Mae West: Zita's Warning

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 7 of 14 segments.
• • “An Open Letter to Mae West” • •
• • Zita gives Mae a warning • • 
• • Zita Lomas wrote: However, you are much too aspiring, too intense and highly-strung to be able to concentrate on humdrum or monotonous routine.

• • Enthusiasm is a keynote to your nature. If you do a thing at all, you throw yourself into it, heart and soul. There is nothing half-hearted about you. You tackle your undertakings with spirit and enterprise.
• • A Warning from Zita Lomas • • 
• • Right here, we are going to give you a warning. You must beware of burning yourself out by your own intensity. It is fortunate for you with your temperament, that you possess vitality, endurance and recuperative capacity which your confident strokes, firm tracing and ascendant writing show.
• • Mae’s mentality is a fine blending • • . . .
• • 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 Monday, 19 February 1940 in Life Magazine • •
• • The cover of Life Magazine's issue dated for 19 February 1940 featured the King of Romania. Inside were two aristocrats of comedy: Mae West and W.C. Fields.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • One of his earliest minor movie credits was an appearance in a vehicle that brought Mae West to Hollywood. Louis Calhern played Dick Bolton in "Night After Night." Calhern had but a single scene in this picture.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: “When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin.”
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An Australian newspaper mentioned Mae West.
• • "Mae West Sick" • •
• • New York, February 17 [A.A.P.]— Mae West collapsed on the stage at Rochester last night, but the show went on. She was unable to continue with the third act of the play, 'Diamond Lil.'  
• • It was presented without her.  …
• • Source: Page 1 of The Courier-Mail (Brisbane); published on Saturday, 18 February 1950
• • 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 4,413th 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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