Mae West: Dance the Midway

In 1933, MAE WEST was interviewed in Modern Screen before her latest motion picture opened.
• • What was the dance Mae called The Midway? • •
• • "No!" says Mae West, speaking of the "Midway," the dance she does in her newest picture, "I'm No Angel." Explains the movie queen, "It's not a dance of the hands and feet, but a dance of the Midway.”
• • Mae West: "Move Your Feet?" • •

• • Mae West adds, “I throw discretion to the winds and my hips go North, South, East and West. Come up and see me because I'm No Angel.”
• • Mae West: Unmarried. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., August 17. Paramount player. Featured in "Night After Night," "She Done Him Wrong." Next is "I'm No Angel."
• • Source: Modern Screen; published in the issue dated for October 1933.
• • On Tuesday, 23 April 1935 in The Hollywood Reporter • •
• • A review of "Goin' to Town" appeared in The Hollywood Reporter in their issue dated for 23 April 1935.
• • On Sunday, 23 April 2006 • •
• • Voice of America featured "Mae West: The Wild Woman of Film and Stage" on Sunday, 23 April 2006.
• • Overheard in Hollywood • •
• • Shortest quest for inspiration: Mae West's announcement that she would go to bed and there write a new screen play for herself. The title: "Not Bad."
• • In Her Own Words • •
• • Mae West said: "He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of."
• • Quote, Unquote • •
• • An article on The Midway referred to the stomach dance performed by Mae West.
• • "Naughty Doings in the Midway Plaisance" • •

• • On the Midway, the Midway, the Midway Plaisance,
• • Where the naughty girls from Algiers do the Kouta-Kouta dance.
• • Married men without their wives give a longing glance
• • At all the naughty doings on the Midway Plaisance.  . . .
• • Note: This quite erotic and exotic dance, featured at the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893, eventually was called the “hoochie-coochie” or "The Midway."
• • Source: The Seattle Post-Intelligencer; published on Friday, 23 February 1894
• • 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 16th anniversary • • 
• • Thank you for reading, sending questions, and posting comments during these past fifteen years. Not long ago, we entertained 3,497 visitors. And we reached a milestone recently when we completed 4,700 blog posts. Wow! 
• • By the Numbers • •
• • The Mae West Blog was started fifteen years ago in July 2004. You are reading the 4,719th 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: 2 Shows in March

MAE WEST comes to the South Street Seaport this month on March 18th and March 24th when a salute to old-time variety artists will be onstage.
• • Organized by Montauk Theatre Productions/ Shooting Star Theatre and the show's creators NY Artists Unlimited, both shows are matinees and geared towards all ages. Performances are interactive and followed by a discussion/ workshop. Tickets are very inexpensive.
• • "Voices of the Town - - A Vaudeville Salute!" features a line-up that includes MAE WEST, The Marx Brothers, Sophie Tucker, Bert Williams, Florence Mills, Eva Tanguay, Marie Dressler, and more.
• • "Voices of the Town" covers the history of vaudeville in America 1875-1935 and shows the breakthroughs made by African-Americans, women, and immigrants. It has 25 period songs, dance, comedy routines, and brings to life numerous stars of yesteryear.
• • Writer-director Melba LaRose leads the cast which includes Carmela Davis, Nate Steinwachs, Lucia Manzella, Katrin Hier, and Joyce Pena. Anita Brown from Shooting Star Theatre makes a special guest appearance as Molly Picon, singing in both Yiddish and English. Choreographer for the shows is Francis J. Roach.
• • Spanning the late 1800s to the mid-1930s in America, this piece shows how performers survived two Depressions, war, oppression, segregation, discrimination of all sorts, struggles for human/ workers'/ women's rights, and the like. It also reveals that vaudeville was "family entertainment" and the starting point for many major stars.
• • Portrayals of once very important African-American stars are plentiful: Bert Williams, the highest paid star in the Ziegfeld Follies, and Florence Mills, great star of the Harlem Renaissance and Broadway (both played by Carmela Davis). In addition, audiences will gain insight into the T.O.B.A. Circuit (black performers only) and the use of blackface.
• • Circle your March calendar. These affordable matinee shows will be held at the Seaport District Cultural Assoc. Performing Space (a former Liz Claiborne store) on the SW corner of Beekman & Front Street on March 18th and March 24th, 2007. Phone to reserve tickets: 212-242-6036.
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