Mae West: 50 Boys

When Helen Lawrenson came up to see MAE WEST, Esquire's first female journalist was closing in on her sixtieth birthday and the Brooklyn bombshell was 73. A color photo by Diane Arbus flashed across the double-page-spread, hunched under half the title as if warding off a punch in the nose.
• • Enjoy her seldom seen interview.  This is Part 24 of 46 parts.
• • "Mirror, Mirror, on the Ceiling: How'm I Doin’?" • •
• • Not bad, Mae, for a woman of seventy-three • •
• • Mae West: The husky fellow • •
• • Helen Lawrenson wrote: When Mae West came back, she introduced the husky fellow by name (but did not explain him) and asked him to help her hunt for the photographs.  
• • Helen Lawrenson wrote: They both disappeared but Mae soon came back with a photograph which she said had been taken the week before. It showed her playing a guitar and looking younger than she ever did back in the 1930s, possibly more a tribute to the retoucher’s art than the cameraman’s. This is the type of picture she sends to youthful fan-club admirers. “When they show my old movies on TV,” she said, “they get up parties of sometimes fifty boys or more to watch them.”  
• • Mae West: Didn't remember • • . . .       
• • Helen Lawrenson's interview will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: Esquire; published on Saturday, 1 July 1967.
• • On Saturday, 12 November 1927 • •

• • Billboard commented on Saturday, 12 November 1927 about Mae West's play "The Wicked Age." Their remarks were exceedingly unkind.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Mae West starred in "Belle of the Nineties" and Rad Robinson was heard during the song "Troubled Waters."
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said:  "In an Ed Wynn show, I did a shimmy. But never, never did I do the shimmy shewabble!''
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article on Broadway shows  mentioned Mae West was in trouble.
• • Mae West, Broadway star and playwright, is under indictment as author of an indecent theatrical performance following the closing of her latest play, "Pleasure Man," and the arrest of members of the cast. ...
• • Source: Cornell Daily Sun; published on Tuesday,  9 October 1928
• • 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 4,600 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started fifteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4,602nd 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.

• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
________
Source: https://maewest.blogspot.com/atom.xml  
• • Be sure to bookmark or follow The Mae West Blog
• • Photo: • • Mae West • • onstage in 1931 • •
• • Feed — — http://feeds2.feedburner.com/MaeWest