Motion Picture, a Hollywood fan magazine, encouraged readers to mail in their opinions about MAE WEST and other stars.
• • Introducing a prize-winning letter, Motion Picture wrote: There have been many comments made upon Mae West, many favorable. Undoubtedly, she is a unique character in the film world. Her new picture is “Goin' to Town,” differing somewhat from her others.
• • Laura Brey, a Mae West fan and her contemporary, won $1.00 for her letter, posted below.
• • Mae West Really Knew the Gay Nineties • •
• • Laura Brey wrote: Today I wrote to express my admiration for the Mae West girl who came from the East Coast to teach us the fallacy of false modesty. To do this she has chosen the most self-conscious, superficial of periods, the gay nineties, from which has come, most surprisingly, our modern generation, a generation that is not afraid to look life in the face.
• • Laura Brey wrote: Having been a child myself in the nineties, and having watched the hourglass figure in the making, I can appreciate that Boom-de-Aye period which Mae West portrays.
• • Laura Brey wrote: Although she seems to exploit men — and women, too — (in her motion pictures!) there is underneath that diamond-tinseled philosophy of hers, true religion.
• • Laura Brey wrote: Whatever she is, she's honest, and in that she expresses the modern age. I am glad that I have broken down any prejudice I may have had against her for she has a deep moral sense, a feeling of tragedy in glamorous living.
• • Sincerely, Laura Brey, 2446 Estes Ave., Apt. 3, Chicago, 111.
• • Lee Kohlmar played Jacobson, the owner of Jacobson's Hall. Lady Lou offers to trade one of her diamond rings for Jacobson's building on the Bowery, in order to let Captain Cummings (Cary Grant) continue to run a soul-saving mission there.
• • Source: Motion Picture; issue dated for August 1935.
• • On Tuesday, 1 February 1927 in Connecticut • •
• • On Tuesday, February 1st at 5 AM, Mae West was arrested along with her sister and the director Edward Elsner in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
• • The tabloid New York World covered the story on the front page on 1 February 1927 as did the New York Morning Telegraph, offering their voyeuristic readers every sin-soaked scrap about the scandal. The N.Y. Times also reported on this on February 1st but in less lurid detail.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • The following titles were announced yesterday: Mae West will star in "Gentlemen's Choice" and "Me and the King"; Marlene Dietrich in "The Scarlet Empress," directed by Josef von Sternberg.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: “Jail life is not so bad after all. It may be the making of me."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article on the revival of “Diamond Lil” mentioned Mae West.
• • "Mae West Back in Town as 'Diamond Lil'!" • •
• • The New York Times wrote: Gallantly supported by four or five handsome, muscular leading men, Mae West has brought "Diamond Lil" back to New York, where it began its renowned career twenty-one years ago. She wriggled through it at the Coronet on Saturday evening, attired in some of the gaudiest finery of the century — — the femme fatale of the Bowery, bowling her leading men over one by one with her classical impersonation of a story-book strumpet. ...
• • Source: Review: "Mae West Back in Town as 'Diamond Lil'" written for The New York Times; published on Tuesday, 1 February 1949
• • 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 4,660th 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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