Mae West: Whyncha Come Up

Vaudeville taught MAE WEST timing. She would tell Hollywood reporters, “It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.” One New York fan agreed.
• • Mae West: It's All in the Delivery • •
• • To the Editor:
• • Don Knoll wrote: Having read Molly Haskell's tribute to Mae West ["Mae West's Bawdy Spirit Spans the Gay 90's," Aug. 15], I should like to point out that in the play "Diamond Lil," as in the film version, "She Done Him Wrong," Mae's line is: "Come up some time and [pause] see me." I saw a revival of the play in the early 1950's and the scene went like this:

• • Don Knoll wrote: Lil (turning around at the top of the stairs): "Whyncha come up some time and see me?"
• • Don Knoll wrote: Salvation Army Officer: "I'm sorry, Lil, I can't. It's Lent."
• • Don Knoll wrote: Lil: "Well, when you get it back, come up and see me."
• • Signed ― ― Don Knoll, New York
• • Source: N.Y. Times; published on Sunday, 29 August 1993.
• • On Monday, 15 August 1921 • •
• • It was Monday, 15 August 1921 and Mae West was enjoying her debut in "The Mimic World" playing controversial characters such as Shifty Liz.
• • With "The Mimic World of 1921," the Shuberts had hoped for a big hit. Additionally, this revue was inaugurating their new roof theatre, Century Promenade, that featured a restaurant and a promenade overlooking Central Park. However, the show opened to mixed reviews from a number of top critics.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Ned Rorem (born 23 October 1923) mentioned Mae West several times in his daily diary.
• • In his introduction, Ned Rorem claimed he had arrived at “Mae West's Law” — — that a diary, properly kept, would in the long run "keep him." Too hilarious.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "Let 'em wonder. I never believed in givin' them too much of me."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • British Vogue mentioned Mae West.
• • The original “blonde bombshell” was 1930s Hollywood legend Jean Harlow; Marilyn Monroe, Mae West, and Betty Grable were later described with the same phrase.
• • Almost a century later, bombshells no longer have to be blonde, and they don’t have to be women; like Adam Collard, who is currently stirring the pot in his second “Love Island” stint, they can be dark-haired, 6’4”, and covered in skull tattoos. …
• • Source: British Vogue; published in July 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 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 • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started eighteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 5,059th 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.

• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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