Check out the cross-dressing murderer in Hitchcock's "Murder!" His transvestism is mostly professional, as a theatrical actor and circus performer. Early in the film he speaks to a police investigator in the wings of a theater in a male voice, then goes on stage in a higher register. He also has an interview with the detective protagonist a little later in male attire. Reflecting the taboos and racial obsessions of the times (early 30's) the film refers to this character as a "half-breed," and makes no verbal reference to his ambiguity of gender. Stephen Brophy Cambridge, Mass. ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]