Mae West: Gay and Hectic

On Monday, 8 July 1935, the Hoosier fans of MAE WEST were delighted to read this.
• • As a girl who knows what she wants and thrives on opposition, the new and modem Mae West returns to the screen in “Goin’ to Town," current attraction at the Voncastle Theater. The blonde star’s new vehicle  tops ail her previous efforts for comedy, romance, intrigue and vocal efforts.
• • Glitteringly arrayed in the styles of 1935, Mae West plays a cattle baron's widow with money to burn and warm affections. And to get a man, she transports herself from a small mid-western town to Buenos Aires and Southampton, and through a series of gay and hectic adventures.  Paul Cavanagh has the leading male role.
• • Source: Item in The Daily Banner (Greencastle, Indiana); published on Monday, 8 July 1935.
• • On Sunday, 8 July 1928 in the Journal American • •
• • A reporter from the Journal American visited Mae West backstage after a performance of "Diamond Lil." He wrote a lengthy account of Mae West's formula for writing a play: "hire a room in a hotel, lock yourself in and go to work for as many hours as you can stand the pace. Then you grab a little sleep, get up and resuscitate yourself with a few tons of cold water and start all over again.  And so on until ...."  
• • The Journal American published this long article in their hefty weekend edition dated for Sunday, 8 July 1928.
• • On Monday,  8 July 1946 • •
• • Mae West's wisecracks delighted the critic for the Chicago Herald-American Copeland C. Burg.
• • On Monday, 8 July 1946, writing about her sense of humor in the play "Come On Up," Burg observed:  "We never knew how vulgar we were until we saw Mae West in this new play.  Laughing with Miss West may be vulgar, yet it is honest vulgarity, and there's nothing wrong with that."
• • In 1947, when Jim Timony realized that "Come On Up" would not go to Broadway (as they hoped), he began to make plans for a European tour for Mae West, who would reprise her role as Diamond Lil, Queen of the Bowery for her fans overseas.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Mae West has returned.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said:  "My life hasn't been any bed of roses. I never felt anything like secure until just recently. I've never felt free to get married."
• • Quote, Unquote • •

• • A Toronto, Canada event site mentioned a Mae West movie.
• • "Myra Breckinridge" Post-Pride TP special on Friday, 8 July 2016 at 8:30pm in Toronto.
• • Cinecycle is located at 129 Spadina, down the alley south of Richmond.  Don't miss your chance to talk back to this never-released-on-video screen legend. . .
• • Source: Item in Evensi; posted in July 2016 
• • Image: Mae West in costume for her role as the horny talent agent Leticia Van Allen, 1970
• • The Mae West Blog celebrates its 12th anniversary • •
• • Thank you for reading, sending questions, and posting comments during these past twelve years. The other day we entertained 3,497 visitors. And we reached a milestone recently when we completed 3,400 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • • 
• • The Mae West Blog was started twelve years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 3482nd 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: Heritage Haul

Numerous MAE WEST Estate items were offered for sale in June 2016.   
• • Los Angeles resident Damon Devine went to a special Heritage Auction preview of the Mae West Estate items with Chris Basinger in Beverly Hills, California.
• • Mr. Devine wrote: "Very intimate. I made two videos from the night and posted only a few photos of what I actually took. It was very exciting and quite an emotional experience, really. We didn't know anyone, which was actually nice in this particular case. Everything went for massive money. Much more than expected. It is believed famous people bid and won almost everything to possibly put in the Academy of Motion Picture arts and Sciences. That's good, for the most part. 

