| Show Lit tit Lita Gets Alimony as Financial Secrets of Chaplin Are Revealed I Stars Star's Wife Must Economize on 1500 1500 a M th Running Home HOfle Costs I She Declares I LC'S LOS A ANGELES GEI ES April SO 30 AP P AP- The Tiie The financial fin secrets of Charles Chaplin were vere paraded before the public today as as' his estranged wife Lita ita Grey Chaplin antI anticipated her first temporary 1 alimony payment since filing her bet sensational sens l divorce suit Jast January After Joseph M M. Schenck head of United Artists tile tie corpora corporation lion through h which Cha Chaplins Chaplin's pictures res re's are aie distributed testified at yesterdays yesterday's yester yester- yesterdays yesterday's days day's a hearing here that the gross income of Chaplins Chaplin's last feature feature fea tea ture lure picture The Gold Rush was was 22 to date and that the film star stal had received d 7 T 75 per cent of ot that amount the superior court 1 awarded warded her 1500 a month alimony all all- 10 mony retroactive from January last In view of ot an announcement from froni attorneys for the screen comedian that they would not appeal the alimony alimony ali all mony order Mrs Chaplin was ex expected expected expected ex- ex to receive alimony alimony- payments without further legal action Two previous attempts to collect a month failed SLOW WORKER Schenck in revealing the the theP P profits profits' fits fits' of Chaplins Chaplin's latest picture declared that while Chaplin was was the highes highes- paid artist of br bf his kind he was was' was such sucha a slow worker that It would b be un unprofitable un- un profitable for a producer to him a salary such as other stars tars receive Wed Ved lose our hank bank roll 1011 It If we had to pa pay him a salary said declaring Chaplin from two to three years ears to make a pic plc ture He doesn't work except when he lie heIs heis lieIs is so inclined the producer sala J Continued on page pase 5 I Lita Uta Gets Alimony as Financial Secrets of Chaplin Are Reve Revealed led Continued from page pagel 1 He lie works by Inspiration other stars work by perspiration While Mrs 1 Chaplin did not specify any any amount in asking the theaward theaward award she declared her actor husband husband hus- hus band received ah annual salary of from on one film corporation in addition to an Income of a month from their community property She alleges the aggregate aggregate gate gat wealth of Chaplin Is How Mrs Chaplin finances the running of oJ the room forty m Chaplin mansion In Beverly Hills to which she r recently returned pending settlement settlement set set- of ot the divorce suit suit also was va disclosed Mrs Chaplin now Is confronted with the necessity of economizing in order to keep within her court allowance A monthly budget submitted at the hearing showed that the cost of running the home one month was for herse herse herse her- her se r fand rand and her two children Mrs Chaplin listed a a. month for fOl groceries ies 75 75 for tor vegetables for lor laundry 27 for telephones and for clothes The budget also included as a a. monthly payment on an automobile and nd for Its upkeep At least six servants were necessary she said ATTORNEYS CLASH Mrs 1 Chaplin appe appeared red as RS a wit wit wit- ness The hearing was was' marked b by lively tilts between opposing coun coun- sel ad Much 1 of the testimony ny concerned concerned concerned con con- Mrs Chaplins Chaplin's wardrobe and the number of guests who attended her recent birthday party The c comedians comedian's young wife denied that she had bought worth of clothes two days before she left lefther lefther her het husband She explained that the bill bill of which Chaplin had complained com corn represented expenditures for clothes during virtually the en tire two hyo years that she lived with the actorI actorI actor I 1 thought that when my ny husband began giving other persons diamond dia din mend mond bracelets It was time for me meto meto meto to stop making my own clothes and buy some she Informed Gavin McNab McNab Mc- Mc I r Nab ab who headed Chaplins Chaplin's battery of ot attorneys V Mrs 1 Chaplin was asked the exact number of guests at her birthday part party Her first recollection was I that there were thirty Later she ehe admitted there that McNab's estimate which placed the number at fifty fifty- seven might be correct Lyndol L Young of Mrs Chaplins Chaplin's counsel Interceded When her husband goes to New NewYork NewYork York and cavorts around and gives ties parties and lives like a prince there ther shoud be no objection to his wife giving a a. birthday party once a year ear he contended McNab Ic retorted with the d declaration declara declara- clara lion Hon that charges contained In Mrs l Chaplins Chaplin's divorce complaint had resulted In branding her husband forever and placing an stigma on her two children These children are auctioned auctioned d off for tor money that cant can't be used for their benefit lc aD charged Chaplin cant can't hide behind his I children Yo Toting ng- ng retorted In addition to the alimony award V Judge Guerin ordered Chaplin io pay his wife for attorneys attorneys' s V I feer fee and for legal lega e ex p ses Incurred In filing her suit V i |
