• • Let’s hear from another Australian drama critic now. This is Part 5 of of 10 segments.
• • In Stephen Sewell’s charming “Arbus and West,” feminism boils to the surface • •
• • A sense of creeping nostalgia • •
• • Sandra D’Urso wrote: A sense of creeping nostalgia sweeps over the stage, enhanced by the effect of West’s voice travelling across distant space and time. Mae West retreats backstage when Ruby reluctantly delivers the news of Arbus’s suicide. She shrugs it off but is clearly affected.
• • The female gaze • •
• • Sandra D’Urso wrote: The play then jumps back in time to where West is preparing for an interview and photo-shoot with an unknown photographer. When the photographer named Arbus arrives, we discover she’s a woman. Mae West doesn’t know how to be the object of a woman’s gaze. It is foreign, disconcerting, far too intimate and penetrating.
• • Mae West’s quips dominate • • . . .
• • Sandra D’Urso’s review will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: The Conversation; published on Wednesday, 6 March 2019.
• • On Friday, 29 June 1934 • •
• • Mae heard more than enough objections about "It's No Sin" from Joe Breen, Catholic priests, and the censors in New York State. "If they think it's too warm, I'll cool it off," Mae told a Newsweek reporter. On Friday, 29 June 1934 an article appeared in The Los Angeles Herald. Mae assured the paper that she wanted to satisfy the censors. "You can never say," emphasized Mae, "I refused to meet somebody half way."
• • July 2004: Mae West Blog launches • •
• • We’re here to keep Mae mavens up to date, correct errors, celebrate each revival of a play she wrote, post the latest Westian stage and book reviews. And answer our fan mail!
• • The light’s still on. Come up and see Mae every day.
• • Note: Julia Shawell article,"Mae West Curves Herself a Career" [from Pictorial Review, February 1934]. Julia Shawell was the Editor-in-Chief of Radio Mirror in 1934.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Salary checks of individuals made public by the Treasury among about 18,000 persons who received $15,000 or more during 1934 follows:
• • William Randolph Hearst, Hearst Consolidated Publications, Inc., $500,000.
• • Mae West, actress, Paramount, $339,166.65.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "Everyone else that gets in the money out here buys a forty-room house, hires a dozen servants, and gets ritzy. But not me. I'd be lonesome."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • Motion Picture Herald mentioned Mae West.
• • New Paramount House Record • •
• • "Collegiate," at the Paramount on Broadway, broke the house record for first day
attendance with 8,000 tickets claimed to have been sold by theatre officials.
• • Mae West's "I'm No Angel" held the former record, with 6,000 admissions sold. …
• • Source: Motion Picture Herald; published on Saturday, 1 February 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 15th anniversary • •
• • Thank you for reading,
sending questions, and posting comments during these past fifteen 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 fifteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4266th 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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