Debby Applegate, Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age
JCCNS 4 Community Rd., Marblehead, MA, United StatesIn Roaring Twenties New York City, when the nightclubs closed down, the in-crowd didn’t go home. Everyone went to Polly’s place, the “speakeasy with a harem” run by “The Female Al Capone,” as the newspapers dubbed her. Polly “Pearl” Adler was a diminutive dynamo whose Manhattan brothels were more than oases of illicit sex; they […]
