AMAZING

Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10311, 21 January 1927, Page 6

AMAZING

AIRS. CHAPLIN’S CHARGES. EVEN HOLLYAVOOD STARES. COMEDIAN AVILL FIGHT. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 12. Lloyd AVright, Charlie Chaplin’s attorney, said to-day that the comedian would fight every charge against him in his wife’s divorce suit, which, she has now filed, and which bristles throughout its -12 pages with allegations against her husband of cruelty and infidelity. Pending the trial, Chaplin’s studio affairs are at a standstill. His entire fortune, estimated at £2,000,000, was tied up by conjunction to-day, following the issue of his wife’s plaint. Even blase Hollywood is aghast at her revelations, and especially at the final charge, that, within a month after his marriage, he told her that he was in love with another film actress.

Last week Airs. Chaplin summarily dismissed her lawyer and hired another. Her former counsel had objected to her publishing the charges, some of which are unprintable. Hollywood expects that Mr. AY ill H. Havs, the president of the Alotion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, will interfere, if possible, to settle the suit before it reaches the court, for already women’s organisations are clamouring for the “Alovie Czar” to suspend Chaplin’s pictures until he clears himself. His wife charges him with being an abnormal, unnatural, and perverted degenerate. She alleges that, after seducing her, he wished her to undergo a criminal operation. He then told her, ‘‘l shall make you so damn sick of this marriage that you won’t live with me.’’