RANSVESTIA

It doesn't take much effort to recall the scores of Leading "Ladies" who assumed the male role to guide make-believe business empires and dazzle the gents with their cool-eyed, emotionless approach.

Who could storm through the offices better than ROZ RUSSELL? Who could out-tough an icy-hearted city editor more convincingly than BARBARA STANWYCK?

What was beneath these characters?

Is it, as Tyler says, "that all strenuous efforts by womanhood to find equity with men produce an explicit moral masculinization of the fe- male? If, on the other hand, the modus vivendi of women be to dis- courage femininity as a specific occupation, then they are automatically masculinizing themselves, racing towards a sober-sense unisex.

As the motion picture captures the times more vividly than any other medium, it is of more than passing interest to note that ttansvestism has had its place. We might wish for more; but it is important to note that the number of portrayals of TV-ism in the negative have been min- imal. There is hope that the future will deal us an even more favorable life on the silver screen.

The recent British production of "I WANT WHAT I WANT,” though it dealt with a trans-sexual, was certainly sympathetic.

Perhaps as a reminder to future film-makers, Mr. Tyler speaks again, "With proper humility, controversialists of sex must realize that society is a vast complex of deceptive appearances known as 'CONVEN- TIONS'."

When there is less need to fortify these conventions, what can be the future attitude towards TV's? Will there be a day when the emphasis on convention is no longer in style? How close are we now?

I was tremendously impressed to find such a thorough and sympathetic commentary on this aspect of our life in such a general treatise.

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