Word: maes
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...Theda Bara was a friendly Cincinnati girl named Theodosia Goodman, who became cinema's first femme fatale. Her catch line: "It is very hot in Africa" became a cliche almost as famous in its day as Mae West's "Come up and see me sometime...
Spang in the middle of the room is a massive dressing table, its mirror garlanded with crystal lights. Glunk in one corner squats a pure-white grand piano. Oomph on the piano lid perches the famed marble statuette of Mae, like Venus, proud and unattired. From every wall, in every size & shape (and, by tradition, from the ceiling above the bed), mirrors stare at each other. All the upholstery is white-satin brocade, slowly aging, soon to be replaced (by white-satin brocade). There is a husky odor of high-priced perfumes...
...Mae swings into the room like a parody of herself. Her favorite attire is a pale blue silk negligee which sets off the inhumanly blonde brilliance of her hair. She founders into a straight-backed chair as if it were a chaise longue. The maid brings ice, two glasses, a Haig & Haig pinchbottle. The second glass is pure courtesy; Mae West neither drinks nor smokes. But she talks likably and rather shyly...
...Mae's plays are called The Men in Her Life and Catherine Was Great. For a time Broadway Producer Michael Todd nibbled at Catherine Was Great. He turned it down, says Mae, because production costs would have been too high. In Hollywood Gregory Ratoff, Boris Morros and Samuel Bronston have also nibbled...
...Mae is quite pleased that the R.A.F. called their bulky lifebelts "Mae Wests" in honor of the outstanding feature of her anatomy. The term has made the dictionary. Says Mae: "Sort of makes me feel like I started a second front of my own. I've been in Who's Who, and I know what's what, but that's the first time Webster's given me the call...