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...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...
...RUMOR CHAPLIN PAYMENT" a sedate New York daily gossiped. When Lita Grey Chaplin left Charlie, the clown, she made many full-blooded charges for the press to print. Last week it was gossiped about that Charlie had agreed to part with $500,000 if Lita would call off the hounds of the law. Mrs. Chaplin questioned, said: "My attorneys instruct me not to talk." Her attorneys, more voluble, issued a flat denial...
...Chaplin case," continued Bob, "I think Lita is in the right and Charley is in wrong. It's different from the Browning case. 'Peaches' couldn't get what she wanted . . . she was trying to pull Browning's leg. There was a lot of 'antics' too that won't come out in the paper...
...kick out of being married to you."--Lita Grey Chaplin to Charles Spencer Chaplin...