Mae West: Whidbey Island

A new production of “Sex” written by MAE WEST is onstage in the Pacific Northwest. This is its final weekend.
• • New Adaptation of Mae West's Scandalous SEX Premieres on Whidbey Island • •
• • Whidbey Island Center for the Arts presents Mae West's SEX, a new adaptation of the 1926 melodrama/musical comedy about the international misadventures of a Montreal prostitute, October 11-26, 2019.
• • Margy LaMont, a brash and unapologetic sex worker, saves the life of an American society woman slumming in the "sin city of the North" — — a fateful decision that leads her on a madcap adventure eluding criminals and pursuing romance from Montreal to Trinidad to New England.

• • Although West's play premiered in a scandalous Broadway season that saw many so-called "sex plays," SEX was different in that it wasn't obedient to the unwritten rule that prescribed ruin for fallen women. Its disobedience led to Mae West's arrest [sic] and a grand jury's determination that the "obscene, indecent, immoral, and impure drama" might corrupt "the morals of youth."
• • Mae West was sentenced to 10 days in the Women’s Workhouse for obscenity.
• • The production is adapted and directed by Edward Jordon; includes music by Cole Porter, the Gershwins, and Cole Porter; features stage—screen veteran Skye Aubrey; and runs October 11—26, 2019 in Langley, WA.
• • Source: BWW News Desk; published on Sunday, 6 October 2019. 
• • On Tuesday, 25 October 1932 • •
• • Variety reviewed "Night After Night," the motion picture debut of Mae West.  A display advertisement for the film was printed in Variety's issue dated for Tuesday, 25 October 1932.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Those jools sported by La West are the genuine article, down to the last square-cut diamond, a fact attested to by the stalwart presence of three detectives on the set.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "If you put your foot in it, be sure it's your best foot."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An archive mentioned Mae West.
• • This ungrammatical extortion note written by George Janios reads exactly like this: Miss West We told you before $1000 or you have your face lifted Sunday by 8 o’clock or by God we will get your face at Western and Sunset you personally — — Acid Burns
• • George Janios was released from custody two days later.  …
• • Source: Extortion Letters; published on Tuesday, 22 October 1935
• • 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 4,331st 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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