Mae West: Naughty Newbie

Depending on the person who wielded the pen, Picture Play could worship MAE WEST in fragrant ink or scold her. A year before publishing Dorothy Herzog’s skeptical sourness [May 1934], the zine printed a much more enthusiastic feature by Ben Maddox [April 1933] emphasizing Mae’s work ethic and down-to-earth side. This is Part 1 of 16 segments.
• • “Mae West: Don't Call Her Lady” • •  
• • In its introduction, Picture Play wrote: HIP, HIP, HOORAY! Mae West is the most refreshing personality to enter the movies since Heaven knows when! She doesn't try to be grand, she has no cultural chatter, no so-called philosophy, and she doesn't pretend to be a lady. She just works hard "building up her personality" and making herself talked about. Read her frank and unadorned interview on the opposite page. You'll like her for it.
• • Ben Maddox wrote: Mae West actually courts gossip and your worst innuendoes are sweet music to her ears. Here's why the screen's newest naughty gal can afford to be like that.
• • Mae West: Call her savage • • …  
• • This will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: Picture Play; published in the issue dated for April 1933.
• • On Tuesday, 14 March 1939 at Madison Square Garden • •
• • The Golden Gloves Tournament of Champions • •

• • In mid-March 1939, Mae West flew home to NYC with her entourage, which included Jim Timony and Boris Petroff, to keep her company while she watched the Golden Gloves Tournament of Champions at Madison Square Garden.
• • In the ring was Billy Speary, one the most highly-heralded Golden Glovers in the world. Speary was a former flyweight and bantam National A.A.U. champ, winner of two Eastern and Inter-city crowns, and the veteran of an international campaign. The diminutive Welshman had thrilled thousands in Canada, South America and this country with his masterful boxing.
• • Sportscasters noted that Billy Speary would be making “his first appearance as a bantam before a New York throng.”
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Buxom Mae West of the films, a woman of many diamonds and few words, after many denials has finally admitted she married Frank Wallace, New York actor, 26 years ago.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "They talk about me being married. Would any woman in danger of a husband dare get furniture like that? It's very ladylike and would be plain ruined if some man put his big shoes on it. I don't waste money that way."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • Screenland Magazine mentioned Mae West.
• • Mae West is so much the embodiment of a type that any blonde in London is humorously addressed by that screen name. After all, what does it matter for under the skin we're all brothers and it doesn't make any difference how we enjoy make-believe. …
• • Source: Screenland; published in the issue dated for August 1941
• • 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 4,900 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started seventeen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4,949th 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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