Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Paul Wasn't Where Jane Was From August, 1966

Jane Asher was Paul's steady girlfriend, as we know.  He lived in her house when he was in London from November, 1963 until the spring of 1966.  He was in attendance with her, for examples:
     1.)  When she performed in repertory at the Palace Theatre on 7/14/65.
     2.)  When they went to the premiere of a play at Wyndham Theatre on 1/31/66.
     3.)  When they went on a skiing trip from 3/6/66-3/20/66.
     4.)  When they attended the premiere on 3/24/66 of the movie, Alfie in which Jane had a starring role.
The public appearances and the trip are all well-documented with photos.

Somewhere in late July or early August, though, the bottom drops out of photographs (or even mentions of Paul and Jane seen together.)

For example, they were supposed to have gone to the Royal Court Theatre on ~July 22, 1966 to see a play.  I have not found any photos to document this.

But, most importantly, Jane acted in two theater roles in the Edinburgh (Scotland) Festival from 8/21/1966-9/10/1966.  She played the role of Perdita in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale and she played Cassandra in a Jean-Paul Sartre adaptation of The Trojan Women (!).  Even if you allowed for Paul being on tour in America until the end of August, 1966--and I don't--he still would have had nine days to see her at the festival.  I have not found any documentation that he was ever in Edinburgh to see her.  And, remember, Paul had bought a farm in Scotland in June, 1966.

But, of course, there is more.  Jane finished the festival on October 10th. and then opened in the same role of Perdita at the Cambridge Theatre, London, twenty days later, on 9/30/66.  During November, 1966, the play was filmed, but never theatrically released.  As I mentioned in my September 17, 2010 post, Jane was in London in November, 1966 and NOT from 11/12/66 to 11/19/66 with our Paul's replacement in Kenya as authors Bill Harry and Barry Miles claim.  And--once again--I could find no photos of Paul attending any of Jane's London performances.

We know that by October 17, 1966 when a Paul replacement was photographed working on the score for the film The Family Way, our Paul was permanently out of the public picture.  That puts the time frame for our Paul's disappearance in August-September, 1966.

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