Mae West: Very Verbose

Starring Australian actress Melita Jurisic as the American icon MAE WEST, a new play “Arbus and West” was onstage in Melbourne until March 30th. Naturally, Mae would have stipulated that her name was placed first in the title. Let’s enjoy a spirited review by drama critic Robert Reid. This is Part 15.
• • “Arbus and West” — — A one-way gladiatorial battle • •
• • “Well, it is very verbose.” • •
• • Robert Reid wrote: These things are in the air but never land.
• • Robert Reid wrote: As audience members behind me said as the lights went up at interval, “Well, it is very verbose.”
• • Robert Reid wrote: Which suggests to me that there are more pressing concerns in the zeitgeist that Arbus and West fails to catch. There is a lot, and I do mean a lot, of intellectual potential in the premise of their meeting, and what is perhaps most unlike a Stephen Sewell play about it is that Sewell resists the temptation to pick it up and wield it.
• • This concludes Robert Reid’s insightful review of “Arbus and West” by Stephen Sewell, directed by Sarah Goodes in Australia. The play closed at the end of March 2019.
• • Source: Witness, stage review; published on Wednesday, 6 March 2019
• • On Tuesday, 22 April 2008 • •
• • It was on Tuesday, 22 April 2008, that the DVD "Mae West — The Glamour Collection" was released for sale.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •

• • The silver gelatin print "Mae West and Adoring Musclemen" by Dean Loomis was sold at an auction held at Swann Galleries on Friday, 22 April 1994.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "If you select your characters and the atmosphere in which they live with sufficient care, you don't have to use much imagination to make them colorful or their story interesting.”
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • Daily newspapers in Virginia mentioned Mae West.
• • “Diamond Lil” was onstage at the Royal Alexandra Theatre (in Toronto, Ontario) from February 20, 1950 - February 25, 1950.
• • The Cast: Mae West, Charles G. Martin, Walter Petrie, James Courtney, Dan Matthews, Val Gould, Billy Van, Nancy R. Pollock, Sheila Trent, Sylvia Syms, Miles Keene, Jack Howard, Louis Nussbaum, Frances Arons.
• • The Producer / Director: Albert H. Rosen and Herbert J. Freezer  …
• • Source: unknown;  published in February 1950
• • 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 4,100 blog posts. Wow!  

• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started fourteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4196th 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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