Mae West. . . Mae West. . . Mae West. . . This site is all about the actress MAE WEST [1893-1980] - - and the ANNUAL MAE WEST GALA. More than just a movie star was MAE WEST. Come up and see her!
MAE WEST was not letting her meat loaf during the Depression Era. At a time when many Americans were out of work, the actress was in the pink and — — busy counting the green. • • With two solid box office hits behind her, during 1934 Mae West became the highest-paid entertainer in America with an income of $399,166. The following year, her earnings increased to $480,833. • • Naturally, the Brooklyn bombshell had her pick of high-priced customized sedans and roadsters. It's been noted that the 1935 Dusenberg SJ was originally designed for classic film star Mae West, "with an art deco passenger area, but she never took delivery of the car," said Rob Huting, general manager of AutoTrader Classics. Instead the Mars Candy Company heiress, Ethel V. Mars bought this vehicle for an eyebrow-raising $20,000 at the time. • • Last year on Mae's birthday [17 August 2007], RM Auctions re-sold this 1935 Dusenberg SJ. The classic car auction, held in Monterey, California, fetched a hot price: $4,400,000. • • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/ ________ Source:http://maewest.blogspot.com/atom.xml Mae West • • Photo: • • Mae West • • 1935 Dusenberg SJ • • NYC Mae West.
MAE WEST was tailed and hounded by the muck-raking newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst — — with a Javert-like blood lust. • • Born in California and educated at Harvard, William Randolph Hearst [29 April 1863 — 14 August 1951] moved to New York City and acquired The New York Journal. He found the power of the pen intoxicating. By crusading for civic improvement and exposing municipal corruption, he greatly increased the paper's circulation. Through his publishing empire, he exercised enormous political influence and aired his opinions. • • This is how The Daily Mirror, a Hearst paper, greeted "Sex" when it opened in 1926: "a monstrosity plucked from the garbage can, destined for the sewer." • • Then, during the 1930s, William Randolph Hearst called on Congress to do something about the Mae West menace. • • Maybe what Hearst resented most was not just her increased influence but her affluence. In 1934, Mae West became the highest-paid entertainer in America, with an income of $399,166. The following year, her earnings went up to $480,833 — — exceeded only by the tabloid tycoon William Randolph Hearst. • • In an interview, Mae West spoke about him: "Originally, I started writin' 'cause I had to, nobody else understood how I made fun of sex, so I couldn't find the right vehicles. When I came to movies, I was already a skilled writer, I coulda made it on the writin' alone. I always took it serious: when the papers printed I made more money than anybody but Hearst, he phoned and asked me up to San Simeon. He wanted a romance. I coulda married him, but I was busy. See, I never was one for parties, I always been two people, with two jobs — — writer and star. An' listen, you gotta think to write." • • Hypocritical Hearst comes to mind during mid-August — why? — because he died on 14 August 1951. He will always be remembered for his bitter circulation war with Joseph Pulitzer's New York World, which led to the creation of "yellow journalism" — — sensationalized stories of dubious veracity. What? You mean I can't believe what I read in the newspapers? Shucks. • • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/ ________ Source:http://maewest.blogspot.com/atom.xml Mae West • • Photo: • • Mae West • • none • • NYC Mae West.
