Mae West: Peculiar Magnetism

Malcolm H. Oettinger profiled MAE WEST for Screenland. Since this interview has rarely been seen, let us enjoy it together. This is part 4 of 13.
• • “Going West” • •   
• • Mae West: Looks less spectacular in person • •
• • Malcolm H. Oettinger wrote: You would hardly recognize the lady off-screen.  
• • Malcolm H. Oettinger wrote: She looks smaller, less spectacular of course, and lacking in that peculiar magnetism with which her stage personality is so richly endowed.  

• • Malcolm H. Oettinger wrote: She is blonde, forty-ish, and informal.
• • Malcolm H. Oettinger wrote: For her stage appearance Mae bolsters those hips and pads that corset until she resembles a calendar girl of the 1890s.  
• • Malcolm H. Oettinger wrote: Then she adjusts her "Merry Widow" hat to a rakish angle, and sweeps onto the stage, where she is nothing less than dynamic.
• • Mae West: Her next film is "Rings on Her Fingers" • • ….   
• • This will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: Screenland; published in the issue dated for June 1933.
• • On Wednesday, 28 April 1926 in Variety • •
• • On Wednesday, 28 April 1926, Variety (usually hostile to Mae West and nasty) took an early stand against the play "Sex," which had just opened on Broadway.
• • Variety wrote: “Mae West … has broken the fetters and does as she pleases here."
• • Variety wrote: "After three hours of this play’s nasty, infantile, amateurish, and vicious dialog, after watching its various actors do their stuff badly, one really has a feeling of gratefulness for any repression that may have toned down her vaudeville songs in the past."
• • Variety wrote: "If this show "Sex" could do even one week of good business, it would depart with a handsome profit, it’s that cheaply put on.”
• • Note: “Sex” starring Mae West ran for 10 and a half months on Broadway at Daly's 63rd Street Theatre.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Hollywood gossips are predicting Mae West's new picture, scheduled to start soon, will be her last. ... She will collect £60,000 though, for her work in the new motion picture.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "The best way to hold a man is in your arms."
• • 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: "I met her Mae West, not Catherine, very briefly," Dick Gordon said.
• • Allen Rose wrote: "It was on the 17th floor of the hotel," Dick Gordon continued. "I was stationed at a B-29 training base in Nebraska [Offutt Air Force Base]. A friend and I were in Chicago, Illinois for the weekend and saw Mae West in the show." …
• • 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 4,982nd 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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