RUN INTO THE SUNSET, RUN OFF A CLIFF, BUT, PLEASE, DON'T TELL ME ABOUT IT

Frank Deford

June 05, 1978

In 1930, Robert Benchley wrote, "I am now definitely ready to announce that Sex, as a theatrical property, is as tiresome as the Old Mortgage, and that I don't want to hear it mentioned again. I am sick of rebellious youth and I am sick of Victorian parents and I don't care if all the little girls in all sections of the United States get ruined or want to get ruined or keep from getting ruined. All I ask is, don't write plays about it and ask me to sit through them."