RANSVESTIA

Thanks to Virginia, and all her co-workers and to Ann and Lisa, April is now out of the woods. I believe the future will see more of April than the past has. Let me say to you girls who are still in the dark to have hope and the courage of your convictions and desires and soon you too may be able to come out in the light. May God rest over all of you and I hope we may meet someday. - APRIL 5-L-15

NEWS AND NOTES

Most of you will remember the movie "Some Like It Hote" in which Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis spent almost the entire movie in dresses. It was, so I have read, the highest paying comedy of all time. Gender cross-overs have always been good for a somewhat self con- scious laff so I'm not surprised. Anyway for those of you near enough to New York to get to it, this movie has become a play.

Under the title of "Sugar" David Merrick is presenting it at the Ma- jestic Theater on 44th street. It stars Robert Morse and Tony Roberts in the original Lemmon and Curtis roles. According to the review in the New York Times, "Sugar" doesn't make it as a musical and should, so the reviewer said, have been left as a movie. However he also went on to say that "Morse is absolutely brilliant and Tony Roberts not far behind" So I guess it will be a Mecca for all FP tourists to N.Y. if it stays on the boards long enough. I have no idea whether it will eventually go on tour to the rest of the country.

Many of you will also have read or heard about the book "I Want What I want." This is the story of a young man who doesn't want to be a man and begins to live as a girl and eventually winds up with sex surgery. I haven't seen the movie but the comments and reviews I've seen say it is very well and tastefully done. For me some of the inter- est I might have otherwise had is dulled by the fact that the lead char- acter is played by a female, Anne Heywood I believe is her name. With a female playing the unhappy boy to begin with and then bursting forth into her own natural femininity after the "surgery" it is a little unfair from my point of view. She must be less able to play the unhappy boy to start with since she couldn't really "feel" for his cross gender feelings. And then after the change I don't really see how she could portray the wonder of the "New Woman" when she'd be playing a role that she'd been in all her life. But I imagine you'll all want to see it anyway.

Virginia