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.”
• • “Up From Smiling Ads” • •
• • Mae West: Lyons noticed Mae was outsmarting Broadway producers • •
• • Evelyn Williams wrote: “Mae West admitted to him how things were financially. And Lyons admired her more than ever because of the way she was outsmarting the smart boys on Broadway.”
• • Evelyn Williams wrote: Of course, Lyons Wickland thought she was a grand person to say that, but he never took it seriously. So when Mae West was famous and when she came back to New York, Lyons didn't even call her up, according to John Powers.
• • Evelyn Williams wrote: Lyons felt that now that Mae West was a star and he was not, it would hardly be fair to force her to remember him.
• • Mae West: One trait is truly admirable • • …
• • This interview will continue on the next post.
• • Source: Picture Play; published in the issue dated for January 1934.
• • John Patrick West [March 1866 — 5 January 1935] • •
• • Despite having an ambivalent relationship with her father, Mae West took after him and also worked for him when he peddled fruit in Brooklyn and when he helmed a "detective agency" in New Jersey and New York City. Before opening his own operation, West had walked the beat in Coney Island and elsewhere in Brooklyn.
• • Born on Manhattan's Lower East Side in March 1866, John Patrick West [called "Jack"] grew up feisty, impatient, and strong. As a child he boasted that he'd rather fight than eat. He got his Irish up rather quickly, remembered Mae. He was easily angered and "always ready to do physical violence when the urge was on him." In 1969, Mae revealed in an interview that she thought her father was cruel — — but realized "all his fighting was done doing other people's fighting for them."
• • Jack West was 7 years old in 1873 when his family moved from Avenue C (near the docks) in Manhattan to the borough of Brooklyn, settling first in Red Hook, and then in Greenpoint.
• • On 19 January 1889, in Greenpoint, Battling Jack West and Tillie Delker took their wedding vows before a local minister with Jack's sister Julia West acting as maid of honor.
• • On Saturday, 5 January 1935, "Battling Jack" heard the final countdown; he passed away in Oakland, California of a stroke.
• • On this date we remember John Patrick West with love and respect.
• • On Wednesday, 5 January 1938 • •
• • "Paramount: Mae West Most Likely All Washed Up" was the downbeat headline in Variety Magazine on Wednesday, 5 January 1938. After the NBC broadcast brouhaha, Paramount began monitoring audience feedback to the coming attractions that were onscreen at the New York City Paramount Theatre.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Mae West's quips, backed by the full-figured image, somehow manage to survive our throwaway culture. She was, after all, the progenitor of so many memorable lines. "Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?'' Mae West famously teased.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: “It takes two to get one in trouble.”
• • Mae West said: "When women go wrong, men go right after them.''
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • Cheat Sheet featured an article on Mae West.
• • Why Did Mae West Turn Down a Role in a Movie with Elvis Presley? • •
• • Laura Dorwart wrote: In “Roustabout,” Elvis Presley played Charlie Rogers, a down-on-his-luck musician who began working as a “carnie” at a struggling traveling carnival to make ends meet.
• • Laura Dorwart wrote: In his 2007 memoir, “Elvis: Still Taking Care of Business,” Elvis’ bodyguard claimed that Mae West patently refused to take on the role of Maggie because she didn’t want to be seen as a maternal figure. …
• • Source: Showbiz Cheat Sheet; published on Sunday, 24 January 2021
• • 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!
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started seventeen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4,902nd 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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