![]() ![]() Kaufman (who had a house account), Robert Benchley and their fellow Round Table star, Dorothy Parker. She played hostess to the legendary Broadway bohemians who gathered at the Algonquin Hotel like George S. She cultivated an atmosphere that was more clubhouse than cathouse and her ironclad discretion was appreciated by everyone from Park Avenue aristocrats like Jock Whitney, Alfred Vanderbilt and Roger Kahn - to Lower East Side hooligans. 'As Madam Polly, the proprietress of 'New York's most opulent bordello,' society came to me,' she said. During a time when most women earned $30-a-week, Polly pulled in $60,000 yearly ($900,000 in today's money). Her goal was to become 'the best god*** madam in all America,' and she succeeded wildly. Her brothels became a favorite oasis for Manhattan's culturati and café society to mingle with showbiz elites, politicians, crooked cops, bootleggers and every gangster of the underworld. 'It was an age of miracles, it was an age of art, it was an age of excess.' At the center of it all, was Polly Adler, New York City's most infamous and influential madam of the Jazz Age. ![]()
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