Tuesday, November 29, 2005

Mae & Copyright Fair Use: Current

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According to Current [21 November 2005 issue], another producer gave up plans for longer Mae West segments in a documentary film, which wou...
Sunday, November 27, 2005

Mae West: The Mimic World of 1921

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With The Mimic World of 1921 , the Shuberts had hoped for a big hit; this revue also inaugurated their new roof theatre that featured a res...
Thursday, November 24, 2005

Mae West: Wishbone

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An ex-vaudevillian described Hammerstein's Victoria, where MAE WEST was booked eleven times, as "a big, tinkling pearl box — — a...
Tuesday, November 22, 2005

Mae West: 22 November 1980

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Mae West died on 22 November 1980 - - 25 years ago today - - and she is forever in our hearts . Source:http://maewest.blogspot.com/atom.x...
Thursday, November 17, 2005

Mae West on Swing Street

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THE RISE & FALL OF THE ORIGINAL SWING STREET How Prohibition helped Harlem get jazzed. By David Freeland • • Nights and early mornings w...
Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Eudora Welty Drew Mae West

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- excerpt from Associated Press book review - ' Early Escapades ' compiles work of Eudora Welty By HILLEL ITALIE, Associated Press N...
Monday, November 14, 2005

Mae & Texas Guinan: 1930 Trial

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In 1930 Texas Guinan was asked by the New York Journal [a daily newspaper] to do some freelance reporting. Her first assignment: cover the ...
Sunday, November 13, 2005

Edith Head: Dressing Mae West

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Filmed in black and white, the outfits worn by Mae West onscreen always looked expensive -- but how many knew what COLOR they were? As cost...
Wednesday, November 09, 2005

Come November We Remember

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"All you need to make a movie," the filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard once said, "is a girl and a gun." * * * Texas Guinan [18...
Saturday, October 29, 2005

Mae West or Bust

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There is an unusual ribald poetry book called “ Rowdy Rhymes ” -- playfully illustrated by John Barron. Published by Peter Pauper Press duri...
Monday, October 17, 2005

Mae's Ginger: Greenwich Village Theatre

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Greenwich Village Theatre : 1917 - 1930 It was the summer of 1922 and Mae West was about to celebrate her 29th birthday. Hungry for stardom ...
Sunday, October 16, 2005

Mae-trek: "Sex" in Michigan

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Here is the latest revival of Mae West's tantalizing play SEX in the midwest -- Sex without the X, by 21st century standards. :-D Big ...
Saturday, October 15, 2005

Mae West: A Florida Enchantment

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Mae West fan Kim Leone [from Clearwater, Florida] did a drawing of Mae. Kim said it's " on 11x14 vellum bristol board paper, done ...

Mae West: 1918 Shimmy Queen

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In Chicago, a 25-year-old Brooklyn actress studied the Black entertainers onstage who were doing an exciting new step. These dancers moved ...
Friday, October 14, 2005

Radio-Free Mae

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Reporter Bobbie Johnson asked: Where does the broadcasting revolution go from here? In the heyday of radio, the wireless was the centre of...
Friday, October 07, 2005

Mae West: amNew York

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Broadway After Dark - Theater by Ward Morehouse III Special to amNew York _ MAE MAKES BROADWAY _ Plans are moving forward for Courting Mae...
Thursday, October 06, 2005

Mae West: 15 Minutes Magazine

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What Goes Down by Jules Peimer LEGENDARY Joe Franklin, who had Mae West on his TV show many times, was guest of honor at the colorful Mae ...
Tuesday, October 04, 2005

Mae West Seance at Haunted Mansion

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On October 2nd, 2005, several psychic ghost-hunters explored a haunted mansion on East 54th Street where vaudeville veterans -- including Ma...
Saturday, October 01, 2005

Mae West: April 1930 Hung Jury

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A hung jury frees Mae West of obscenity charges for her play, Pleasure Man , at Criminal Court in Manhattan. • • This courtroom scene is dr...
Thursday, September 29, 2005

Broadway to Vegas Adores Mae Play

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Broadway To Vegas by Laura Deni . . . SPREADING THE WORD . . . BRITISH TV: COURTING MAE WEST the bio play by Linda Ann Loschiavo has tickl...