Cutie: A Warm Mamma

by Maxwell Bodenheim and Ben Hecht

“Cutie”, on which we collaborated and which appeared in the Times, is a satire on[Pg 8] ultra-prudish hypocritical censors and assailers of sexual candor and incisiveness in literary and pictorial work—both official and amateur apostles of so-called cleanliness and righteousness, whose whitewash brushes directed against truthful exposures bear not the slightest resemblance to soap-laden wash-cloths which remove actual dirt from skin.