From Buckles

The elephant with Durante was named after this lady, silent screen actress Anna May Wong. This happened in 1925 at Hall's Farm when after taking delivery on a group of young elephants my father, being an admirer of Miss Wong (he referred to her as having hair the color of the raven's wing) talked Hall into naming one after her. Others well remembered from that group were "Sidney", "Wilma" (named after Hall's daughters) "Nellie" and "Tessie". 25 years later Kelly-Miller bought three small elephants from the Polack Show, due to ill health Cheerful Gardner was unable to continue their training and the show decided to hire the MGM Elephants instead. On their delivery to Hugo, Cheerful told my Dad their names were "April", "May" and "June" and of course before long "May" became "Anna May" who would eventually came into our ownership