Paul McCartney celebrates Jane Asher’s 21st birthday in Denver

WEDNESDAY APRIL 5:

Lear Jet from Frisco to Denver. 41,000 feet at 650 m.p.h. Met at Denver Airport by Mr. Bert Rosenthal who has lent Paul his house. I booked into Driftwood Motel to change and prepare for party. Went over to hotel where Jane’s 21st celebrations to be held tonight. Bert picked up Paul and Jane. Got them into hotel without too much trouble despite crowds outside. A lot of press people around — most of them managed to get in along with the cake! Including writer Vic Davies and photographer Harry Benson, both from New York office of the London Daily Express! Great party. Got on very well with all the Bristol Old Vic people.

Mal Evans – From The Beatles Monthly Book, July 1967

Jane Asher plumps for marriage

ACTRESS Jane Asher takes a deep breath to blow out a candle on her twenty-first birthday cake. And as the party in Dallas’, Texas [sic], warmed up, she talked of marriage.

Jane, in Dallas to appear with the Bristol Old Vic, said she did NOT agree that marriage was old fashioned. She added: “I can see how some people would think so today, and I think it is only sensible to live together before marriage. But I would definitely want to get married. It’s just the custom. I wouldn’t like to work full time after marriage because I’d like to have children — but I’ll always want to act.”

Had her friendship with Beatle Paul McCartney helped her career? Jane said: “I don’t feel that the publicity has helped. It has made me known, but I resent the loss of privacy.”

From Daily Mirror – April 6, 1967

Actress Jane Asher Has 21st Birthday

DENVER, colo., April 6 (AP) — Shakespearean actress Jane Asher and Beatle Paul McCartney, sweethearts far from their native England, joined last night in celebrating her 21st birthday.

About 30 members of the Bristol Old Vic Company, in Denver for a three-day performance, gathered for the affair in a restaurant near Colorado’s capitol. McCartney flew to Denver earlier last night to join the celebration.

The traditional cake was about six inches high and ringed with 21 candles for Miss Asher, who is known to most American movie goers as the teen-age waif picked up at a truck stop cafe by Michael Caine in “Alfie.”

From Stockton Evening and Sunday Record – April 6, 1967

Beatle McCartney in Denver

Paul McCartney, a member of the Beatles singing group, chats with Jane Asher at a party in Denver honoring her 21st birthday. Miss Asher is in Denver with the Bristol Old Vic’s theater group.

From The Tampa Tribune – April 7, 1967

Beatle Paul McCartney, Sweetheart Reunited

DENVER, Colo. (AP) — Paul McCartney, of the Beatles, flew to Denver Wednesday night and attended the 21st birthday party for his sweetheart, actress Jane Asher. She is in Denver for a three-day appearance beginning Thursday with the Bristol Old Vic Shakespearean troupe.

Miss Asher and McCartney walked arm and arm into a private room where other members of the Old Vic cast had assembled for the celebration.

Newsmen were barred from the room at a restaurant, across the street from Colorado’s Capitol.

From The Columbus Enquirer – April 8, 1967