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Subject: Re: Trip to Germany Posted on: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:50:44 -0700



Hatunen wrote:
> 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.

You answered your own question, I think! ;-)
>