In her youth, MAE WEST was often taken to the theatre. • • Clearly, the variety artists fascinated her because she enjoyed imitating them. In amateur competitions, "Baby Mae — Song and Dance" impersonated Bert Williams, Eddie Foy, Eva Tanguay, and many others. After seeing these performers again and again, Mae perfected their individual gestures and mastered their timing along with other nuances. Mae and her mother became very familiar with the trends set by Tony Pastor. • • Born in Brooklyn, New York, Antonio Pastor [28 May 1837 — 26 August 1908] was the son of a theatre violinist. While still a youngster, Tony sang on the temperance circuit, then gave his first professional performance as a child prodigy at Barnum's Museum in 1846. Often considered the father of modern American vaudeville, he was involved in show business as an actor, impresario, and theatre owner. • • After appearing in minstrel shows and with circuses, Pastor made his variety debut in 1861. At the time, variety still had rough edges. Most theatres had bars that actively pushed the sale of liquor and attracted low-class males. The ambitious Roman Catholic set out to elevate the tone and quickly succeeded. When he opened his first theatre in 1865, he discouraged alcohol, attempted to clean up off-color acts, and solicited family trade. • • In 1881, Pastor leased the Germania Theatre on 14th Street in New York City that became widely known as Tony Pastor's Theater. He alternated his theater's presentations between operettas and family-oriented variety shows, creating what became known as vaudeville. His theater featured performers such as Ben Harney presenting a new style called "ragtime" as well as other up-and-coming talents such as Lillian Russell, May Irwin, and George M. Cohan. • • A small, stocky, mustachioed man, Pastor regularly appeared on his own bills. • • In the musical Hello, Dolly!, the song "Put On Your Sunday Clothes" includes the line, "We'll join the Astors at Tony Pastor's." • • On Sunday 17 August 2008, during the "Mae West's Walk on the Wild Side" walking tour, the group will visit a location linked to Tony Pastor and a tune associated with the father of vaudeville will be sung live by a vivacious actress, a native New Yorker who has performed in many musicals. • • Walking Tour: "Mae West's Walk on the Wild Side" • • When: 1:00 PM on Sunday — — 17 August 2008 — — rain or shine • • Meet: Village Restaurant, 62 West Ninth Street, New York, NY 10011 • • Price: $20 • • Subway: E or F [IND] train to West Fourth Street; PATH to 9th Street station • • Attire: why not wear a Mae West-inspired hat? • • Info: Seesaw864@juno.com • • This event — — which is part of the Annual Mae West Birthday Gala — — is open to the public. • • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/ ________ Source:http://maewest.blogspot.com/atom.xml Mae West • • Photo: • • Mae West • • none • • NYC Mae West.
MAE WEST and Fiorello LaGuardia have a curious connection. • • In his column "A New Yorker at Large," Mark Barron shared insights about the Brooklyn bombshell and the ambitious politician Fiorello LaGuardia [11 December 1882 — 20 September 1947]. This installment of Barron's column was published on 28 January 1934. • • Mark Barron wrote: New York — Mayor LaGuardia turned on the producers of risque shows, charging them with deliberately inviting police interference for the publicity it would bring. • • Mark Barron noted: What is interesting in an ironic sort of way is the fact that it was an off-color show which led to the movement that — — by increase and addition — — eventually elected LaGuardia to his office. And, for that, some might say he owes thanks to Mae West. • • Back in 1927, Miss West produced a play that brought a squadron of police censors tumbling about her with the turmoil of a Union Square red riot. As a result, Miss West was invited to spend a short vacation in the Welfare Island calaboose. • • Despite the avalanche of publicity, Mae was shocked, thinking that her attorney — — a Tammany district leader — — would be able to keep her this side of the steel bars. • • A girl reporter was sent to interview Mae. In jail, the reporter had a conversation with a girl prisoner who charged she'd been "framed" because she would not pay a bribe to a detective on the vice squad. • • The resultant story started the inquiry into the women's courts, and it was this inquiry that brought Judge Samuel Seabury into such high esteem in the public mind. And it was Seabury whose master minding helped put LaGuardia in the mayor's office. • • On Sunday 17 August 2008, during the "Mae West's Walk on the Wild Side" walking tour, the group will visit the little flower and a number from "Fiorello!" will be sung live by a vivacious actress, a native New Yorker who has performed in many musicals. • • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/ ________ Source:http://maewest.blogspot.com/atom.xml Mae West • • Photo: • • Mae West • • none • • NYC Mae West.
