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
Adolph Dattan Adolph Dattan Adolph Traugott Arthur Dattan (Russian name: Адольф Васильевич Даттан: Adolph Vassilevich Dattan, born 22 October 1854 in Rudersdorf (Thuringia), Germany, died 14 August 1924 in Naumburg (Saale), Germany. A German-Russian merchant and part-owner of Kunst and Albers, a large trading company in Vladivostok, Russia, he made a name for himself as a philanthropist and supporter of the sciences. During World War I, he was exiled under suspicion of espionage to a remote area of Siberia. Adolph Dattan was born in Rudersdorf, near Buttstädt, Germany, the youngest of ten children. His father was a Lutheran village pastor and the