The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1921-07-15
SCREEN STAR 10 WED SON OF
FORMER PARISIAN

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Or. S. Porter. in Lexington Leader)
Perhaps no screen star of the pres
ent era has larger list of admirers
than Mary Miles Minter, known
wherever motion pictures are shown
as 'the Darling of the Screen" but it |
remained for a son of former Paris. |
KY, man to win her heart and hand.
The announcement of their engage |
ment has recently been made through |
a letter received in Paris. The lucky |
young man is Orville Erringer, of |
Portland, Oregon, son of Clarence Err |
ringer, of Chicago, and grandson Of
Theodore Erringer, for many years
agent in Paris for the Louisville &
Nashville Railroad Co., and manager
of the Paris branch of the Western
Union Telegraph Co. The groom-to-
be is the northwestern manager for
a large fruit packing corporation of
California. His headquarters are IN
Portland. His father is general trav-
cling agent for an automobile concern
in Chicago, and is now on a trip
through Canada to British Column
bia. 1t was during a recent visit
to her prospective father-in-law
and his mother, in Chicago that
the engagement of Miss Minter
to Mr. Erringer was announced.
On July 4, Miss Minter left New
York on board the steamer Olympic
for a two months trip through
Europe, during which she will visit
England, Belgium, France, Italy
and Spain. Shortly after her re-
turn the wedding will take place,
probably at her home in Southern
California. 1t is said that Mr.. En-
ringer and his bride will devote a
portion of their honeymoon to a trip
through the Bluegrass, which will
include a visit to Paris, the place
of his fathers birth and early
manhood, of which the young man
has heard so much but which he
has never visited.
| Young Erringer is said to have
first met his bride-to-be while on
business trip to Hollywood, CAL,
where Miss Minter was engaged in
the production of the picture, Cali
Souls Eve" in which Miss Minter
assumes the dual role of Nora
O'Hallahan, and Alice Heath. Mr..
| Erringer witnessed the production
of several scenes of the play, and it
said quickly lost his heart. Then
began a courtship, which engaged
every moment of the young stars
unoccupied time, and in which the
young Kentuckian was finally sue
cessful.
i 1t is not known what her ap-
preaching marriage will have upon
the future of the screen star,
whether she will settle down in a
coy little bungalow with her
young husband and devote the re-
mainder of her life to his happi-
ness, which, of course, will mean
her own, or whether she will de-
vote a few more years to the pleas
ure of the thousands of her admir-
ers who look forward eagerly 20
the coming of her latest production
of the screen.
All Paris society is agog over the
prospects of visit from the young
couple in the fall, and many are al
ready preparing for receptions in
honor of the screen favorite and
her equally popular young husband.
| Mary Miles Winters real name is
Juliet Shelby, and among her init
mates she is still affectionately call
ed Juliet. She was by birth deS-
tined to become an actress and the
story is a wonderfully interesting
one. Before she saw the light Of
day her mother, Mrs. Shelby, who
had been born and passed her en-
tire life in Texas, was compelled to
move to Shreveport, La. She griev-
ed for months over the loss of her
old friends, the separation from her
mother, and was unable to reconcile
herself to her new surroundings.
She voiced her discomfort continually
and her self pity was accentuated to
such an extent that Mary was
born with a birthmark, Mrs. Shelby
= felt that she had been punished for
: her complainings. A bright red star
showed on baby Juliet'S forehead.
: Her mother was convinced that her
/ resentment at being compelled to
r leave Texas, her beloved Lone Star
r State" was responsible for the
mark.
About two years ago Mary sub
r iected herself to electrolysis treat
f ment, with the result that only a
faint outline of a perfect five-point-
ed star remains, fright in the mid
die of her forehead" where cunning
curls hide it so we'll that no one
D has ever suspected Mary of being a
: Texas baby. Recently an astrologer
e examined the birthmark, and said to
/ Marys mother: you've always
e worried about that mark and blam-
5 ed yourself for it's presence, haver't
: you? You should be glad your
: daughter has it, for it is the insignia
r bestowed by Fate foreshadowed her
stardom on the stage and screen. >
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