138: Mae West (Fake News: Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 12)
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The Impetus to Write a Play Like Sex
The impetus to write a play like sex, about a worker in a brothel who rises from the lowest rung of her profession to the top of high society. There came from a night when may observed a street walker strolling down the water front on the west side of manhattan with two sail s,. The woman's clothes were cheap and ratty, but she was wearing a brand new hat, which may assumed had been freshly purchased by one of her two sailor. She wanted to use the lure of a play about a lady of the evening to tell an horatio alger story about a woman. In other words, sex wasn't about sex as much as it was about money
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