Mae West: Secret Training

MAE WEST, so often photographed under the guidance of Paramount’s publicity department, banned cameras during “secret training.” Let’s learn more from a United Press insider. This is Part 1 of 2 parts.
• • Mae West Goes into Training • • 
• • United Press writer Henry Sutherland wrote: Hollywood, April 3 — — Buxom Mae West has gone into "secret training" for her next picture, which gives the candid camera snipers something to shoot at. The West regimen includes walks, riding both hoss and bicycle and sunbaths, but so far as this column knows no camera has ever caught her at it, nor picture gone forth to gladden the public eye.
• • Henry Sutherland wrote: Fact is the gal who rediscovered the gay nineties is rather sensitive about the whole thing, and does her daily dozen on a secluded San Fernando Valley ranch, operated by her brother, Jack West.
• • Her secluded San Fernando Valley ranch • • . . .
• • Join us tomorrow for the conclusion of this piece.
• • Source: The Pittsburgh Press (Pittsburgh, PA); published on Saturday, 3 April 1937.
• • On Monday, 22 January 1934 in Times Square • •

• • There was a festive feeling in the air Monday evening, on 22 January 1934, when Mae West and Eddie Cantor and many other stars entertained at the New Amsterdam Theatre — — at the 52nd annual benefit for the Actors' Fund.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Dolly Parton said: "I will never retire unless I had to. Even if I can't wear the high heels, if I'm not able to wear 'em, I'm going to do like Mae West and sit in a wheelchair with my high heels on and have somebody wheel me around."
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "My hobby is beds. I own a famous bed that belonged to Diamond Jim Brady. And several others. Some day I'm going to round up a real collection."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • The Refinery29 mentioned Mae West.
• • Two Senior Editors at Penguin Discuss: "What Would Boudicca Do?"
• • Frankie Mathieson wrote: E. Foley and B. Coates – Liz and Beth – are the writers.  . . .
• • Liz explained: Boudicca in the book is on sticking up for yourself.  And then we have Mae West on body positivity, Emily Dickinson on FOMO... that was the thing that unlocked it for us and made it a bit different.
• • Frankie Mathieson wrote: The book contains lots of pearls of wisdom, what’s your favourite quote?
• • Beth recalled: There’s a brilliant quote from Mae West: "A curve is the loveliest distance between two points." I love that. Dorothy Parker has some great ones too: "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." She would have been great on Twitter!  . . .
• • Source: Refinery29; posted on Saturday, 8 December 2018

• • The Mae West Blog celebrates its 14th anniversary • •  

• • Thank you for reading, sending questions, and posting comments during these past fourteen years. Not long ago, we entertained 3,497 visitors. And we reached a milestone recently when we completed 4,100 blog posts. Wow!  

• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started fourteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4132nd 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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Mae West: Gonk's Dorothy

Born in August 1893, MAE WEST left a long trail of memorable sayings behind— — and she was as quotable as her clever contemporaries Groucho Marx, W.C. Fields, and Dorothy Parker, another well-known wit who was born in August 1893.
• • Dorothy Parker • •
• • Born in New Jersey and raised in NYC, Dorothy Parker [22 August 1893 — 7 June 1967] was a writer and poet who was best known for her wisecracks, caustic wit, and a sharp eye for 20th century urban foibles.
• • Unlike Mae's growing up years (tethered to her supportive, adoring mother and helpful father), Dorothy's youth became sad and troubled at 4 years old when her mother died. From this conflicted unhappy past, however, Dorothy Parker rose to acclaim, both for her literary output in such venues as The New Yorker and as a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table, a group she would later disdain. She enjoyed several years as a high profile drama critic, a playwright, and a bon vivant. Following the breakup of the gonk's circle, Parker traveled to Hollywood to pursue screenwriting. Her successes there, including two Academy Award nominations, would eventually be curtailed, since her involvement in left-wing politics would lead to a place on the infamous Hollywood blacklist.
• • On 22 August 1932 • •
• • On this date production began for the motion picture "Night After Night," which offered Mae West her first chance to amaze viewers on the silver screen.
• • Mae West on the Newsstand • •
• • It was the December 1957 issue of Esquire Magazine that featured Mae West, Dorothy Parker, Charlie Parker, and Dylan Thomas as cover lines. Published in New York City, Esquire offered a lot in this 282-page Christmas edition including two poems by Dylan Thomas [Fern Hill and Lament]; Eric Sevaried's article, Who Will Win In 1960, (JFK — Nixon); Ballad of the Bird, The Legend of Charles Christopher Parker, by Arnold Shaw, photography, The Best Fiction of 1957 by Dorothy Parker; and a lengthy vibrant article on Mae West, "She Made It Funny" — — Mae, the spiritual mother of all sex symbols.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • Former model and showgirl Gloria Pall, who lives in a quaint pink stucco house in North Hollywood, portrayed Mae West recently at a local gathering.
• • Al Martinez writes: Gloria Pall is a strong 84, and calls herself "old Hollywood" because she was in films, television shows and commercials in the 1950s when she was slim, pretty and scantily clad on the covers of girlie magazines like Frolic, Pix, Gala, and Fun. She was called "Voluptua" for obvious reasons.
• • Al Martinez continues: A little heavier these days, she still has the naturally blond, shoulder-length curls that once made her attractive to men like Howard Hughes and Elvis Presley, and a manner of dressing that says look-at-me. On the day we talked, she was wearing tight white pants, a knitted lavender top, lavender socks and white shoes sprinkled with glitter.
• • Al Martinez recalls: The night before, wearing a black sequined gown and feathered hat, she had performed as a flamboyant Mae West before a gathering of publicists to commemorate the 118th anniversary of West's birth. She demonstrated the act with the provocative shift of a hip, the come-hither glance and the sexy, honey-coated "Come up and see me sometime." Did I say she's written and self-published 14 books? It is no surprise that they are mostly about her. ...
• • Source: Article: "She's old Hollywood, but she's 'for real'" written by Al Martinez for Los Angeles Daily News; posted on 21 August 2011
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started seven years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 2030th 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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Mae West: Frank Buchman

