MAE WEST's Art Deco diamond bracelet, purchased by Neil Lane, has been worn on notable occasions. Imagine it lighting up your wrist as you read this. This is Part 3 of 6 parts.
• • The Love Story Behind Mae West’s Jewels • •
• • Goodness had everything to do with it • •
• • Mae West: Could afford her own diamonds • •
• • Marion Fasel wrote: By 1935 West was one of the highest-paid woman in America. She wrote in her autobiography, “With this kind of income, I was even paying for my own jewels — sometimes.” Mae West collected jewelry in any number of styles combining frilly diamond necklaces of the Gilded Age with wide geometric diamond bracelets of the 1920s and all kinds of big diamond rings.
• • Mae West: Krauser became totally smitten • • . . .
• • This off-the-wall feature will continue until the sixth segment.
• • Source: The Adventurine; posted on Thursday, 15 November 2018.
• • John Patrick West [March 1866 — 5 January 1935] • •
• • Despite having an ambivalent relationship with her father, Mae West took after him and also worked for him when he peddled fruit in Brooklyn and when he helmed a "detective agency" in New Jersey and New York City. Before opening his own operation, West had walked the beat in Coney Island and elsewhere in Brooklyn.
• • Born on Manhattan's Lower East Side in March 1866, John Patrick West [called "Jack"] grew up feisty, impatient, and strong. As a child he boasted that he'd rather fight than eat.
• • Jack West was 7 years old in 1873 when his family moved from Avenue C (near the docks) in Manhattan to the borough of Brooklyn, settling first in Red Hook, and then in Greenpoint.
• • On 19 January 1889, in Greenpoint, Battling Jack West and Tillie Delker took their wedding vows before a local minister with Jack's sister Julia West acting as maid of honor.
• • On Saturday, 5 January 1935, "Battling Jack" heard the final countdown; he passed away in Oakland, California of a stroke. He was 68 years old.
• • On this date we remember John Patrick West with love and respect.
• • On Wednesday, 5 January 2011 • •
• • On Wednesday, 5 January 2011 Art Voice published a piece about Mae West, the dramatist: "A Uncommon Woman."
• • Anthony Chase wrote: Another American woman playwright who enjoyed the distinction of racking up the highest advance box office sales in the history of Broadway, Mae West, scored a huge hit with her 1926 play, Sex, but saw her 1928 play, Pleasure Man, closed down by the police after its second performance. Despite the fact that she duplicated this success in Hollywood, West’s work is not included in anthologies, she is never mentioned in theater textbooks, and her work is out of print.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Mae West broke her long silence over the "Adam and Eve" radio incident which created a national furore a few weeks ago and charged that broadcasting and advertising officials were no gentlemen "for letting a lady down."
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "I had written a number of vaudeville sketches. I knew the theatre. I knew what audiences wanted."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article on Cary Grant mentioned Mae West.
• • Tim Gray of Variety wrote: When he signed with Paramount in 1931, they changed his name and cast him opposite two of the studio’s biggest stars, Marlene Dietrich and Mae West. But Grant really hit his stride in 1937, with “Topper” and “The Awful Truth.” Reviewing the latter, Variety said “Grant does a grand job” and accurately predicted the film would “elevate him securely to the top flight of boxoffice names.” ...
• • Source: Variety; published on Friday, 18 December 2020
• • 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 4,641st 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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