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and Club 82. But there are, I'm sure other spots which may have less pretentious shows and where visitors might be welcomed in dress. I remember encountering one such place outside Washington after the war, and it was great. I have a substantial wardrobe, including several good wigs, and have enjoyed wearing the costumes on many occasions. Ferhaps 30 or 40 times a year there are OCC- asions when I can be dressed.

Your magazine could be helpful to all of us if it could tell when the major balls around the country are held--the ones to which persons in dress are admitted. Where one might write for tickets and at what price. There is usually one such ball in Minneapolis around Halloween--but I do not know the persons who plan it. There are some balls in New Yor, but usually the first word I have of them is after the event when Variety writes of them.

P. Minneapolis

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(The Ed thinks these ideas would be good too, but as Ed I have to depend on my reporters to supply the infor- mation as I have no means of knowing myself. Little things like this would make TVia newsy and interesting. How about it. If you were all reporters this would be quite a mag. and your Ed would be even busier than he is) Dear Ed: Shades of Joanne, Louise, Cathy, et. al.! So someone has finally resurrected "TRANSVESTIA" from her long neglected grave and proposes to breath the breath of life into her. More power to him, or them. As the proud possessor of the first two copies of a mimeographed Mag that sprouted under that name, lc these many moons ago, I am indeed interested in seeing something of the kind put forth a few branches and bloom again.

L.M. Minnesota

(L.M. sent three names, one I had, one other subscribed and one did not. Thanks for the help. Incidentally Joanne is alive but sick, Louise is in England, and Cathy had THE operation and lives in No. Calif.--Ed)