Chicago Adult Entertainment: The Boobs and Sally Rand (7-19-1933)

The audience didn’t really see much of Rand’s body.  But the whole premise was pretty daring for 1933.  Now Judge Joseph B. David was hearing a petition to stop the performances.
Attorney Jay J. McCarthy represented the plaintiff.  He called Rand’s act “lewd and lascivious.”  She was a threat to public morality.  Such entertainment didn’t belong at a wholesome, family-friendly place like the World’s Fair.
Judge David didn’t agree.  He refused to summon Rand to his court.  And he wasn’t interested in seeing her act, for any reason.  “I’ve never been down there and I don’t want to go,” he said.  “I go where there’s a good glass of beer.”
McCarthy pleaded that Chicago’s youth were being corrupted.  But Judge David cut him off.  There was no need to over-react.  “Lots of people in this community would like to put pants on horses,” the judge declared.  Rand was dancing–she wasn’t running a house of prostitution. 

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