Salt Lake Telegram | 1948-09-16 | Page 22 | McClure Changes Name

t NEW NEWMON MON MONIKER IKE t. t T J McClure Changes Chang s Name I Ir r f 1 B By PATRICIA PATRICIA CLARY HOLLYWOOD HOLLY UP MLIss MLis McClure thought changing her name would be as easy sy as snapping her fingers but she reckoned without without with- with out the government Uncle Sam has her down In all his records as Helen Francel Francell 1 Coutts and Miss Mis McClure doesn't know whether hes he's going to be willing to change I dont don't know what to do about my unemployment benefits or my old age pension she said s serious serious- rious- rious ly y Or how to file my income tax And those are only half her problems What wonders Miss McClure does a a. girl with a new name name do with all her old monogrammed monogrammed mono mono- hankies Miss McClure a curvy copper- copper brunet knew when she decided to tobe tobe tobe be be an actress that the na-me na name Coutt would have t to go Nobody ever heard of ot Sarah Bernhardt Cout Coutts s or or Katharine Cornell Coutts I So I shortened it to Helen Francell sh she sai saM But after I Id Id I'd had bits in two p pictures I decided de de decided that Helen Francell sounded too much like say It had a kind of flavor Miss McClure nee C Coutts utts lives Jives at the Studio club in H Hollywood ll wood a ahome ahome ahome home for 8 aspiring young actresses Sh She started a contest among the girls to get her a new name One friend knew a girl in Texas MLiss MLis and another had hadan hadan hadan named named- an uncle named McClure They hitched the thc two together and the recipient was highly pleased Shortly thereafter a s studio t u d i 1 o 0 which conducted a wide nation contest to find a new name for its it Miss X announced that it had picked Meg McClure Miss MLiss McClure r regards gards that as as' as unfair competition