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When the policeman found Mrs. Dorothy Mae ("Johnny") Stevens, 23, lying in a Chicago alley at 7:45 a.m., the temperature was eleven below, and Johnny was apparently dead. Her body seemed as hard as a rock. Said the cop: "I could have sworn she was dead except all of a sudden she groaned...
...treated in Marlene Dietrich's 1939 Destry Rides Again and Mae Westerns of the '30s, the come-hither approach proved a welcome change from they-went-thataway. Frenchie does not make the grade. The script's attempts to laugh at sex come down to smirks and leers, and Actress Winters plays a poor man's Mae West with little more authority than a schoolgirl flouncing through the attic in mother's old clothes...
...1930s. Old Charlie Chaplin movies are reported, not as achievements in comic art, but as true stories about U.S. treatment of tramps. From some cute remarks to a paper's inquiring photographer, the humorless Reds built their definition of the typical U.S. male's ideal pleasure: beating Mae West...
...Indianapolis, the Indiana House of Representatives thought it would be nice if the local theater attraction, Mae West, would pay them a visit. Representative John R. Ryan, appointed a committee of one to extend the invitation, brought back his report: "She can't come. She asked me what time we met, and I told her 10 a.m. She said: 'Jack, where I come from, the roosters don't even take off their muzzles until...
...Place Like Home. In Portland, Ore., Mrs. Hattie D. White, suing for divorce, complained that her husband not only saw ghosts, but continually kept her awake at night talking to them. In Memphis, Mrs. Mae W. Butler charged in her divorce suit that her husband repeatedly blamed her for "mistakes of the National Administration." In Boston, Mrs. Betty Applebaum Weiner got a divorce after telling the judge that her husband whacked her with a Sunday newspaper when he caught her reading the classified ads to see if she could find...