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MAE WEST graced this issue of Film Pictorial. Printed in the United Kingdom, this weekly edition was dated for Sunday, 15 April 1934. Collectors know this particular copy as Volume 5, Issue 112.
• • As you can see, Film Pictorial's intriguing cover line is "The Private Life of Mae West."
• • On Friday, 15 April 1927 • •
• • Taking advantage of the legal woes of his sister-in-law Mae West, Beverly's husband Sergei Treshatny obtained a divorce on Friday, 15 April 1927. Well, somebody had a nice weekend, eh?
• • The play "Courting Mae West" dramatizes aspects of Beverly's relationship with Sergei, her divorce, and her hot — cold bond with her older sister Mae.
• • On Tuesday, 15 April 2003 • •
• • On Tuesday, 15 April 2003, a paperback edition was published of this popular biography: "Mae West: An Icon in Black and White" by Jill Watts. A must-have title for any Mae maven.
• • Do you own a Mae West Doll? • •
• • Effanbee pioneered innovative dolls such as Dy-dee in 1934, the first drink-and-wet doll, and celebrity dolls like Mae West and Howdy Doody. They also designed a Charlie McCarthy and Edgar Bergen ventriloquist doll.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond."
• • Mae West said: "I didn't discover curves. I only uncovered them."
• • Mae West said: "I've never had any face lifts either. You can tell by my hands and wrists. They can't operate on your hands. I've never had anything done, and I look the way I did when I was 22."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article on fashion and Hollywood style discussed Mae West.
• • Cynthia Robins wrote: The wisecracking personality and slightly nasal delivery, by the way, didn't originate with Mae West. So says Marc Wanamaker, a Hollywood film historian and archivist. He explains: "Mae got a lot of her style from Texas Guinan, a stage actress and movie actress in the early silents who became a bar owner in New York. A lot of the lines attributed to Mae (and W.C. Fields, for that matter) like 'Never give a sucker an even break' came from Texas Guinan. They all had known each other for years from vaudeville."
• • Cynthia Robins wrote: So how did a woman so intrinsically homely, not to mention older, become such a vital part of Hollywood and such a viable film idol? "On and off the screen," remarks Marc Wanamaker, "she had an honest view of people and the world. She represented the common woman, always, and if you look at her films she did play a courtesan type, but with a heart of gold who always remembered her meager beginnings. They costumed her in fantastic gowns because women, particularly in the Depression, loved the fantasy. If she had been too real, it wouldn't have worked. She didn't want to be that real either."
• • Cynthia Robins wrote: Wanamaker says that despite West's lack of natural attributes, "Paramount catered to her, assigning their best hair, costume and makeup people" — —people like Travis Banton, who designed for Jean Harlow and Bette Davis, set and costume designer Howard Greer, Paris designer Marcel Rochas and makeup artist Dot Ponedel.
• • Cynthia Robins wrote: Paramount's aim was to make Mae West into an icon of independence for the common woman. ""Paramount didn't want her to be this goddess. Besides, Mae didn't believe in that,'' says Wanamaker. ""But she did have this image to uphold, of not being an aristocrat, not a goddess, but a princess. A princess of the people.'' . . .
• • Source: Article: "The Secret to Mae West's Style" written by Cynthia Robins, Chronicle Beauty Writer for The San Francisco Chronicle; posted on 15 April 2001
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started seven years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 2271st 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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On 30 September 1944 MAE WEST, who was playing the Empress of Russia, moved her show "Catherine Was Great" from the Shubert Theatre to the Royale, the playhouse that had originally welcomed Diamond Lil and her boisterous Bowery hijinx in 1928.
• • On Friday 30 September 2011 • •
• • Shipboard entertainer Bonnie Kilroe brings her impressions of Mae West to a stage on dry land tonight in Canada. Impersonating fourteen frisky female icons, and trying to keep pace with her 45-second costume changes, has become second nature to the vivacious actress. "I really enjoy connecting with people in the audience, and I tend to go out and meet folks wigged and costumed as Mae West, Marilyn Monroe, Tina Turner, Cher, Sarah Palin, Lady Gaga, etc.," says Bonnie about her show "Divas: Vaudeville meets Vegas" at 8:00 PM, Chilliwack Cultural Centre, Chilliwack, BC, Canada; T. 604-391-7469.
