TRIALS OF MARRIED LIFE.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 April 1920, Page 7

TRIALS OF MARRIED LIFE.

CHARLIE CHAPLIN IN TROUBLE. Vancouver, March 13. The Los Angeles Examiner says that Mrs. Mildred Harris Chaplin, the wife of Charles Chaplin, will take court action unless her husband returns to her. She has not seen him for a fortnight, asserts the Examiner. Later, an article in the newspaper by a woman who said she was Chaplin's secretary, stated that there was no difficulty between the Chaplins, and declared they were living together. "Such ia life in the Great West," said Charlie Chaplin, when shown the newspaper interview in which his wife charged that he had not been living with her for several months. She said: "I am forced to conclude that he does not want to live with meI don't want divorce or money, but must have support." She added that she had placed the matter in the hands of her attorney, and must seek divorce unless conditions were remedied. Vancouver, March 20. Charlie Chaplin has issued a hot denial of his wife's charge of failure to support her. "I have," he said, "more than £lO-, 000 worth of cancelled cheques that I paid on her behalf during our brief married life." This amount was additional to her salary of over £2OO ly"Until lief outbreak," lie added, "I did not refine payment of one solitary request or bill she presented. I tried to be gentlemanly and act with dignity." When shown Chaplin's statement Mrs. Chaplin «iid: "Previously T did not in-. tend to press the charge of non-support, but to base a claim for divorce on Charlie's desertion and cruelty. But." deelar'-d. "I shall do so now. showiri!: how he failed to nrovicte for me." It looks as though the ExumVer was engineering the whole affair;