Mae West: No Piercings

Despite all you think you know about MAE WEST, there’s always something new. Did you know that Mae West refused to have her ears pierced, for instance?  
• • This intimate interview with Mae West was first seen in 2009. This is Part 28 of 29 parts.
• • From the Archive: A Candid (and Entertaining) Interview with Mae West • •
• • Mae West said:  “They said I had a double thyroid.”  • •   
• • Charlotte Chandler wrote:  Mae West added this: “When they told me I had a double thyroid, they wanted to take one away, but I wasn’t doing that. I don’t believe in tampering with what’s going right.”  
• • Mae West said: “I wasn’t having anyone make a hole in my ear.” • •
• • Charlotte Chandler wrote:  Mae West said:  “I would never, ever have my ears pierced. I took a chance of losing a favourite diamond earring, which I never did. But I wasn’t having anyone make a hole in my ear.”
• • Charlotte Chandler wrote: I suggested that what the world considers odd or eccentric might actually be a person’s good fortune, but there would always be those who valued conformity over individuality.
• • Mae West said:  “Know what question I’m asked the most?” • • ... 
• • This long and fascinating interview will be concluded tomorrow with Part 29.
• • Source: AnOther Magazine; published Autumn—Winter 2009 issue; rpt on Wednesday, 27 May 2020. 
• • On Thursday, 20 August 1970 • •
• • Hollywood types received an invitation to "Sights and Sounds of Mae West" and the event was scheduled for Thursday, 20 August 1970.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • "Mae West Type of Posture Is Hit by Doctor" was a health how-to, informing readers that Mae's posture and the "society slouch" for women, and the military carriage for men, were condemned as menaces to health by Dr. Olive B. Williams of Worcester, Mass.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said (to director Henry Hathaway): "Nobody gets laughs in my pictures but me, see?"  
• • Quote, Unquote • •

• • An article Mae West was asked to write appeared in 1927.  
• • "How I Was Jailed for Sex" • •
• • Mae West continued: "They were most courteous; they didn't want anything to happen to me before I got to Welfare Island, I guess. I was ushered into a waiting-room. Then I saw there was a colored woman, with a gold badge, who was in charge."  . . .
• • The trial is dramatized in the full-length stage play "Courting Mae West," based on true events in Mae West's controversial life, 1926 — 1932.
• • Source: written by Mae West for Liberty Magazine; published on Saturday, 20 August 1927
• • 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 4,544th 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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