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...Charles Chaplin, acquitted of a Mann Act indictment charging that he transported Joan Berry across state lines for immoral purposes, had still to face two actions: 1) his alleged paternity of Miss Berry's six-month-old daughter, Carol Ann; 2) his alleged deprivation of Miss Berry's civil rights...
...bright idea too. Olsen & Johnson got their first whiff of it when they bounced onto the stage, discovered their 200 pals down front all reading newspapers and completely ignoring the show. A minute later chorines ran up & down the aisles shrieking, "Wuxtry! Wuxtry! Read all about the Chaplin trial...
...stories. To the Daily News (circ. 2,000,000), Russia was worth 34¾ in., the Lonergan trial 55 in. The entire Pacific war theater rated 3 in., the Major Horace E. Dodge divorce case, 21. The Battle of Italy was less than half as news-valuable as the Chaplin trial (24 in. to 51½). More striking still was the "news" ratio in William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal-American. On the same day it gave Russia 18 in.; Italy, 5½; Chaplin, 40½; Lonergan...
Then followed the episode in dispute last week. According to Miss Berry, Chaplin asked her to go to New York "to be near him" while he went to make a speech, urging a Second Front, at a pro-Soviet rally in Carnegie Hall. She was with him just once during a 23-day stay, but that once, she said, involved a three-hour visit to his Waldorf-Astoria bedroom. Back in Beverly Hills, she broke into his mansion one night with a pistol, "intending to kill myself," held the gun for an hour until he talked her into bed again...
...Chaplin's lawyer, slick Jerry Giesler (attorney for Errol Flynn, Alexander Pantages) had a battery of witnesses waiting to testify that Joan Berry was no one-man girl. Judge J. F. T. O'Connor, onetime (1933-38) U.S. Comptroller of the Currency, shooed away this legal red herring as often as it appeared. The prosecutor, Charles H. Carr, argued: "Even if you put a common prostitute on the stand, it would be immaterial as to how many men she might have had affairs with in the past." The only issue was the technical one of Chaplin...