Hi.all,

      I noticed that the number of members of this group went from 23 to 36 in the past week or so. The level of activity hasn`t gone up, though, except from Marti, me, and Icesissi who may or may not be a new member.Maybe all the action is at the P/T chat room. I wouldn`t know that though cuz I`m not a member. Hope I haven`t made this group dysfunctional by my provocative posts.

    I notice that Tanya`s P/T website is either down or out of business. It was there a week ago, though. If you`re still a member ,Tanya, could you please let me know what the story is? I read your whole account of your trip to Worlds in Washington and really enjoyed it, in fact I read it several times and meant to comment like you invited people to do. Tonight I was going to write you an email and that`s when I noticed that the site, which contained your email addy, was down.

   There were quite a few errors in my last  couple of posts which I`ll try to correct now. It wasn`t Tong who had the bad back, it was Zhang. The fact that Pang/Tong and Z/Z finished in a different order than they normally do got me disoriented (no pun intended). Second, Emmerich Kalman, who wrote "Princess of the Cicus", wrote operettas, not ballets and also he he wasn`t popular in the early days of this century like I wrote, but rather in the early 20th century. I`m still not accustomed to living in the 21st century. In fact, even though it`s been the Chinese Year of the Rooster for a couple of months, I still catch myself writing Year of the Monkey on my checks. That gag would work even better if I were a Chinaman.

    In closing, welcome all you new members.

 

Best regards,

Arthur