Mae West: Loved Pleasure

Despite all you think you know about MAE WEST, there’s always something new. Did you know how voraciously Mae West would attack a gift of chocolate truffles, despite being a diabetic, for instance?  
• • This intimate interview with Mae West was first seen in 2009. This is Part 25 of 29 parts.
• • From the Archive: A Candid (and Entertaining) Interview with Mae West • •  
• • Mae West voraciously attacked the second candy box • •   
• • Charlotte Chandler wrote: Opening the first box, Mae almost destroyed the contents in her haste to get inside. Then she voraciously attacked the second box, nearly mashing a few creams. It was only after she had both boxes open that she made her choice. As if fearing someone might take the box away from her, she snatched two chocolate truffles.
• • Charlotte Chandler wrote: “I like my pleasure,” she said, composing herself and holding out the box to me. “You can have one too, honey.”
• • Charlotte Chandler wrote: Mae West never let go of the box. Not wishing to deprive her, I selected one chocolate-covered apricot and began to eat it.
• • “Pills? I never take them,” said Mae West. • •  . . .  
• • This long and fascinating interview will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: AnOther Magazine; published  Autumn—Winter 2009 issue; rpt on Wednesday, 27 May 2020.    
• • On Wednesday, 14 August 1935 • •
• • "Banned in Australia — — Miss Mae West's Novel" • •

• • Melbourne, Australia, Tuesday — A novel written by Miss Mae West, the film star, has been banned by the Customs Department, because it is said to contain indecent and obscene passages. The novel, "She Done Him Wrong," is the story of a woman of the underworld, and becomes associated with gangsters in New York.  
• • Another of Miss West's novels, "The Constant Sinner," has not been banned in Australia.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Only a few of the newer vaudeville performers such as Mae West and Will Rogers have approached celebrity status in Hollywood.  
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "I became a star in the third person, even to myself. It didn't frighten me. I got fun out of being a legend and an institution."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • The Daily Illini mentioned Mae West.  
• • "Mae West's Armor" • •
• • Political columnist Drew Pearson wrote:  A surprise disclosure in a report just issued by the LaFollette civil liberties committee is the fact that Mae West was, at one time, considering buying an armored car.
• • Drew Pearson continued:  The information is contained in a letter written by Donald J. Wright, a salesman for Federal Laboratories, Inc., which sold hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of tear gas and sickening gas to city officials and anti-union employers to be used against strikers. Donald Wright was very coy in his comments regarding the famed movie star.
• • According to Drew Pearson, Donald J. Wright had noted: I am still working on this job but the chances of an order seem to be slipping. ... I haven't given up hope yet. Maybe if Mae West decides not to have the car protected, she will order a bullet-proof West and have herself armored.  It wouldn't be any fun, anyway, taking the measurements of an automobile.  ..
• • Source: syndicated column "The Daily Washington Merry-Go-Round" rpt in Daily Illini; published on Friday, 12 August 1938
• • 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 16th 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 4,500 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started fifteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4,540th 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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