• • "Courting Mae West" — — excerpt from Act I, Scene 2 • • MAE WEST — — Yvonne Sayers • • BEVERLY WEST — — Sarah Kanter • • EDWARD ELSNER — — Neal Sims • • male voice — — Steven Viola • • An arrest after "The Drag" made for arresting headlines. Pole-vaulted out of the ghetto of the clubby entertainment section, MAE WEST suddenly became notoriously noteworthy in the national news on 2 February 1927. • • On Tuesday February 1st at 5:00 AM, the Brooklyn bombshell was arrested along with her sister and the director Edward Elsner in Bridgeport, Connecticut. • • According to The New York Times, Edwin [sic] Elsner of New York, stage director of "The Drag," which opened here last night, and Miss Beverly West of New York, sister of Mae West, author of the play, were arrested at 5:30 o'clock this morning in Miss West's room at the Arcade Hotel and will be arraigned in the City Court on Wednesday on technical charges of breach of the peace. • • The police allege misconduct, but both Elsner and Miss West deny there was any wrongdoing, explaining that they were in the room going over the events of the opening night and possible changes in the play. • • Elsner, known for his work in staging "Within the Law," "Bought and Paid For," "Pygmalion," "Sex," and other plays, was released under bond of $250, as was Miss West, after spending several hours locked up at Police Headquarters following a ride from the hotel in the police patrol wagon. . . . • • The arrest at the Arcade Hotel is dramatized in the play "Courting Mae West." Beverly's drunken antics and Mae's strategies are featured in Act I, Scene 2 [a dramatic 10-minute scene]. • • Arcade Hotel — 1001 Main St, Bridgeport, CT 06604; Tel (203) 333-9376. • • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/ ________ Source:http://maewest.blogspot.com/atom.xml Mae West • • Photo: • • Mae West's cast • • "Courting Mae West" • • NYC Mae West.
"MAE WEST, author, loses her pianist," noted Variety on 8 September 1922. • • Born like Mae during the month of August [10 August 1895], Harry Richman— — an unknown talent in 1922 when Mae West gave him a break and hired the tall piano man with a pronounced lisp — — was performing on the big-time B.F. Keith vaudeville circuit with the Brooklyn bombshell. They were a good team. Wherever their act was booked, the pair got excellent reviews. • • Ungrateful for the mega media exposure Mae had afforded him, Harry split with her and joined Texas Guinan's friend, singer Nora Bayes, in her act. However, as this clipping shows, Mae and Harry reunited and appeared together in April 1923 at the Colonial Theatre [Broadway and West 62nd Street]. • • Entertainer Harry Richman [10 August 1895 — — 3 November 1972] was an actor, a singer, dancer, comedian, pianist, songwriter, bandleader, and cabaret performer. He was born Harold Reichman in Cincinnati, Ohio. • • A flamboyant personality, Richman joined the George White's Scandals in the 1920s and appeared in the 1931 Ziegfeld Follies. In 1930, he made a splash in Hollywood with this crowd-pleaser: Puttin' on the Ritz. This film featured the Irving Berlin song of the same title, which gave Richman a phonograph record hit that year. His film career was hampered by his limited acting skills. [Writing about Puttin' on the Ritz, Leonard Maltin remarked: "A songwriter drinks and goes blind — — after seeing this you'll want to do the same".] • • Okay. Maybe the silver screen was not his best medium. Nevertheless, Harry Richman remained a popular nightclub host and stage performer. • • In 1966, his autobiography A Hell of a Life was published. In it he recounts his private and public relationship with Mae West. • • Harry Richman married three times. All three marriages ended in divorce. He lived it up until age 77 and died in Hollywood, California in 1972. • • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/ ________ Source:http://maewest.blogspot.com/atom.xml Mae West • • Photo: • • Mae West's pianist • • Harry Richman in 1924 • • NYC Mae West.
