Mae West: Glasgow Greetings

On Wednesday, 17 September 1947, MAE WEST arrived in Southampton on Queen Mary. This is Part 6 of 6.
• • Screen siren Mae West stopped  traffic on 1947 Glasgow visit  • •
• • Mae West: Glasgow Greetings • •
• • Ann Fotheringham wrote: Her last movie was “Sextette” (1977), which also came from a play. She died in 1980.
• • Ann Fotheringham wrote: In 1927, Ms West was sentenced to 10 days in prison and given a 500 dollar fine, charged with obscenity due to the risque nature of her play “Sex.”
• • Ann Fotheringham wrote: As she once said, she approved of censorship, as it made her so much money.

• • Photo: In Glasgow, Scotland, Mae West greets the boxer Ted Lewis in 1947. The star of stage and screen was in the United Kingdom to star in her 1980s Bowery melodrama, "Diamond Lil," which toured several cities. Her play first debuted on Broadway in 1928.
• • This 6-part article has now been concluded tomorrow with this post, the sixth segment.
• • Source: Glasgow Times, 200 Renfield St., Glasgow, Scotland; published on Wednesday, 15 April 2020.
• • On Thursday, 18 September 1980 • •
• • It was September when Mae West was in the hospital and not doing well.  On Thursday, 18 September 1980, the Hollywood icon suffered a second stroke, and this left her right side paralyzed.  Dreadful.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • After facing down the man who robbed her in Hollywood on Sunday, 18 September 1932 in a courtroom, Mae was shocked and horrified to learn that stick-up-artist Harry Voiler [1891 — 1974] was released on bail in Miami during February 1934.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said:  “I'd rather make pictures than whoopee. “
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • A film daily mentioned Mae West.
• • “Mae West Going East” • •
• • Motion Picture Herald wrote: Reports from the west coast have it that Mae West will make a tour of the nation's stages in connection with her newly finished picture "Tropicana," a Gregory Ratoff production. If the tour develops as planned, Miss West will be the first top star in a number of years to go on a bally-hoo tour. . . .
• • Source: Motion Picture Herald; published on Saturday, 18 September 1943
• • 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 4,564th 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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