Evening Star Newspaper, July 14, 1935, Page 97

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C—GRAVURE SECTION—JULY 14 1935. What’s in a Name By W. E. Hill Copyright. 1935, by Chicago Tribune-N. Y. News Syndicate Inc This boy is cursed with a name that folks are apt to confuse with a celebrity. His name is Putnam, which is all right as names go, but people are always asking, “What Putnam? THE P Putnam? The one that’s mar- ried to Amelia Earhart?” And then, like as not, some one will come up and say, “You must take good care of that dear little wife!™ Mary, Mamie, May and Maisie, the same name and the same girl through the march of time. REGIMENTATION. The photographer chances upon a couple of personable pelicans preening themselves in drill-like unison at the London Zoo. Wide Werld Photos. A SPIN IN A UNICYCLE. Walter Nilsson, Los Angeles inventor, seated within the one-wheel motor-driven con- traption, says it cost him $5.000 to develop it. He be- lieves it will make 100 miles an hour. ' Asscciated Press Photo. These two charming / . 2 € / Ladies who go in pro- 8 young things are known C -z fessionally for music as Billie and Tad. They A < have three names. are merry and bright . . - Sometimes four. Meet and wonderful ball ; : > Mme. Emma Busby room dancers, as is 3 % / Cassidy, who teaches usual with a girl called - . pianoforte. Billie and a boy called { iy Tad Good old college nicknames. They stick through thick and thin. She was dubbed Tiny at Smith be- cause she was such a wee sprite and he went through Ohio State with the nickname of Buster because he was full of fun and frolic. neighbors called her, but it wasn’t good box office, so the film execs rechristened her Sonia Dolores. - x L These two girls were given the “ ... people never seem to get this good old name of Dorothy at ' =& man's name straight. Either birth. One grew up just a L% "0 they say, “Irecall your face, but home girl (hardly ever at @ ¥ .. your names escapes me,” or Wi home), who answers to Dotsie. & . they call him Mr. Stevenson or The other got a job in a pub- Mr. Smithers or something lishing house. and is called °° equally foul (to him), for his Dorothea. name is Smith. _Left: ALONG FIFTH AVENUE. A GATEWAY TO LAND OF PROMISE. THRIVES ON CONES. And striking bit of New York's skyline where Through this picturesque gateway to Red, the Seattle Zoo's brightest the great Empire State Building towers Seward Bay from the Gulf of Alaska passed monkey, eats them as daintily above the steeple of the old church still the homesteading American farmers who as a coed. Associated Press Photo, firmly rooted at Thirty-seventh street. have settled in Alaska’s Matanuska Valley. © Associated Press Photo. »"‘Amchted Press Photo.