Mae West: Diamond's Adeline

The producer of MAE WEST's play “Diamond Lil” had been shopping a sequel — — for at least 20 years. The N.Y. Daily News first announced Jack Linder's project on Sunday, 25 January 1931.
• • "The Daughter of Diamond Lil " Takes to the Stage • •
• • This is the initial news coverage from January 1931.
• • "The Daughter of Diamond Lil" is the title of a play that Jack Linder has held for some time, and which he now hopes to place in rehearsal next week.
• • Diamond Lil herself was Mae West, a very tough lady from the Bowery who made Salvation Army officers forget themselves.
• • The new piece, Linder confides, is about a girl who has to live down her mother's reputation.
• • The play begins in New York on Armistice night, 1918, and it jumps around to South America and other places. Lil's daughter is looked upon by everyone as an incipient trollop just because of her mother's reputation. But in the end she proves that she is a sweet girl.

• • Adeline Leitzbach, who had nothing to do with the Mae West play, “Diamond Lil,” is the author of the new piece, and Miss West won't appear as her own daughter.
• • Source: The N.Y. Daily News [NYC]; published on Sunday, 25 January 1931.
• • Note: Adeline M. Leitzbach (c1884 — 1968) was one of Mae West’s ghostwriters. Mae West had a German-born mother and Adeline had a German-born father, Maximilian, who was an artist. Adeline's mother Fanny died during the run of "Diamond Lil" (on 7 September 1928).
• • Note: Adeline M. Leitzbach’s death date is not entirely confirmed, but sources indicate that she died in 1968 in New York City at the age of 81.
• • On Wednesday, 25 September 1940 • •
• • Andrew R. Kelley reviewed "My Little Chickadee" for Variety. His heavy-handed piece began on page 3 (continued on page 20) in the issue dated for Wednesday, 25 September 1940.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • After a long battle with the Hays Office, "Belle of the Nineties" won its approval. Despite that, several state censor boards deemed certain portions of the motion picture objectionable.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said:  "She who laughs lasts."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • A Singapore newspaper mentioned Mae West.
• • "I've Come to Find out, Says Mae West" • •
• • The Singapore Free Press wrote: Mae West invited goggle-eyed British reporters to "come up and see me sometime" when she ran the first gauntlet of them on her arrival at Southampton at two o'clock on Wednesday morning.  
• • Just to keep everything above board, Mae asked them all to a press reception at the Savoy Hotel ...
• • Source: The Singapore Free Press; published on Tuesday, 23 September 1947
• • 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 • • 
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• • By the Numbers • •
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