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Evening World, New York, September 14, 1920.
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„I will also attach his new film“
Editorial content. „Charlie Chaplin Says
He Will Not Divide With Wife
Denies Her Charge That He Is a Bolshevist –
Spurns 50-50 Idea,
A Bolshevik may believe in dividing his property with
others. Charlie Chaplin is no Bolshevik, he‘ll tell
the world. And just because his wife, Mildred, called him one
he rejected her overtures for peace. Her lawyer
has given him until late to-day to change his mind and agree
to a conference.
The couple were to have met yesterday in the office
of his counsel, Nathan Burkan, and try to smooth things over.
,It really was to have been in the nature of a peace
parley,‘ said Mr. Burkan, ,and it was my hope a reconciliation
would be affected. We were prepared to let the couple
thrash out their little quarrel by themselves, and I wouldn‘t
have been surprised if they had packed bag and
baggage and gone back to California together. But my client
couldn‘t think of seeing her after what she said to the
newspapers.‘
He declared that Chaplin had decided to make New
York his home, and that while he is a British subject
he likes this country and its laws and has never thought
of leaving.
,Mr. Chaplin,‘ he went on, ,entertains no hard feelings
against his wife. He was perfectly willing to meet
her and talk matters over, and I am convinced was even
in a frame of mind for a reconciliation. But now,
of course, all this is over, for the present, at least. While
he does not take them seriously, he is certainly
displeased at her charges regarding his alleged radical views,
and can‘t understand the motives underlying her
statements.‘
,Why, it‘s a joke,‘ said Charlie of the charges of Mildred.
,As to my being a Bolshevik, you know, it isn‘t true
at all. A Bolshevik, you know, believes in dividing his property.
Well, I don‘t intend to divide my property with anybody,
and I want the whole world to know it. I‘m a capitalist, but
I don‘t want everybody to know that, because they‘ll
be touching me up. If I were a Bolshevik I guess they‘d be
wanting me to share.
,Fifty per cent, of what I‘ve got? That‘s absurd.‘“ (...)
„,MUST COME ACROSS,‘ IS THE
ULTIMATUM.
Mrs. Chaplin had nothing to say, but her lawyer, Henry J.
Goldsmith, said:
,He must come across or shoulder arms.
,I have been in communication with Mr. Chaplin and have
given him just twenty-four hours, until Tuesday evening,
to agree to a conference at which he will discuss with us some
settlement of his financial affairs with his wife. If he does
not make some agreement, I will obtain a Federal attachment
for his property of all sorts, real and personal, on the
ground that he is a British subject and likely to leave this
country at any time.
,I will also attach his new film, soon to be released,
for which he will receive something between
$500,000 and $1,000,000.‘“ (...)
„As told yesterday, Mrs. Mildred Chaplin arrived here
a few days ago and engaged Attorney Goldsmith
to get for her what she declares are her rights – namely,
half of the custard-chucker‘s fortune, real and
personal, acquired since their marriage, in October, 1918,
which she estimated at $3,000,000.“ (...)
„About the same time Mrs. Chaplin arrived, Charlie
registered at the Ritz as Mr. Spencer, this it appears,
being his middle name. He was there yesterday when he read
and was told what his wife said about him.“
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