Word: maes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spang, Glunlc, Oomph. "And who wants to see Miss West?" says the switchboard operator of Los Angeles' Ravenswood Apartments, with an air of tired nobility. At the end of a somewhat musty sixth-floor corridor alight-coffee-colored, middle-aged maid opens Mae's door, and ushers visitors into the Venusberg...
Spang in the middle of the room is a massive dressing table, its mirror garlanded with crystal lights. Glunk in one corner squats a pure-white grand piano. Oomph on the piano lid perches the famed marble statuette of Mae, like Venus, proud and unattired. From every wall, in every size & shape (and, by tradition, from the ceiling above the bed), mirrors stare at each other. All the upholstery is white-satin brocade, slowly aging, soon to be replaced (by white-satin brocade). There is a husky odor of high-priced perfumes...
...Mae swings into the room like a parody of herself. Her favorite attire is a pale blue silk negligee which sets off the inhumanly blonde brilliance of her hair. She founders into a straight-backed chair as if it were a chaise longue. The maid brings ice, two glasses, a Haig & Haig pinchbottle. The second glass is pure courtesy; Mae West neither drinks nor smokes. But she talks likably and rather shyly...
...Mae's plays are called The Men in Her Life and Catherine Was Great. For a time Broadway Producer Michael Todd nibbled at Catherine Was Great. He turned it down, says Mae, because production costs would have been too high. In Hollywood Gregory Ratoff, Boris Morros and Samuel Bronston have also nibbled...
Engaged. Martha O'Driscoll, 21, Tulsa-born cinema blonde ("Daisy Mae" in Lil Abner); and Lieut. Commander Richard Donald Adams, 34, flat-top chief engineer; in Los Angeles...