The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-31
ErroI Flynn Fond Fother

Mexico City, Jan. 3l--(UP)- Movie actor Errol Flynn was hav- ing busy time today dodging re- porters and playing with a three weeks-o old daughter who, he told the department of vital statistics, be- longed to him
 Hospital attendants said the ba- by was as cute an Irish Colleen aS was ever born this side of Erin.
 The childs mother was the 20- year-old former Nora Eddington, pretty and red-hiared, who sold Flynn package of cigarettes in January, 1943, while he was on trial on statutory rape charges brought by two movie struck teen-aged girls in Hollywood
 Friends quoted Flynn as saying T am really happy for the first time in my life"
 To reporters Flynn wasn't talking. He turned 6 pair of dark glasses at them when they asked when he had married. They tried another approach. Flynn practically wore out the phrase mo comment" toss- ing 1t at all questions
 The baby was born at the Amer ican- British hospital here On Jan- uary 10.
 Nine days later the parents, as proud as any could be, registered tho nhild af fhn AFfinn nF Jon Primitive Juarez, head of the Fed eral Department of vital statistics.
 They entered the name of the baby-Deirdr Flynn Eddington- according to the old Spanish custom of tagging the mothers name on the end.
 Below, they wrote: Mother, Nora Eddington; nationality. Amer ican, age 20. Father, Leslie Flynn; nationality, American; occupation, cinema actor; home, Hollywood"
 A check of Hollywood records showed that Leslie" is the part of Hymns name that doesn't turn up in his movie records.
 Friends here say he calls the baby "Grammaw." Her name was taken from Irish folklore. According the legend. the first Deirdri or old Irish Derdiu, was named by the Druid Cathum when he heard the unborn child crying in her mothers body at feast given by its father, Feidlimid, for party of Ultonian warriors.
 The name originally meant child of sorrow
 The child's grandfather, Jack Ed dington. chief yeoman in the U. s. Navy. said in Hollywood that Flynn and his daughter, Nora, were mar ricd in Mexico in August, 1943, when the actor was attempting to keep out of the newspaper columns after his acquittal on the rape charges.
 Eddington said they were married at Acapulco and that she had spent most of her time since then in Mex leo. Eddington didn't know his daughter was expecting a child.
 If It's so, I'm glad to hear t." he told Hollywood reporters.
 Flynn and Miss EddIngton took a trip to Acapulco in August, 1043, and there were rumors of serious romance, but they refused then to confirm reports they had married. Flynn began his mo comment" spar ring with reporters. and Miss Ed dington.- had switched from her job behind the cigar counter at the criminal courts building to the Lockheed Aircraft Plant--Said he had never even proposed.
 Eddington said he understood his daughter was planning to fly back to Hollywood shortly.
 Flynn. who arrived from Holly wood about the time the baby was born, after telling newsmen there he was going to New York, con- fined his movements to the Ritz Hotel.
 Reporters found him in the Ritz bar last night at & table with the Marquessa Matilda De Rivas, Cuer- navac, Mex. soclalite, and Bolton Mallory, former husband of movie actress Nancy Carol and editor of Life Magazine when 1t was a hilnor publication.
 Flynn declined to answer ques- tions as to how it felt to be fond father"
 He finally gave tho neWslnen Eigned statement which said: