Word: eves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eve (Mae West): Oh, don't be technical. Answer me this-my palpitatin' python-would you like to have this whole Paradise to yourself...
...Eve: O.K., then pick me a handful of fruit- Adam and I'll eat it-and the Garden of Eden is all yours. What...
...eve of the opening of the new Council of the Union (House of Representatives) and Council of Nationalities (Senate), delegates from rustic farms downed scorching vodka and wolved caviar with delegates from thundering factories. Hot jazz blared and later the springs of many a de luxe hotel bed groaned under the hulks of exhausted peasants...
...Paramount made a determined effort to de-umph Mae West by vacuum-cleaning the script, disguising Mae in a fantastic black French periwig. But, like trying to purify the water by whitewashing the village pump, it did not work. To situations considerably less potential than the story of Adam & Eve, Actress West imparts a meaning all her own; despite all directorial and script-writing efforts to make her steer a straight course, she still writhes as she pleases. As sexless a game as selling a sucker the Brooklyn Bridge resembles, in the West vernacular, a bargain sale of great temptations...
Last month Mae West brought down a deluge of criticism from all over the U. S. by a sexy burlesque of the story of Adam & Eve (TIME, Dec. 27).* Among the 1,000-odd letters of criticism that showered on National Broadcasting Co. was one from FCC asking for a transcript of the program. Last week NBC President Lenox R. Lohr got another letter from FCC, signed by Chairman Frank McNinch. Taking time out from such radio supervising jobs as dividing up the ether, allotting slices of it to broadcasting stations and licensing operators, Mr. McNinch sounded...