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You can catch MAE WEST in Nassau County on a big screen today, March 6th, in her classic comedy "Goin' to Town." This 1935 motion picture will be offered in Long Island at lunchtime. The program will include comments on Mae West's career in Hollywood, according to the event organizer, cineaste John Carpenter.
• • Where: East Meadow Library at 1886 Front Street
• • When: 1:00 pm on Friday, 6 March 2015; T. (516) 794-2570 ext 218, Ms. Jude Schanzer, Program Director.
• • Film's Running Time: 1 hr. 14 mins.
• • Tell them you heard about it on the Mae West Blog.
• • On Friday, 6 March 1934 in Perth, Australia • •
• • "Mae West Becomes a Lady" • •
• • On Friday, 6 March 1934 the West Australian wrote: A Mae West picture, and the first of a 'Father Brown' series, form the main portion of today's new programme at the Grand Theatre. Mae West is cast as a Western cattle rancher who inherits a small fortune when her partner-to-be in matrimony dies suddenly. She decides to become a lady, hence the title "Now I'm a Lady." . . .
• • On Sunday, 5 March 1944 • •
• • On Sunday, 5 March 1944 a Texas daily, The Abilene Reporter-News, announced: Mae West will turn on the heat in "The Heat's On" at the Paramount Tuesday and Wednesday. Judging from the previews she still talks in that husky, cozy, let's-go-off-in-a-corner tone but her costumes will be up to date because she takes the part of a modern Broadway star.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • In order for the film industry to survive during the Depression, it had to produce films that appealed to the public — — films starring Mae West.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: “Good sex is like good bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.”
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• • An article on chic passenger vehicles in 1935 mentioned Mae West.
• • Daniel Vaughan wrote: This Town Car with chassis number SJ553 is one of the original designs, and one of the most outrageous and beautiful ever developed. It was designed by Herb Newport for screen star Mae West, however, she never took delivery of the car. Some believe she did not want to wait, other think it was the money, but Mae West later chose a Bohman and Schwartz Duesenberg with chassis number J370 in Convertible Coupe configuration. . . .
• • Source: Excerpt from "1935 Duesenberg Model SJ news, pictures, specifications, and information" written by car expert Daniel Vaughan; posted in December 2007
• • The Mae West Blog celebrates its 10th anniversary • •
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There are already quite enough factual errors about MAE WEST nesting in obscure, out-of-print publications. So do we need more mistakes being passed around the Internet, ready for the copy-and-paste set?
• • The Brooklyn Eagle, a newspaper that often inspires affection, let down the home team this week. One of their regular columns is laced with incorrect information.
• • Without checking the information first, columnist David Weiss states: Evidently not finding a lot to say about Greenpoint, the editors of the 1939 WPA Guide to New York City in writing the area’s history came up with the fact it was “the birthplace of Mae West.”
• • Yikes! Perhaps the fuzzy logic is, even if the WPA Guide published a faulty detail, then it's all right to reprint it — — unchallenged and uncorrected. Maybe the Brooklyn eagle-eyed fact-checkers are already on vacation, enjoying the beaches of Suffolk County or some Long Island surf and turf.
• • In times past, the copyediting staff held sway at a publication, touching up small parts of the text in case a stray piffle or two might be in need of righting before it left the house. For the record, Brooklynite Mae West was not born in Greenpoint. It is as annoying as that Kings County hash house with their absurd claims that Mae West was "born upstairs." Sheesh. Hire a copy editor, will ya?
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
— — Source for the error: — —
• • Column: "FROM THE BROOKLYN AERIE: A Weekly Column of Trivia and Observations"
• • Byline: David Ansel Weiss | Email: edit@brooklyneagle.net
• • Published in: The Brooklyn Eagle — — www.brooklyneagle.net
• • Published on: 24 June 2009
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Each time there is a MAE WEST walking tour in The Big Apple, astonished callers (who phone to RSVP) tell the tour organizer(s): "I didn't know Mae West lived in New York!" This summer an upcoming tour in Manhattan mid-August will wind down Chez Mae on the WESTside (and surely you knew this was coming). 
• • An independent city until its consolidation with New York in 1898, Brooklyn is where baby Mae was born in August 1893. She also hung her hat in Manhattan as well as in an area now called Queens — — but then known as Long Island.
