Mae West: Lily the Milliner

Lily Birnbaum once made sensational hats for MAE WEST.
• • During the 1920s, this talented native New Yorker was head milliner for the Shubert Brothers, and kept busy designing show-stopping creations for their Broadway hits.
• • Born in 1895, Lily was raised amid hatboxes, hatpins, ostrich plumes, osprey feathers, glove boxes, and genteel feminine adornment. After she wed attorney Benjamin A. Javits, she focused on raising a family. Still tethered to the thrills of showbiz, she was one of the founders of the Palm Beach Film Festival. When she was in her sixties, she took up painting and had several exhibitions in Palm Beach and NYC galleries.
• • Following in her footsteps, one of her grandsons was so inspired by her colorful backstage stories that he became a milliner. Lily served for years as his consultant.
• • Lily Birnbaum Javits died at age 91 during the month of August — — on Thursday, 7 August 1986 — — after a series of strokes, at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Palm Beach, Florida.
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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Mae West: Buttered Up

Re-think the long-stemmed roses. A special pound cake named "Mae West" is made by Nonnie Waller's bakery. What an appealing alternative to the usual Valentine's Day gift offerings.
• • The cake-maker describes her MAE WEST pound cake: "This box's ample appeal begins with a gold panné shaded-velvet bottom. Her matching knockout top is adorned with a button of square-cut gilded sequins."
• • "Mae West," which can be delivered, includes your choice of the original recipe or chocolate espresso pound cake, a nosegay of fresh flowers, and a designer box. Nonnie Waller's Traditional Southern [operating in Spring Valley, Ohio] is located in a grand century-old [circa 1905] building, where the butter-loving flour-fingered staff ships their cakes nestled in clever keepsake hatboxes.
• • Contact Nonnie Waller: 1-800-664-0919
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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