Mae West: Stubborn, Difficult

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 22 of 32.
• • "The Real Mae West" • •
• • Mae West: An ardent fight fan • •
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: To this day she is an ardent fight fan.  

• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: It is one of her few diversions and she never misses a fight, always occupying a ringside seat with "some of the boys."
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: Mae West was a strong, husky child, full of vitality, determination, and fire.  
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: Mae West had explained to me one day that, even as a child, once she got an idea into her head, there was nothing on earth could get it out.  
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: "I don't give myself any credit for that," she said. "I'm just that way — so stubborn and difficult once I get an idea into my head."
• • Mae West: “I am stubborn and difficult!” • • ...   
• • This will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: The New Movie Magazine; issue dated for June 1934.
• • On Friday, 15 June 1951 • •
• • "Did Mae West Make Sex Famous?" • •

• • According to the pre-trial coverage, Sarah Allen had appeared in the cast of "Diamond Lil" during its 1949 tour. She then developed her own act impersonating Mae who, at first, was so charmed that she gave the younger woman permission to include the number "Come Up and See Me Sometime."
• • However, after Miss Allen "wowed them in Bayonne, N.J. with a stand-out performance," Mae West's admiration cooled. "Since then Miss West not only accused her of stealing her act, but used her influence on talent agents to keep Miss Allen from getting stage jobs," noted the newspapers.
• • On Friday, 15 June 1951 there was an examination before trial in Manhattan.
• • Miss West's attorneys Klein and Weir said they had returned a point-by-point denial of the charges.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • The narrative in her latest motion picture is a plot that Miss West has often favored, and it freely reprises a lot of lines from earlier pictures.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said (about Sarah Allen): "It takes more than platinum blonde hair and shapely hips to be like Mae West."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • A Kansas newspaper mentioned Mae West.
• • A controversy developed over Hollywood starlet Mae West's sometimes marriages.
• • Her latest film "Goin' to Town" at the air-conditioned Fox Theatre, featured West as a married woman taking two husbands and the third — — who had met an untimely demise — — all to get her clutches on the one she actually wanted. …
• • Source: The Hutchinson News [Hutchinson, Kansas]; published on Saturday, 15 June 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 5,000 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • •
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