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Show lUnmLii mit NOW BANKRUPT Mildred Got Only $6,500 From Chaplin and Soon Spent That. IOS ANGELES. Oct. 2. Mildred Harris, motion' picture actress, now on a vaudeville tour, declares she received only $G,r.nil from her former for-mer husband. Charles Spencer Chap-' 1 in. screen comedian, after the lawyers law-yers had been paid and she Is about to go into bankruptcy, according to a letter received from her bore, i which the I-os Angeles Times print-i Bd Sunday. Miss Harris' financial condition wes brought about by two long 111-nesses 111-nesses and by being cut of work, for many months, said the lettei HOtfNDED BY CREDITORS. j I hav e been hounded for months j by my creditors, and have been pay-' Ing most of my salary out to them I weekly," the letter, dated St. Puul. 1 read. "I can not satisfy all my I creditors, and they an- suing me. I Mother and I have bcn nearly crazy j for weeks. "Besides this, an ex-producer of mine Is suing me for a large amount that ho has no right to do, as ho is the ono who two years ago sent me cait to buy clothes for three pictures, and then cancelled my contract con-tract cm uccount of my divorce. Mr Chaplin would not stand for me on. the same program with him. LORES HER SOME. "I believe I told you of losing our house and furniture through my i!l-nesa i!l-nesa last year Mother and I bad put everything we had into It. V e ! lived nearly a year on the money Charley gave me which was about 56500 nfter the lawyers were paid. "So my only way out Is bankruptcy have fought It fortover a year, but there Is nothing I can do I shall I do what Is right bj those that are I deserving when I can. I am not I trying to cheat anyone." |