Mamorstein & Swann

[Patti Feinberg]

HEY IB & IB...YOU FORGOT ONE LINE:
If you look at his career chronologically, it appears that after SHE wrote the Broadway play "Out of the Frying Pan," it was made into a movie, for which SHE wrote the screenplay. SHE went to Hollywood, made a living, and then gradually ended up writing gothic novels. A number of these sound very DS like so it's not surprising SHE wrote for the show.

(quick...switch the first line from HIS to HERS).

Patti

[wes]

Francis Swann was a man.

[wes]

The above is not what I wrote.

Let's try again...
Francis Swann was a lad.

[wes]

Ok, that worked...
Unless someone changes it...

Francis Swann was a lad.

Francis is thought of as a feminine name, I know -- buy in the case of Francis Swann, the sex is masculine.

[Midnite]

Ok, that worked...
Unless someone changes it...

Francis Swann was a lad.

Poor wes!  Things get a bit nutty during Which Witch sWitch Week, and it can change from day to day.

Lad-- very clever.

IB

[Luciaphile]

I think, though, that the person who stated that SHE had been a stage director and a singer may possibly have HER confused with Art Wallace, who did have a very varied career.    As far as I have ever known, Frances Swann was only a writer.

I got my data from Contemporary Authors, which has a pretty high reputation for quality. Much of the info would be self-report, but Gale (the publisher) usually checks up on these things.

You'll also note that it said Swann was a musician, not a singer--may mean a lot of different things. For all we know, Mr. Swann played the tuba or something.

And no clue what's up with the gender swapping pronouns, but Mr. Swann was most definitely a Mr. and not a Ms.

[Philippe Cordier]

I hesitate to post this as I don't know how long this switcheroo spell or whatever is in effect (and poor Luciphil is totally in the dark about it, poor girl!    ).

Anyway, "Francis" is a man's name (e.g., that was one of my grandfather's middle name; Francis Scott Key, a guy, wrote the Star Spangled Banner by the rocket's red glare ...).  "Frances" is a woman's name, e.g. the actress Frances Farmer.

 

[Philippe Cordier]

Now why did only SOME of those genders change??

 

Nevermind, I don't really need to know ...   


Receiving more info/input right now than my brain can safely process ...