| Show N W tO 8 m fM C t tS S When He Got Married He Took l His a Wife's Wife Name Name but but There Therea More to It Than Just a Pretty Bit of Sentiment NEW EW YORK YORK YORK-I I have no idea ide-a what the male malo for fOI or Lucy Stoner may boo bo booSo So It Jt may be that a Q young man who takes half of ot his wife's name II is not in the same class A those t dear r ladles ladies who rebelled against changing their names back In tho thoda's days das wb when n women were fighting for or orthis this freedom At an any rate my attention has been called to tho the fir t man man man-at at lc least ast in my memory mem n ory to or-to to sh share ro his k V fl wife's McCord H He moniker is and D David at lost lat reports you ou could find him on the staff of ot a 1 I wIde widely circulated 4 national we weekly kh Now I learn he 1 has become Raphael Raphael Raph Raph- ad ael McCord All AU of or which ha has hapS happened happened hap hap- S since his marriage to Ruth Raphael Rl publicist for tor tho Harper brothers But nut tho the change came out of no new marriage g but rather out of ot a 41 erIes o of strange coincidences It began McCord l narrates imar-ates In tho the thoc c current Issue of or Bookman wh when n he heas was as attached d to an army bureau In France and was running through a stack of oC cards card bearing tho the names of oC men recommended for or medals Casually Cas as turning over Ocr c certain card ho found Cound his own name staring up at him And nd thus tItus ho he first m met t the theother theother theother other David DavJd McCord S There re are however certain complications com corn which McCord ho hat re rc- rc to tu me m at nt one ono limo timo or another Both Iloth o of ot the these o Davids Davidis it so 00 happened happened hap hap- are writers And both were quite well known to le New York Ono One da day the young youns man who is now mow Raphael McCord McCurd bt began g-an g to get et checks which Lelon belonged ed to the the- other His JUs friends called caned him up and antI con- con him hint on his progress Pine Fume the they said ald youre you're comIn coming corning com corn In ing along long great greaL JIo To got sot In Intended In- In tended d for tor Uio thu 1 other and hind rc receipts I and even letters leHere from editors who got sot them mixed up So It went went with growing growing- complication compU- compU cation So when I decided to change my name I began be-an thinking that It w was about time for a n. good old fashioned man to do his stuff lie explained All about me rae were women refusing to bear their husbands' husbands names Ah Aft said I to myself Ill I'll take my 01 wife's wHo's n name me And that's thal's th that'S that t S S S Kenneth Hawks tho the young movie director who went to a a. tragic death In the recent Hollywood plane plan disaster disaster disaster dis dis- aster was perhaps tho the only figure I in namo name had appeared appeared ap ap- ap before beCore millions as that of oC a cinema villain It was wa-s a a. little practical joke played upon him by Marshall Neilan who was his particular cron crony Hawks had once upon a 3 time timmie decided to become a a. picture I producer Neilan i was making It fl kA Hawks did ld not nol L ttO see tho the completed picture with its l i titling until It had bad bada a a. preview lo in a 5 small town out- out side of or New York lork t Then much to 10 S his amazement j t. t he found that th Neilan had mined min namn ed th the villain of oC tho time piece Kenneth Ken Keu I neth Hawks Th There re is one ono producer In Jn tho the Broadway belt who has lias furnished his country countr home from Crom stage settings used In show which he lie put on hut but which laid an egg s Rather than have th the tho furniture furniture fur fur- KO go o to alas Cain's stor storehouse he ships It out to Lon Long I Island land And Arthur who ho has a a. T reputation for Cor belli being tho thin ritziest st of I is 11 perhaps the only who owns a co cov cos It Isn't ho lie explains because ho lie wants want to be bo particularly rural but because Its It's the tho only way hes he's found 4 of f being being be lIe- ing certain ot or fr j h milk GILBERT Copyright 1030 30 NEA E. Service Servie Inc ric I |
