Theater

How Mae West’s Play ‘Sex’ Scandalized Broadway—and Landed Her in Jail

GREAT AMERICAN SCANDALS

When, in a fit of moral panic, the New York authorities decided to make an example of Mae West and her Broadway play “Sex,” she opined, “I expect this will be the making of me.”

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