NPR's "All Things Considered" did an episode on the Hitler of Hollywood, celluloid censor Will Hays, whose Hays Code crippled the motion picture career of MAE WEST. • • Here is an excerpt from Bob Mondello's broadcast — — Remembering Hollywood's Hays Code, 40 Years On. • • Bob Mondello begins: · When people talk about the "more innocent" Hollywood of years gone by, they're referring to an era when the movie industry policed itself. But that early Hollywood wasn't always so innocent. • • For decades, it's true, the major film studios were governed by a production code requiring that their pictures be "wholesome" and "moral" and encourage what the studios called "correct thinking." • • But that code, which was officially abandoned 40 years ago this year, was the result of a nationwide backlash — — an outraged reaction to a Hollywood that by 1922 had come to seem like a moral quagmire, even by the bathtub-gin-and-speakeasy standards of the Roaring '20s. • • Silent-film comic Fatty Arbuckle charged with manslaughter in the death of an actress; a bisexual director found murdered; movie stars dying of drug overdoses — — small wonder the nation's religious leaders were forming local censorship boards and chopping up movies every which way to suit the standards of their communities. • • And at first, when Hollywood studios banded together under former Postmaster General Will Hays to come up with a list of 36 self-imposed "Don'ts and Be Carefuls," it's no wonder no one believed them. There were no penalties, no laws, no enforcement. • • Moralists were so outraged, meanwhile — — by Mae West's casual slatternliness in I'm No Angel, by Barbara Stanwyck's promiscuousness in Baby Face, by Cecil B. DeMille's racy biblical epic Sign of the Cross — — that calls for official government censorship became overwhelming. • • A Power Play, For Propriety's Sake • • • • Of course, they were calls that Hays himself, working behind the scenes, had helped to make overwhelming — — and he used the pressure to force filmmakers to toe his line and obey the new Production Code he eventually promulgated. • • "The code sets up high standards of performance for motion-picture producers," Hays proclaimed when the new code was unveiled. "It states the considerations which good taste and community value make necessary in this universal form of entertainment." . . . — — Excerpt: — — • • "Movies — — Remembering Hollywood's Hays Code, 40 Years On" • • Byline: Bob Mondello • • Published by: NPR — — "All Things Considered" — — www.npr.org/ • • Published: 8 August 2008 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/ ________ Source:http://maewest.blogspot.com/atom.xml Mae West • • Photo: • • Mae West • • 1933 • • NYC Mae West.
MAE WEST shared a sheet (of paper) with Mario Fratti recently, who admired the recent production of "Courting Mae West" that was staged as part of the 6th Annual Fresh Fruit Festival. • • Teatro — — Broadway & Dintorni • • New York e tutta un festival • • di Mario Fratti • • "D'estate si hanno numerosi festival di nuovo teatro," writes the America Oggi columnist and Tony-Award winning playwright. . . . Partecipazione italo-americana al Festival Algonquin Fresh Fruit [123 East 24th Street, New York, NY 10010] e stata la presentazione di una nuova versione di "Courting Mae West" della poetessa e giornalista LindaAnn Loschiavo. Molte rivelazioni sulla formidabile personalita della West (la convincente Yvonne Sayers). L' audace difesa dei suoi testi a delle sue interpretazioni, la censura, gli arresti, il tribunale. E' aiutata da attori validi . . . ." • • Here is an English translation of his article: • • Theatre — — Broadway & Elsewhere • • New York is full of festivals • • by Mario Fratti • • Summer offers numerous festivals of new theatrical productions. . . . Italian-American participation in the Annual Fresh Fruit Festival [Algonquin Theatre, 123 East 24th Street] included the presentation of an all new version of "Courting Mae West" by the poet and journalist LindaAnn Loschiavo. There are many insightful revelations into the formidable character of Miss West (convincingly portrayed by Yvonne Sayers). Mae West mounts her audacious defense and rebuttal to the police witnesses who have interpreted her plays as indecent, and she is shown dealing with censorship, her arrests, and her courtroom trials. Yvonne Sayers is surrounded by an able cast: the journalist Mario (Jason Emanuel); Beverly West (Sarah Kanter Emanuel); news vendor Declan Rourke and his daughter Eliza Rourke (Steven Viola and the very