Mae West: Knows Her Public

Malcolm H. Oettinger profiled MAE WEST for Screenland. Since this interview has rarely been seen, let us enjoy it together. This is part 1 of 13.
• • “Going West” • •   
• • Screenland wrote an introduction to his piece: East is West, and South is West, and the whole country is West since Mae rolled in!
• • Screenland wrote: Mae is the newest sensation in Hollywood, New York, and points between. She is a star on Broadway — — but a personality anywhere.

• • Screenland wrote: She knows her public, which threatens to be universal, and she knows precisely how to feed it what it wants.
• • Malcolm H. Oettinger wrote: Meeting Mae West is like attending a convention.    
• • Mae West: Pumping up the attendance • • …
• • This will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: Screenland; published in the issue dated for June 1933.
• • On Thursday, 25 April 1935 in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune • •
• • "Mae West Still Denies Rumors" was the headline in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune [Florida].
• • Hollywood, Calif., April 25 — Associated Press — There may be a forgotten man in Mae West's life, but Mae went right along denying it today. "When I get married," said Mae, a little weary over the hub-bub over a marriage she swears she never experienced, "I'll concentrate on it. And I'll be the first to announce it." ...
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Instead of going to the dogs, Mae West has elected to go to the horses. She has just purchased three two-year-olds.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "If you have to resort to nudity, you just haven't got it."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article in The Orlando Sentinel mentioned Mae West.
• • "In Days Before Dolly, There Was Mae West" • •
• • "I met her, Mae West, not Catherine the Great, very briefly" • •
• • Allen Rose of The Sentinel Staff wrote: Dick Gordon of Indialantic still gets a laugh recalling the day he met Mae West, late star of stage, screen and radio, as they used to say, and self-proclaimed ''last of the red-hot mamas.'' . . .
• • Allen Rose wrote: Dick Gordon added, “Let's just say that Mae resembled Dolly Parton physically. Blonde wigs, fancy gowns and all that went with them.” …
• • Source: Orlando Sentinel; published on Wednesday, 20 April 1988
• • 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 4,979th 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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