MAE WEST gave various accounts about the inspiration for Diamond Lil and other particulars while still a Hollywood newcomer. Caroline Somers Hoyt interviewed Mae in January 1933. Her piece was published in the May issue, available to subscribers at the end of April. This is Part 4 of 13.
• • Bad, Bad Woman: Meet Mae West, a truly remarkable woman • •
• • Caroline Somers Hoyt spoke to Mae for Modern Screen • •
• • Mae West: No, you must not touch that! • •
• • Hoyt wrote: The hostess — a fluttery woman — ran to her. "No, no, dear, you mustn't touch that. That isn't for little girls to play with."
• • Hoyt wrote: The hostess begged them to stay. She lured Mae with promises of the lovely cakes that would arrive with the tea. She told her that there would be piano playing later on. She begged Mae to forgive her. "She even," said the West in telling the story, "offered to let me play with the damn thing."
• • Mae West: Was promised a doll • • ...
• • Caroline Somers Hoyt's 1933 interview will continue on our next post.
• • Source: Modern Screen; issue dated for May 1933.
• • Paul Novak [24 February 1923 — 14 July 1999] • •
• • Born Chester Rybinsky in Baltimore on 24 February 1923, Mae West's live-in lover was thirty years her junior. He entered physique contests as Chuck Krauser.
• • They met and became acquainted when Charles Krauser, George Eiferman, Irvin "Zabo" Koszewski, Dick DuBois, Dominic Juliano, Joe Gold, Armand Tanny, Gordon Mitchell, and Mickey Hargitay were among the star bodybuilders in West's chorus for all (or part) of the show's three-year run.
• • Chuck Krauser changed his name again, becoming Paul Novak, Mae's main man for the next 24 years. The Mae West Blog remembers him on his birthday, February 24.
• • On Saturday, 24 February 1912 • •
• • "Show Girl Heard Smacks in Newark, N.J." • •
• • A New Jersey reporter wrote: May (sic) West, a former show girl, now a detective, figured prominently as a witness in the hearing today before Vice-Chancellor Stevens in the cross-suits for divorce brought by George M. Rusling and Nettie R. Rusling. The husband alleges infidelity and the wife charges abandonment. Rusling names A.D. Tooley, a Brooklyn restaurant keeper, as correspondent.
• • According to Miss West's testimony last March, she was called upon to don her gum-shoes and solve a deep mystery. She was employed in the Rusling home (58 South 13th St.), as a maid. Mrs. Rusling, according to the testimony, did not know that Miss West was a sleuth or she would have fired her in a minute.
• • Note: The detective agency Mae West was attached to was operated by her father. Mae was 18 years old when this trial was in progress but only 17 when she was first hired as a housemaid in the Rusling residence in March of 1911.
• • Source: New Jersey Morning Telegraph; published on Saturday, 24 February 1912.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Would you like to see Clark Gable as Mae West’s screen lover? It’s an idea that Modern Screen is sure would please the fans and—well, the question is put up to you all to answer.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: “No gold-digging for me. I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday.”
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • Motion Picture Daily mentioned problems with pictures starring Mae West.
• • Insiders' Outlook columnist wrote: Paramount and Metro have two troublesome women on their hands. At Paramount, it's a gal named Mae West. At Metro, a more platinum blonde named Jean Harlow. Both producers are thinking hard what they can do about them in the light of the church movement.
• • Insiders' Outlook columnist wrote: Take either one or both, if you like, and imagine La West or La Harlow in a sweet and virginal "Little Women" type of role. It would be funny. Their producers recognize in these two players the public's association with well-defined characterizations. They argue tickets are bought on that basis. But it is a basis which church forces do not like. What to do about them is major and tough to solve. ...
• • Source: Motion Picture Daily; published on Monday, 16 July 1934
• • 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 4,677th 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/
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