The Christine Jorgenson Story: For this one I refer you to the earlier article.

There are two of what I call "semis." They're not really FP scenes, but they're not non-FP scenes either.

Goodbye Charlie: In this a playboy is reincarnated as a girl. Now all of the FPism takes place in the viewer's mind since Debbie Reynolds plays the reincarnatee.

White Christmas: If NBC holds true to form, you can catch this one every year. Danny Kaye and Bing Crosby roll up their pant legs and put on some jewelry to sing a number called "Sisters" while the GGs get away from some police.

See why I call them "semis"?

A final word about television shows. There have been FP scenes in a number of shows from Laugh-In to Mission: Impossible. Once I even saw an FP scene in an old Superman show.

The problem is that the television shows are on a hit or miss basis. Even if you watch reruns closely, it is hard to know in advance which show to watch because many of the individual shows of a series are untitled.

About the only thing you can do is watch for performers who often dress for one reason or another. Flip Wilson's "Geraldine" is a fairly regular feature of his show. Danny Kay and Milton Berle are two others who sometimes show up in an FP segment. Other than that you just have to keep your fingers (polished, of course) crossed, girls.

Editors Review: I recently had the opportunity to see the new movie titled "DINAH EAST" in which the female lead is played by a male. It is naturally interesting to FPs because of this and I must say that it is pretty well done as far as sets and the other characterizations are concerned. They had a $700,000 budget which while not high as pic- tures go was nevertheless a fair piece of change to spend when there were no big name people involved. It is, however, no great shakes as far as drama is concerned. If it had been done by a large studio it would still be a "B" picture because the whole thing revolves around the fact that the heroine a famous movie actress - dies and turns out to have been a male all the time.

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