TOM T. CHAMALES COLIN MACINNES

TERESKA TORRES ARTEMIS SMITH CHET KINSEY

SHELDON LORD

JOE WEISS & RALPH

DEAN

CAL ANTON

GO NAKED IN THE WORLD ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS

THE GOLDEN CAGE THE THIRD SEX KATE

69 BARROW STREET

ANYTHING GOES

THE FRIVATE LIFE OF A

STRIP-TEASE GIRL

SCRIENER'S✶

MACGIBBON & KEE* (LONDON)

DIAL*

BEACON

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TOWER

BEDSIDE ECCKS

BEACON

Lesbos on Vinylite

By Forrest J. Ackerman

The essence of Lesbiana has been lacquered! An LP (for Lesbian's Prayer) that would surely have set the heart of Sappho singing! A hallowed half hour that transports the empathetic listener backward thru time and space to fabled Mytilene, capital city of Lesbos in the 6th century B.C., as the sapphire needle strikes sapphic sparks from the microgrooves of the hi-fi recording #112 of Collector's Records, called:

3 Oboli to Aphrodite!

The lutes of Lesbos, the flutes and the Aeolian harps meld in a melodic background that charms the ear as the eyes go wide to hear the spoken declaration: "Why I have become Lesbian." And the answer: "Oh, Bilitis, thou asked it."

These are poems of the passion of woman for woman es sensitively revealed by Pierre Louys, chronicler of the Sapphic sisterhood's secret heart-trysts, recorded with imagination, daring and warmth. A dozen years ago when, seeking the valence of Radclyffe Hall, I composed "The Night You Were Wed" and "My Friend, the Night" for THE

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