SIMPLE CEREMONY

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIX, Issue 21958, 9 May 1941, Page 8

SIMPLE CEREMONY

DEANNA DURBIN’S WEDDING Deanna Durhin’s wedding on April 18 to Vaughan Paul, motion picture producer, created the greatest interest among the British Colony in Los Angeles, the bride being the daughter of two staunch Britishers of Manchester, England. Her real name is Edna Mae Durbin. She was born in Winnipeg, Canada, but was taken to Southern California when she was a child. She was 19 last December, and her husband, who is the son of Mr and Mrs Vai Paul, is 25. Their marriage, which was the culmination of a five years’ friendship, took place in the Wilshire Boulevard Methodist Episcopal Church. In no sense, states an overseas paper, could it be described as a Hollywood wedding, although outside the church, which was the one in which Jeanette MacDonald and Gene Raymond were married several years ago, between 3000 and 4000 admirers assembled to watch the arrival of the guests and to catch one fleeting glance

of the couple as they left the church. Many of them wanted to get inside to see the floral decorations, but this was not permitted. In fact, the church was searched from belfry to basement about an hour before the service started to see that none was hiding inside. There were 900 guests in the church and their heads turned as one when the bride, who was dressed in a gown of ivory duchess satin designed in princess style, entered to the strains of Lohengrin’s “Wedding March.” Very few film celebrities were among those who witnessed the ceremony. Afterwards a reception was held at the Beverley Wilshire Hotel. The bride and bridegroom remained only long enough to be photographed, to cut the cake, and receive their friends’ congratulations. Until their new English cottage in Brentwood is completed the newlyweds will make their home in a Hollywood apartment.