodice of this book artfully constructed by a Ph.D.-packing Southern Belle named Betsy Prioleau: SEDUCTRESS: Women Who Ravished the World and Their Lost Art of Love [NY: Penguin, 2004]. 
• • New York City-based BookReporter.com weighed in on the merits. According to BookReporter, in SEDUCTRESS author Betsy Prioleau attempts to restore feminine sexual power to modern women. She examines the wiles of historical seductresses in a meticulous treatment of their histories. Intense research is a hallmark of her authoritative guide to sexual sovereignty.
• • Early in the book she puts down myths about the sexuality of the historical seductress with voluminous facts that substantiate her theories.
• • She categorizes the seductresses into six prototypes. The first insidious falsehood is that seductresses must be young and beautiful, but she dispels the myth with stories of very ugly enchantresses of the past. Age is a second misnomer, with celebrated allure of "old dames." The third myth centers on the intellectuality of a real seductress, with intelligence winning out over stupidity. Inspiration and artistic endeavor allowed women to build careers, tearing away the vapid housewife myth. Real seductresses were "movers and shakers," playing heavy parts in the world of government. Lastly, she explores the seductress as wildly adventurous and rakishly professional. ...
• • The author writes in the meat of SEDUCTRESS with passion about Belles Laides, her so-called homely sirens. Isabella Stewart Gardiner, known as Belle, stated, "Never ever behave with pride, self-confidence, and self-conceit." Wallis Simpson, the divorced siren who caused David Windsor to abdicate the British throne, is another less than beautiful personality described.
• • A chapter titled "Silver Foxes" is a word picture of the elder seductress such as Diane de Poiters, George Sand of the nineteenth century, and Colette, the modern aging siren. Mae West takes a big bite of this chapter, adding the categories of money and status to adulation reserved for sexual prowess.
• • Siren-scholars, artists, political divas and adventurers unfold in the bulk of the book. Their lives are a checklist for the women of today, to develop a new seductress prototype in the fast-paced twenty-first century world that paints sex as an act rather than an art. Prioleau suggests that women can become happier, sexier and more vital. ...
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• • Book Review: "Educational entertainment in the realm of female entitlement"
Published: 7 December 2004
Source: BookReporter.com (New York, New York)
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• • Book Review from The Washington Post's Book World/ washingtonpost.com
"The seductress is one of the most potent female personas in existence," writes Betsy Prioleau in the preface to this book. Ms. Betsy seems just the woman for the job of lauding the seductress. Armed with a PhD from Duke and a Southern-belle mother (she was "Miss Valentine of Richmond, Virginia," daughter notes proudly), she's got the brains and the roots to tackle the siren's enormous historical import. ...
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• • SEDUCTRESS: Women Who Ravished the World and Their Lost Art of Love
• • BY: Betsy Prioleau
• • [NY: Penguin Books, 2004] — — ISBN: 0143034227
• • Book some 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 6 more days until Mae's birthday!
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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MAE is on display in May. From the iconic Uncle Sam “I Want You” military recruitment aid to the sultry photo of Mae West in a come-hither pose, poster art was a colorful communication tool and reflection of American life, notes journalist Johanna Crosby, leading off her column in Massachusetts's Cape Cod Times today.
• • Posters were “probably the most important visual advertising before the electronic age,” says Edmund Sullivan, curator of “Poster Arts’ Golden Age,” on display at the Centerville Historical Museum [on the Cape].
• • Culled from the private collection of Alfred Hoch of Acton, the colorful exhibit features 36 posters dating from the 1890s to the early 1950s - - the “golden age” of poster advertising.
• • During the turn of the century, social and artistic factors and advances in printing techniques led to an explosion of poster art that hasn’t been duplicated since, Sullivan says. High-speed presses and stable inks allowed manufacturers to run off hundreds of copies and distribute them.
• • This appealing form of public art captured the collective fancy of the nation, covering the era of silent movies and the art nouveau and art deco periods. The exhibit is a representative sampling of movie posters, WWII recruiting posters, and advertisements for war bonds, charities, circuses, and cruise ships. . . .
• • Come up north to see Mae's movie posters on display.
• • Beginning today, this exhibition continues through 8 September 2007.
• • “Poster Arts’ Golden Age” is on display at the Centerville Historical Museum, 513 Main St. [Centerville, Mass.] on the Cape. Information: 508-775-0331
• • Source: Cape Cod Times - - 4 May 2007
• • Byline: Johanna Crosby• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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