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Playbill Vault's Today In Theatre History: April 26 by David Gewirtzman and Anne Bradley and Ernio Hernandez

1926 Sex. It's a comedy. Mae West plays a Canadian woman with no time for those mountees; it's the British navy for her. It runs through one season, but the following it is raided as immoral. The cast is arrested and West, who also co-produced, is sentenced to 10 days in jail and is fined $500. A well-received off-off-Broadway revival in 2000 proved that the show still had laughs and a unique …

SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM on April 26, 2015

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