Talk:Gabriel Pascal

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[edit] Original name

Hungarian weekly newspaper, Heti Világgazdaság (XXVIII./51-52.; 23 December 2006) stated that his original name was "Gábor Lehel" without citing any primary sources. I'm not entirely convinced that the journalist had a strong proof for that claim but I don't think that he'd simply invedted it (HVG is not a tabloid). --Adolar von Csobánka (Talk) 15:38, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

I have his biography on my shelf and will check it carefully. It could be that this is true. Cott12 Talk 17:38, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Think you are right. http://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Pascal Went ahead and changed it in the article.

Ehm. Well, I can't really speak Esperanto, but as much as I can understand in this article it is likely based @ that other article in Heti Világgazdaság (that seems likely considering Narvalo wrote that shortly after the 52-53. issue of HVG was published and that he is a Hungarian citizen). While I wanna emphasize again that HVG is not an unreliable tabloid, I think it's better to be cautious if we can't find the same info in some other independent sources. --Adolar von Csobánka (Talk) 18:48, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

I'll check into it. Cott12 Talk 18:58, 1 April 2007 (UTC) All I have been able to discover independently (from his wife's bio of him) is that his name does appear to have been Gabor, but can find no last name. It merely says that he created the name Gabriel Pascal as a stage name. Cott12 Talk 19:15, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

Well I read though the biography carefully and there is no "Gábor Lehel". This is the only biography of Pascal written. All the rest are from his letters. Written by his wife after his death, it literally says that his early life is "shrouded in mystery" and that no formal records exist of him. She says that "Gabor" (as he remembers being called as a child) is Hungarian for Gabriel and that the full name Gabriel Pascal was created as a stage name when he entered acting school and gives no other name. Lehel, it appears is a Hungarian legendary figure, and sounds aprocryphal. Perhaps Pascal referred to himself in this way somewhere. She also said that he gave different accounts of his childhood at different times and she never knew what was real and what was made up. What seems to be true is that he was a foster child tossed from place to place until military school. His wife seems to imply that his childhood was so painful for him that he made up stories to cover it up, and changed his name legally to hide his past. I did find one other source of the word Lehel in his name. http://mek.oszk.hu/00300/00355/html/ABC11587/11849.htm Cott12 Talk 12:55, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] iUniverse

Hi Victoriagirl,
I think you did a fabulous clean-up. The reason I cleared the link to iUniverse is that there is no longer an article for it. There use to be an article but administrators must have deleted it. iUniverse is a self-publishing house. The spelling they use is with the small i and capital u. Here is their webpage. Tommytocker 17:38, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

My apologies, I didn't notice that the iUniverse article had been deleted. Thanks. Victoriagirl 18:35, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

No problem. Like I said, you did a really nice clean-up. Tommytocker 19:09, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

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