Harpo Marx for the name Adolph (as a child, he was routinely called "Ahdie" instead). The name change may have also happened because of the similarity between Harpo's name and Adolph Marks, a prominent show business attorney in Chicago. Urban legends stating that the name change came about during World War I due to anti-German sentiment in the US, or during World War II because of the stigma that Adolf Hitler imposed on the name, are groundless. His first screen appearance was in the film "Humor Risk" (1921), with his brothers, although according to Groucho, it was only screened once and then
SS Adolph Woermann and interned at Seaton, Devon. In 1940 most of the internees from Seaton, including Capt. Burfeind and his crew, were put aboard to be transferred to Canada. On 2 July 1940 the German submarine torpedoed "Arandora Star". Burfeind remained aboard, helping to organise "Arandora Star"s evacuation, until she sank and he was lost. SS Adolph Woermann SS "Adolph Woermann" was a German ocean liner built in 1922 by Blohm + Voss in Hamburg, for the shipping lines Woermann-Linie (WL) and German East Africa Line ("Deutsche Ostafrika Linie", DOAL) and named after German merchant, ship owner and politician Adolph Woermann, and