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...days after 18-year-old Oona O'Neill had described her eight-month acquaintance with Charles Chaplin as "entirely on the esoteric side," the comedian packed sleek, sloe-eyed Oona into a car, picked up the certificate and a case of champagne at Santa Barbara, sped to coastal Carpinteria, nervously found the finger for her first and his fourth wedding ring,* hid himself and his bride somewhere in Montecito...
Only the week before he had agreed to pay his pre-Oona protegee Joan Berry $2,500 down, legal costs, and support until the blood test which may or may not show that he did not father her unborn child. From the white house in the San Francisco hills where Chaplin's new, recently ailing father-in-law Eugene O'Neill† works with his third wife, Carlotta Monterey, on a long awaited cycle of plays, no word came. The bride's mother sent congratulations. Said Joan Berry: "He can't do this...
...Previous Chaplin wives: Mildred Harris (1918-20), Lita Grey (1924-27), Paulette Goddard (1936-42). †O'Neill offspring: by 1909-12 wife Kathleen Jenkins, 33-year-old Yale assistant professor of Greek Eugene Jr.; by 1918-29 wife Agnes Boulton, 23-year-old seaman Shane, Oona...
Favorite for election as official No. 1 Manhattan Deb this year in the Stork Club's coming nonsense was Oona O'Neill, daughter of brooding anchorite Dramatist Eugene O'Neill...
...coastal Negro dialect of South Carolina, part Huguenot, part English, part African. Sample: W'en oona duh de-dey, duh dee' duh un de-dey (When you are there, the deer is not there...