MARRIAGE OF AN EARL.
FILM ACTRESS WEDDED. (United Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, July 30. The Earl of Jersey married Virginia Cherrill, ,a film actress, at the Chelsea Register Office. The earl, who succeeded to the title in 1923, is 27 years of age. BRIDE TO LEAVE STAGE. LONDON, July 20.' “We cannot fix a definite date for our wedding, but it will be at Chelsea registry office within three weeks,” said Virginia Cherrill, American actress, when asked when and where she would marry the Earl of Jersey. The decre nisi granted to the earl’s first wife, formerly Miss Patricia Richards, 'of Sydney, and Cootamundra, has now been made absolute. The bride-to-be added: “I am through with acting now for stage or screen. It is a happy married life for me now. It is hard for an actress to be a, good housewife.” The earl said: “We shall live in London at my house in the West End. I cannot afford to live at the family home, Osterley Park, Middlesex.” Filmgoers will remember Miss Cherrill for a number of screen roles, but principally perhaps for her first, that of the blind girl in Charles Chaplin’s “City Lights.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 248, 31 July 1937, Page 7
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200MARRIAGE OF AN EARL. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 248, 31 July 1937, Page 7
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