HAPLIN’S DIVORCE

Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10314, 25 January 1927, Page 5

HAPLIN’S DIVORCE

CAUSE OF THE SEPARATION. QUARREL OVER A PARTY. (United Press Assn.—Copyright.) U LOS ANGELES, Dec. ‘2. Charles Chaplin, film comedian, today denied charges that he had illtreated his young wife, Lila Grey Chaplin, and declared that she left him when he objected to a drinking party in his home. “I have never illtreated niy wife. I have done everything I could to make my home a. happy one, but it seems impossible,” the actor stated in an interview given at his Beverly Hills mansion. “In her story of our separation my wife referred to an incident last Monday night. It was this: I objected to a noisy drinking party of men and women who came to my home at eight minutes past two o’clock in the morn, ing while T was asleep, and roused the entire household, including the nurse ' and the baby,” Chaplin explained. “Well,” he continued, “when I heard the piano, organ %nd victrola all going at once, it got the l>est of me, so I called my wife upstairs, and told her to get the people out at once- She did this, and the next day she left.” Mrs. Chaplin, who took her two children and went to the home of her grandparents, explained yesterday that she and her mother, Mrs. Lillian Spicer, were entertaining a party of friends in the Chaplin home, when she and her famous husband quarrelled. The guests included Barra and Baroness Mille de Precourt, ship acquaintances which they made on their recent return voyage from Honolulu. Chaplin’s description of fils' wife’s party brought a contradiction from Mrs. Chaplin, who to-night denied that it had been a noisy affair. There was nothing objectionable, she said. NO ALIMONY FOR WIFE WASHINGTON, Jan. 23. The Department on Saturday officially informed Mrs _ Chaplin that they are unable to assist her to collect alimony as Charlie Chaplin’s funds are tied up in income tax liens.—A. and N.Z.C.A.