Word: maes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last fortnight, Catherine the Great was banned in Germany because its star, Elizabeth Bergner, is a Jew. Last week German censors banned Marlene Dietrich in The Song of Songs (Das Hohe Lied) on the ground that she was portraying an immoral character. In Vienna censors banned Mae West in She Done Him Wrong. Reason: "Nothing but uncouth and clumsy eroticism, appealing to the basest instincts...
...names appeared on the list of registered guests: Billy Burke, Ellnor Bean, Betty Button, Alice Fair, Florence Fine, Grace Frank, Dorothy Golly, Cynthia Jump, Georgia Ann Inksetter, Charity Mason, Elizabeth Pettibone, Marion Romp, Minnie Phift, Betsy Ross, Mary Power, Sophie Tucker, Phoebe Weed, Jean Spooner, Letta Turtie, Ima Smack, Mae Weston, Margaret Will, Mary Wood, and Helen Wont. There are 856 girls registered as guests at the Carnival--now wouldn't the statisticians have a good time laying them...
...biggest money making stars of 1932-33," picked by 12,000 exhibitors in Motion Picture Herald's annual poll: Marie Dressier, Will Rogers, Janet Gaynor, Eddie Cantor, Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow, Clark Gable, Mae West, Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford...
Sons of the Desert (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) shows Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy behaving foolishly as members of an idiotic secret order. Fat supercilious Hardy sneaks off to the Chicago convention of the Sons of the Desert by telling his wife (Mae Busch) he is going to Honolulu for his nerves. Laurel, scratching his whisk-broom forelock, accompanies him. On their return, there is confusion because the steamer from Honolulu, on which their wives expected them, has been wrecked. Laurel & Hardy cope with the situation ignominiously, Hardy with a feeble lie, Laurel with a blubbering confession...
...Hollywood hiding from New York police, Quigley gets a film bit as an Indian chief, becomes a star by subscribing to a stamp-bureau which sends him fan mail from all over the world. Tired of bashing his ladies on the chin. Cagney in this picture drags Myra (Mae Clarke) out of bed by the hair, hurls her twelve feet down a corridor...