• • Photo:  Mae's red shoes, courtesy of Damon Devine• • Note: we'll post more auction pictures another time
• • On Friday, 7 July 1916 in Variety • •
• • The resident scold sat stone-faced through "Mae West and Sister" at Proctor's Theatre near Madison Square Park. Later on, Sime Silverman pulled up his tight garters as he sniffed and snorted behind his keyboard like an overheated carriage horse. "Unless Miss West can tone down her stage presence in every way," he sneered, "she just might as well hop right out of vaudeville and into burlesque." And if the unabashed Brooklynite was going to continue to be so disarmingly aggressive, Sime scolded Mae by suggesting that she should get up onstage next time in "men's dress altogether."
• • "Mae West now has a red carpet rolled out," Sime explained in Variety on Friday, 7 July 1916. "She loses much by occasionally overstepping the line between facetiousness and freshness. When she learns to draw the line, she will have made a marked stride in the right direction."  Thanks, big boy!
• • On Thursday, 7 July 1938 • •
• • A 1938 headline in The Sydney Morning Herald tooted: "Mae West and Clark Gable." The screen queen was in her mid-40s and the leading man was 37 years old.
• • "Film News of the Week" announced: It seems impossible to avoid the topic of the new star teams. The latest to be announced is the partnership of Mae West and Clark Gable, who are proposed for the latest roles in "New Orleans," an original story by the man who wrote "San Francisco."
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • The National Council of Women in America has banned famous studios such as Paramount Pictures and United Artists because of suggestive and indecent pictures they have produced.  It is rumored that the ban may mean the end of the careers of Mae West and Anna Sten at Hollywood.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said:  "When a woman says 'maybe' she means 'yes' and when she says 'no' she means 'maybe.' But not me. When I said 'no' — I didn't mean maybe!"  
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • The Daily mentioned Mae West.
• • Henri Béhar wrote: A majorly underrated director and a scholar of popular culture, Paul Morrissey is also one of the savviest filmbuffs — — he can improvise the entire conversation at a (fictional) dinner given chez George Cukor with Garbo, Hepburn and Mae West, using lines from their respective movies. . . .
• • Source: Item in 1998 Karlovy Vary Film Festival Diaries; posted on Thursday, 9 July 1998
• • The Mae West Blog celebrates its 12th anniversary • •
• • Thank you for reading, sending questions, and posting comments during these past twelve years. The other day we entertained 3,497 visitors. And we reached a milestone recently when we completed 3,400 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • • 
• • The Mae West Blog was started twelve years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 3481st 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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Mae West: In Glasgow

In 1947 MAE WEST arrived in Glasgow. Let's embrace the moment all over again.
• • Mae West in Glasgow: • •
• • Star really was a diamond girl just like in the films • •
• • The celebrity reporter for Herald Scotland Ken Smith wrote:  She really does look every inch a star as Mae West soaks up the adulation of cheering fans as she strolls from the London train to the Central Hotel in Glasgow in 1947. She has arrived to oversee the production of her play "Diamond Lil" at the Alhambra Theatre.  With her, looking a bit surprised at the fuss, is former world welterweight boxing champion Ted "Kid" Lewis, as well as various shady characters in hats, dodgy ties and eye-catching moustaches.
• • Ken Smith continued:  What I like about stars in those days is that they can sashay along knowing that someone somewhere will collect the luggage and that it will be delivered to their room without them having to give it a second thought.  . . .
• • Source: Excerpt from an article posted in The Herald Scotland; published on Monday, 20 June 2016.
• • On Saturday, 6 July 1935 • •
• • "Off to the Theatre" • •
• • In the Urbana Evening Courier, Beverly Bryant wrote:  Mae West is back again in "Goin' to Town," which comes to the Princess Theatre Sunday for three days.  Mae is at her voluptuous best. The plot concerns the story of a cow-town dance hall girl who wins a bunch of oil wells when her fiance dies.  . . .
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• •  Impressed by Louis Armstrong, Mae asked him to participate in "Every Day's a Holiday" [1937].
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said:  "Husbands are all right in their place."
• • Quote, Unquote • •

• • The Talking Pictures TV Schedule mentioned Mae West.
• • "Sextette" [1978] — Musical comedy starring Mae West, Timothy Dalton, Ringo Starr and Tony Curtis. 
• • Based on her Broadway hit, 87-year-old Mae West plays Marlo Manners, a movie star who has just married her sixth husband on Sunday, 3 July 2016 at 00:30
• • Source: Item in TPTV Schedule for June 27th to July 3rd 2016 
• • Image: Marlo Manners with her lordship, 1978  
• • Note: "Sextette" was released by Crown International Pictures in 1978 and this would be Mae's fond farewell to her film fans  
• • The Mae West Blog celebrates its 12th anniversary • •
• • Thank you for reading, sending questions, and posting comments during these past twelve years. The other day we entertained 3,497 visitors. And we reached a milestone recently when we completed 3,400 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • • 
• • The Mae West Blog was started twelve years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 3480th 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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