Mae West: Peter Hinton-Davis

A Los Angeles Times cartoon showed MAE WEST yanking G.B. Shaw's beard. Since she avidly followed theatre gossip, it’s possible Mae was familiar with his prostitute play, “Mrs. Warren's Profession,” featuring a streetwalker who is now a wealthy madam. If only they could chat during Shaw Fest, which will present “Sex” this summer.  This is Part 4 of 10 segments.
• • Shaw Festival revives Mae West’s racy Broadway hit “Sex” • •
• • Peter Hinton-Davis has wanted to direct "Sex" for a long time • •
• • J. Kelly Nestruck wrote: “I walked into this whole world of a Mae West that I didn’t know about,” recalls Hinton-Davis, who brought the play to Shaw’s artistic director Tim Carroll shortly after he was appointed. “She was a very progressive and radical person — — and her plays offer an interesting perspective into the 1920s.”
• • J. Kelly Nestruck wrote: “Sex” premiered in a Broadway season that saw many so-called “sex plays,” such as John Colton’s The Shanghai Gesture, about an Asian madam, and Lulu Belle, from Charles MacArthur (co-writer of The Front Page) and Edward Sheldon, about a notorious black prostitute.

• • J. Kelly Nestruck wrote: But what was different about West’s play, beyond not othering its protagonist in racist ways, is that it wasn’t “obedient to the unwritten rule that prescribed ruin for fallen women,” as Lillian Schlissel writes in her introduction to Three Plays by Mae West.
• • Montreal: “sin city of the North” • • . . .
• • This preview article will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: The Globe and Mail; published on Monday, 6 May 2019.
• • On Wednesday, 3 June 1970 • •
• • A warm-hearted article appeared in "Boston After Dark" on Wednesday, 3 June 1970.
• • Deac Rossel, who enjoyed watching Mae in her latest motion picture, wrote this: There is no doubt that Mae West has the sex personality, parcels of valuable land, a unique career, and the adulation of film-goers both young and old. She also seems to have the stamina and desire now to begin a second movie career. Mae West is still, as Will Rogers once defined her, "The most interesting woman in Hollywood."
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • If Mae West can always get her man at the end of the picture, it's about time to let Greta Garbo get hers for once.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "It takes two to get one in trouble."  
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • Photoplay mentioned Mae West.
• • They Aren't All Actresses in Hollywood • •
• • "Yes, things are better now. I get around sixty dollars a week, and my job is permanent, but remember it took almost eight years to get where I am,” Maybelle told Photoplay. “And there's another fly in the honey — the hours. I never arrive at the studio later than seven o'clock in the morning, and six is the location call.
• • "It is true that I have met some wonderful stars, Mae West and Gloria Swanson and Marlene Dietrich among them, but sometimes, when I am rushing through a cheerless dawn of a winter morning toward the almost deserted studio, I think about Blue Earth." . . .
• • Source: Photoplay; published in the issue dated for September 1936
• • 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 4,200 blog posts. Wow!  

• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started fourteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4226th 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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