Mae West: Impassive at Bouts

"An Open Letter to MAE WEST" was written by J. Eugene Chrisman, Western Editor, Motion Picture. His was a unique perspective as both an impartial journalist and yet an avowed fan. Let's take a look. This is Part 4 of 8 excerpts.   
• • Mae West: I wish you'd tell me , Mae • •
• • J. Eugene Chrisman wrote: Only a Mae West could put a line like that over!
• • J. Eugene Chrisman wrote: But one thing, as well as I know you, I wish you would tell me. Why is it when you go to the prize fights, you never make the slightest demonstration? You never show a moment of excitement, even when one boy almost knocks another into your lap? Why is it?

• • J. Eugene Chrisman wrote: I would like to have some of the Brain Trust get out statistics showing how much you and your screen characterizations have done to keep the Depression as little disastrous as it has been.
• • Mae West: Helped her down-and-out pals • • ...
• • To be continued.
• • Source: Motion Picture; published in their issue dated for August 1935.
• • On Saturday, 8 April 1933 • •
• • Mae West says she swaggers because she just had to attract attention to herself some way. That was all part of a fascinating interview that appeared in The Scranton Republican on Saturday, 8 April 1933.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • The Confidential Magazine trial involved Mae West, Robert Mitchum, Maureen O'Hara, June Allyson, Walter Pidgeon, Liberace, and others.
• • California attorney Jerry Giesler, speaking for many Hollywood insiders, declared war on Confidential Magazine: "My clients have decided to fight... We'll hound them through every court in the country.  We'll file civil libel suits and criminal libel complaints...The smut is going to stop."
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "I was always famous for what I wore, not for what I didn't wear."  
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • The Dorothy Manners column mentioned Mae West.
• • Mae West, in a white satin evening gown and a pompadour, stole the big scene at Doris and Jules Stein's huge dinner at Misty Mountain, their Beverly Hills place. There were many guests who were younger and more up to the minute, but it was still Mae all the way.
• • She was escorted by her longtime friend, director George Cukor, and every time she opened her rosebud mouth, you would have sworn she was going to say "Beulah, peel me a grape." There's only one Miss West, but the way she plays it, there's enough there for everyone.  ...
• • Source: Dorothy Manners' syndicated Hollywood column rpt in The Arizona Republic; published on Sunday, 7 April 1968
• • 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 4,708th 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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