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WIFE OR MOTHER? MAN HAS TO CHOOSE
Sequel - A Suicide
Reading, Oct. 28. MR. HAROLD FREDERICK ORROM, of Reading, had the difficult task of choosing between his duty to his wife and his duty to his sixty-eight-year-old mother, Mrs. Mary Anne
Orrom..
He chose his wife.
So his mother committed suicide.
He told the story at the inquest
on his mother at Rending to-day.
He said that since, hin marriage
his wife must come first, and he found a new home in Cran-
bury-road..
1
They moved last Sunday. Next morning he went to visit
last Christmas he and his wife had his mother. He found her lying lived with his mother in Valencin-dead with her head in the gas. road, Reading, Wife and mother- oven.
in-law could not agree.
A verdict of "Sulcide while of
He decided that his duty to unsound mind" was recorded.
BEAUTY, ON TOUR
"Miss Universe"-"Miss Egypt" before the beauty-judging at Bruz sela-seen the sights of Paris,
Blonde Spy's
Life In Prison
VISITS BY HAIRDRESSER
Brest, Oct. 30.
How The
Stars Get
Their Names
BRUCE CABOT WAS ETIENNE JACQUES
· DE BUJAC
Where did the stars get their rames?
Billie
Joan Crawford, named Cassin at birth, received her acreen name from "fans" as the re Bult of a magazine contest.
Clarke Gable, whose real name o William Clark Gable, was named after his father.
Greta
Greta Garbo, christened Gustafsson, changed her list name to Garbo at the suggestion of Mauritz Stiller, her first director. Edna May Oliver, christened Edna May Nutler, changed her ahe Fest
Oliver when name to went on the stage.
was christened Jean Harlow Harlean Carpentier. Harlean was made from her mother's maiden name, Harlow, When Jean enter- ed pictures, she dropped her own name for the shorter Jean Harlow. Helen Hayes.. born na Helen Brown, later changed to the last name which alte has made so fa- nious.
Frank Morgan, who started life as Frank Wupperman, when on the stage, decided that Morgan would be a better last name for the then- trc.
Printer's Error
LYDIA OSWALD, the bonery printer's er
ful blonde spy, now eagerly counting the closing days of her nine months' imprisonment at the naval prison-here, has since her trial been in need of a new trousseau, and as she is the first woman prisoner ever to be in custody at this prison, the authorities were perplexed.
After considerable deliberation, however, they solved the problem by deducting the purchase money for her clothes from a sum of Rearly £700 sent her some time ngo from a foreign country and confiscated,
the last name.
May Robson owes her name to a May Robison, but when her name was included in the handwritten cast of her first stage show, the printer misread May didn't like the printed-pro- gramme spelling, and complained to the manager, but he urged the use of Robson as shorter and bet- ter for show business, and so the name has remained.
name,
Robert Taylor, upon entering pictures, found his real Arlington Brough, to be so confus. ing to pronounce that he chose an casier one, Robert Taylor, a name that is growing daily in import- ance on the film horizon.
as Etienne Bruce Cabot, born Jacques de Bujae, for acreen. pur- poses selected Bruce Cabot,
Lydia's charms cast a spell over two young French naval officers, but at her trint here on September
Virginia Bruce, formerly Vir 12 for attempted espionage, she declared that she fell so desperate-ginia Briggs, changed her last ly in love with one of them--Count name to Bruce when she entered
de Forceville-that she resolved to pictures.
ing.
have nothing more to do with spy- June Knight, who came into the world as Margaret Rose Vallikett, changed to June Knight when she started her dancing career,"
At the time of her trial she had been in prison for more than six months.
Jenn Parker WAH born Mag Green. After her "discovery" by Though she has become a | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, she chang- trifle thinner, she has lost to Jean Parker. none of her charm of manner, sympathetic appeal, or coquetry
even.
She declares that as soon as she Is free she will go to her mother's home at St. Gall, Switzerland, where she will begin 'a new life in a sultable employment...
Sewing And Washing Prisoners are allowed wine or water. Lyn is given milk be- cause she prefers it.
Sometimes she does a little sew- ing and washing for herself,
Her golden locks are still kept
Nat Pendleton, named after his father, has used his real name throughout his career.
Joo Yale, Jr., son of an Irish Mickey Rooney, who started out family, changed to a more typical Trish name when he started on the
stnue.
Shirley Ross thought that nume
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WITH A SONG AIN HER HEART
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Grace
Moore
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sounded more professional when LOVE ME
she started as à radio singer than her real name, Bernice Grant- and she has kept it ever since she entered the professional world,
Irene Horvey, before ontering ulctures, changed her pal name, Herwick, to Hervey.
in pretty shape by the hairdresser Louise Henry, rising younger who dressed her hair the morn-player, was Jesslo. Louise Helman ing before her appearance at court before going
for trial, but excepting a little stage. rouge on her lips she uses no make- up...
on the Broadway"
Even Diana Wynyard Dinon Wynyard, christened Lyd'a takes walks daily, nearly always wearing her Dorothy Cox, changed her name
or theatrical purposes. favourite amart brown tailor-
Although there are many stars made costume, to which she
found.i necessary to sometimes adds a jumper of a who have ahade which prettily matches change their names for the screen, the greater majority have kont the ensemble. Her inger nails may not botheir true names in spile of their artificially coloured, but the little careers. This large group in- tasks ab performs have not taken ludes Norma Shearer, Elizabeth Allun. Lionel Barrymore, Freddie away the softness of her pretty Bartholomew, Wallace Boery. Con- hands,
While she was a failure at pry-stanez Bennett, Nelson Eddy. Con- Collier. Madge Evang, Ing Into naval secrets, she has tanco proved singularly successful in her Robert Montgomery, Maureen conquest of sympathy, as well as 'Sullivan. William Powell, Luise
Rainer and numerous others. of hearts.
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