PLENTY OF FAME

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 168, 20 July 1935, Page 14

PLENTY OF FAME

STAR ASKED FOR LOANS REQUESTS TO MAE WEST Here is a new aspect on the “fan** .public enthusiastic “boosters” for the motion picture stars. Typical of an average day, Mae West’s mail for one day brought requests for gifts and “loans” that reached over £20,000, the star's secretary revealed. A resident of Texas asked .for £12,000 to open an oil well. He “guaranteed” Miss West, the glamorous Mae, a prolit. Something like £5OOO was needed by a man in Illinois, who said he wanted to finance a baseball team. Two men in Davenport, lowa, wanted to start a dairy farm and asked the star to advance £lOOO. An enterprising youth in Lancaster, Pasadena, desirous of studying medicine, asked for the loan of £5OO to put him through college. A former owner

of a machine shop in Pueblo desired to start in business once again and could realise this desire if a loan of £2OOO could be made. Then a widow in Ottawa, Kansas, wished to start in the restaurant business and expressed the thought that Alias West would make it possible for her to earn a living as a restaurateur. She thought £5OO would do it. Mae’s new picture, by the way, is entitled “Now I’m a Lady.” Forffepo the wag who first added; Let’s 1 ’£ so!