enjoyable Mary Murphy); the elegant Gloria M. Buccino (in multiple roles). Well directed by Louis Lopardi. • • In the same festival there is also "Sapphire's Kiss" by Maggie Zarillo and . . . — — Source: — — • • Column: "Teatro — — Broadway & Dintorni" • • Byline: Mario Fratti • • Published by: America Oggi • • Published: during July 2008 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • MARIO FRATTI, professor emeritus of Italian literature at Hunter College, is an internationally acclaimed playwright and drama critic. • • Author of such works as Suicide, The Cage, The Return, The Academy, Mafia, Races, and The Bridge, he is best known for his musical Nine (inspired by Fellini's famous film, 8 1/2) which in its original production in 1982 won the O'Neill Award, the Richard Rodgers Award, two Outer Critics Circle Awards, eight Drama Desk Awards, five Tony Awards, and in 2000 was a recipient of the Otto Award for Political Theater. • • In its 2003 revival, Nine won three Outer Critics Circle Awards and two Tony Awards. • • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/ ________ Source:http://maewest.blogspot.com/atom.xml Mae West • • Photo: • • Mae West • • 1935 • • NYC Mae West.
A San Francisco production promises to draw on musical sources that include MAE WEST, Maria Callas, Ethel Merman, and Judy Garland. The dynamic duo at the heart of "2boys.tv" have been applauded as "the darlings of the Montreal cult cabaret scene" — — which sounds like KiKi and Herb mixed with Canadian Club. Hic! • • While we're getting our drinks mixed, let's lend an ear to what The Bay Area Reporter has to say about this West Coast concoction imported from the poor man's Riviera. • • TV or not TV • • That is the question, as New Conservatory Theatre Center launches its season with a most unusual offering from Canada. 2boys.tv, beginning its run on 6 August 2008, is also the name of the duo (Stephen Lawson and Aaron Pollard) who have been called "the darlings of the Montreal cult cabaret scene." • • Using burlesque, drag, video projections, opera selections, show tunes, and old films, the pair will present two selections from its repertoire. In Puree, Lawson and Pollard look at the queer politics of marriage, religion, displacement, and liberation using musical sources that include MAE WEST, Maria Callas, Ethel Merman, and Judy Garland. Zona relates the story of an actress descending into madness using elements of Alfred Hitchcock, Tennessee Williams, Bette Davis, and Katharine Hepburn. • • This will be the San Francisco debut of 2boys.tv, billed as a special event (i.e., not part of the Pride subscription series), and it will continue through Aug. 31. Call 861-8972 or go to www.nctcsf.org. — — Source: — — • • Article: "Global outreach for work on gay liberty" • • Byline: Richard Dodds • • Published in: The Bay Area Reporter — — www.ebar.com/ • • Published on: 7 August 2008 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/ ________ Source:http://maewest.blogspot.com/atom.xml Mae West • • Photo: • • Mae West • • none • • NYC Mae West.
In her one woman show "Absolutely Anna" actress Anna Berger talks about working with MAE WEST, becoming her close friend, and then having a falling out (related to some business). • • Anna Berger lived through the Depression, World War II, the McCarthy Era, and witnessed many events that made history. Her first important acting job was touring in “Diamond Lil” with Mae West, with whom she became bosom buddies. Throughout her life she worked with (and was close to) some of the luminaries of theater, film, and TV — — before and after they got their star on Hollywood Boulevard. • • Anna was encouraged by her colleagues at The Actors’ Studio to collect and present her memories of the years when Broadway, Hollywood, and TV began their reign, which she shaped into a humorous one-woman monologue — — “Absolutely Anna” — — and performed at several venues. • • On Thursday 14 August 2008, Anna Berger will give a single performance of her lively "behind the scenes with Mae West, etc." show at the Cabaret Royale in the Westin Aruba Resort. • • Proceeds of this 8:00 PM event will benefit local Aruban Foundation Ateliers ’89, since she and her husband have been vacationing on this island for over two decades. Reserve for "Absolutely Anna" by contacting the concierge at the Westin Aruba Resort: 297-586-4466 ext 59. • • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/ ________ Source:http://maewest.blogspot.com/atom.xml Mae West • • Photo: • • Mae West • • Anna • • NYC Mae West.
