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Show LITA GREY CHAPLAIN ' ' TELLS OF MABBIACE "Girl Wife" Tells Details of Shattered Romance Ro-mance With Famous Screen Comedian ' t!i:tjiliii and licr two ciulriiTii. i:y I). AX THOMAS . XKA Service Writer. LOS ANCKLKS, Calif., The sfmy of u 10-year-old g;ir!,who was "scared of Charlie at first, as auy young jrirl might be " Of a proposal while they ere nn i heir way home from tho Ihou-rer Ihou-rer one nihl Of a secret marriage, in .Mexict Neglect fill Iluslmml Then, for two years,' of a 'neglect ful'' husband who said, in effect. "Spend what money you wain, but don't exect too much of my time and attention" That's Lit a Orey Chaplin's story of her shattered romance with tire world's most famous comedian. She told it to me exclusively for The Evening Herald and XKA Service. Ser-vice. As she talked, she sat in tho iiUle "Curry Cottage." Hollywood hum of her jrrnmliwi rents, with i-idney Karl Chaplin and Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr., playing about the room the while. Friendship, Then Love "My life wi,h Charlie Chaplin really started when' ho signed in-'' to play the feminine lead in "The .Gold Uuh,". rummenci Mrs. Olnip-l'li. Olnip-l'li. "I was just a girl then only 10. Our work in the picture bnoi.Iir us together inmost consran1- y c ' r y day. Thar w as 1 1 ic s r a rt of a friendship which soon turned to love at least on my "part. I i-onieiimes doubt now if Charlie ever really loved me. Charlie was . Ivory consit-rate and kind, lie even used to take mother and me Id dinner after we had finished our day's work on the 1 u-t ure. Molhcr HK-'d him, too. It wasn't long before I began to have a feeling 1 hat made me know I loved him. I was scared at first. as any young girl might be who wa in love with Charlie Chaplin, 'tin; he was so attentive that I began to think, too, he might really care. Charlie Proposes "Then came the night he proposed propos-ed to me. We were on our way home from a theater. Ho wanted to keep our marriage a secret until after the picture was finished, -so we went to Mexico to have the cere mony performed. But even from there, the news leaked out and by the time we got hack to Hollywood everyone here knew about it." Chaplin the husband no longei was Cnapliu a a en; :ve. eon si derail suitor, she said. Instead, he was ' "neglect f nV hirsba ud who said "Spend what 'money yon want, but don't' expect too much of ray time and attention' The Chaplin of ; hi' films who in his famous reel of 'The Kid,' I ended t he- young .Jackie Coogai. with an almost maternal tenderness and in real life has be'n idealized i by that lad, 'never saw his ov.i i babies for days at a time," accord ing to the. comedians wife. "j- n.-.sliig" Annoyed I!tm I "He always expected children ti j be like. grown-ups. and did no, wan' I to i.e annoved bv their fussing," she said. "When Charlie junior was born T thought he would change and spend more time at ho:ne." ;.-:ihl tin young mother. "I-iui he didn't. 1 stayed home and took caye of n;.v baby while Charlie wen out eve pings with his lriends. AiHhe theater thea-ter premieres, where I b Icngt i al the side of my husband. Clwirlie ap pea red alone or with his friends-If friends-If I wanted to go, it was up to ni in go by myself. iut to do tha' .vonld have been too humiliating I stayed at home. "I used to hear of Charlie being it tint Montmurtrc and the Amhas-ador Amhas-ador with other twirls. Those vere he stories that hurt more than anything any-thing else, because those were the ulaees where we had our best times efore we were married. On' lireak Comes Sydney was bom last Mareh 30. Hut eyen both babies and my eft'ovis. tailed to make our home attractive eiioiiKli to keep Charlie there. And .liiiisolf up in his library and read, ile even refused to meet my friends, who ol'len visited me at the house. Ile said that they were common and ibal he did not care ot know them. "Then came Unit falal Monday nisht. I was onlertainins a few miosis alter the theater.' Charlie b lib ra te!y insulted them and ordered or-dered iheni to leave the house Thai was loo inuch. lie had never been a tfood father or husband, and I could tolerate him no lonser. So I left him and come to my mother's. And 1 never will go buck." |
