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 26 of 46 parts.
• • "Mirror, Mirror, on the Ceiling: How'm I Doin’?" • •
• • Not bad, Mae, for a woman of seventy-three • •
• • Mae West: Fan club president ran out of membership cards • •
• • A college frat is Mae West Fan Club in Ashtabula, Ohio • •
• • Helen Lawrenson wrote: “There’s a college frat fan club in Ashtabula, Ohio,” it went on, “whose president was all excited about the rock-and-roll albums. EVERYBODY IS!! Miss West, I want to take moments now to thank you so sincerely for being so wonderful — all the time and in every way—specifically that evening when we talked — ooooh what a night!”
• • Mae West: Teenagers like me. I understand them • • . . .
• • Helen Lawrenson's interview will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: Esquire; published on Saturday, 1 July 1967.
• • On Thursday, 16 November 1916 • •
• • On Thursday, 16 November 1916, Mae West announced in Variety that, in her next appearance in vaudeville, she would appear in male drag and her material would be scripted by songwriter Blanche Merrill. She hinted at using a new name, too. Sounds like a cover-up for something, eh? Maybe she was hiding from the actors union or her husband Guido Deiro.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Mitchell Morris noted that prior to the Depression and the Hays Code, which set a strict censorship code the film industry, things were a bit looser, to say the least. “Think about the Hays Code,’’ he said. “Once that was installed in Hollywood in 1933, the careers of people like Mae West were ruined.”
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "I'm a one-man woman. One man at a time."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article on current Broadway shows mentioned Mae West.
• • The Theatre: Mae West Arrives in Her Next Play, "'The Constant Sinner," Sinning Successfully and With Relish • •
• • Arthur Pollack wrote: Mae West is going to make money again. She has a new play, a dramatization of her novel, "The Constant Sinner."
• • Arthur Pollack wrote: "The Constant Sinner," as dramatized by herself, is racy and blousey and dirty and it has that authentic air that her other self-made vehicles, "Sex" and "Diamond Lil," had before it. It may be clumsy drama (it is clumsy drama, very clumsy) but it is written as if she knew what she was talking about, and Miss West acts it, as is her custom, as if she had been born and brought up among her characters. . . .
• • Source: The Brooklyn Daily Eagle; published on Tuesday, 15 September 1931
• • 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 4,604th 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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