CHAPLIN DIVORCE.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18899, 14 January 1927, Page 9

CHAPLIN DIVORCE.

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LONDON, January 12

Newspapers are in a quandary over the publication of the accounts of the Chaplin divorce case. Lengthy American dispatches hate been reduced to a few lines to comply with the new Judicial, Proceedings Act. Newspapers explain that they areliable to criminal prosecution if they publish a photograph of Chaplin alongside a paragraph stating that lie is sued for divorce. It is questionable, whether foreign newspapers publishing details Of the case will be allowed to be sold in England.

[Charlie Chaplin admitted recently that the second Mrs Chaplin, known to the cinema world as Lita Grey, had left his home, taking her two children with her. She belongs to a well-known Cahfornian family, and says she will henceforth live with her grandparents. The separation followed .a disagreement with her husband during a party given in their Los Angeles home in honour of Baron and Baroness Millo de Pre*court, shipboard acquaintances whom Mrs Chaplin met on her return voyage from Honolulu Mrs Chaplin had given a farewell dinner for them at a fashionable hotel, and the party was being continued at the Chaplin home when tho dispute arose, Chaplin and Miss Grev were married in Mexico on November 24th. 1924, when tho bride was 16 years old. The Californian laws do not permit the marriage of one so young. On her return to Los Angeles the young bride Was told by the school authorities that she must continue at sohbol, despite her new status as a married woman. Her first rhild was born in June last vear, and her eefiohd son oh March 30th this vear. Chaplin's first wife was Mifdred Harris, but the marriage was dissolved.]