Mae West: Sex as Act

A cunning cartoon showed MAE WEST yanking G.B. Shaw's beard. If only the two controversial writers could chat during Shaw Fest, which is presenting “Sex” in Canada. Toronto drama critic Karen Fricker has critiqued the play. This is Part 1 of 9 segments.
• • Shaw Festival gives Mae West’s 1926 play “Sex” a thrillingly modern sensibility • •
• • Karen Fricker wrote: The Shaw Festival gives great Sex. A bunch of people paid for Sex the other night but, as a critic, I got it for free. Cutting-edge queer Sex in Niagara-on-the-Lake: who knew?
• • Karen Fricker wrote: Yup, the Shaw Festival’s latest Studio Theatre production proves irresistible to wordplay. And, as director Peter Hinton-Davis (formerly Hinton) points out in a program note, author Mae West built it that way, one of a number of savvy moves embedded in her 1926 text. “The title implicitly demands the subject be addressed, discussed and celebrated,” writes Hinton-Davis — the subject being sex as act, as power relationship, as commercial exchange.
• • North America’s sin city • • . . .   
• • This review by Karen Fricker will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: Opinion, Toronto Star; published on Monday, 8 July 2019.
• • On Tuesday, 10 October 1933 in Variety • •

• • Many articles appeared in the trade magazine Variety testifying to the run-away success "I'm No Angel" had become, thanks to Mae West.  "'Angel' Forces Open a Second House for Day-and-Date Run" was printed in Variety on Tuesday, 10 October 1933.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • The Board of Motion Picture Censors told the court some films were "too frank in their presentation for children's minds." They cited Paramount's "I'm No Angel," with Mae West, as an example of the "very objectionable" variety. The board at first banned the Mae West film — — but later approved it.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: “I like TV. I got a lot of good reaction to the Academy Awards show I did with Rock Hudson. I also have three writing projects going, or perhaps I should call them rewriting projects.”
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • Motion Picture Herald mentioned Mae West.
• • Bicycle Club Plugs Picture • •
• • With the new boom in bicycle-riding, pertinent at this time is Rotsky's tie-up on Mae West's "Goin' to Town," whereby members of the Montreal Quillicot Bicycle Club paraded through the town with small theatre cards attached to their handle bars.
• • For the same campaign George Rotsky also called on his leading Ford dealer, who furnished 25 new models which were bannered and paraded them all over the town.  …
• • Source: Motion Picture Herald; published on Saturday, 6 June 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 4,300 blog posts. Wow!  

• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started fifteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4320th 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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