Mae West: Jim in a Derby

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 12 of 13.
• • Bad, Bad Woman: Meet Mae West, a truly remarkable woman • •
• • Caroline Somers Hoyt spoke to Mae for Modern Screen • •
• • Mae West: Jim Timony wears a derby • •

• • Hoyt wrote: And then along came a lad whose last name is Timony. He's a brunette gentleman who wears a derby hat, smokes big black cigars, and doesn't mind getting hard-boiled when the occasion demands. You'll see him around backstage or wherever Mae is.
• • Hoyt wrote: Big Jim gives her plenty of good advice and Mae has liked him in a big way for a couple of years now.
• • Hoyt wrote: James Timony is what is known as a character.  
• • Hoyt wrote: Yessir, it's men that Mae knows best — and men who like her best. Then in Hollywood, she found she got on much better with the men than the women.
• • Hoyt wrote: Women sort of resent Mae. They know her reputation.
• • Mae West: Speaks a man's language • • ...
• • Caroline Somers Hoyt's 1933 interview concludes tomorrow with excerpt number 13.
• • Source: Modern Screen; issue dated for May 1933.
• • On Wednesday, 8 March 1978 • •
• • Mae West was discussed in a few news items prepared for Variety Magazine's issue dated for Wednesday, 8 March 1978.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •

• • Mae West turned over her business affairs to the New York lawyer known as Big Jim; her savings and her activities had come to the point where they needed special management. Timony proved to be the sagacious manager Mae needed, and with his advice and grooming their associations became more and more profitable for both.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "Do I love Jim Timony? Yes. We love each other like Potash loved Perlmutter or like Montgomery must love Ward. Like two old business cronies."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article in Modern Screen discussed Mae West.
• • Modern Screen wrote: We've finally run down those rumors about Mae West. There is a new Mae. Proof that satisfied us was that she no longer will ask the lads to come up and see her sometime. For she's given up that sixth-story apartment in Hollywood, and moved into a Beverly Hills bungalow.
• • Modern Screen wrote: And instead of lolling on white bear rugs in her leisure moments, Mae now devotes herself to raising vegetables in the back yard. It's all sort of beautiful. ...
• • Source: Modern Screen; published in the issue dated for July 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 • •
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