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...Diamond Lil-MAE WEST SEEN IN EAST SIDE SIN-DIVE...
...DIAMOND LIL-Mae West in a chryselephantine interpretation of an easy lady from the old East side (TIME, April 23). FUNNY...
Also DIAMOND LIL (for Mae West erners), THE SCARLET...
...Diamond Lil. Propped up under the armpits by a dress that might have been designed by the stage carpenter, Mae West played the role that she had written about a bygone queen of Manhattan's underworld. Diamond Lil was a harlot whose heart was as big and golden as the enormous swan shaped bed that stood in her elaborate cubicle above Gus Jordan's saloon and brothel. None the less, she was hardboiled; when a Salvation Army captain came to save her soul, she planned to seduce him and when a lady threatened a double cross, Diamond Lil...
...eloquent and minatory calm, which contrasts well with the chryselephantine magnificence of her appearance. There are oldtime tough songs, outmoded slang words ("moll," "dick," "corset"), and singing waiters, one of whom yodels, in the musty barroom, the same song with which he recently amused Manhattan cabaret patrons. Diamond Lil is an entertaining melodrama...