• • On 30 September 1911 • •
• • Variety noted on September 30th: "Folies Bergere Experiment Reaching an End"
• • "A La Broadway" had opened at the very expensive and none-too-practical Folies-Bergere Theatre, New York, NY. This short-lived revue, which gave Mae West a chance to been seen on a Broadway stage, closed on 30 September 1911.
• • On 30 September 1927 • •
• • Taking advantage of the legal woes of his sister-in-law Mae West, Beverly's first Russian husband Sergei Treshatny went to court to obtain a divorce on 15 April 1927 after a decade of marriage. Their divorce became final on 30 September 1927.
• • The union between the unhappy couple was dissolved by Supreme Court Justice George H. Taylor, Jr. in Newburgh, New York. The divorce action was based on a police raid on a room in the Arcade Hotel (Bridgeport) at 5:00 AM when Beverly West and Edward Elsner were charged with a "breach of the peace" [i.e., being drunk].
• • The arrest at the Arcade Hotel — — 1001 Main St, Bridgeport, CT 06604 — — is dramatized in the stage play "Courting Mae West." This scene can be viewed on YouTube.com.
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said this: "An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article in The World mentioned Mae West.
• • Reporter Gail Elber writes: With his sense of humor, "he was the Mae West of the labor movement," said Ian Ruskin. "He would take something and turn it on its head." Since 2001, Ian Ruskin has played the part of Harry Bridges more than 200 times in a one-man play called "From Wharf Rats to Lords of the Docks: The Life and Times of Harry Bridges." . . .
• • Source: Article: "Labor’s lost love" written by Gail Elber for The World (Oregon); posted on 29 September 2011
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started seven years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 2069th 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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A short story "Single Night" by Louis Bromfield became the backbone of the Paramount film "Night After Night" [released on 30 October 1932] — — which was a triumphant screen debut for MAE WEST. Here she is, as Maudie Triplett, poised in the doorway of Joe Anton's speakeasy on West 56th Street, about to tell the doorman it's "the fairy princess, ya mug!"
• • January 1st • •• • Two months after the film was distributed to movie houses across the country, bootlegger Larry Fay met a spectacularly crimson-soaked death inside 33 West 56th Street on 1 January 1933.
• • Janus, the Roman god of gates and doorways, looks both ways. And the house on West 56th Street certainly looked different from the perspective of George Raft, Mae West, Louis Bromfield, and Larry Fay.
• • George Kesslere, who photographed Mae in his Manhattan studio many times, died on 1 January 1979.
• • Actress Libby Taylor, who worked with Mae (in the role of a maid) on "I'm No Angel" as well as "Go West, Young Man," died on 1 January 1990.• • Musician and band leader Xavier Cugat, who worked with Mae on two motion pictures, was born on New Year's Day in 1900.• • January 2nd • •• • A more pleasant January memory for Mae West took place a year later. On 2 January 1934, when her sister Beverly applied for a marriage license in Chicago, it was hoped that her second Russian husband would be a better companion than her ex-husband Sergei Treshatny. The groom Vladimir Baikoff made Beverly's acquaintance when both were booked on a radio program. Beverly was doing her famous Mae West impersonation for a broadcast — — and Vlad was eager to conjugate some sultry Slavic verbs with her in private, after the show.
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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• • Photo: • • Mae West • • 1932 • •
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Taking advantage of the legal woes of his sister-in-law MAE WEST, Beverly's husband Sergei Treshatny obtained a divorce on 15 April 1927 after a decade of marriage. 
• • On 29 January 1917 Beverly West [1898 —1982] wed her first Russian husband Sergei Treshatny. An inventor, Treshatny had arrived in the United States in 1916. Vaudevillians Beverly and Mae West were both busy working in Paterson, New Jersey during January 1917 when Beverly took some time off to become a "missus" at Brooklyn City Hall on Joralemon Street. It had been a brief courtship. On 8 December 1916, the bride-to-be had celebrated her 18th birthday. • • A decade later, when Mae and Beverly were arrested in Bridgeport, Connecticut on 2 February 1927, Sergei took advantage of the scandal, using the trial testimony as his grounds for divorce.
