Mae West: Dance the Midway

In 1933, MAE WEST was interviewed in Modern Screen before her latest motion picture opened.
• • What was the dance Mae called The Midway? • •
• • "No!" says Mae West, speaking of the "Midway," the dance she does in her newest picture, "I'm No Angel." Explains the movie queen, "It's not a dance of the hands and feet, but a dance of the Midway.”
• • Mae West: "Move Your Feet?" • •

• • Mae West adds, “I throw discretion to the winds and my hips go North, South, East and West. Come up and see me because I'm No Angel.”
• • Mae West: Unmarried. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., August 17. Paramount player. Featured in "Night After Night," "She Done Him Wrong." Next is "I'm No Angel."
• • Source: Modern Screen; published in the issue dated for October 1933.
• • On Tuesday, 23 April 1935 in The Hollywood Reporter • •
• • A review of "Goin' to Town" appeared in The Hollywood Reporter in their issue dated for 23 April 1935.
• • On Sunday, 23 April 2006 • •
• • Voice of America featured "Mae West: The Wild Woman of Film and Stage" on Sunday, 23 April 2006.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Shortest quest for inspiration: Mae West's announcement that she would go to bed and there write a new screen play for herself. The title: "Not Bad."
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article on The Midway referred to the stomach dance performed by Mae West.
• • "Naughty Doings in the Midway Plaisance" • •

• • On the Midway, the Midway, the Midway Plaisance,
• • Where the naughty girls from Algiers do the Kouta-Kouta dance.
• • Married men without their wives give a longing glance
• • At all the naughty doings on the Midway Plaisance.  . . .
• • Note: This quite erotic and exotic dance, featured at the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893, eventually was called the “hoochie-coochie” or "The Midway."
• • Source: The Seattle Post-Intelligencer; published on Friday, 23 February 1894
• • 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 4,700 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started fifteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4,719th 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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