Mae West: No Mannish Garb

Depending on the person who wielded the pen, the fan magazine 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 10 of 16 segments.
• • “Mae West: Don't Call Her Lady” • •  
• • Mae West: Hot-Cha shows • •
• • Ben Maddox wrote: That was when police were trying to lock her up for giving too hot-cha shows.

• • Ben Maddox wrote: She wears her own blond hair in a waved, boyish bob and dresses in very feminine fashion. No mannish garb for this canny Geo.  
• • Ben Maddox wrote: Her one eccentricity is her fondness for big diamonds.  
• • Ben Maddox wrote: She generally sparkles like a Christmas tree.
• • Ben Maddox wrote: Since she's been in Hollywood she has lived in one of our swankiest apartments.  Writing, casting, directing, and starring in her plays require all the energy she can muster.  
• • Mae West: Enjoying the Hollywood sunshine • • … 
• • This will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: Picture Play; published in the issue dated for April 1933.
• • On Friday, 25 March 1977 • •
• • From Monday, 6 December 1976 until Friday, 25 March 1977 — — this was the shooting schedule in Hollywood for "Sextette," starring eighty-three-year-old movie star, Mae West in her final screen role [a citation from the book "Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere: The Complete Chronicle of the Who 1958 — 1978" written by Andrew Neill, Matthew Kent, Roger Daltrey, Chris Stamp].
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Mae West is cast as a Western cattle rancher who inherits a small fortune when her partner-to-be in matrimony dies suddenly. She decides to become a lady, hence the title "Now I'm a Lady."
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "Censors again."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • Fan magazine writers often compared movie stars to Mae West.
• • “Sleeping  Beauty” by Malcolm H. Oettinger  • •
• • Interviewing Miss Elissa Landi [1904 ―1948], I wondered whether she employed the same method in transcribing her thoughts to the printed page that Mae West described in Picture Play a few months ago.
• • Mae West, the diamond duchess, uses two dictaphones, a secretary, and a handy man on special words. …
• • Source: Picture Play; published in the issue dated for March 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 4,900 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started seventeen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4,958th 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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