GIRL-MAN

Evening Star, Issue 20263, 26 August 1929, Page 16

GIRL-MAN

AMAZING MASQUERADE

POPULAR TENOR.

NA6HVILLR (Tennessee), August 3, Handsome and popular Hob Goehenauer, •vhose, silvery tenor has thrilled millions over the radio, is. being sought by Ellen Tomlinson, a ; pretty brunette, whose, strict home life led her to masquerade as a man. Her disappearance reveals America’s strangest case of dual sex personality. The fifth of six daughters, Ellen was born ’in Philadelphia twenty-eight years ago. Her parents wanted a son desperately, and, for somo curious reason, her peevish father always applied homo rules more strictly against her than her sisters. ■ As she grew to iv lauhood she loved to masquerade'as a ' man. She was mannish in deportment, and wore a man’s shirt over hor broad shoulders. HAD A FIANCE P. At the ago of twenty she eloped, had one daughter, loft her husband, and soon was working as a truck driver, calling herself Bill Delaney. About a year ago an angel-faced youth named Bob Goehenauer began to attract attention as a tenor, singing in the movies. When the crack singers from various churches banded together and organised' a choir of sixteen to sing over the radio, they enlisted Bob, who paid violent court to one of tho girls in the choir. At a recent picnic, however, the girls began to suspect that their tenor singer was one of their own sex. Then it was discovered that Bob, after the radio concerts, changed to feminine attire and worked as a hostess at a road house. Bob’s fiancee broke off the engagement, and investigators, calling where Boh lived, found Ellen smoking a cigiiretbo. Calmly she admitted her masquerade, but when the investigators went away lo deoido on their course -of action Ellen disappeared.