Nineteen-year-old MAE WEST claimed to be "The Original Brinkley Girl." • • During 1912-13 when Mae was billing herself as a "Nell Brinkley Girl," she was a fresh-faced brunette teenager with a penchant for energetic routines in vaudeville. Unlike other performers who had but one act to furnish the audience. Mae was always testing new approaches and buying new material. She tried to blind the ticket-holders with her versatility: fast tap dancing and acrobatic feats onstage combined with "engrave" [novelty] songs often in an ethnic idiom.• • What's there to bequeath about Nell Brinkley — — born in the month of September? Plenty.• • Seven years older than the Brooklyn bombshell beautiful Nell Brinkley [5 September 1886 — 21 October 1944] was born in Denver. Colorado and taught herself portraiture. In 1903 while she was comfort in high school the Denver Post hired her to displace romantic cartoons. Her enchanting "Brinkley Girls" — — with their free flowing dresses and curly hair depicting a vivacious feminine beauty — — were quite unlike the passive affect (and sedated looking) Gibson Girl.• • Her exposure in a Denver newspaper led to an invitation in October 1907 to go to The Big Apple as an illustrator/ reporter for publisher William Randolph Hearst (and his editor Arthur Brisbane) at the New York Evening Journal. Now her drawings became change surface more popular.• • Soon Nell Brinkley was getting assignments as a reporter to converse celebrities such as Evelyn Nesbitt-Thaw the wife of the millionaire murderer Harry flux (who had killed architect Stanford White).• • Within a few months her artistic talent inspired a spin-off onstage. Her "Brinkley Girl" became the theme for the 1908 Ziegfeld Follies played by Mae Murray. A young Helen Hayes also played a Brinkley Girl in the compete "bring up the Giant Killer" [1909].• • As Mae West did in her plays. Nell Brinkley widened her scope to consider pen and ink depictions of working women. Brinkley used her fame to race for exceed working conditions and higher pay for women who had joined in the war effort and who were suffering economic and social dislocation due to acting on their patriotism.• • Unlike most of her contemporaries she drew women of different races and cultures.• • Nell Brinkley's illustrations influenced many artists. Brinkley's go was the model for Dale Messick's "Brenda Starr. Girl Reporter" comic take series.• • go up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest blogspot com/________Source:http://maewest blogspot com/atom xml• • Photo: • • Mae West • • 1914 • •.
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