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1 day ago · Polly Adler. Notorious for her connections with gangsters at the height of Prohibition, Polly Adler fought to become “the best goddam madam in all America.” Though frequently arrested, Adler was undeterred from opening fancy brothels and rubbing elbows with the rich and famous in and around New York City. Donate. Listen to Our Podcast.
Sep 24, 2024 · Polly Adler (1900 – 1962) was born in Yanow on the Russian/Polish border in 1900, immigrated to New York City in 1912. She was an American madam and author of Russian-Jewish origin, best known for her work A House Is Not a Home, which was posthumously adapted into a film of the same name.
Sep 12, 2024 · Polly Adler wearing her first, fabulous mink coat, strolling the boardwalk in Atlantic City in 1924 with a pal. Photo from the Polly Adler Collection courtesy of Eleanor Vera. A fter three years of Prohibition, by the summer of 1923, New York City’s underworld was booming.
Sep 23, 2024 · The new book, The Bishop and the Butterfly (Union Square & Co.) by Michael Wolraich is a captivating deep dive into the investigation of Vivian Gordon’s murder and the...
Sep 7, 2024 · Ex-Musiker, spielte in der Steinzeit des Radios das erste Unplugged-Set im FM4-Studio. Der Szene noch immer sehr verbunden. Versucht musikalisches Schubladendenken zu vermeiden, ist an Klassik ebenso interessiert wie an Dance, Hip-Hop, Rock oder Pop.
5 days ago · Polly Adler steht als Chaos-de-luxe-Kolumnistin auf dem satirischen Beobachtungsposten von Alltags-Irrsinn, Beziehungs-Herausforderungen und Brutpflege. Hinter dem Pseudonym versteckt sich die Wiener Journalistin Angelika Hager. Aus Polly Adlers verrückter Welt entstanden inzwischen acht Bücher, eine TV-Serie und diverse Bühnen-Shows ...
4 days ago · Q & A with Debby Applegate. Debby Applegate won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Biography for The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher (Doubleday). She’s at work now on Madam: The Notorious Life and Times of Polly Adler, forthcoming from Knopf.
