WEDDING KEPT SECRET.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20960, 25 August 1931, Page 6

WEDDING KEPT SECRET.

ACTBESS'' " LITTLE FIB." DOROTHY BRUNTON MARRIES. AVERSION TO " LIMELIGHT." [from our own correspondent.]. MELBOURNE, August 20. Miss Dorothy Brunton, star of "High Jinks," "So Long, Letty" many other musical comedies which toured New Zealand with pronounced success, did everything she could to prevent publicity being given to her wedding in Melbourne on Saturday last. She went to the Wesley Church, via the service lift at the Oriental Hotel in Collins Street, and she "escaped" through the servants' quarters into a back street. She was on her honey, moon journey long before the people of Melbourne knew that she had taken a life partner.

Late on Saturday afternoon Miss Brunton told a newspaper reporter that there was nothing in the rumour that she was about to be married, but the first thing she did on Sunday morning was to drop a note to that reporter, apologising for the little "white lie" she had been obliged to tell on Saturday. Here is the note: "I was married last night. I -told a little fib because a marriage to rne meant something sacred. I couldn't bear the thought of an audience during the most wonderful moment of my life. We did not want our marriage to be theatrical, so my husband —this is the first time I have written these two words and it sounds wonderful to me—and I ask you solemnly to forgive us (signed) Dorothy Brunton Dawson."

The honeymoon is being spsit at a country club 40 miles from Melbourne, whither the pair motored on Sunday. It is not definite whether the artist will retire from the stage or continue her career. When spoken to on the point, she said that she had promised her husband that she would retire. Since then, however, her friends had almost blackguarded her husband, who had said to her; "Well, I don't know what to do about it. You had better decide for yourself." "I've an idea," she said, "that I would please him better if I decide to carry on. Anyway, there is one of his demands I will agree to, though, and that is that I should be known as Mrs. Dawson."

Mrs. Dawson explained that at the end of her present contract with J. C. Williamson, she and her husband are going to England. Mr. Dawson has big mineral interests in Ireland. He was formerly one of the directors of Myers* Emporium, one of the biggest establishments in Australia. Mrs. Dawson explained that she loved Australia and its sunshine, but she also loved living in London. With sea trips in between she might have a bit of both. She is, to appear next in a revival of "The Duchess of Dantzig," and ! will return to Melbourne this week for [ the rehearsals. /