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SUSANNA SAYS---

From New York

Just as your Editor says she didn't know what she was getting into when she started TRANSVESTIA, so I can truly say I never dreamed I was getting into super-calossal head- aches with the CHEVALIER D'ECN Resort. The funny part of it is that none of the problems have been the social-frown, legal tsk tsk type one might expect with a venture primar- ily dedicated to "the unconventionals" of society. On the contrary, everything has gone smoothly on that aspect of the operation. The biggest trouble, surprisingly enough, is to get TV's to come to the place.

I have spent hundreds of hours at the telephone and as many at the typewriter explaining and encouraging TV's and other unconventionals to avail themselves of the opportunity to be themselves in friendly and understanding surroundings without fear of prying eyes and arched eyebrows. Somehow, when the time comes to make a definite committment, most TV's have backed out. They tell me over the phone and in deliriously exciting letters how much they have dreamed of a place such as the CHEVALIER D'EON, how often they have wished to be able to share with others the thrilling world of turnabout, how they would have given anything to be able to spend at least TWO FULL DAYS as the woman that lurks inside their personalities....you never heard such enthus- iasm, such eagerness. They could hardly wait for the Summer season to start so they could make the trip....over 200 of them...determined no matter what, to live a few hours or days at the CHEVALIER in their adored skirts. That was the picture, and naturally my plans were forged accordingly. Still while this is being written on the eve of July 4th not even 10 TVs have taken advantage of THEIR HAVEN.

So....the entire project has been diluted into almost nothingness, and to avoid a terrific financial loss, the CHEVALIER D'EON is now open again to "the conventional va- cationists" who, fortunately enough, seem to be enjoying immensely our female impersonator show. The very few TVs