Mae West: Dynamic Energy

MAE WEST never learned to type and wrote longhand. Though most of her personal correspondence was typed by a secretary, Mae wrote to a stranger in 1933, Canadian graphologist Zita Lomas. This is Part 12 of 14 segments.
• • “An Open Letter to Mae West” • •
• • Mae West’s dynamic energy • • 
• • Zita Lomas wrote: And in the second place, your writing reveals a pronounced flair for scientific and technical matters. You possess a strong investigating instinct, and real inventive ability along technical and scientific lines.

Mae West autographed her novel for a fan

• • A busy and active life is essential to your temperament. Your dynamic energy must have an outlet.  
• • There are any number of things which you could have gone in for successfully. For instance, you would make a humdinger of a lawyer, politician or doctor, advertising manager, or business and show promoter — — vocations not usually in the realm of women.
• • And, Mae, it's clear you would make just the zippiest newspaper columnist imaginable with your wit and with a breezy, impersonally personal style of pungent satire.
• • Mae’s extravagance revealed in her penmanship • • ... 
• • This very long article by Zita Lomas will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: The Vancouver Sun (page 4); published on Saturday, 30 December 1933.
• • On Wednesday, 26 February 1936 • •
• • Hollywood Citizen News ran this article on Wednesday, 26 February 1936: "Mae West Mum in Lubitsch, Timony Debate."
• • Finale on Saturday, 26 February 1949 • •
• • A revival of "Diamond Lil" opened at the Coronet Theatre in February [5 February 1949 — 26 February 1949] on Broadway.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Production on "Myra Breckinridge" began on 23 September 1969 and concluded on 26 February 1970. 
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "I'll never try to go sweet and simple in the movies."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • A book on censorship mentioned Mae West.
• • John Houchin wrote: As Marybeth Hamilton has pointed out, the “dirty play controversy” was as much about the struggle for control of Broadway as it was about the division between “prudes and progressives.” It was fought out among three groups – moral reformers, progressives, and Mae West’s “wise cracking” fans — — all of which sought to control who wrote, produced, and viewed Broadway plays. …
• • Source: Censorship of the American Theatre in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press; 1st edition); published on Thursday, 9 April 2009
• • 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 4,400 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started fifteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4,418th 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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