Mr. Jenner. Now, did you change your name at this period of your life?
Mrs. De Mohrenschildt. We changed the name when we started dancing.
Mr. Jenner. And you changed your name to what?
Mrs. De Mohrenschildt. LeGon. We picked up the name out of the dancing magazine. But with this name—you see how it happens. You get so involved that you have to stick to it. You cannot just—you knew—because some people know you by this name, then you start with another name, and it sounds ridiculous. But since then already we had it. And we intended that when we came over, we are going to adopt it, because personally I don't think it is fair to our friend, and it is not fair for the country to use a name like Bogoiavlensky, or a name like De Mohrenschildt. If it would be up to me, I would cut the other one down.
It took me 3 months to learn to pronounce that name.
Mr. Jenner. There have been some people that because of the name LeGon—that you had some French. You are not French?
Mrs. De Mohrenschildt. No, I will tell you. I had to start in New York to do something, had a little girl a year old, and my husband had terrible trouble to get any kind of work. He was making $18 a week.
Mr. Jenner. In 1938?
Mrs. De Mohrenschildt. No; it was 1940, 1941, when my little girl was born.
Mr. Jenner. Your daughter was born in this country?