- When Mary Jane West, later the stage and film star Mae West (1893-1980), was growing up in Brooklyn and Queens she was known as “the German girl.” Her mother, Mathilde/Matilda West (née Delker), had been born on 8 December 1870, probably in the Kingdom of Württemberg, now part of the state of Baden-Württemberg in Germany.
nether do men lyght a cadell and put it vnder a busshell but on a candelstick and it lighteth all that are in the house.
Matthew 5:15 TYN