Mae West: Generous Gestures

MAE WEST made an impression on John Robert Powers, who introduced her to Lyons Wickland, a fashion model who co-starred as Jimmy Stanton in “Sex.”
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• • Mae West: Repaid her debt to Lyons in her own fashion • •
• • Evelyn Williams wrote: "Mae West got him his chance in the movies. Now it's up to Lyons to make good. She's repaid her debt in her own fashion."  

• • Evelyn Williams wrote: “I should say that if Mae West is as generous in repaying all her debts there will be a statue erected to her some day for it is a well-known human failing to forget those who did us favors when we no longer require their aid.”
• • Note: John Robert Powers [14 September 1892 – 21 July 1977] was an American actor and the founder of a New York City-based modeling agency.
• • Lepold Lyons Wickland [20 August 1894 ― 4 December 1980] • •
• • Note: Despite his handsome physique and patrician looks, Lyons Wickland’s Hollywood career burnt out fast. From 1924 ― 1938, he appeared in only one short and 7 feature length motion pictures, mostly in uncredited parts.
• • In the mid-1930s, Lyons Wickland was cast as Lamarque in the period drama “Les Misérables” [20th Century Fox, 1935], a large cast production that featured Rochelle Hudson as Cosette.
• • Mae mavens will remember sweet-face Rochelle Hudson as the stricken, pregnant, and suicidal Sally in “She Done Him Wrong,” who is consoled by Lady Lou with the sassy line, “When women go wrong, men go right after them.”
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• • Source: Picture Play; published in the issue dated for January 1934.
• • On Sunday, 6 January 1935 • •
• • On Sunday, 6 January 1935, one day after her father had died, an interview with Mae West ran in the Sunday Dispatch. The title was "I'm an angel, really — Mae West tells for the first time just what she is really like."
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Maybe some theater managers who did not do so well with "The Song of Songs" will  explain to her that Mae West is the girl who always packs the theater with her pictures.  
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "Give a man a free hand and he'll try to put it all over you."
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• • Fan letters sometimes criticized Mae West.
• • “What the Fans Think” • •
• • Even Kids Go Mae West! • •
• • A Los Angeles fan thinks Mae West's films are so disgustingly vulgar that she sees red when children of ten say "Come up and see me sometime." …
• • Source: Picture Play Magazine; published in the issue dated for February 1934
• • 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 17th anniversary • • 
• • Thank you for reading, sending questions, and posting comments during these past seventeen years. Not long ago, we entertained 3,497 visitors. And we reached a milestone recently when we completed 4,800 blog posts. Wow! 
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