MAE WEST GOOD GIRL

Taranaki Daily News, 14 September 1934, Page 12

MAE WEST GOOD GIRL

CHURCHGOER; TEETOTALLER.

CLERGYMAN’S IMPRESSIONS.

Canon John S. Mitchell, brother of the late Bishop of Aberdeen, and assistant rector of New York's famous place of worship for actors and actresses

—“the little church round the corner”— has returned to Scotland after 25 years abroad, to take charge for a time of a church at Newton, near Glasgow, Says a Scottish paper. Miss Mae West is a member, of his congregation when she is in New York, and this is what Canon Mitchell says of her: “She is a good soul—a charming and generous woman. She attends church frequently, and off the screen she neither smokes nor drinks.

“She is a good, hard-working human

! being, and that is what nearly all the stage and screen stars are. They are th* hardest working people in the worM. They have to keep fit or they di®, “The world pictures them living a wild, gay life. Actually they are plsd" people and do not make enormoua SMJv tunes. “I have been locum tenens for four months every year at the ‘little chufeSfc* George Arliss, Anita Stewart, ConsUß«* and Joan Bennett and their father, are some of the stage folk I know there."