MAE WEST met her fans on the silver screen and between the pages of the day’s popular fan magazines, all of whom skated dizzily on the surface of facts and never did any fact-checking. This is the first section, Part 1, segment 5 of 32.
• • "The Real Mae West" • •
• • Mae West: A code of her own • •
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: But unconventional as she certainly is, Miss West, as we shall see, has a code of her own.
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: She has a reason, as well as a wisecrack, for everything.
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: A lifetime, with all but five years (the first five) spent tirelessly in the theater, lay behind that first entrance upon the screen — years of experience, incessant labor, well-directed energy, firm adherence to purpose in the face of many discouragements and setbacks, in spite of which she never lost sight of her goal.
• • Mae West: From the Bushwick section of Brooklyn • • ...
• • This will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: The New Movie Magazine; issue dated for June 1934.
• • On Wednesday, 23 May 1928 • •
• • "Diamond Lil" • •
• • Variety discussed the costumes designed by Dolly Tree for Mae West and also Mae's lingerie created for all her boudoir scenes, daring nighties of "heavy cream lace and yellow chiffon flounces."
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Mae West learned a lot about comic timing by observing Ed Wynn. Wynn perfected a character called “the perfect fool.”
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "White men can't play black music."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • A Massachusetts newspaper mentioned Mae West.
• • Metropolitan Theatre • •
• • Stars of the screen, stage and radio are featured, starting Friday.
• • Mae West, in her new Paramount hit, “Goin’ to Town”; Olga Baclanova in person; “Hollywood Hooey,” a hilarious revue with Ernie Stanton and a big company of headliners, and the special engagement of Joaquin Garay, Hollywood’s newest singer, are the four big units.
• • Mae West drops her “gay nineties” cycle and goes modem as a gal of the wide open spaces who inherits a fortune and starts out to be a society lady on the money. In a novel trip behind the scenes at Hollywood, Miss Baclanova is supported by Ernie Stanton, Smith, Fields and Smith, Townsend and Boles, George Freems, twelve gorgeous Hollywood beauties and the Elida Ballet.
• • Sevitzky and the Grand Orchestra — — excellent, as usual. …
• • Source: Cambridge Sentinel (Massachusetts); published on Saturday, 18 May 1935
• • 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 4,999th 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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