Word: maes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...awareness of what every move looks like from the auditorium enables her to capitalize on even her shortcomings (which include a tall and outsize frame). Swinging her generous hips through an Oriental dance in Rimsky-Korsakov's Le Coq d'Or, she even looks sexy in a Mae West sort of way. Sutherland (with an equally tall and outsize frame) has worked hard to make herself into an acceptable actress, but her stage temperament is essentially a stolid one. Usually she gets her best effects by wearing flowing capes and tunics and standing magisterially still whenever...
...readable and often eloquent sense of it," says Nation Senior Editor Jason McManus. Quiet, understated and equipped with a wry sense of humor, Magnuson at the end of each week in Manhattan drives 260 miles to his 22-acre farm in Sutton, N.H., in time to join his wife Mae, their two teen-age daughters and six-year-old son for a leisurely long weekend...
...quixotic guardian of New York City's morals; of pneumonia; in Floral Park, N.Y. As executive secretary of the Society for the Suppression of Vice between 1915 and 1950, Sumner made smut chasing his lifework. He fought to have James Joyce's Ulysses banned, and helped send Mae West to jail for directing a 1926 play called...
...just retribution" came, however-not perhaps to Mae West and not really because of the censors-but to women and because of audience (or should I say male audience) demand. Whatever the social or economic reasons, the Depression had allowed the creation of what is still thought of, in some parts of the world, as the modern American woman. Strong, witty, and direct-this image lasted until the Depression ended, and then the war came. The retribution was that women were forced back to where they had been before, on the side-lines of their husbands' lives. If the women...
...ONLY women in general suffered from the end of this era; none of the great women stars survived with their strength intact. Mae West's career was finished, and Garbo-after giving in to Melvyn Douglas in Ninotchka -was then reduced to "sex farce" in Two-Faced Woman, and left the screen forever. Dietrich went to comedy somewhat more successfully, and revived her career with Destry Rides Again in 1939. But all the comedy was at the expense of her former screen image-and although funny, it somehow smells of self-exploitation. Katherine Hepburn made her first comedy, Bringing...