Word: chaplins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Typical British Account. "The famous cinema comedian, Charles Chaplin, became the defendant in an action for divorce begun yesterday at Los Angeles, the centre of his motion picture activities in the States. Counsel for Mrs. Chaplin secured an injunction restraining him from disposing of his funds or property in California which are said to have a value...
...allegations filed by Mrs. Chaplin covered 42 pages of legal foolscap, and were at once printed and hawked about the city of Los Angeles at a shilling a copy...
...these meagre details the Daily Mail added a sarcastic comment that it would not risk printing a picture of Comedian Chaplin, lest this constitute a legal breach...
...have read the London papers never so carefully last week, he read only half a dozen sentences about the cause célèbre precipitated last week by an 18-year-old girl who was studying to be a typist before she married Charles Spencer Chaplin, born at London in 1889, still a Briton...
...CHAPLIN...