TO WED EARL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 12, 7 October 1937, Page 6

TO WED EARL

Virginia Cherrill, of "City Lights" . The Daily Sketch. (London) . understands that the engagement of . Virginia Cherrill, f amous as the' blind flower-girl • in Chaplin's'film "City Lights,?' to the young EaTl of Jersey, is shortly to be anno'unced. ... Miss Cherrill, . beautiful blue-eyed girl from Chicago, wat chosen . for the film from among thousands of - candidates. She was f ormerly . married to Cary Grant, the -Bristol boy now famous in Hollywood. - - . George Francis Child Villiers, ninth Earl of Jersey, who succeeded to his ' father while a boy of 13, was f ormerly married to Miss Patricia Richards, a beautiful New South Wales girl whom he met when she was visiting England. Their wedding . at St. Margaret's, Westminster, in 1932, 'was one of the cvents of the. social year. The bride was 18 and the Earl 21. For their honeymoon they went for a tour round the world, and on their return the Earl of Jersey entered the private banking firm of Glyn Mlls as an ordinary clerk to learn the business. The Earl has an estate at Osterley vPark, .eight miles from Hyde Park Corner, where he usually lives, and another at Briton Ferry, South Wales. The Countess of Jersey petitioned for divoroe six months ago.