CHAPLIN’S DIVORCE

Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10305, 14 January 1927, Page 5

CHAPLIN’S DIVORCE

NEW ACT PUTS BRITISH PRESS IN QUANDARY. ILLEGAL TO PRINT PICTURE OF COMEDIAN WITH NEWS LONDON, Jan. 12. The newspapers are in a quandary over the publication of the Chaplin divorce case. Lengthy American despatches are reduced to a few lines to comply with the new Judicial Proceedings Act. The newspapers explain that they are liable to criminal prosecution if they publish photographs of Chaplin alongside a paragraph' stating that he is being sued for divorce. it is questionable whether foreign newspapers publishing the details will be saleable in England.—A. and N.Z. C.A. “DONE WITH CHARLIE.” LILA GREY’S STORY. NEW YORK, Dec. 3. Charlie Chaplin admitted to-day that the second Mrs. Chaplin, known to the cinema world as Lila Grey, had left his home, taking her two children with her. The wife told her friends that she had “done with Charlie,” aiM might sue for divorce. She belongs to a well-known California i\ family, and says she will henceforth live' with her grandparents. The separation followed a disagreement with her husband during a party given in tlieir Los Angeles home last Monday night in honor of Baron and Baroness Mille de Precourt, shipboard acquaintances whom Mrs. Chaplin met on her leturn voyago from Honolulu. Mrs. Oliaplin had given a farewell dinner for them at a fashionable hotel, and the party was being continued at tlie Oliaplin home when the dispute arose. Chaplin and Miss Grey were married in Mexico on November 24, 1924, when the bride was 16 years old. The Californian laws do not permit tlm marriage of one so young. On .nei return to Los Angeles tlie young bride was told by the school authorities that she must continue at school despite her new status as a married woman. Her first child was born m June last, year, and her second son on March 30 this year. Chaplin’s first wife was Mildred Harris, but the marriage was dissolved.