To glamorize plain-sound ing monikers, camouflage ethnicity, or to protect their privacv, dozens of stars in the 1910s (as in other erasi stage names, including:

F'red Astaire (Fred Ausrerlitz)

Theda Bara (Theodosia Goodman)

Jack Benny (Benjamin Kuhesky)

Irving Berlin (Israel Baline)

Fanny Brice (Fania Borarh)

Eddie Cantor (Isidore Iskowirz)

Vernon Castle (Vernon Blyth.)

Marie Dressier (Leila Marie Koerber")

W. C. Fields (Wilbur Claude Dukenfield)

Al Jolson (Asa Yoelson)

Bert Lahr (Irving Lahrheim)

"JeJIy Roll" Morton (Ferdinand Joseph La Menthe

Lillian Nordica (Lillian Norton)

Mary Pickford (Gladys Smith)

Mack Sennett (Michael Sinnott)

Sophie Tucker (Sonia Kalish)

Ed Wynn (Isaiah Edwin Leopold)