• • Shaw Festival review: Sex feels relevant, even after nearly 100 years • •
• • messy and melodramatic • •
• • Glenn Sumi wrote: The script is messy and melodramatic, with some developments in the final third that elicit nervous giggles because they’re so unlikely. But Margy is an engaging, admirable character: tough, honest and totally unsentimental about her situation. Donnelly has a monologue about being used by men that’s so sharp and observant, it almost plays like a hot take on Reddit.
• • The use of dozens of suitcases • • …
• • Glenn Sumi’s review will continue on the next post.
• • Source: Now Toronto; published on Wednesday, 4 September 2019.
• • On Monday, 2 October 1922 • •
• • Citing the Billboard Index, author Jon Tuska said Mae appeared in "Playmates" on the Mutual Circuit [week of 2 October 1922]. "Playmates" was a burlesque show.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Universal catches Mae West on a delayed rebound from Paramount, teaming her with W.C. Fields for a hefty package of lusty humor. Picture marks the return of Mae West to the screen after two years absence.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "Women like a man with a past — — but they prefer a man with a present.”
• • 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,
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long ago, we entertained 3,497 visitors. And we reached a milestone recently
when we completed 4,300 blog posts. Wow!
• • By the Numbers • •• • The Mae West Blog was started fifteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4314th 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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Mae West was furious to read that Jon Tuska reported she appeared in a burlesque show. She turned her wrath on Robert Duran, her personal assistant/secretary at the time. This caused a rift in their relationship for a year, which eventually resolved itself. Perhaps Mae was unaware of the vast amount of information available on the early years of her career, due to Billboard and Variety back issues being available on microfilm.
ReplyDelete• • Mark, there were two women named "May West" on the vaudeville and family burlesque circuit at the same time.
ReplyDelete• • It's my hunch that one performer changed her stage name to "Mae" with an e to end this confusion.