Mae West: Dan Makarenko

MAE WEST was a soft touch for a hard luck story. Mae rarely discussed her generosity in an interview, however, which makes this seldom seen piece in Screenland worth reading. This is Part 7 of 18 segments.
• • Mae West’s Secret Self • •
• • Mae West: Vaudevillian Dan Makarenko was important once • •
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: Therefore, Dan Makarenko used to be seen often around Broadway and 46th Street, New York's mart for vaudevillians.
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: While she was in New York recently, Miss West encountered her old acquaintance of the variety shows, and sensing his predicament, promised to find some film work for him in Hollywood.
• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: She did not forget.

• • Aileen St. John Brenon wrote: Makarenko, now in Hollywood, will appear in an important role in her new Paramount picture, "I'm No Angel."
• • Note: Though Makarenko has three film credits (one of these for the Yiddish language feature “Tevya”), he is not listed in any Mae West productions. By 1933, Daniel Makarenko would have been 54 years old.
• • Mae West: Was approached by a former inmate • • …
• • This will be continued on the next post.
• • Source: Screenland; issue dated for October 1933.   
• • On Wednesday, 26 July 1950 • •
• • On Wednesday, 26 July 1950, Guido Deiro, age 63, died after a long illness. He was Mae West's secret Italian husband, at one time a vaudeville headliner, a composer, and a recording artist for Columbia Records. Mae West married Guido Deiro after her relationship with Frank Wallace (husband # 1) fell apart.
• • July 2004: Mae West Blog launches • •
• • What are we up to, writing about the Brooklyn-born bombshell for eighteen years now?
• • We’re here to keep Mae mavens up to date, correct errors, celebrate each revival of a play she wrote, post the latest Westian stage and book reviews. And answer our fan mail!
• • The light’s still on. Come up and see Mae every day.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Interviewing Mae West is rather like talking with the Sphinx or warming up to the Mona Lisa. You are so filled with awe at conversing with one of the Wonders of the World, and with admiration of the ultimate in symbolic sex sorcery, that addlement may easily set in.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "My public expects me to be bad."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • The New York Clipper mentioned Mae West.
• • "Answers to Queries" • •
• • Frank Tinney was at the Moulin Rouge (New York Theatre) in "A Winsome Widow." There were also Harry Kelly, Chas. J. Ross, Leon Errol, Chas. King, Elizabeth Brice, Emmy Wehlen, Harry Conor, Sidney Jarvis, The Dolly Twins, and Mae West.  . . .
• • Source: The New York Clipper; published on Wednesday, 20 July 1921
• • 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 18th anniversary • • 
• • Thank you for reading, sending questions, and posting comments during these past eighteen 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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