Mae West: Touched It

MAE WEST gave various accounts about the inspiration for Diamond Lil and other particulars when she was 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 3 of 13.
• • Bad, Bad Woman: Meet Mae West, a truly remarkable woman • •
• • Caroline Somers Hoyt spoke to Mae for Modern Screen • •
• • Mae West: There's some bad in all women • •
• • Hoyt wrote: “If I didn't have that outlet I might have been one of 'em myself. I couldn't make any prophecies. I've always been interested in women like that. Maybe it was the theatre that saved me. Anyhow, I've made a lot more money in the theatre,” said Mae West.     

• • Hoyt wrote: Mae West claims she was a willful kid. Once she and her mother were invited to a friend's house for tea. It was one of those dignified gatherings. But immediately after the wraps were "laid off" Mae espied one of those living- room atrocities — waxed flowers underneath a cylinder of glass.
• • Hoyt wrote: She thought it was the most beautiful thing she had ever seen and because it was so beautiful she wanted to touch it. So, wanting to touch it, she did — running her little hands over the smooth, rounded glass.
• • Mae West: No, don't touch that! • • ...
• • Caroline Somers Hoyt's 1933 interview will continue on our next post.
• • Source: Modern Screen; issue dated for May 1933.
• • On Wednesday, 23 February 1927 in Variety • •
• • Variety sympathized with Mae West and the others whose Broadway shops were closed down due to a contagious censorship epidemic. This article ran on 23 February 1927.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Mae West has written a new play, and it looks as if it will bring her Hollywood career to an end — — at least for the time being. Her film contracts in Hollywood will terminate shortly, and she is thinking of appearing in her own play on Broadway, where she was a famous star in the "Diamond Lil" days.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said:  "I'm all dignity."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article about Hollywood films mentioned Mae West.
• • Lillian Kilgannon, who stood in for Mae West, Marlene Dietrich. and Ethel Merman in their latest movies at Paramount studio, now is standing in for Jean Parker in "Limehouse Nights."
• •"We are the shadows," Lillian Kilgannon said. "We stand in while the set is being lighted, sometimes for an hour or more, so that all my be in readiness for the star who may then do the scene in five minutes. ... We just step out. We are the shadows."  ...
• • Source: The N.Y. Daily News; published on Monday, 17 September 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 • •
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