Word: lita
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Engaged. Lita Grey Chaplin, musicomedy actress, onetime wife of Cineman Charles Spencer Chaplin; and Phil Baker, accordion-playing funnyman; at Milwaukee...
Divorced. Charles Spencer Chaplin, famed international buffoon; by Lita Grey Chaplin, onetime actress; in Los Angeles. Comedian Chaplin did not contest the action. Mrs. Chaplin was awarded approximately $500,000 and the custody of her two sons...
...Lita Grey Chaplin, divorced wife of one of President Woodrow Wilson's favorite comedians, to be presented. President Coolidge told her he hoped she was enjoying Washington. Her mother, Mrs. Lillian Grey, was with her. They were introduced by William Spry, English-born Mormon, onetime (1909-13, 13-17) Governor of Utah, now (since 1921) Commissioner of the General Land Office. When picture agencies distributed photographs of this party of callers, one caption read: "William Spry is forced to live up to his name...
...Story* is about Pauline Manford, her gaily poised daughter Nona Manford, her tired-lawyer husband Dexter Manford, her easy-going son by a former husband Jim Wyant, and Jim's wife Lita...
Reduced to its lowest terms, the action of the book is provided by Nona's love affair with Stan Heuston and Lita's incipient love affair with Dexter Manford. The rest of the characters are so implicitly concerned in one another's actions, each is so much a pillar in the last year of the 19th Century, separate catastrophe would be impossible. Total catastrophe trembles above them like a paper cutter on a thread when Dexter Manford arranges things so that he can, without Jim, have Lita as a guest in his country home. A triviality twists...