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...kiss: "It's even better when you help." Besides good lines, there are good situations and songs for Newcomer Bacall. She does a wickedly good job of sizing up male prospects in a low bar, growls a louche song more suggestively than anyone in cinema has dared since Mae West in She Done Him Wrong...
...Mae West, asked by a reporter from Yank how she felt about the pasting the critics had given her show, Catherine Was Great (TIME, Aug. 14), gave a forthright reply...
...comforts of her big Long Island home with 23 Pekinese, named Yummie, Fuzz Wuzz, Cuddles, Baby Dear, Honey Child, etc. She also had a Brussels griffon, a black Persian cat and a dachshund named Poopchin. When Mrs. Shaw died last month, her will asked an old friend, Mrs. Ita Mae McGuire of Napanee, Ont., to adopt her 26-pet menagerie, left her a trust fund of $100,000 for their comfort...
Catherine Was Great (by Mae West; produced by Michael Todd) is an opulent and incredible fancy-undress affair in which the queen of all the sirens essays the Empress of All the Russias. "Catherine," said Mae West in a first-night curtain speech, "had 300 lovers. I did the best I could in two hours." For a while her best was reasonably good: she seemed to make Lords of the Bedchamber of the whole Russian court and boudwarriors of half the Russian army. As she followed her hips about the stage in a solemn slink, as she languidly drew shameless...
...Mae West opened her new show, Catherine Was Great, in Philadelphia. Her first legitimate playwriting effort since The Constant Sinner in 1931, it was saluted as "dull" and "soggy" by critics. But Philadelphians kept packing in to hear Mae's latest line: "I've had a very busy day. Now I feel like seeing the man who's never seen a woman in his life...