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At this point the plumber said what the and got back into his truck and drove away. "Now he finished saying--what kind of a mysterious going on was that?" Naturally Marie and I professed to be very much baffled at the discourteous behaviour of those ladies but suggested that they probably belonged to a group of foreign visitors who were part of the convention and probably were not used to being approached by strangers. This pacified the plumber and I can report to you that he is happily disconnecting pipes and pumps and closing down the place for the Winter. -We must, must, must develop some sort of a technique so that we can talk at least in the contralto range. Baritones voices must go, otherwise we are going to lose plumbers by the dozen.

Among the many amusing anecdotes which took place I can report the answer given to Margie (I guess it was Margie) by the gas station man at the village when she asked him the location of the resort. (You see Margie has a tendency to getting lost.) When Marie's name was mentioned, the gas station attendant smiled and said "Oh yes, I know the place. Marie's husband is the one who is some sort of an actress. As you see we do cause some confusion among the poor mem- bers of our society!!

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At this point I must make an apology to our Chicago friends. It was my intention to have a Mistress of Ceremonies--and the one who had committed herself to the job had been rehearsing her part for about 3 or 4 weeks. She just didn't show up and up to this moment I have not even heard from her as to why she left us holding the bag. (And I don't mean by bag any of our lovely friends who so graciously consented to pitch in and help out in our predicament- as a matter of fact our MC as it turned out was terrific and I'll never be able to thank her enough). Another apology has to do with several extra num- bers we had planned but did not materialize. We had thought of some comic bits to spice up the proceedings which will have to wait for an- other time. Our Chicago MC plus Fiona and Irene's ballet number really hit the spot. All of this proves that we must never lose sight of the fact that transvestism is not only a marvellous state of being but also a source of fun and a perfect vehicle to express good humor. Did you notice how much laughter and good natured kidding went on at all times? There were a couple of exceptions to this rule- and I must say that I felt sorry that bitter belicosity had to be injected into such a pleasant atmosphere. TVism is not the place for fights-- TVism is good natured, soft, tender, kind, pretty, friendly, wonderfully dreamy and has no place for bitterness roughness or anger. Let's leave that to our "other selves" huh? Of course I admit that muscles do come in handy. Did any of you see around 2 o'clock in the morning

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