GIRL-MAN

Hokitika Guardian, 20 August 1929, Page 7

GIRL-MAN

AMAZING MASQUERADE.

NASHVILLE (Ten.), Augusts

Handsome and popular Bob Gochennuer, whose silvery tenor has thrilled millions over the radio ,is being sought as Ellen Totnliusotl, a pretty brunette whose strict home life led her to masquerade ns a man. V, • Her disappearance reveals America’s strangest case of dual .sex perspnality The fifth of six daughters, Ellen , was born in Philadelphia 28 years ago. Her parents wanted a son desperately, and for some curious reason, her peevish father always applied home rules more strictly against, her than her sisters.

As she grew to womanhood she loved to masquerade as a man. She was man nish in deportment, and wore a man’s shirt over her broad shoulders..

At the age of 20 she eloped, had one daughter luft her husband, and soon was working as a truck driver calling herself Bill Delaney. ' About a year ago, an angel-faced youth named Bob Gochenauer began to attract attention as a tenor, singing in- the movies. When the crack singers from various churches banded together and organised a choir otf 16 to sing over the radio they enlisted Bob, who paid a violent court to one of the 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 of the engagement,, and investigators, calling where Bob lived, found Ellen smoking a cigarette. Calmly she admitted her masquerade, but when the investigators went away to decide on their course of action, Ellem disappeared. j