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...inhabitants of New York City, ''Diamond LiP' means only one thing and that is a smart, scheming, successful harlot. Mae West, buxom actress, is chiefly responsible for making this meaning a household word. Her play, Diamond Lil, in which she performs the leading role of a dive-keeper's mistress, has been a smash-hit on Broadway since early spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hearst v. Smith | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

DIAMOND LIL-A sight-seeing tour of the old Bowery, with Mae West as the principal attraction (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Best Plays in Manhattan: Jul. 16, 1928 | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

DIAMOND LIL?Starring the wild and woolly Mae West (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Plays in Manhattan: Jul. 9, 1928 | 7/9/1928 | See Source »

...Born. To Mae Murray, cinemactress, and David M'Divani, Prince of Georgia, a son; 16 months ago, in Los Angeles. Said Prince M'Divani: "We had thought to keep the fact a secret ... because of the effect it might have on my wife's career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 2, 1928 | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

...perhaps unnecessary for Albert Carroll and Dorothy Sands to make their burlesques in The Grand Street Follies of 1928 quite so hilariously exact as they did. The former simultaneously played Mrs. Fiske with the right side of his face and Ethel Barrymore with the left; Dorothy Sands played Mae West in Romeo and Juliet. Other impudent imitations were offered by Paula Trueman who appeared successively as Haidee Wright, Eva LeGallienne, and Helen Hayes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jun. 11, 1928 | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

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