Word: maes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Governor Ruby Laffoon made a Kentucky Colonel of Mae West, professional voluptuary.* In the same batch he made a Colonel of Miss Betsy Helburn, graduate of the University of Kentucky, dietitian of The Bronx's Lebanon Hospital. Said Colonel West in Hollywood: "I guess he wants me to help him keep his troops under control. When do I get my uniform...
...Central Association of Obstetricians & Gynecologists, meeting in Milwaukee last week, congratulated Mae West for popularizing plump female figures, called her style "a boon to motherhood...
Hays organization should be grateful to the C. A. 0. & G. because it would be difficult to find any other grounds for considering Mae West a good influence on the U. S. cinema public. The narratives and conversation in her pictures, which she writes herself, are only less suggestive than her extraordinary gait-a combination of slink, strut and waggle. Uttered in her slurring, husky voice, Mae West's slogan-"Come up and see me some time" -sounds like the composite catchphrase of all improper stories. Because Actress West's manner of dealing with her material is light...
...accent suggests, Mae West originated in Brooklyn, not later than 1900. Her father, Jack West, was a prizefighter and theatre bouncer. Her sister played in vaudeville as Beverly Osborne. In vaudeville, Mae West developed her figure with an acrobatic act in which she lifted a 500-lb. weight, supported three 150-lb. male assistants. She played with Ed Wynn in Sometime, shimmied in Shubert revues, made her name on the Manhattan stage with Diamond Lil, in which she was a genial prostitute. The enormous swan-shaped bed which appeared on the stage in Diamond Lil came from Mae West...
...enthusiastic vulgarian with far better control of her instincts offstage than on. Actress West seldom drinks, smokes denicotinized cigarets. Until she reached Hollywood, she improvised her plays in rehearsal from rough notes; her ambition as a playwright was to win the Pulitzer Prize. Padded in most of her pictures. Mae West's real dimensions are: height 5 ft. 5 in., weight 120 lb., waist 26 in., hips 36 in., bust 36 in. She likes diamonds, rare beefsteaks, racehorses, of which she recently acquired a stable of three. Her next picture for Paramount will...