MAE WEST as lawn furniture? • • Lucia van der Post writes in the London Times: Just as much fun is the Dalilips sofa by Spanish company BD (Barcelona Design), which takes Salvador Dali’s famous red-lip sofa and reproduces it in plastic for the great outdoors. The idea came from Dali’s 1936 painting of Mae West, in which he imagined the screen goddess’s face as a room in which her blonde tresses were the curtains, her nose a fireplace, her come-to-bed eyes paintings, and her luscious lips a sofa. • • The great French furniture designer Jean-Michel Frank was the first to turn this fantasy into reality, and Spanish designer Oscar Tusquets had the notion of turning it out in pink polyurethane foam in 1972. It now comes in a more durable spin-molded polyurethane and costs £1,610 from Chaplins (020-8421 1779; www.chaplins.co.uk). — — Source: — — • • Column: "Scenes from domestic life" • • Byline: Lucia van der Post • • Published by: The Times [UK] • • Published on: 19 July 2008 • • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/ ________ Source:http://maewest.blogspot.com/atom.xml Mae West • • Photo: • • Mae West • • none • • NYC Mae West.
It was a hot summer attraction — — on 4 August 1913 — —and the crowds may (or may not) have recalled that in 1912 and 1913 Hammerstein had booked the vivacious teenager MAE WEST for eleven week-long engagements at his vaudeville playhouse situated in Longacre [later Times] Square. The location was popularly known by New Yorkers as "the corner." • • On 4 August 1913, however, Mae West was there to open for a world-famous star: Evelyn Nesbit [1884 — 1967]. Despite a low-cut gown and provocative songs, Mae failed to fire up the audience. • • The critic from The New York Tribune [whose coverage ran on 5 August 1912] commented that even Mae's low neckline and raunchy bumps and grinds were not enough to sway the hoi polloi. • • Though most of the reporters ignored the 19-year-old's attempts to woo the crowd and did not even mention her name in their reviews, at least Variety's columnist Joshua Lowe [whose critique was published on 8 August 1913] noticed how hard she was working. "Mae West sang loud enough to be distinctly heard in the rear," wrote Lowe. • • Clearly, Hammerstein's ticket-holders had come to worship Evelyn, the showgirl who had shied away from the spotlight for several years after the infamous Sanford White trial. "Anything's a good act that will make 'em talk," insisted Willie Hammerstein, who was a magician when it came to commandeering media interest and a big box office. • • Evelyn's appearance was quite the ticket. Willie Hammerstein was so pleased at his box office bonanza that he had his sign painters create this come-on in four-foot-high letters — —
"Modern Ballroom Dancing," screamed the marquee, "Performed by EVELYN NESBIT THAW!"
