Mae West: J.P. McEvoy, a Fan

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 13 of 32.
• • "The Real Mae West" • •
• • Mae West: One fan is famous humorist J.P. McEvoy [1897—1958] • •
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: A Hudson River houseboat plies the river bearing her name.
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: J.P. McEvoy, the famous author and humorist, gives public thanks on behalf of writers, for her initiating the new era — an era of wide skirts, full bosoms, ostrich feather boas, large hips, trains, and the ample curve of the 1890's — the Diamond Lil of the stage, Diamond Lou of the screen, Lady Lou to the boulevardiers of Paris.

• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: She abolished the modish repression known as the boyish form, and making sex funny instead of lachrymose, murdered one screen convention after another — and has thrived.
• • Mae West: Advocate of curves • • ...   
• • Note: Joseph Patrick McEvoy [December 21, 1894 – August 8, 1958] was an American writer whose stories were published during the 1920s and 1930s in popular magazines such as Liberty, The Saturday Evening Post, and Cosmopolitan. McEvoy, who also had a hit play, “The Potters” (1923), contributed to the Ziegfeld Follies, and wrote a number of novels, is best known for his comic strip Dixie Dugan.
• • This will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: The New Movie Magazine; issue dated for June 1934.
• • On Friday, 2 June 1916 in Variety • •
• • On 2 June 1916, Variety printed a list of names who had volunteered to go to jail — — as guests of the Mutual Welfare League — — to entertain the inmates of Sing-Sing on Decoration Day. Mae West, age 22, was in that number.
• • Sources have said this is the occasion when she met Owney Madden.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Mae West doted on sailors — — and several actors portrayed men in military garb in her motion pictures.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "A man has more character in his face at 40 than at 20 — — he has suffered longer." 
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article about being a fearless female mentioned Mae West.
• • "Difficult Woman or Fearless?" • •
• • Linda Durnell wrote: There are many women who have overcome fear and here are a few of those remarkable women:  ... Mae West chose to be an independent woman who was comfortable with her sexuality. The political climate of the times, however, saw her open sexuality as pornographic.  ...
• • Source: Huff Post Women; published on Thursday, 31 May 2012
• • 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 5,007th 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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