Mae West, asked by a reporter from Yank how she felt about the pasting the critics had given her show, Catherine Was Great (TIME, Aug. 14), gave a forthright reply:
"I never read 'em. I'm a constructive kinda person. Don't believe in readin' destructive kinda trash. The way I figger is those critics came up against a play that was so fine, so sincere, so puhfick they knew there wasn't anything they could write in praise would add to it. So they went off and panned it. See what I mean?"
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