Stage name with Davy Jones of The Monkees. Singer Ray Charles, born Ray Robinson, changed his name to avoid confusion with boxer Sugar Ray Robinson. A performer may also have had their stage name chosen for them by their agent – such was the case with Barbara Eden, born Barbara Jean Huffman – or, in the heyday of the Hollywood studios, by a movie studio. Joan Rivers (born Joan Alexandra Molinsky) went one step further and named herself after a former agent, Tony Rivers, after he told her to change her name. In the non English-speaking world, an example is the Taiwanese
Saint Joan (play) end of his 24-hour respite. The play ends with Joan ultimately despairing that mankind will never accept its saints: O God that madest this beautiful earth, when will it be ready to accept thy saints? How long, O Lord, how long? One historian at the time (1925) reacted to the play by arguing that it was highly inaccurate, especially in its depiction of medieval society. Shaw states that the characterization of Joan by most writers is "romanticized" to make her accusers come off as completely unscrupulous and villainous. More general interpretation of Joan's character is to describe her as a