Mae West: Nameless Vice

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 24.
• • Why Don’t You Come Up Sometime and Queer Me? • •
• • Reclaiming Mae West as Author and Sexual Philosopher • •
• • a question of the law • •
• • Chase Dimock wrote: Shifting toward a question of the law, the Judge declares that “People like that should be herded together on some desert isle” and that “A man is what he makes himself  —“.
• • We find this abnormality among persons of every state of society.• •
• • Chase Dimock wrote: The Judge touches on existentialism, albeit in the service of prejudice, but the Doctor argues back, “And before that, a man is what he is born to be. Nature seems to have made no distinction in bestowing this misfortune on the human race. We find this abnormality among persons of every state of society. It has held sway on the thrones of kings, princes, statesmen, scholars, fools! Wealth, culture, refinement, makes no difference. From nadir to zenith of man’s career on earth, this nameless vice has traversed all the way.” 
• • Chase Dimock wrote: Still casting the homosexual as the cruel victim of the genetic lottery, the Doctor then attacks the legal response to the “homosexual problem” — — “You think that four stone walls and a barred window will cure everything or anything.
• • this nameless vice • • . . .
• • 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 Friday, 4 October 1935 • •
• • The iconic Raffles Hotel presented the entertainers Lorrison and Cody on Friday night,  4 October 1935.  This comedy pair specialized in "song, dance, and Mae West parodies." The display ad was printed in The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (on page 1) on Friday, 4 October 1935.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • One of Mae West's least favorite motion pictures was "The Heat's On" [1943], a film so disjointed and disappointing that The New York Times review led off with this sally: "The heat is definitely off!"
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "I did not change my way of life. I harmed no one. I had a philosophy, an idea of how to live fully and in my way.  I believed in it as fully and as strongly as I believed in being an American."
• • Quote, Unquote • •

• • A syndicated columnist spoke to Mae West.
• • Sheilah Graham’s Hollywood, Dec. 8. (NANA) Behind the scenes of the screen ...."Every Day's a Holiday".... A large brunette in a blue sequin gown sits nonchalantly on a high stool before a glittering white and silver curtain. "Who's that?" your correspondent asks Director Eddie Sutherland. But, before he can reply, the lady decides to walk. Only one person in the world walks that way — — Mae West.
• • "So you couldn't recognize me?" says Mae. "That's fine. I'm disguised as Mademoiselle FiFi.” . . .
• • Note: Sheilah Graham [15 September 1904 — 17 November 1988] was a syndicated columnist of Hollywood's "Golden Age." Born in England, she died in Palm Beach, Florida at age 84.
• • Source: Item in a syndicated column; published on Thursday, 9 December 1937
• • 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 4057th 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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