MAE WEST “GOOD” AND GENEROUS

Taranaki Daily News, 15 September 1934, Page 15 (Supplement)

MAE WEST “GOOD” AND GENEROUS

Is Church-Goer, And Neither

Smokes Nor Drinks

NEW YORK CLERGYMAN’S REAL LIFE IMPRESSION

MAE WEST, the film star, is an angel—off the screen, at least. 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 aclittle 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. 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 the hardest working people in the world. They have to keep fit or they die. “The world pictures them living a wild, gay life. Actually they are plain people and do not make enormous fortunes. ,

“I have been locum tenens for four months every year at the ‘little church.’ George Arliss, Anita Stewart, Constance and Joan Bennett and their father, are some of the stage folk I knew there.”