Mae West: French Farce

MAE WEST, who thought of herself as a serious writer, would be enjoying all these revivals of plays she wrote in her younger days. One farcical play, however, has vanished. Let's hear about its last production and see if you can guess which Mae West film synopsis resembles this stage play.
• • Mae West's 1940'S Farce Due on Kennedy Stage • •
• • Come On Up, Ring Twice • •
• • Irvin Molotsky wrote: A woman, bored by wartime Washington, has her maid release balloons out her window, each bearing a message asking the recipient to come on up and ring twice. Many men do, among them a senator, an ambassador, a reporter, a sailor, a gangster, a Nazi spy and a Communist.
• • Irvin Molotsky wrote: Although this may sound like the makings of a typical Washington party, it is not one, and all these people have to be hidden in closets to prevent discovery. There is tumult.

• • Irvin Molotsky wrote: The situation is French farce and it occurs in a play that Mae West wrote in the 1940's in collaboration with Miles Mander, Fred Schiller and Thomas Dumphy. It played in various cities around the country from 1946 to 1952 but, to Miss West's disappointment, never made it to Broadway.
• • Mae West's Play Opens in June • •
• • Irvin Molotsky wrote: Miss West, who died in 1980, considered herself a serious writer, a viewed shared by Peter Sellars, head of the American National Theater at the Kennedy Center, and his colleagues. They have scheduled her play in a run to begin June 29 in a season that is also to include Shakespeare, a juxtaposition Miss West would have liked.
• • Source: N.Y. Times; published on Wednesday, 30 January 1985
• • On Sunday, 29 April 1928 • •
• • Percy Hammond wrote an article about Mae West. The title was “The Rewards of Virtue” and it was published in the New York Tribune on Sunday, 29 April 1928.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • George Raft is sticking with Paramount (his next is "The Trumpet Blows"), and so is Claudette Colbert (who is about to do "Cleopatra" for De Mille). And Mae West is signed up for four years more, and Marlene Dietrich for two.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "Frank Wallace? Never heard of the guy!!"
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • The Daily Illini mentioned Mae West.
• • "Hutchins Says He Is No Mae West Spouse" • •
• • Chicago, April 26 [AP] — — Dr. Robert Maynard Hutchins described himself today as neither a communist nor any one of Mae West's husbands. The University of Chicago president, addressed a law school assembly, lapsed into a bit of levity in replying to charges that radical influences obtained at his school. He asserted: Just as I am not any one of Mae West's husbands, neither am I helping the Russian communist government.  . . .
• • Source: Associated Press, rpt in Daily Illini; published on Saturday, 27 April 1935
• • 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 4,723rd 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/
________
Source: https://maewest.blogspot.com/atom.xml  
• • Be sure to bookmark or follow The Mae West Blog
• • Photo: • • Mae West • • at the BBC in 1946 • •
• • Feed — — http://feeds2.feedburner.com/MaeWest