"WHAT'S IN A NAME?"

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1378, 2 March 1912, Page 13

"WHAT'S IN A NAME?"

JOSEPH BLASCHECK ON HIMSELF. Mr. Joseph Blaschcck, the cultured English humorist and raconteur, ia s, personality as well as a man with a keenly humorous outlook on life. The conversation last evening, when a reporter called to see him, turned upon his n'ame. "How do you pronounce it?" he was asked. "Just Bias-check—divide it in the middle, and its easy, though hard. But really and seriously it is ttrange how people stumble over my name. I' have beon called Mr. Blue-jack, Black-check, Blars-chnck, and Blows-chick." "It sounds foreign however you pronounce it," persisted The Dominion representative. You're nationality—" "Oh, I'm an Englishman—l say it with my hand on my heart. My father was English, my mother Scotch, and having been born within the sound of the Bow Bells in London, mr real nationality is that of a Cockney. The name is really a Bohemian one —I am still Bohemian in my social tendencies—and it came down on my father's side. That i 3 why it is not M'Blaschcck, d'yo ken. In the original Bohemian tho namo_ was, I believe, pronounced Blasch-ek, with tho accent on the middle syllable."

"As you say, it is an uncommon namethat is why I was not so long ago placed in a rather awkward situation. A woman named Blazek gave birth to a kind of Siamese twin in London, and tho fact was dulv recorded by the papers. Soon after this I was astonished to receive from tho director of a big music hnll syndicate an offer of a large salary if I would allow my child to be exhibited in certain centres. Owing to the similarity of the name I had been mistaken for tho father—too bad, wasn't it?"

"New Zealand—l like it. I like the entire absence, that blissful calm associated with a country without politics. It is a charming little country, though, and should have a big future when the Panama Canal blossoms into a great waterway." .

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