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The Circus Clippings 139/376
Variety, New York, May 4, 1927.
The Circus Scenes
„$1,131,50 for servants“
Editorial content. „$1,500 LITA‘S MONTHLY
TEMPORARY ALIMONY
Los Angeles, May 3.
Lita Grey Chaplin is going to get $1,5000 a month temporary
alimony from Charlie Chaplin until her divorce action
is settled, according to the ruling of Superior Court Judge
Walter Guerin. She asked for $3,000 a month.
Judge Guerin made his decision after a five-hour hearing,
and ordered Chaplin to pay $1,629,12 for expense
incurred by his wife in bringing the suit; $4,000 attorney‘s fees
and the $1,500 a month dating back to Jan. 10, the time
the complaint was filed. Chaplin must also pay, from January
on, $314 a month toward a town car Mrs. Chaplin
bought.
As she came out of Judge Guerin‘s court Mrs. Chaplin‘s
attorneys were before Presiding Judge Wood of
Superior Court, who issued an order allowing her to appear
before a notary to swear to an affidavit asking that
the divorce trial be put on the calendar for immediate action.
Joseph M. Schenck was called to shed a little
light on Chaplin‘s financial affairs. He said he knew nothing
much about them. That Chaplin was unlike any other
actor, that time meant nothing to him and consequently the
time clause in the United Artists contract for the making
of The Circus had to be disregarded. Schenck said his concern
would lose its bankroll if they had to pay Chaplin
a salary.
Schenck stated that Chaplin has not the earning power
of other stars of the same rank, although he receives
more when he works than any of them. He declared it takes
Chaplin three or four years to make a picture that
should be made in one. He stated that $2,225,000 had been
netted by The Gold Rush and that Chaplin got
75 percent of this amount.
Mrs. Chaplin, when interrogated by her attorneys, stated
that in April it cost her $3,275,50 to maintain her home.
Her expenses to make this item were $500 for groceries, $75
for vegetables, $125 for laundry, $27 for telephone;
$100 for upkeep of her car; $27 for milk, $1,131,50 for servants,
$750 for clothes and $314 as a monthly payment on
her car. She stated that she had been given $1,850 since
the separation for the support of her children, but
nothing for herself. When Chaplin was here she stated it cost
$4,956 a month to run the house. It took $9,300,
which she borrowed, to meet the bills since the separation.
Gavin McNabb, attorney for Chaplin, asked Mrs.
Chaplin on cross-examination if she spent $8,629 in two days
for clothes, and received a negative answer. She
stated the bill represented purchases that were made
during the entire time she lived with Chaplin.
McNabb and Lyndol Young, attorney for Mrs. Chaplin,
took around an hour to sum up their sides of the
matter before Judge Guerin stated he would like to see
the case settled out of court. He then made his
alimony award.“
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