Hi, everybody:

Susanna Says

Spring is here and with it what seems to be a promising TV season. The phone has started to ring and old and new TV's are waking up from a long Winter's slumber. The biggest problem so far is the new skirt length. No matter how we slice it the knee is defin- itely showing and that is bad, bad news for most TV's. I wonder if Frederick's of Hollywood is going to come up with some form of knee padding to achieve that "dimpled look" which we just don't have. Or else we could try putting on weight, maybe some of it just might decide to settle around the knee. Or again, we might say "so what" and enjoy the new short lengths, knobbiness and all.

For those who have written to me regarding the progress of my face-plucking, the report is good. I have not shaven in exactly 14 months, but I hate to tell you the number of extra hours this situation has forced me to spend with one eye at the magnifying glass and the tweezer roaming over my face. It's almost a daily chore since the beard insists in pop- ping out. True, many many hairs have turned white, (some nasty gals might say that's because I'm getting along in years, which is definitely not true) but those must also be plucked. The only consolation is that pain has completely vanished and with a medium colored base (Cover Girl) plus a medium colored pressed-powder (also Cover Girl) I complete my make- up without any problems of dark shadows lurking beneath it all.

Francesca, from San Francisco, sent me clippings from the S. F. Chronicle regarding a fascinating case in which a chap by the name of Robert Heller who goes by the name of Diana Summers was "read" and arrested and charged with "wilfully and wrongfully, with the

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