Mae West: Corsets, Trains, Flivvers

In a revealing 1933 interview with Gladys Hall, MAE WEST talks about being madly in love (only once), the first man who gave her a diamond, and how love affairs (for her) were transactional. Was Mae being truthful? Did Mae believe in her own hard-hearted advice? This is Part 16 of 17 segments.
• • Mae West's Advice to Young Girls in Love by Gladys Hall • •
• • Mae West: Men Show Me Courtesy • •
• • Gladys Hall wrote: Mae West said, "When I was making 'She Done Him Wrong' and wearing all those corsets and trains and frills and everything, you should've seen how the 'grips' and 'prop' men treated me. They'd run around to get me a chair and help me to be seated. They had respect for me. They showed me courtesy.”

• • Gladys Hall wrote: Mae West said, “It's like a woman who is stepping elegantly from a new limousine, compared to a girl in slacks jumping out of a flivver."
• • Note: Flivver is a 1930s (Great Depression era) slang term for a old, dilapidated, or cheap mass-produced car (the opposite of a prestigious brand-name automobile).
• • Gladys Hall wrote: Mae West said, "The woman who exited from the limousine is given the best chair, and the girl in trousers is told to flop anywhere.”
• • Mae West: "She had sex appeal. Everybody felt it." • • ...
• • To be concluded on the next post, number 17.
• • Source: Movie Classic; issue dated for August 1933.
• • On Monday, 28 May 1934 • •
• • It was Monday, 28 May 1934 — — and actress Jean Harlow was asked by The Cornell Daily Sun: "Do you think the college woman of today is taking her studies too seriously?"
• • Jean Harlow replied: "College women are fortunately saved from that pitfall by the wholesome influences of such people as Mae West.  ..."
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Cary Grant showed up at Mae West Ciro's opening. Three other of Mae's former leading men also were in attendance: Steve Cochran, Phil Reed, and Jack La Rue.  
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "When I was a kid, Freud wasn't there to explain."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article on NYC variety acts mentioned Mae West.
• • Mae West at Proctor's Twenty-third Street.
• • Time: Fifteen minutes.
• • Mae West bills herself as "The Different Type of Songstress."
• • Her opening song is about a "Wild Woman," in which she is clad in a tiger skin robe, with her hair arranged "a la Tanguay." . . .
• • Source: The New York Clipper; published on Wednesday, 25 April 1917
• • 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 4,744th 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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