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Goin' to Town (Paramount). She Done Him Wrong, the first picture in which Mae West was starred, was her funniest. I'm No Angel made the most money, $3,000,000. The cleanest was Belle of the Nineties, at the height of last summer's Legion of Decency Campaign. Goin' to Town is the only one which deals with the contemporary scene but, aside from this detail, it is distinguished mainly by the strictness with which it adheres to the basic West formula which, as the constant element in all four of her productions...
...West formula has been its success. Dubious Paramount executives two years ago allowed her a contract for a percentage of her pictures' profits as well as a salary. When her first pictures were an enormous hit, Hollywood labeled her a fad, but instead of declining like most fads, Mae West ceased to be one, became a U. S. institution. Goin' to Town, unlikely to increase or diminish her prestige as America's sweethot, should delight those of Actress West's admirers who are especially entranced by her facility in making a stale gag seem fresh...
...Manhattan, Broadway reporters picked up the trail of a Frank Wallace who played the part of a Bowery singing waiter in Mae West's Diamond Lil in 1928, learned he had died two years ago. Actor Wallace's picture zipped over 3,000-mi. of telephone wire to Hollywood. Mae West: "Yes, I remember that face. But I was never married to anybody." ¶Manhattan newshawks rooted up an-other Frank Wallace in a theatrical hotel with his dancing partner, Trixie La Mae. Readily Hoofer Wallace admitted it was he who had married Mae West in Milwaukee. Hearst...
...Houston, Tex., the Press found a 1924 marriage license obtained but never used by Actress Mae West and a local theatre pressagent named Burmeister. Mae West, infuriated: "This thing is going too far. That makes nine guys this year that I've been married to. It's a lousy publicity gag, and I'm not getting anything...
...Gleefully the Press printed each bit of circumstantial evidence, each fiery retort. But one important bit of Myrtle Sands's discovery, Mae West could not deny: the names of the bride's parents in the Milwaukee certificate-John West and Matilda Dilker-were indeed the names of the parents of America's Sweethot...