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Show Miss Carroll McComas, leading lady with Donald Briar in "The Siren," Salt Lake theater, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. IT ha3 been often remarked about dainty little Carroll McComas. who will be seen here as loading woman for Donald Brian In "The Siren." that she has a distinctly masculine given name. Miss McComas readily admits this fact, and adds that her full baptismal title is doubly so. . She was christened Charles Carroll .McComas. That she has reason to be proud of this name can readily be seen when Miss McComas points out that she Is a lineal descendant of Charles Carroll. Car-roll. Any of us who have followed our history recall that when Charles Carroll signed tho Declaration of Independence it was pointed out that he was more or less safe In doing so by reason of the fact that there were numerous Carrol Is in those active and aggressive Colonial days. Lest there should be any question ques-tion of the Identity Charles Carroll signed the famous document of American Ameri-can Independence, "Charles Carroll of Carrollton." Little Miss McConfas is tho daughter of Judge Charles Carroll McComas, who originally hailed from Baltimore, Md. That is the home of the famous Car-rolls, Car-rolls, and tlie. Carrollton recorded in American history is but a suburb of that city. As a young lawyer. Charles Carroll Car-roll McComas went to California in thc pioneer days and eventually been me a Judge of the supreme court of that state. His daughter was educated in Los Angeles An-geles and later graduated from the Van Ness seminary in San Francisco. |