Mae West, Helen Kane & Hollywood
Reprinted from the memoirs of Michal Begun – …Then Rosenthal was invited out to Hollywood. Not everyone there was pleased with his penetrating eye, for he quickly modeled his figure of “Fame”, with a beautiful young woman riding on an old feeble, wry smiling horse! In the 1929 Hollywood Daily Citizen, Doris Denbo wrote: “…he saw in one glance the bleeding heart of Hollywood…the tragedy, vain glory, hollow mockery of fame…he built a pillar of black wax – a man and woman standing on the pinnacle of Hollywood success, their faces expressionless, vacant, blandly self-satisfied – each holding a mask ready to put on at any moment. Explained Rosenthal, those who achieve success in Hollywood must become efficient in masking their true emotions.”
