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Show Changing of Monickers Benefits Hollywood Stars HOLLYWOOD. A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but who could ever make a movie shero out of Worster Van Eps? . Worster changed his name to Willard Parker, and under that name he was able to star in several movies, including the latest at Columbia, Co-lumbia, "David Harding, Counterspy." Counter-spy." "An actor has to have a glamor-out glamor-out founding name it he wants to be successful," Parker, or Van Eps, said. How Rita Hayworth picked her screen name Parker doesn't know, but she's been a lot more successful success-ful with it than she was as Margarita Marga-rita Cansino. Gladys Smith trouped for several years as a child performer, per-former, but became internationally international-ly known as Mary Pickford. . Frances Gumm was a so-so vaudeville singer before she was re-tagged re-tagged Judy Garland. Emma Mat-zos Mat-zos couldn't imagine that name on a theater marquee, so she changed it legally and professionally to Liz-abeth Liz-abeth Scott. . Ruby Stevens was a obscure chorus girl before she became Barbara Bar-bara Stanwyck. Her husband, Robert Rob-ert Taylor, changed his name from Spangler Arlington Brugh. ; Joan Crawford, a movie star for a quarter of a century, was a chorus chor-us hoofer under the name of Lucille Lu-cille Le Soeur. The late Carole Lombard was born Jane Peters. And the name Garbo decorated more theater marquees than Greta Gustafson ever would have. |