Mae West: Clarendon Stock

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 29 of 32.
• • "The Real Mae West" • •
• • Mae West: The Clarendon Stock Company • •
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: Her first professional appearance took place with the Clarendon Stock Company at the Gotham Theatre in East New York.  
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: She was the little daughter who cried out "Father, dear father, come home with me now," in "Ten Nights in a Bar Room."  
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: As Little Eva she often took the piano-wire route to heaven in "Uncle Tom's Cabin," playing, as a matter of fact, a large repertoire of child roles in the good old days — "Little   Lord Fauntleroy," "The Moonshiner's Daughter," "East Lynne" and "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch."
• • Mae West: Took part in the “olio” • • ...   
• • This will be continued on the next post.
• • Source:The New Movie Magazine; issue dated for June 1934.
• • On Monday, 24 June 1974 • •

• • During an interview on the "Mike Douglas Show" on Monday night, 24 June 1974, George Raft talked about being signed to the speakeasy film "Night After Night" to play the gangster Joe Anton in 1932, and how he convinced the studio to use Mae West as one of his character's former girlfriends, Brooklyn beautician Maudie Triplett.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • During her time in Hollywood, Mae West made just 12 feature films. However, due to the impact she made, the American Film Institute named her one of the greatest female film stars of all time.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "Why, in pictures, you don't have to worry about censorship — — much — — once you learn the rules.... In New York City they let you go ahead and do it and then they break in and arrest you."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • A Bushwick site mentioned Mae West.
• • Danielle Thompson wrote: Mae West’s Bushwick was an “enclave of German-born brewmasters,” with 14 breweries operating in the area by 1890 and, fittingly, the community was largely occupied by German immigrants.
• • Danielle Thompson wrote: Amongst them was Mae’s mother, Matilda “Tillie” Delker, who moved from Bavaria in 1886 and later married Mae’s father, “Battlin’ Jack” West, a former prizefighter who was, according to Mae, an “epic figure in Brooklyn.” …
• • Source: Bushwick Daily; published on Monday, 25 February 2013
• • 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 5,000 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started seventeen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 5,023rd 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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