• • Shaw Festival review: Sex feels relevant, even after nearly 100 years • •
• • The use of dozens of suitcases • •
• • Glenn Sumi wrote: The use of dozens of suitcases as the play’s primary props brings to mind the transitory nature of these people’s lives. And by having four poles with height charts on them – as well as the repeated sound of an old-fashioned camera taking a mug shot – it reminds us of the fate that befell West and the play when she was convicted of “corrupting the morals of youth” and sentenced to 10 days in jail.
• • Glenn Sumi wrote: Watching Sex, you might be reminded of any number of Hollywood films, past and present — — from Preston Sturges’s The Palm Beach Story to Pretty Woman. Ryan deSouza’s musical direction includes novelty numbers (Allegra Fulton is involved in one whopper) and torchy ballads that feel dated yet universal.
• • Watching “Sex” • • . . .
• • Glenn Sumi’s review will conclude on the next post, Friday’s.
• • Source: Now Toronto; published on Wednesday, 4 September 2019.
• • On Wednesday, 3 October 1928 in The N.Y. Times • •
• • Source: The New York Times; published on Wednesday, 3 October 1928.
• • The infamous raid at the Biltmore Theatre begins Act 2, Scene 1 of the serious-minded comedy "Courting Mae West."
• • In "Courting Mae West," Texas Guinan visits Mae West backstage at the Royale Theatre on 1 October 1928 to warn her about the police raid.
• • MAE WEST: “Tex, isn't there a way to trouble-shoot this?”
• • TEXAS GUINAN: “Honey child, the problem with trouble-shooting is that, invariably, trouble shoots back!”
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • After John Mack Brown tells how football and Mae West give a man similar thrills, the author lets his imagination run wild — — and imagines their meeting as a football game.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: “I do all my writing in bed; everybody knows I do my best work there.”
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • Motion Picture Herald mentioned Mae West.
• • “You Can Be Had” (Universal) — — Entertaining! • •
• • Borrowing manner and voice of Mae West, Zasu Pitts and others, well trained monkeys enact an old fashioned melodrama in the approved new fashioned manner. The animals are admirably controlled, the dubbing adroitly done, and action is remarkably smooth considering the difficulties inherent in this type of production.
• • The short rates high among its kind. — Running time, 15 minutes. . . .
• • Source: Motion Picture Herald; published on Saturday, 8 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 4,300 blog posts. Wow!
• • By the Numbers • •• • The Mae West Blog was started fifteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4315th 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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