Mae West: A Dirty Sheet

MAE WEST 's quotes and comments about her personal life can turn up in the oddest articles. But this column, with its odd lead-in to Mae West, is more peculiar than most.
• • Book Reviewer Illtyd Harrington writes: MAE West, the high priestess of the subject, wrote a play a long time ago called Sex. The city fathers were outraged, banned it, and threw Miss West into the nearest jailhouse.
• • The writer, philosopher and politician Arthur Koestler kept a diary listing 200 to 300 women whom he had taken to bed. At one time he was conducting five contemporaneous affairs — — only three were within matrimony.
• • But unlike Miss West he went to jail and was sentenced to death for his political activities. Koestler was a sado­masochist in his sexual life.
• • This short, sturdy man was born on September 5, 1905, into a prosperous Jewish family in Budapest. He died as part of a suicide pact with his obedient wife, Cynthia, on March 1, 1983, in . . . .
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• • Book Review by ILLTYD HARRINGTON
• • Published in: Camden New Journal — — www.camdennewjournal.com/
• • Published on: 18 March 2010
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• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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