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Another litterateur, Mae West, was sued for $100,000 by two writers who claimed that she swiped their stuff for her play, Catherine Was Great. Unruffled, Mae was putting on a good act in court, with the prosecution lawyers as her straight men. What was her first literary effort? "Sex," she said, deadpan. Why couldn't she remember the sequence of Catherine's 300 lovers? "I can't remember the order. No woman could." Well, why didn't she put all the lovers in the play? "Look," she replied, "I did the best I could...
Casbah (Universal-International). "Come with me to the Casbah" has become almost as solid a cliché, in American romantic kidding, as Mae West's "Come up and see me some time" used to be. The Casbah owes its popularity to Detective Ashelbe's tried & true romantic tale about the French super-crook Pépé le Moko (Tony Martin), who just sneers at the cops as long as he keeps to the native quarter of Algiers, but doesn't dare venture outside. It is also the story of a plainclothesman (Peter Lorre) who languidly bides...
Gone from London: Mae West, homeward bound after nine months. She had gained 6 lbs. on austerity meals, said she -which brought her up to 126, said...
...Then Mae Reuther ran for towels, knelt, tried to stop the flow of her husband's blood. People burst into the kitchen. A neighborhood doctor arrived. Reuther said wildly: "Those dirty rats had to shoot a fellow in the back." An ambulance crew pushed in, carried him off to Grace Hospital...
Walter Reuther, the cocky, redheaded president of the C.I.O. United Automobile Workers, is a model husband. He neither drinks nor smokes, hates to travel without his auburn-haired wife Mae, and listens to the family phonograph when other men go to nightclubs. When a meeting of the U.A.W. executive council keeps him in downtown Detroit after the dinner hour, he never fails to telephone, always tries to get home for an icebox snack instead of eating in a restaurant...