RANSVESTIA

Nadine had stopped at the door. She turned, a sarcastic smile on her thin lips. "You didn't like the extra money, eh, Ace?” she asked.

Ace glared back at her, the eyebrow pencil working overtime on his eyebrows.

Nadine looked over towards Lisa and Babe. "If you don't want your hair done," she glanced down the line of partly-clad, feminized men, "any of you, darlings, I have a few more ... uh . . . persons to interview tomorrow about replacements. Besides," she paused, found Clinton's anxious face, and was suddenly serious, "it'll mean more money for you all if you do." Then she was gone.

Mille didn't have too hard a time with washing out and setting the boy's hair in curlers under driers. Ace, as usual, objected to every- thing so that his manicure was not a success. Not even David Rennick, however, expected to lose almost all of his eyebrows. After Millie combed out the hot perm, he couldn't believe his eyes. The two changes had altered him almost beyond recognition. Even without makeup, he was a girl. He looked at the others, and saw that they were the same.

While Babe giggled on about how beautiful they all were, even Lisa was quiet and nervous as they got ready for the first show. As they moved along the wings, David heard wolf whistles from the stage hands, the first he'd ever heard. When he dropped a glove, a husky electrician came running over to pick it up for him. The big worker smiled at him. "You look great," he said, giving David a wink.

With the boys giving their best and most authentic performance in the two Saturday shows, the girls as boys seemed to give their worst. Even Rosalie, usually so wicked, so leeringly convincing as the miso- gynist-chauvinist, had no zip. Her pinches on David's derriere were just gentle pats compared to the way she usually liked to taunt him.

"What's wrong?" David asked Cindy as the two sat on a swing-her arm about him-his hand cuddled onto her shoulder just like an attractive girl.

"You're all so ... so... real!" David felt a tear touch his cheek.

"Hey!" he said, trying not to interrupt Babe's new number, the one