• • The union between the unhappy couple was dissolved by Supreme Court Justice George H. Taylor, Jr. in Newburgh, New York. The divorce action was based on a police raid on a room in the Arcade Hotel (Bridgeport) at 5:00 AM when Beverly West and Edward Elsner were charged with a "breach of the peace" [i.e., being drunk].
• • Though the case against Edward Elsner and Beverly West was dropped the next day in the Bridgeport City Court, a stenographer took a transcript of the testimony for Treshatny, the policeman who made the February 2nd arrests testified before Judge Taylor.
• • Sergei Treshatny, who was living in Stamford in 1927, had invented an air-cooled motor.
• • Beverly had tried to divorce him in Brooklyn in 1924 — — but dropped it after her plea for alimony and counsel fees pending a trial had been denied.
• • Beverly's marital woes, the arrest at the Arcade Hotel, and the aftermath of this divorce are dramatized in "Courting Mae West" (a full-length stage play based on true events during the Prohibition Era).• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/________
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Mae West.
A short story "Single Night" by Louis Bromfield became the backbone of the Paramount film "Night After Night" [released on 30 October 1932] — — which was a triumphant screen debut for MAE WEST. Here she is, as Maudie Triplett, poised in the doorway of Joe Anton's speakeasy on West 56th Street, about to tell the doorman it's "the fairy princess, ya mug!"
• • January 1st • •• • Two months after the film was distributed to movie houses across the country, bootlegger Larry Fay met a spectacularly crimson-soaked death inside 33 West 56th Street on 1 January 1933.
• • Janus, the Roman god of gates and doorways, looks both ways. And the house on West 56th Street certainly looked different from the perspective of George Raft, Mae West, Louis Bromfield, and Larry Fay.
• • January 2nd • •• • A more pleasant January memory for Mae West took place a year later. On 2 January 1934, when her sister Beverly applied for a marriage license in Chicago, it was hoped that her second Russian husband would be a better companion than her ex-husband Sergei Treshatny. The groom Vladimir Baikoff made Beverly's acquaintance when both were booked on a radio program. Beverly was doing her famous Mae West impersonation for a broadcast — — and Vlad was eager to conjugate some sultry Slavic verbs with her in private, after the show.• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/________
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Mae West.
Taking advantage of the legal woes of his sister-in-law MAE WEST, Beverly's husband Sergei Treshatny went to court to obtain a divorce on 15 April 1927 after a decade of marriage. Their divorce became final on 30 September 1927. 
• • On 29 January 1917 Beverly West [1898 —1982] wed her first Russian husband Sergei Treshatny. An inventor, Treshatny had arrived in the United States in 1916. Vaudevillians Beverly and Mae West were both busy working in Paterson, New Jersey during January 1917 when Beverly took some time off to become a "missus" at Brooklyn City Hall on Joralemon Street. It had been a brief courtship. On 8 December 1916, the bride-to-be had celebrated her 18th birthday. • • A decade later, when Mae and Beverly were arrested in Bridgeport, Connecticut on 2 February 1927, Sergei took advantage of the scandal, using the trial testimony as his grounds for divorce.
• • The union between the unhappy couple was dissolved by Supreme Court Justice George H. Taylor, Jr. in Newburgh, New York. The divorce action was based on a police raid on a room in the Arcade Hotel (Bridgeport) at 5:00 AM when Beverly West and Edward Elsner were charged with a "breach of the peace" [i.e., being drunk].
• • The arrest at the Arcade Hotel — — 1001 Main St, Bridgeport, CT 06604 — — is dramatized in the play "Courting Mae West." This scene can be viewed on YouTube.com.• • Though the case against Edward Elsner and Beverly West was dropped the next day in the Bridgeport City Court, a stenographer took a transcript of the testimony for Mr. Treshatny — — the policeman who made the February 2nd arrests testified before Judge Taylor.
• • Sergei Treshatny, who was living in Stamford in 1927, had invented an air-cooled motor.
• • Beverly had tried to divorce him in Brooklyn in 1924 — — but dropped it after her plea for alimony and counsel fees pending a trial had been denied.
