Modern Screen (Feb - Oct 1933 (assorted issues))

Modern Screen 'Which S/K/e of STA-RITE, I shou ld YOU use ?J something different." And the sensational play "Sex," which she wrote her-, self and in which she played a harlot, was the result. Mae gets her material in strange ways. One night she was coming into her hotel when another guest at the hotel — a man who had had a bit of a past himself — said to her, "You know, when you wear all those diamonds (the ones, incidentally, that were stolen in Hollywood) you remind me of an old sweetheart of mine who had more rocks than any gal I ever knew. Come to think of it — you look like her when you put your head down and sort of look up through your eyelashes with that hot look." "Yeah?" said Mae, "Who was your friend?" "They called her 'Diamond Lil.' " AND that's how Mae got the idea A for her greatest success. Diamond Lil was a real character of the 'nineties —as beautiful as Lillian Russell and much more spectacular. Mae didn't know whether she could play a 'nineties belle or not. Her mother told her she'd have to put on a lot more weight. At the time she tipped the scales at just 110. "So I ate my head off," said Mae, "and opened in 'Diamond Lil' weighing 130." "Sex" had been running on Broadway for some time before the law decided that it was offensive. So Mae was summoned to appear in court. Also there was the little matter of a play called "The Drag" which she had authored but in which she did not star. Later she wrote and produced "Pleasure Man" and the city of New York wanted to see her about that, too. She appeared in court smiling and swapped wisecrack for wisecrack with the city fathers. All during the time of her extremely spectacular Broadway success don't imagine that there weren't men in her life. Mae knows plenty about men. And then along came a lad whose last name is Timony. He's a brunette gentleman who wears a derby hat, smokes big black cigars and doesn't mind getting hard-boiled when the occasion demands. You'll see him around back stage or wherever Mae is. He gives her plenty of good advice and Mae has liked him in a big way for a couple of years now. Timony is. what is known as a character. Yessir, it's men that Mae knows best — and men who like her best, in Hollywood she found she got on much better with the men than the women. Women sort of resent Mae. They know her reputation. They know what kind of roles she has played and when Mae comes into the room all the nice little Hollywood girls cast anxious glances at their boy friends and decide it's about time to go home. For Mae speaks a man's language. She loves prizefights and things like that. Hollywood had never seen anything quite like her. She's so doggone honest and sincere and real and — well — just what she is, Mae West. I asked her if the roles she played didn't make people misunderstand her ■ — make them think she, herself, was that sort of woman. "Certainly!" said Mae. And then I asked her what she did to counteract that impression. "Well, I'll tell you," she said. _ "I don't try to change anybody's opinion. A person who is interested in the sort of woman I characterize likes it a lot better if he thinks I'm that sort, too. And people who are not interested in women like that — well, they're just not interested at all. So I just don't bother. "People can get any sort of impression about me they want to have. And I'm still not doing so bad !" Want to Be Like Kay? (Continued from page 43) Ford— and sails quite a big boat. As for her dislikes, they seem to include fittings — and this from a woman who wears lovely clothes more beautifully, I think, than anyone on the screen — interviewers, yet she was charming to me, and posing for pictures and portraits. I am telling you all this because peoples' likes and dislikes are sometimes keys to their personalities. But it isn't enough to like and dislike the same things as Kay Francis in order to be like her. To be like her, you must be vital. You must be interested in strange people and strange places, you must be ready to embrace change and adventure when they come your way. You must be ready for new fields of endeavor. Think of the variety and changes of her life. From schoolgirl to secretary, and from secretary to stage and screen ! You must be alive, every inch of you, and you must be adaptable. You must be a hard worker. Only a hard worker could have accomplished as much in a time as comparatively short. You must have a sense of humor, which laughs with others, and at yourself. There is a difference, you know. Kay Francis has humor which is like a clear cold spring of water, but not too cold ; sun warmed, let us say. It ripples back of her laughter, and the light in her sea-gray eyes — stormy eyes, I think. It is very refreshing. I ASKED her what quality in people appealed to her most. She told me promptly but thoughtfully, simplicity. 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