Talk:Gus Elen

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First World War
Almost all the famous music hall artists performed enthusiastically to recruit soldiers in 1914. Gus Elen didn't. Why did he retire at the moment when the war drive needed his services ? Was there a political reason ? Johncmullen1960 (talk) 09:57, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 14:35, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Actually pre-1923 -> public domain in the USA Kbthompson (talk) 17:24, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Pronunciation of "Elen"
The usual pronunciation of "Elen" in the wider world (for example in Wales, where we find "Elen Castle" and "Sarn Elen", or in the case of the Celtic goddess) appears to be "Ellen". However Gus Elen most definitely pronounced it "Ee-lun" and that appears to be the way all the family pronounces the last name currently. In the family, we speculate that he might have deliberately changed the pronunciation to avoid it sounding like a female name and thus perhaps misleading the audience before he became famous. However we have absolutely no evidence on which to base this speculation. Can anyone shed any more light on this? Is the pronunciation worth mentioning in the article? Richard E (talk) 18:19, 21 August 2010 (UTC)