Word: rowena
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kollmar) reached Broadway last week after tangling with censorship in Boston, where the show's locale was hastily changed from a Martinique bordello to a gambling casino. In Manhattan the producer decided to gamble on the bordello. Without it - since the point of the story is that Madame Rowena's establishment is mis taken for a girl's school - the plot could hardly have unwound, which might have been a very good thing. For, without letup, the book grinds its spurs into its one spavined joke from a starting post of tastelessness to a finish line...