Mae West: Knows the Rules

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 10 of 17 segments.
• • Mae West's Advice to Young Girls in Love by Gladys Hall • •
• • Mae West: Mae explains the rules of love • •
• • Gladys Hall wrote: Mae West said, "There's a lot of difference in the way you've got to treat men. It's a game, and you've got to know the rules. Take me — — if a man is conceited, if he's like these movie actors who’ve had such a big fuss made over over them and think every woman is ready to fall for them, I'm mean to them. I pretend not to know they're in the same room with me. I never even glance in their direction. I know 'em one day and the next day I don't recognize 'em. I keep 'em like this — — ."

• • Gladys Hall wrote: And right here, Mae West wiggle-waggled her capable, be-diamonded hand. "There's an actor on this lot right now, who's nuts about me, and has been for a long time." Mae West smiled knowingly and added, "I'm nice to him one day and cold as ice to him the next day.”
• • Mae West: Will not reveal his name (wouldn't be fair) • • ...
• • To be continued on the next post.
• • Source: Movie Classic; issue dated for August 1933.
• • On Sunday, 20 May 1934 • •
• • The article "So Mae West's Slipping? Not So She Can Notice It!" was published in The Los Angeles Times in their weekend edition on Sunday, 20 May 1934. By then Mae had two motion picture hits behind her and her third "Belle of the Nineties" would be released in September 1934.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Mae West is that kind of woman, in her first starring picture, "She Done Him Wrong," for which she also provided the story, and which opens today at the New Santa Cruz Theatre. The darling of Broadway portrays the vivid character of a Bowery belle, with devastating results for the men she meets, including Noah Beery and Cary Grant.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "Well, they've sued me for everything else."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article on the current cinema mentioned Mae West.
• • "Mae Out West: My Little Chickadee at the Liberty Theatre" • •
• • The Argus announced: Mae West takes the mountain to Mahomet in "My Little Chickadee." She goes out West instead of inviting it to come up and see her. Here she takes up with the bulbous-nosed comedian W. C. Fields and matches him in an orgy of galloping hooves, blazing six-shooters, and the usual Westian and Fields-ish badinage. A strange mixture, but a satisfactory one.  ...
• • Source: The Argus; published on Monday, 20 May 1940
• • 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 4,738th 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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