Word: maes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, stimulated by Willie Rogers' political troubles, a sharp-eyed correspondent of the New York Herald Tribune went through the list of candidates in the July 12 Oklahoma primaries and discovered what amounted to a trend. Mae West, an Oklahoma City housewife, is running for Commissioner of Charities and Correction. She has eight children, is a devoted Baptist, and entered the race only after she had prayed for a considerable time and consulted her pastor. The pastor is praying for her every...
FRANK HOWELL JR. Mae's Dress Shoppe Chicago...
Hollywood woke up one morning last week to find its self-satisfied air full of dead cats. The slingers: Manhattan's Independent Theatre Owners Association. Inc. Their targets: Greta Garbo. Marlene Dietrich. Mae West. Joan Crawford, Kay Francis. Katharine Hepburn. Edward Arnold. Fred Astaire. The reason: These highly-publicized great ones were "poison at the box office." "WAKE UP." screamed the theatre owners to Hollywood's producers. "Practically all of the major studios are burdened with stars-whose public appeal is negligible-receiving tremendous salaries . . . Garbo, for instance . . . does not help theatre owners...
...Boston, maligned Mae West was breakfasting in bed. "Why. the independent theatre owners call me the mortgage-lifter." she burbled. "When business is bad they just re-run one of my pictures. . . . The box-office business in the entire industry has dropped off 30%. . . . The only picture to make real money was Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and that would have made twice as much if they'd had me play Snow White...
Second difficulty concerned negotiations with Hollywood's sex personality,' Mae West. Although she expressed a great desire to look the University over, her manager quoted a "special price" for her appearance at the Smoker, three thousand dollars...