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Salt Lake Tribune, Salt Lake City, Utah, August 9, 1920.

MILDRED HARRIS CHAPLIN, and her husband,

Charles Chaplin, of custard pie fame, whom she is suing

for divorce.

(...) Photos, Salt Lake Tribune, Aug. 9, 1920


In his green silk pajamas

Editorial content. „FILM COMEDIAN

      CORNERED HERE

      Screen Favorite Visits Salt Lake in Seeking to Avoid

      Lawyers and Papers.

      Registers as ,Charles Spencer‘ at Hotel Utah;

      Divorce Suit Roots Privacy.

      Charlie Chaplin, whose screen antics have brought

merriment to thousands of American motion picture

lovers, fled from Los Angeles, Calif., with the avowed purpose

of ,escaping newspaper men and tenacious lawyers,‘

only to be trapped and interviewed at his room at the Hotel

Utah last night.

      The screen star declared he had been given very little

privacy since Mildred Harris Chaplin, his wife, brought suit

for divorce.

      Mr. Chaplin has been in Salt Lake since Saturday afternoon.

At the Hotel Utah he registered as Charles Spencer.

This, he explained, is a perfectly legitimate name, which he used

before he made the screen name of Chaplin famous.

      But the screen favorite was far too much of a sportsman

not to appreciate the humor of the situation when

he climbed out of bed in his green silk pajamas in answer

to a knock at the door and faced a reporter.“ (...)

      Monday Morning Edition.     


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