The picture opens with her dying in her car of some mysterious and never explained ailment. The ambulance takes her to a local mortuary where the mortician, being a necrophiliac (lover of corpses) among other things, lecherously leers over the body preparatory to doing his "thing." As he pulls away the blouse he finds a flat chest which disap- points him mightily and he then pulls away the lower garments to make a further disappointing discovery. However, so it shouldn't be a total loss as the old story says, he makes a little gravy by telling the startling news to reporters and the story breaks. All the rest of the pic- ture then is devoted to flashbacks as to how the various people in her life came to know her and how they take the shock of learning the truth. During her reign as a movie queen she has adopted a son who is about 20 or so at the time of his/her death. The most dramatic moment in the picture is when he says, "I don't care what she was, I loved my mother." This most anyone can identify with.
As for Dinah herself, I felt the acting was rather stiff and unreal not just in the way that an amateur actress would play it but in the special way that one would expect a drag queen or impersonator to perform when faced with the task of really have to portray a real female and not the caricature and burlesque of a woman which they usually do. There is just a certain stiffness and unfamiliarity with the role that seemed somehow even different than would be the case if you just took a man and put him in a woman's role. The costuming and general get ups were pretty good most of the picture but in several scenes it was my feeling that she wasn't too convincing, at least I could read her, but maybe I'm either too prejudiced or too knowledgeable about males in dresses. But in any case go see the show if it comes your way, it's inter- esting and kind of fascinating when you know the heroine is a hero in reality.
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A NEW NOVELLETTE NOW AVAILABLE
I take this means of letting you know that we have another new novellette titled, "It's All In The Family" — 39 pages, $3 like the other medium length stories. As I have written before I can't afford to print large runs and then hold them over a period of years. Thus I'm printing only 400 copies of this story and the others like the Martin to Marion series so if you want any of them order now and don't delay. TVia is- sues are available for months and sometimes years after printing but these are not going to be so get with it. The sooner one is sold out the sooner the money has accumulated to do the next.
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