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...Mae and their rotund, accommodating little friends made their debut in March. Sailors on H.M.S. Ganges formed a Shmoo club, English farmers reported that hens were laying Shmoo-shaped eggs, and subscribers sent Shmoo-shaped potatoes. But the postman also brought a mailbag of protests. Reader R.E. Wilkinson thought Shmoos were definitely un-British. Wrote he: "The Shmoos are encouraging the very characteristics that are ruining this country ... lazy-mindedness and the deliberate pursuit of everything that is slovenly and American." A Mrs. Collins found the drawing "ridiculous" and the language "unintelligible...
...Mae West, 57, recalled the old days when the word "sex" was rarely spoken aloud ("It wasn't polite to give it my meaning"). But she bears no real resentment toward Professor Alfred Kinsey: "That guy merely makes it easy for me," she assured Columnist Robert C. Ruark. "Now I don't have to draw 'em any blueprints . . . We are both in the same business . . . Except I saw it first...
...played when "the big guys"-Eddie Cantor, Irving Berlin-used to come down on weekends to plug songs. In his "more salady" days, he had been the first Negro ever to compose the complete score for a major movie: Mae West's I'm No Angel (1933). Mae had made They Call Me Sister Honky-Tonk and I Want You, I Need You memorable to her fans, but they had never really been hits on their...
...Mae West, who has not denied being 56, was still having trouble trying to settle down. "I'm still looking for the right man," she confided to the New York Post's Columnist Earl Wilson. "My trouble is, I find so many right ones, it's hard to decide...
...merely too emphatic mannerisms of an assured and perfected theatrical manner. When, for instance, a new suitor (Steve Cochran) sighs: "My love for you will last forever," it is with genuine mastery of timing and pitch that Miss West inquires: "How about your health?" In any theater world Mae West would be somebody, if only for being unlike anybody else...