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...Mae West, fat actress, was told to close Diamond Lil in Detroit last week because the play was "silly and stupid, holding no moral and teaching no lesson." Later Mayor John Christian Lodge relented, declared: "The show will be given a chance to revise itself...
...Lansing, Mich., courtroom last week Judge Charles B. Collingwood was sentencing Mrs. Etta Mae Miller. It had taken a jury of eight men and four women only 13 minutes to find her guilty. She was charged with having sold two pints of liquor. She was charged also with being a "habitual criminal," inasmuch as this last offense was her fourth. So to her said Judge Collingwood: "It is the sentence of this court that from and after this day you shall be confined in the Detroit House of Correction for the remainder of your life." In the same court...
...stars can write their own plays, though Noel Coward in This Year of Grace, Mae West in Diamond Lit and George M. Cohan, in past years, have been able to do so. Jane Cowl remains a better actress than a playwright. The Jealous Moon is so sweet that it excites a mental toothache...
...Squealer. Among the more spirited of Manhattan's antiquarians is Mark Linder; he wrote a play from which lamed Mae West evolved the picturesque excitement of Diamond Lil; now he has scratched up further blood and thunder about San Francisco's underworld, 22 years ago. It is a candid melodrama, of vice rampant and virtue triumphant; yet its most bitter climaxes are meant to be accepted and enjoyed in a somewhat mocking spirit. The audience will gloat, not shiver, when a character says: "I'll get you for this, Logan, if it takes me twenty years...
...room on wheels. She is not married but plots to get other people married. When Lindbergh visited Los Angeles, she was the only cinema star who entertained him. At parties she gives imitations of Lillian Gish (in suspense), Jetta Goudal (with horsehair), the Prince of Wales (fatigued), Mae Murray (lip) and herself. Two years ago, becoming 30, she turned comedian...