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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• • Photo: • • Mae West • • with family in 1934 • • NYC
Mae West.
Taking advantage of the legal woes of his sister-in-law MAE WEST, Beverly's husband Sergei Treshatny obtained a divorce on 15 April 1927 after a decade of marriage.
• • On 29 January 1917 Beverly West [1898 —1982] wed her first Russian husband Sergei Treshatny. An inventor, Treshatny had arrived in the United States in 1916. Vaudevillians Beverly and Mae West were both busy working in Paterson, New Jersey during January 1917 when Beverly took some time off to become a "missus" at Brooklyn City Hall on Joralemon Street. It had been a brief courtship. On 8 December 1916, the bride-to-be had celebrated her 18th birthday. • • A decade later, when Mae and Beverly were arrested in Bridgeport, Connecticut on 2 February 1927, Sergei took advantage of the scandal, using the trial testimony as his grounds for divorce.
• • The union between the unhappy couple was dissolved by Supreme Court Justice George H. Taylor, Jr. in Newburgh, New York. The divorce action was based on a police raid on a room in the Arcade Hotel (Bridgeport) at 5:00 AM when Beverly West and Edward Elsner were charged with a "breach of the peace" [i.e., being drunk].
• • Though the case against Edward Elsner and Beverly West was dropped the next day in the Bridgeport City Court, a stenographer took a transcript of the testimony for Treshatny, the policeman who made the February 2nd arrests testified before Judge Taylor.
• • Sergei Treshatny, who was living in Stamford in 1927, had invented an air-cooled motor.
• • Beverly had tried to divorce him in Brooklyn in 1924 — — but dropped it after her plea for alimony and counsel fees pending a trial had been denied.• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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• • Photo: • • Mae West's hotel in 1927 • • Arcade Hotel • •
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It was late January 1927 and MAE WEST was en route to Bridgeport, Connecticut.
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By Monday January 31st, Bridgeport, Connecticut's main street was decorated with a banner that read: "The Drag by the author of SEX, more sensational than Rain or The Captive."
• • That Monday evening — — after intense arguments with the local police — — the curtain rose and theatre-goers (and Mae West watchers) saw the first public performance of The Drag written by "Jane Mast" (the pen name of Mae West) at Poli's Theatre.
• • Rush from Variety Magazine was in the audience as well. In his column — — published on 2 February 1927 — — Rush complained that Mae's production was "a deliberate play for morbid interest," and a "jazzed-up revel in the garbage heap." Ouch!• • In The Drag, the drag queen Winnie has an interesting line: "So glad to have you meet me. Come up sometime and I'll bake you a pan of biscuits." That was Mae West's intentional echo of the very well-known line of the late great female impersonator Bert Savoy, who used to say, "Oh, Margie! You must come over!"• • Jill Watts writes: "New Yorkers lured by gossip surrounding West's latest undertaking paid premium prices for reserved seats. West claimed it drew fans from Boston to Philadelphia. It also brought out the New York City Police Department's James Sinnott. ..." 
• • How ironic is it that one of NYC's vice over-lords was named SIN NOT!
• • On Tuesday February 1st at 5:00 AM, Mae West was arrested along with her sister and the director Edward Elsner. That would not be the end of her headaches. It would, however, be the start of Mae's headlines in the newspapers. Pole-vaulted out of the ghetto of the clubby entertainment section, the Brooklyn bombshell suddenly became national news.
• • Sergei Treshatny, the husband of Beverly West, immediately began divorce proceedings due to this arrest. He used the Bridgeport trial transcripts as evidence against his wife.
• • The arrest at the Arcade Hotel is dramatized in the play "Courting Mae West." Beverly's drunken antics and Mae's strategies are featured in Act I, Scene 2.
• • Get ready to come up and see Mae onstage during July 2008.• • Arcade Hotel — 1001 Main St, Bridgeport, CT 06604; Tel (203) 333-9376
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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Mae West.
MAE WEST graced this issue of Film Pictorial. Printed in the United Kingdom, this weekly edition was dated for Sunday, 15 April 1934. Collectors know this particular copy as Volume 5, Issue 112.