• • Woodhaven, Queens, NY • •
• • The West family moved around a lot. For a few years, they called Woodhaven home; during this period Mae began writing plays and registering her copyright with the Library of Congress from her mother and father's Boyd Avenue address.
• • Leonora Lavan knows all there is to know about Woodhaven, where she was born and bred. She is the president of the Woodhaven Cultural and Historical Society [WCHS], which meets regularly, plans events, hires speakers, reprints important historical research and monographs, maintains an archive, and does its share for civic pride.
• • To learn more about the group, and discover the history of one of Mae West's old stomping grounds, read this article: "Marking History A Site At A Time — — Woodhaven Society Continues To Celebrate Area's Past" by Bill Mitchell.
• • Published by The Times News Weekly — — www.timesnewsweekly.com — — Mr. Mitchell's article was a feature story earlier in May 2009.• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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During her career, diamond diva MAE WEST loved to pile on the glitter — — thereby inspiring one man's career and personal outlook.
• • The famed costume jewelry designer Kenneth Jay Lane, now 77 years old, launched his career as a shoe designer.
• • However, as a little boy in Detroit, he said, he liked to draw and he had never planned to be a jewelry designer. And when he saw Mae West, wearing "lots and lots" of jewelry in a movie, he began to draw sketches of her. "I once drew a picture of my mother," he told a reporter. "She came out looking like Mae West."
• • Now enjoying a retrospective showing of his "Fabulous Fakes" collection in Long Island [at Planting Fields Arboretum in Oyster Bay], Kenneth Jay Lane is yukking it up with news men and dropping names to polish up his anecdotes.
• • Young Kenny from Michigan, totally fascinated by Diamond Lil, eventually found his stairway to success. And bling went the strings of some hearts.• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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NEWSDAY [13 January 2008] reported a collaboration between MAE WEST and The Naked Stage in Suffolk County on Long Island, where the play "SEX" will be presented next month.
• • According to columnist Aileen Jacobson, The Naked Stage is a 8-year-old troupe — — a theatrical collective that stages readings of plays with established actors but without scenery or costumes. Already flourishing at East Hampton's Guild Hall, where it's been in residence since 2002, the group is branching out to communities where, especially in winter, there's generally not much to do.
• • In her column "On the Isle" Aileen Jacobson interviewed the founder: "I think of myself as a cultural warrior," says Josh Perl, 47, who started The Naked Stage in 2000 at Southampton College, where he taught dance in the theater department while enrolled in the creative writing program. Formerly a dancer with Pilobolus Dance Theatre, he teaches English at Suffolk County Community College.
• • Josh Perl says he hopes to spread the readings to more East End communities where live theater is rare or nonexistent. The company's committee of six readers looks for works that are new, rarely revived, or otherwise worth a look, and audiences are invited to give feedback after performances. It's easy, he says, to get well-known actors involved. "Actors like to work, and they will work with relatively unknown people just to do an interesting play," he says.
• • Mercedes Ruehl has participated at Guild Hall, and Harris Yulin acted in Chekhov's "The Seagull" at a test run (to gauge audience interest) at Montauk Library in February, says Perl.
• • The series at Guild Hall is already running strong. Josh Gladstone, artistic director of the John Drew Theater there, is his partner at the East Hampton venue, Perl says. Guild Hall's next offering, on Tuesday, 15 January 2008, is Marsha Norman's 1983 Pulitzer Prize-winning "'Night, Mother," with Sloane Shelton and Kate Mueth. Coming up at rapid clip — — two or three a month — — are works by such big names as MAE WEST, Woody Allen, and some non-marquee local writers.
"'Night, Mother" Tuesday, short comedies by Jonathan Wallace of Amagansett and by Woody Allen Jan. 29, "Sex," by Mae West on Feb. 12, 2008, and more — — at 7:30 p.m., Guild Hall, 158 Main St., East Hampton, NY 11937 — — free, call 631-324-0806 or visit guildhall.org.
— — Source: — — • • Newsday — — www.newsday.com/
• • Byline: Aileen Jacobson | On the Isle
• • Published on: 13 January 2008
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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