sentences:  Porter considered the score his best because of its worldliness and sexual sophistication.The musical was produced in London in 1933 and received its US premiere in 1982.Charles B. Cochran, the producer, bought the stage rights in 1933 to the book by James Laver, who was then a young author, poet, and Keeper at the Victoria and Albert Museum (and was to become a major curator of art and costumes).