Mae West: Tiny and Tough

MAE WEST posed with a typewriter and a typist in 1932.
• • As all Mae-mavens know, her personal correspondence and even her checks were always typed. No doubt, a serious of personal assistants used a manual typewriter as part of their job. Mae admitted to Dick Cavett that she did not, in fact, type.
• • Fortunately, Mae West’s 1959 Olympia SF, on loan from the collection of Steve Soboroff, is now on display in Chicago. Let’s learn more.
• • Typewriter Tuesday: Mae West • •
• • The American Writers Museum wrote this article.
• • Did she or didn’t she . . .? • •
• • It is possible she used this typewriter to write 1959’s Goodness Had Nothing to Do With It, or her 1975 advice collection, Mae West on Sex, Health and ESP, moving second-wave, sexually-liberated feminism forward one click-clacking key at a time.

• • The Olympia SF isn’t a particularly unusual or flashy model, but it is well-made and quietly glamorous in its dainty cream-and-chrome casing. There’s something perfect about it, the ideal of what a little, everyday typewriter should be. You can see the appeal: small and portable and totally reliable, tiny and tough like its owner, always ready for whatever blazing double entendres Mae West had in store.
• • Mae ostensibly wrote • •  . . .
• • To be concluded on the next post.
• • Source: American Writers Museum; posted on Tuesday, 13 August 2019.
• • On Thursday, 26 August 1954 • •
• • According to vintage newspaper ads, the roving "Mae West Revue" opened their performance schedule in Reno, Nevada starting on Thursday, 26 August 1954. 
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Larry Sloan moved to Los Angeles from New York after serving in World War II, and made a name for himself through the gossipy, table-hopping column he wrote for the Hollywood Citizen News.
• • As a publicist Larry Sloan represented a roster of Hollywood stars that included Mae West and Elizabeth Taylor.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "If you can't go straight, you've got to go around."
• • Mae West said: “When you got the personality, you don’t need the nudity.”
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • Playbill mentioned Mae West.
• • Tony nominee Emily Skinner, currently on Broadway in The Cher Show through August 18, will return to Feinstein’s/54 Below this fall with her new show celebrating stage and screen star Mae West.
• • Entitled “Badass: Sex, Music, and Making Mae West,” the cabaret is scheduled for October 29, 30, 31, and November 6, 2019 at 7 PM.
• • Emily Skinner will offer songs that Mae performed in her 75-year career and will detail why Mae West serves as the perfect guide to everything you’d ever need to know about life. …
• • Source: Playbill; published on Monday, 19 August 2019
• • 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 4287th 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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