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Quality Maine Craftsmanship Paul DiMatteo Maine’s only Certified Memorialist M ay 2 0 1 7 6 3 david laffe love to know.” Naughty Vacationland–A Van- ishing Act The Sun-Up exchange offers a unique in- sight into the temper of the times. A May, 1925 Portland newspaper article lists scan- dalous local personalities tongue-in-cheek: “Charmatta Ballad, a musician;” “Lillian Fairservice, a maid;” and “Catherine King [who] lives next door to George Queen.” Mirroring this, the city was up for grabs. Large downtown buildings were under construction, Prohibition was being gid- dily ignored, and in slick local periodicals, writers were crafting cheeky shorts such as “How to be Successful With Men” and “The Flapper in Search of a Husband.” Indeed, Rockland-born poet Edna St. Vincent Mil- lay (“My candle burns at both ends”) was the very spirit of the Flaming Youth and Roaring Twenties caprice. When it suited her, she wore trousers and daringly took on the persona of Vincent. B ut the fun couldn’t last. Following the financial crash of 1929 and the Great Depression, Portland was one of the most financially flattened communities in the country. The Jefferson Theater (where John Wilkes Booth performed, and where local performing “reached its peak of excel- lence”) was torn down in 1933, Millay fad- ed somewhat from the limelight (though she returned to Ragged Island, off Orr’s Is- land, each summer), and no one seems to another to use drag as a platform to pay homage to the strong, fearless women of the world. It’s hard to say what the intentions were behind their acts, as they lived in a time that valued women less than men. Do you believe the drag arts of today are inspired by vaudeville theater of the 1920s? Absolutely. That dingy, grimy, booze-soaked, speakeasy-style nightlife atmosphere is mak- ing a comeback in a big way. What do you make of the often hyper-masculine personas of the 1920s performers off-stage? When I’m out of drag, I do embrace the mas- culine sides of my personality. But here’s the thing about drag queens that people don’t understand: It takes a real man to get in drag.