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News-Democrat, Paducah, Kentucky, April 7, 1927.

THE FAMILY LEFT BEHIND – Lita Grey Chaplin and her

two sons, Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr., and Sidney Earle Chaplin.

(...) Photo by Pacific & Atlantic, St. Louis Globe-Democrat,

St. Louis, Missouri, April 3, 1927

& Mrs. Charlie Chaplin and Children

      The two children of Charlie Chaplin, celebrated comedian,

shown here with their mother, Lita Grey Chaplin,

do not seem to be concerned about the storm of litigation

now sweeping about them. They are shown with

their mother in the yard of their home at Los Angeles.

Mrs. Chaplin is planning to reenter the movies

to make a living for her children.

(...) Photo by Underwood & Underwood, Spokesman-Review,

Spokane, Washington, April 3, 1927

& MRS. CHARLES CHAPLIN AND HER CHILDREN

      Mrs. Lita Gray Chaplin, wife of the famous movie comedian,

whom she is suing for divorce, and her two children,

Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr., left, and Sidney Earle Chaplin,

right, playing in the sand pile on the Chaplin estate

in Beverly Hills, California.

(...) Photo by Henry Miller, Wash. D. C., Clarion-Ledger,

Jackson, Mississippi, April 24, 1927

& Lita to Go Back to Movies

      Declaring that Charlie Chaplin has failed to aid her

financially since her separation from the famous

comedian, Lita Grey Chaplin announces she will re-enter

the movies to earn a living. Here she is pictured

with her two children, Charles, Jr., and Sydney (left).

(...) Photo, Iron County News, Hurley,

Wisconsin, April 9, 1927

& Films Calling Chaplin‘s Wife

      Lita Grey Chaplin is going back into pictures, according

to latest reports. In the face of a flood of offers from

producers and skyrocketing household bills which she has

no means of meeting, the girl-wife of the famous

comedian declared that she had been ,starved into the

necessity‘ of returning to the field she abandoned

to become the bride of Charlie Chaplin. This picture shows

a close-up pose of Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr.,

Lita Chaplin, and Sidney Earle Chaplin, who is called ,Tommy‘

by his mother.

(...) Photo, Minneapolis Star, Minneapolis,

Minnesota, April 2,1927

„Leave them in the care of a heartless nurse“

Editorial content. „A WORD TO LITA

      Lita Gray Chaplin, living in a mansion which, she says,

costs $3,000 monthly for upkeep, complains that

because Charlie is using ,starvation tactics‘ she must forsake

her babes, leave them in the care of a heartless

nurse, and go forth to labor for her hire in a movie studio.“ (...)

      Also in Green Bay Press Gazette, Green Bay,

      Wisconsin, April 8, 1927; Leader-Post, Regina, Canada,

      April 8, 1927; Lansing, State Journal, Lansing,

      Michigan, April 9, 1927; and Rock Island Argus, Rock

      Island, Illinois, April 11, 1927.

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