Mae West: Coaxed, Cajoled

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 24 of 32.
• • "The Real Mae West" • •
• • Mae West: “You should know better!” • •
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: "Little girl," said the elderly lady in cold, disapproving tones, "you're too big to handle other people's things. Keep your hands off — you should know better."  
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: Something in the woman's tone was too much for little Mae's amour propre.  
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: She went and found her hat and coat, stalked up to her mother and announced: "We are going home now, Mother."  
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: Her mother coaxed and cajoled, apologized, and threatened.
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: Candy, cake, and cookies, even charming knick-knacks, were pressed into service.  
• • Mae West: Wounded to the heart • • ...   
• • This will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: The New Movie Magazine; issue dated for June 1934.
• • On Friday, 17 June 1932 • •

• • Mae West would, no doubt, be capable of delivering "curdling melodrama," predicted the publication Hollywood Citizen News in its issue dated Friday, 17 June 1932.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • A Hollywood fancy "Male Harem" will return Mae West's name to lights.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises."  
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • The Santa Cruz Sentinel mentioned Mae West and tricksters throughout history.
• • John Malkin wrote: Shepherd Siegel’s new book “Tricking Power into Performing Acts of Love: How Tricksters Through History Have Changed the World” opens with a quote from Bay Area Beat writer Lawrence Ferlinghetti, “I really believe art is capable of the total transformation of the world.”
• • John Malkin wrote: Siegel highlights artists and activists who have disrupted the status quo like Mae West, Abbie Hoffman, the Marx Brothers, Richard Pryor, Sun Ra, Yoko Ono, Spike Lee, The Yes Men, Earth First! and many others. …
• • Source: The Santa Cruz Sentinel; published on Wednesday, 25 May 2022
• • 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 • •
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