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...Robbed: Mae West. Somebody got into her dressing room at London's Prince of Wales theater (where she is packing them in with Diamond Lil), and made off with $16,000 worth of diamond jewelry...
...Atlanta packing-plant employees, Norman Plumley, 20, a wienie worker, and Doris Mae Wilson, 22, an egg packer, met while walking out on strike. Love bloomed; eleven days later, while a juke box played I Don't Want Her, You Can Have Her, She's Too Fat For Me, they were married on the picket line by a blind preacher...
Jenny Lamour (French). Winner of the Grand Award at the 1947 Venice Film Festival. A whodunit about vaudeville people. Excellent performances by Louis Jouvet, Bernard Blier and the notably attractive Suzy Delair, who suggests a Mae West who really means it. First-rate directing by Henri-Georges Clouzot. The best movie treatment of show business since E. A. Dupont's monumental Variety...
...Manchester Guardian sometimes stoops, but always from an Olympian height. A Guardian critic last week reviewed Mae West, who is playing in London in her bawdy, gaudy old Diamond Lil, found the play "one of these perverse and unpredictable successes" and Mae a "Junoesque lady [who] leered out asthmatic innuendoes in scene after scene of ineffable twaddle." On the whole, he liked it-but he was not to be taken in by the plot. "Some of it," he observed, "one seems to have seen before in a film...
...Mae West, exhibiting herself in person to England for the first time, went a twinkling tribute from the usually decorous Manchester Guardian. "It was surely a strange trick of fortune that made Mae West famous as a film star," observed the Guardian after a long, appreciative look, "for it is hard to imagine an actress less suited to one dimension...