Show TOO TERRIBLE CHAPLIN SAYS OF OF CALIFORNIA I DIVORCE CASE Millionaire l Com Comedian e d i a n Looks Wan Yan and Weary Veary In Chicago WILL VILL ITA HAYS YS SILENT Movement to Bar liar Char Char- Charley's Charley's leys ley's Pictures Starts In Some Cities CHICAGO Jan Dy 13 13 Ey Tiie Associated Press Press-Charlia Charlie Chap Chap- Chaplin's Chaplin's lins lin's first public comment on the divorce suit of his wife Lita Grey Chaplin was Its terrible too terrible too ter- ter tor fr words The film comedian most roost whoso whose fortune together with lii hi hitrick trick cane flopping pants parts hat and oversized shoes have hav eon gon Into hands of receivers In Los An geles had little lIlUe more to say his phrase mumbled several t mel when he lIe arrived In Chicago night on his way to New York Plainly dejected and barely able to summon a smile when reporter besieged bin him as he ha stepped tautly from n a a western train Chap list finally posed for a picture he warded off ott reporters with thesE thes words Really neally boys Im I'm sorry Id I'd likE to 10 talk for you but this 1 Is not the th time and anti place and I shall hall my statement for Just the that that th right richt time and place TOO TI Its Just simply imply too terrible for words lIe H stopped a moment Irresolute lute and seemed on the verge verce going on with something more but butIn In the next Instance his mouth tightened a n bit grimly and he sim sim- simply simply simply ply repeated that statement its just too terrible for tor words He lIe was tired lie he said ald terribly tired and and ho looked It There were circles under his eyes and anti hl face was grave crave and gray There appeared no spring In his walk and his shoulders seemed to sag sac Only once was there ther a flash fla h of ot his hia old time humor and that th came cam when to New York I 1 an am going coins there he said and I paused while a stow slow low smile came to his lips lip to write the concluding chapters to a story of my life which Is now no appearing In a New NewYork magazine Denying that he Intended to go goto coto to New Orleans Orlean to discuss the tha sit sit- situation situation sit situation with Will ill Hays director of ef moving pictures Chaplin Into a taxicab and sped away shak- shak shakIng shaking shak-Ine shak Ing off oft pursuing reporters lie H was not registered at any of the leading hotels but It was believed lIe ho spent the tho night here prepared to resume his Journey eastward today Mr Hays In New Orleans like like- likewise likewise wise wise denied that his appearance there had a bearing on the case The Th movie lead head sal said ho he was wae wason wason on his way to Los Angeles after afler at at- at attending tending the th opening of ot a hotel at Edgewater Miss ss j Hays lIas said he h knew nothing of the case had nothing to say and that It was quite probable he ho nev never r would have havo anything to say con con- concerning concerning con it I am of course not the arbIter of morals of ot the film fUni Industry's fifty thousand people II However wever there hasn't or hadn't been a a scan scan- scandal scandal dal dol In Hollywood ence the th producers producers ers and organization was formed four tour years ago MAY lAY CAlt FILMS As attorneys for Mrs aIrs Chaplin be can be-can gan efforts In lu the moving picture city to trim the payroll of the Chaplin film flInt organization move move- meats ments were started In several cit cit- citIes cit cities ies lea to bar films In which the comedian appears until the divorce case is disposed of At Otta Ottawa WL Ill the tho La Salle County League of o Women Voters asked motion picture theatre own own- owners owners ers not to show Chaplin films film hll while Mayor Bertha Dertha K Landis announced In Seattle that she woul would ask ast Seattle censor board to decide whether the tho comedians comedian's films should be b barred from exhibition there EDNA DRAWN IX IN LOS A GELES Jan Dy 13 13 ByThe The rhe Associated Press Edna press Edna Poe Pur formerly starred by Charlie Chaplin today was cast for a role In the th marital drama of the tho multi mulU- multimillionaire millionaire film actor and producer er or following the disclosure by by- at at- at attorney attorneys torney for tor Lila Lita Grey Chaplin that they LInT are ar investigating the status of the actress on the tho Chaplin studio payrolL We W have haTe been Informed that Miss Purviance has been ben on the studio payroll at a week for forsom some years Edward T McMurray Mrs Chaplins Chaplin's uncle undo and chief counsel In lu her action for divorce declared yesterday We Wo aro are in- in informed informed In Informed formed that during these years she has not been working for tor Chaplin It IC these facts are arc borne borno out we wo will recommend to the tho th receivers that this salary be stopped The rho money should go to the Chaplin children for tor whom Chaplin has made mad no provision pro Instead of ot to some somo actress In France WAS wiS STAR STR IN IV IX FILM Miss Pun lance appeared in the tho leading feminine role in A A Woman of Paris produced by Chaplin in 1923 Sinco Since then she sho has continued continued on the Chaplin payroll it was said aid at nt tho studio She 1 is now In France en engaged in a picture for n a nl l FrenCh rench producer Receivers appointed to handle Chaplins Chaplin's California properties pending the th outcome of the th divorCe suit sult have havo announced that they would not Interfere with the activities activities ties lits of technical crews crew of tho the stu- stu studios studios tu-dios tu dios which are tied up In the dl- dl di dl orce proceedings However Mrs Chaplins Chaplin's attorneys said the th investigation they thy will ask asle may include the tho employment status ot eL other ether oc actors |