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Re: Trip to Germany Posted on: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:11:59 MST

On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:59:07 -0700,
"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote:

>You don't think performers think about such things? (We're
>talking the pre-computerized late 1950's, 1960's, when info
>on theater marquees was still hand-set, using a finite
>number of letter sizes.) Quite a few "stage names" were
>created with that precept in mind - i.e. "the bigger the
>better" - not just opera singers'.

One wonders why Arnold Dorsey chose the professional name
"Englebert Humperdinck", especially since the name was already
sort of famous.

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