Mae West: Witty Repartee

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 6 of 16 segments.
• • “Mae West: Don't Call Her Lady” • •  
• • Mae West: Her crowning attribute • •
• • Ben Maddox wrote: A sense of humor is her crowning attribute.

• • Ben Maddox wrote: Witty repartee is carefully figured out for her public appearances.
• • Ben Maddox wrote: And she delivers her smart cracks in an inimitable single-track voice which is devastatingly funny.
• • Ben Maddox wrote: Whether or not you saw her in "Diamond Lil" or the three other snappy plays which she wrote to exploit her unique stage self, you must have read with curiosity about her in the newspapers.  
• • Mae West: Her stage shows went to extremes • • …   
• • This will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: Picture Play; published in the issue dated for April 1933.
• • On Sunday, 21 March 1982 • •
• • On Sunday, 21 March 1982, Miss West and her career were the subject of the annual testimonial dinner put on by the Friends of the Libraries at the USC campus in Los Angeles, wrote Jon Tuska in his book "The Complete Films of Mae West."
• • The event was organized by Stanley Musgrove, president of the group, and his co-author George Eells.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Mae West's peignoir is in the permanent collection of the Frederick's of Hollywood Museum at 6608 Hollywood.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: “No gold-digging for me. I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday.”
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • The New York Sun mentioned Mae West during their coverage of the "Pleasure Man" trial.
• • Mae's attorney Nathan Burkan was cross examining Lt James McCoy who was quick to reenact things he had seen onstage. Under questioning, McCoy admitted he had been an actor in years gone by and "in a circus for awhile, doing hard manual labor, putting up tents and things like that." …
• • [Note: No wonder the courtroom spectators felt as if they were watching an unruly three-ring spectacle at times.]
• • Source: The New York Sun; published on Friday, 21 March 1930
• • 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 4,954th 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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