Mae West: Hired a Room

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 25 of 46 parts.
• • "Mirror, Mirror, on the Ceiling: How'm I Doin’?" • •
• • Not bad, Mae, for a woman of seventy-three • •
• • Mae West: Didn't remember • •
• • Helen Lawrenson wrote: “Once at a college, the den mother, you know what I mean, didn’t want them to stay up, so they went out and hired a room and gave a TV party there,” said Mae West.  
• • Helen Lawrenson wrote: What college was that?  
• • Helen Lawrenson wrote: Well, she didn’t remember.  

• • Helen Lawrenson wrote: “Sometimes there’s these fourteen-year-olds, their mother lets them stay up to watch my films. They think I’m so pretty and they write me and want a picture.”
• • Helen Lawrenson wrote: The Mae West International Fan Club was started by a fifteen-year-old Canadian boy (he’s now nineteen years of age) and has, so Mae told me, eight thousand members.  
• • Mae West: Fan club ran out of membership cards • • ...   
• • Helen Lawrenson's interview will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: Esquire; published on Saturday, 1 July 1967.
• • On Thursday, 13 November 1975 • •
• • The book "Films of Mae West" written by Jon Tuska was published by Citadel Press in the USA on Thursday, 13 November 1975. An excellent title to own.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • When screen history is written, it will be recorded that the Golden Age of Art began with Mae West and the Three Little Pigs. It took Mae's "cumup'n see me s'm'time" to bring Prosperity around the corner into the theaters.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "I don't diet. I eat what I want. If I notice I'm gainin' a little I get hold of a trainer and exercise it off. My weight hasn't varied in three years. I just tipped the scale at 122 pounds!"
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article on a record snowfall mentioned Mae West.
• • "Art Prostituted" • •
• • The Cornell Daily Sun wrote: The destruction of the snow statue in front of White Hall is only one of the numerous indications of the utter decline of culture at Cornell. The Architects labored long and lustily at the task of completing, for the art lovers of the campus, the gigantic figure of Mae West.
• • The Cornell Daily Sun wrote: It was felt that this version of Mae West as a modern Venus would stand out as an attempt to lift undergraduates above the grasp of material things into the shadow of artistic appreciation.  ...
• • Source: Cornell Daily Sun; published on Wednesday, 3 March 1937
• • 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 4,603rd 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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