origin of slur--horizontal Oriental vagina

[sagehen]

>I recall a passage from a book by H. Allen Smith, I assume one of his
>earliest -- Life in a Putty Knife Factory (1943) or Low Man on a
>Totem-Pole (1944) or Lost in the Horse Latitudes (1944).  (Seems to me
>there was another, from '41 or 42, but I forget the title.)  Smith had
>been a NYC newspaperman in the '30s, specializing in celebrities and
>eccentrics.  He tells a story of attending a press conference with a
>famous Chinese-American actress, presumably Anna May Wong, in the course
>of which she answers an unasked question by saying "No, it isn't".  I
>don't recall haw he alludes to the unspoken antecedent of "it".
>
>I own a couple of his books, incl. Low Man but not Horse Latitudes, and
>can check them this weekend.
>
>GAT
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Wasn't /Sex Life of the Date Palm/ also one of H. Allen Smith's?
A. Murie