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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Diamond Lil-MAE WEST SEEN IN EAST SIDE SIN-DIVE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Headliners in Manhattan | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

DIAMOND LIL-Mae West in a chryselephantine interpretation of an easy lady from the old East side (TIME, April 23). FUNNY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Best Plays in Manhattan: May 14, 1928 | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

Also DIAMOND LIL (for Mae West erners), THE SCARLET...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Best Plays in Manhattan: May 7, 1928 | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

...point in the film, Miss Davies gives imitations of Mae Murray, Lillian Gish, Pola Negri, which make her a candidate for Ail-American funnywoman. In private life, she has been known to do an hilarious Charles S. Chaplin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures May 7, 1928 | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

Diamond Lil. Propped up under the armpits by a dress that might have been designed by the stage carpenter, Mae West played the role that she had written about a bygone queen of Manhattan's underworld. Diamond Lil was a harlot whose heart was as big and golden as the enormous swan shaped bed that stood in her elaborate cubicle above Gus Jordan's saloon and brothel. None the less, she was hardboiled; when a Salvation Army captain came to save her soul, she planned to seduce him and when a lady threatened a double cross, Diamond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 23, 1928 | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

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