Mae West: Men Are Convenient

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 8 of 17 segments.
• • Mae West's Advice to Young Girls in Love by Gladys Hall • •
• • Mae West: How did I start talking about this? • •  
• • Gladys Hall wrote: Mae West said, “I don't know how I got to talking about it now. Now, I can take 'em or leave 'em. I'm just like a man with my romances — — here today and gone tomorrow.”

• • Gladys Hall wrote: Mae West said, "And I've had a lot of romances. I'm no angel." (That, by the way, is the title of Mae's new picture — — "I'm No Angel.") "But none of 'em ever really get me downright moody. Men are conveniences to me, nothing more. If they can help me in any way, socially or financially, I can lie nice to 'em . . ."
• • Gladys Hall wrote: Can't you just hear Mae West saying that?
• • Gladys Hall wrote: Mae West said, "I got my first diamond from that first man. He had two – a scarf-pin and a ring.”
• • Mae West: “I coulda killed him then!” • • ...
• • To be continued on the next post.
• • Source: Movie Classic; issue dated for August 1933.
• • On Saturday, 18 May 1912 in Variety • •
• • Frank Bohm bought a generous ad in Variety (issue dated for 18 May 1912) to help publicize his client Mae West as "The Scintillating Singing Comedienne, Late of Ziegfeld's Moulin Rouge." Billboard gave the vaudevillian's act a favorable review the following month.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Mae West bought a casket’s worth of Beaux-Art jewels and transformed herself into a real Diamond Lil.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "His mother should have thrown him away — — and kept the stork."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • A Canadian newspaper in Ottawa mentioned  Mae West.
• • E.W.H. wrote: Thursday, May 16th — — So finished my stint and then to see Mae West in "Goin' to Town," a roaring comedy in which the swaggering, bejeweled, and predatory Mae continues her variations upon the theme that to women love is a "business" and shouldn't be taken seriously, and her practice of eyeing males solely as — — males. Some of her tricks grow tedious, but she is still a striking person.  ...
• • Source: Ottawa Evening Citizen; published on Friday, 17 May 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 4,736th 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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