Mae West: Writing Capability

In 1934, Picture Play, piqued by a New York newcomer’s meteoric rise, pondered this: “Is MAE WEST a Fizzle? A bold discussion of an important question!” This is Part 20 of 29 segments.
• • Is Mae West a Fizzle? • •
• • Mae West: "She is an interesting person" • •
• • Dorothy Herzog wrote: I met Director Ruggles after the preview of "I'm No Angel" and asked him how he liked directing Mae West.
• • Dorothy Herzog wrote: "She's an interesting person," he replied.

• • Dorothy Herzog wrote: "Does Mae West strike you as capable of writing all these stories that she has been credited with writing?" I asked him.  
• • Dorothy Herzog wrote: Sometimes when a question is snapped at a person, taking him off-guard, you get an interesting answer.
• • Mae West: “I’ve asked Mae to give me new lines” • • …
• • This will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: Picture Play; issue dated for May 1934.
• • On Tuesday, 14 February 1933 • •
• • Variety's reporter "Bige" wrote an article on "She Done Him Wrong." The magazine ran it on pages 12 and 21 in their issue dated for Tuesday, 14 February 1933.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Joe Breen told Motion Picture Daily that there's only one Mae West.
• • In Her Own Words • •

• • Mae West said: "Because of my early training in vaudeville and in stock companies, I used to learn all the parts: the villain, the heroine, the meany. Then later when I began to write, I was so tired of formulas that I wanted something different. That's why my plays were so original."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • A fan magazine discussed Mae West.
• • Picture Play wrote: Lilyan Tashman comes out boldly and denounces the Mae West styles. Lilyan says that she never heard of them, just as Marlene Dietrich did when she came back from Europe.
• • Picture Play wrote:Mae West's garb, she feels, doesn't belong to the modern day either; it's too stuffy. Clothes will be slinky to enable their wearers to navigate in an age of speed …
• • Source: Picture Play; issue dated for April 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! 
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started seventeen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4,930th 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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