• • Readers of The New York Times saw these headlines Tuesday morning on 5 August 1913: • • Evelyn Thaw Appears; Then Thanks Audience that Applauds Dancing at Hammerstein's. • • According to the Times: Although it was reported at the time that Evelyn Nesbit arrived on the Olympic that she had said she would not dance unless the name of Thaw was eliminated from the signboard in front of Hammerstein's, she did appear yesterday afternoon, and the sign remained unchanged until after the performance, when "Thaw" was thinly covered with white paint. • • A packed house tested her and applauded so persistently that she was forced forward finally by her dancing, . . . and expressed her thanks briefly for the reception. The sight of her face peeping through the mauve curtains masking the back of the stage started the applause. Then she and Mr. Clifford did three "trotting" turns, with evolutions that have been made familiar in the cabarets and public dancing places. She wore an ecru gown of light fluffy material bound in at the waistline with a broad black sash, and, with her hair loose about her neck and shoulders and a smile lighting her features, created an agreeable impression. Her dancing was of an average qualIty —— neither remarkably good nor the reverse. . . . • • In 1899, Oscar Hammerstein built his fifth showplace —— the Victoria Theatre —— at the corner of West 42nd Street and Seventh Avenue. Stars like MAE WEST, Will Rogers, W.C. Fields, Charlie Chaplin, Ethel Barrymore, Al Jolson, Eddie Cantor, Buster Keaton, Harry Houdini, Evelyn Nesbit, and Eva Tanguay were among the thousands of performers who made Hammerstein's Victoria the vaudeville "nut house" of Times Square. • • Mainly, it was Oscar's son Willie Hammerstein who deserves credit for the playhouse's 17-year successful run. Willie had the knack for booking crowd-pleasing stagebills along with a peacock's genius for public relations. • • In 1906, Evelyn's millionaire husband Harry Thaw shot architect Sanford White. The "trial of the century" was held at Jefferson Market Court —— the same celebrated Sixth Avenue courthouse where Mae West would wind up in 1927. Mae's censorship trial is dramatized in the play "Courting Mae West." • • The 19th century Greenwich Village landmark designed by Withers and Vaux is one stop on the annual Mae West walking tour that will take place on her birthday, specifically, on Sunday 17 August 2008: "Mae West's Walk on the Wild Side." • • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/ ________ Source:http://maewest.blogspot.com/atom.xml Mae West • • Photo: • • Mae West • • Hammerstein's Victoria circa 1901 • • NYC Mae West.
MAE WEST's comments about Jayne Mansfield came up in Victoria Coren's Sunday Observer column. • • In case you missed it, here's Mae West speaking about Jayne Mansfield: "When it comes to men, I heard she never turns anything down except the bedcovers." — — Excerpt: — — • • Article: "Britain would be a better place if we had more bitches" • • Byline: Victoria Coren • • Published in: The Observer [UK] • • Published on: Sunday — 3 August 2008 • • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/ ________ Source:http://maewest.blogspot.com/atom.xml Mae West • • Photo: • • Mae West • • none • • NYC Mae West.
On August 2nd, MAE WEST will be celebrated, commemorated, and/ or channeled in Georgia. • • This is what Blast-Off Burlesque co-founder Sadie Hawkins promised for the troupe's GO WEST! show on Saturday 2 August 2008 — — "Bar fights, lassos, and hula hoops; Mae West; cancan dancing; crazy old prospectors; barnyard animals; and aliens. We can't forget the aliens." What the heck? That's what fans have come to expect from Blast-Off, which is definitely not your typical T&A or even bump-and-grind burlesque troupe — — more Monty Python than Pussycat Dolls. (This is, after all, the troupe that boasts drag king Dickie van Dyke, whose act is beyond words.) The Western-themed show, the second in its Sci-Fi A-Go-Go series, will feature special guest appearances from the Syrens of the South, Renea' Le Roux (formerly of Big City Burlesque), Hoopsie Daisy, and Naughtalie. It will also premiere a short film, "Westward Ho" (ho-ho-ho). Time: 10 p.m. • • Where: Alcove Gallery and Studio, 2852 E. College Avenue, Decatur, Georgia 30030; T. 404-663-0159. • • If you are in New York City on Sunday 17 August 2008, come up and enjoy a Mae day in Greenwich Village. During the "Mae West's Walk on the Wild Side" walking tour, the group will visit some gay old times in the life of the screen queen and her trademark songs will be sung live by a vivacious actress, a native New Yorker who has performed in many musicals. • • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/ ________ Source:http://maewest.blogspot.com/atom.xml Mae West • • Photo: • • Mae West • • none • • NYC Mae West.