It was August 1939 when MAE WEST agreed to meet with Frank Buchman for a half an hour.
• • Born in in Pennsburg, Pennsylvania on 4 June 1878, Franklin Nathaniel Daniel Buchman was a Protestant Christian evangelist who founded the Oxford Group (known as Moral Re-Armament from 1938 until 2001, and as Initiatives of Change since then). Buchman was a controversial figure throughout much of his adult life, and critics dubbed his movement as "Buchmanism" from the 1920s.
• • Buchman, who never married, went out to Hollywood in 1939 to have himself photographed with movie stars as a way to use these pictures for his own publicity.
• • In August 1939, Mae West suggested that Buchman also make a call on film comedian W.C. Fields.
• • Despite a stroke in 1942, and failing health that eventually led to blindness and immobility, he remained fairly active for the next nineteen years. Buchman died in Freudenstadt, Germany in the month of August — — on 7 August 1961.
• • Mae West & Eugene O'Neill: Off-beat Links • •
• • Historical Events for 9th April 1928:
• • Eugene O'Neill's "Lazarus Laughed" premieres in Pasadena, California.
• • Mae West's Broadway debut in her daring new play "Diamond Lil" at the Royale Theatre.
• • On Sunday afternoon, 14 August 2011 • •
• • "Mae West in Bohemia — — Gin, Sin, Censorship, and Eugene O'Neill"
• • Mae West's birthday is August 17th. Join us at 3:00 pm on Sunday afternoon, 14 August 2011. The title of this illustrated historical theme walk is "Mae West in Bohemia — — Gin, Sin, Censorship, and Eugene O'Neill." Rare vintage illustrations will show you how the buildings and blocks looked as these two theatre people saw them.
• • Where: This illustrated walking tour begins at 62 West Ninth Street, NYC (near Sixth Avenue). Join us and take a walk on the wild side next weekend.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "I feel like a million tonight — — but one at a time."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • Mae West is mentioned in a new book by David Wallace — — Capital of the World: A Portrait of New York City in the Roaring Twenties.
• • Slate reporter Libby Copeland writes: Capital of the World, which just came out, is a rollicking look at the outsize personalities who defined the city in the ‘20s. Tellingly, given the freedoms and irreverence of the era, there are a lot of women in the book. Some of their names are familiar (Dorothy Parker, Fanny Brice, Martha Graham) and some are less so. Wallace introduces us to Texas Guinan, a housewife [sic] turned celluloid cowgirl who parlayed her Hollywood fame into a job as a New York City speakeasy hostess. Texas Guinan’s job was to get people drunk and entertain them, and she was spectacularly good at it, making oodles of money (though a lot of it had to go to bribes). Guinan turned insult into an art form — — she liked to greet customers with the phrase “Hello, suckers!”— — and she later became the inspiration for Mae West’s brand of sass. ...
• • Source: Article: "Limited Engagement! One Night Only! A Panel Tonight on New York During the '20s and '40s!" written by Libby Copeland for Slate; posted Wednesday, 3 August 2011
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started seven years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 2015th 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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