Mae West: Heavy Burden

Many great minds have contemplated MAE WEST — — but great minds don’t think alike. Academic and author Chase Dimock has written an interesting article on Mae as a playwright. This is Part 17.
• • Why Don’t You Come Up Sometime and Queer Me? • •
• • Reclaiming Mae West as Author and Sexual Philosopher • •
• • a cure for homosexuality • •
• • Chase Dimock wrote:  Unable to get over his jealousy, David entreats the doctor for a cure for his homosexuality; “I came to you because we all know that you are trying to find a way. Doctor, there is not one of us that would not like to be like other men. Comes a time when our burden is too heavy and — — there is only one way.”
• • Chase Dimock wrote:  Yet, it seems as though David, and whoever he got this information from, confuses a cure for homosexuality with therapy for those struggling with their homosexuality.
• • Chase Dimock wrote: The Doctor reminds him “Don’t talk like that. One man is born white, another black — — neither is born a criminal. A difference in a man’s mind, and you are the greatest sufferers.”
• • Chase Dimock wrote: Alongside early medical studies of homosexuality in the 19th century, criminologists became obsessed with using similar studies and discourse to attempt to prove that criminal compulsion was the product of a biological degeneracy.
• • Nature or Nurture? • •  …
• • His article will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: As It Ought to Be
• • Chase Dimock, who teaches Literature and Composition at College of the Canyons, is Managing Editor of As It Ought to Be.
• • On Wednesday, 25 September 1940 in Variety • •
• • Andrew R. Kelley reviewed "My Little Chickadee" for Variety. His heavy-handed piece began on page 3 (continued on page 20) in the issue dated for Wednesday, 25 September 1940.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •

• • In 1955, a 64-year-old Mae West saw Mickey Hargitay on the cover of Strength and Health Magazine. She asked him to join her chorus of musclemen, clad in leopard-skin G-strings, in her Las Vegas nightclub act, the Mae West Revue.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "Honey, I see something that men must like about you. You're a brilliant listener."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article about a stage play mentioned Mae West.
• • “Edith Head Comes to Pear Theatre” • •
• • Costume designer and Stanford alumna Edith Head dressed most of the great stars, from Mae West to Elizabeth Taylor, receiving 35 Academy Award nominations and winning an unprecedented eight Oscars. …
• • Source: BWW News Desk; published on Saturday, 15 September 2018 
• • 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 4050th 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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