Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-03-14

by another authority, who writes:
All Actors Were Nagabonds.
I'm the days when actors were
legally classified as 'vagabonds' 1t
was customary for every player
to assume a stage name and the
custom continued well into the
present era. But in these days
when actors and actresses are in
vited to tea in the best houses,
they generally take their real
names to the stage with them.
Lon Tellegen, however, was orig
inally Isidor Louis Bernard Ed
mund van Domlnelen. Sir Henry
Irving, who did more than any
other actor to bring about the
social recognition of his profess
sion, aided by the good will OF
that Prince of Wales, the first
gentleman of Europe who after
ward reigned as Edward VII, was
born Broadribb and adopted
Irving as a stage name.
"Artemus Ward and Mark
Twain were literary examples of
adopted names. Henry M. Stanley
the African explorer, was origin
ally John Rowlands. For euphony
in authorship, James B. Taylor
became Bayard Taylor and James
b. Matthews became Brander
Matthews. Ulysses S. Grant began
as Hiram S. Grant, Grover Cleve-
land as Stephen G. Cleveland and
Whitelaw Reid as Jacob w. Reid
"There is also the historical
case of Thomas w. Wilson,
Of ITpftn1 tu &C
Woodrow WILSON,"
one of the most difficult things
about changing your name. OF
course, is in getting your family
and friends to accept it. Long
after you have become accustomed
to yourself under the name of
Phillip Suratt, there will be friends
who will tactlessly call you Philip
pi Steenstrupt and thereby try to
prove to you that your new cogno-
men is nothing but an affectation
Yet people become reconciled to a
change in name for human beings
much more quickly than they do
to a change in the names of places,
Not long ago for instance. the
welfare department Of the city of
New York decided to change the
name of historic Blackwell" to
"Welfare Island" Accordingly,
the change was recorded on the
city maps and files, but New York
ers have never accepted 1t, and
even after a long campaign of ur-
gent publicity they still say Black
wells Island"
Likewise, they have sternly re-
sisted all efforts to change the
name of the Bowery to any of the
insignificant appellations at vari-
Gus times suggested for it, includ-
| ing Central Broadway Grand ave-
nue. and Hewitt avenue. These
were thought to be more genteel
by their originators. but the oppo-
sition declared that the name Bow
| cry connects the thoroughfare with
old Dutch days and has come Gown
through the centuries memorial
/ of all that was interesting in the
history of this important street,
and that it should never be dis
carded
Cannot Change Herald Square.
/ Herald Square is another point
| that is constantly in danger of
having q new name thrust upon it
unawares, but so far the suggested
stitutes-Roosevel Square and
Bennett Square (for the founder of
the Herald)-have not won the
support of the public.
New York. in fact, takes rather
more interest in names than most
cities, and once having given its
endorsement to one. remains there
latter wholly faithful. Thus, it
would seem to a mere visitor that
i q faVorite name is something a bit
overworked, as in the vicinity of
! Amsterdam avenue and 110th
street where every other shop or so
, bears the name of Cathedral"
IT'S all right to have a Cathe-
| dral luncheon" remarked one
amused observer. "for men of the
cloth must eat. I suppose the
Cathedral barber shop is not in
congruous either, because cleanlE
shaver faces are seemly in the
pulpit. The Cathedral soft drink
palace would also pass, but the
| Cathedral delicatessen offering
| kosher meats exclusively does seem
to be overworking the name a bit,
1t is possible, therefore. that the
| changing even of a DerSOnai name