Mae West: The Real D-Lil

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 9 of 13.
• • Bad, Bad Woman: Meet Mae West, a truly remarkable woman • •
• • Caroline Somers Hoyt spoke to Mae for Modern Screen • •
• • Mae West: The guy who described Diamond Lil, his old flame • •
• • Hoyt wrote: And the sensational play "Sex," which she wrote herself and in which she played a harlot, was the result.
• • Hoyt wrote: Mae West gets her material in strange ways.
• • The man who told her about his ex-girlfriend, Diamond Lil • •

• • Hoyt wrote: One night she was coming into her hotel when another guest at the hotel — a man who had had a bit of a past himself — said to her, "You know, when you wear all those diamonds (the ones, incidentally, that were stolen in Hollywood) you remind me of an old sweetheart of mine who had more rocks than any gal I ever knew.
• • Mae West: His ex-girlfriend, Diamond Lil, then inspired Mae's character for the New York stage • • ...
• • Photo: Juarez, a South American sex trafficker (Jack LaRue) kisses the hand of Diamond Lil (Mae West) in Suicide Hall as her lover Gus Jordan (unseen) looks on in 1928.
• • Caroline Somers Hoyt's 1933 interview will continue on our next post.
• • Source: Modern Screen; issue dated for May 1933.
• • On Thursday, 3 March 1927 • •
• • No, Mae did not take the stand on 3 March 1927 • •
• • A familiar image of a smiling Mae West at her "Sex" trial in New York City on Thursday, 3 March 1927, has the incorrect caption that she was "on the witness stand." However, Mae did not take the stand in March nor in April 1927. Why?
• • Mae's motivations are dramatized in the play "Courting Mae West" during the chaotic courtroom scene [Act I, Scene 5].
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Baby LeRoy took his first steps yesterday in the dressing room of Mae West. She sure gets 'em to come up and see her at a young age, I'd say.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said:  "I take it out in the open and laugh at it."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • Walter Winchell mentioned Mae West.
• • Walter Winchell wrote: In "Bitter Rice," Silvana Mangano is XXXier than both Mae West and Jane Russell.  ...
• • Source: Item in Walter Winchell's column in The Daily Mirror; rpt in an ad on Friday, 2 March 1951
• • 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 4,682nd 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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