The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-08-19
She's a Fine Girl and q Good
Mother" Says Chaplin.
Predicting Divorce Will Be
Granted With AmicabIe
Settlement; Threatened
Sensations Apparently Will
Be Forgotten
BY DAN THOMAS
NEA Service Writer

! Copyright. 1927, NEA Service. Inc
Los Angeles. Aug. 19.--The moving
picture world is breathing more
easily.
After Nerving themselves Tor tn"
| explosion Of scandal that was cx-
pected to be touched off by the pend
/ ing hearing of Lita Grey Chaplin's
divorce suit against her famous hus-
band, Charlie, leaders of FINLAND
are beginning to believe that the
whole affair will pass quietly and
painlessly.
Chaplin himself predicts it, and
seems the most relieved of the lot.
] met him at San Francisco and
came down to Los Angeles with him
In an exclusive interview, he told
me that the suit was virtually set
tied; that there probably would be
no airing of scandal; that he and
Lita ut last were in agreement and
that while the form Of divorce
hearing would be gone through with.
there were unlikely to be any sensa-
tions.
Oddly enough. the signing Of the
divorce papers apparently will find
Chaplin and Lita more friendly than
they have been for year.
Il came west with the full inten-
ton at fighting this case to fin.
ish,' he said. MRS. Chaplin's legal
staff submitted settlements to me or
, two occasions and then refused tt
, sign them when agreed to Their
terms. ! was not going to give them
! o third chance-but since have de-
: cided to do so.
t II have remained practically 81
: lent since the beginning Of Ou
trouble because l did not think i
, was right to attack Lita. She is ;
: fine girl and . good mother to he
s babies. ] have no fault TO find will
n her. We just weren't suited, that
:. ALL"
a The terms of settlement whic
It Chaplin and his wife have reached
! it Is learned from q reliable source
call for payment by Chaplin I
d Mrs. Chaplin Of something less tina
= million dollars. Mrs. Chaplin wi
a keep the bahies---but Charlie will b
II seen at her home frequently.
X Chaplin loves his two sons an
= wants to see as much Of them as h
can. And. now that a settlement hi
been reached. it becomes apparer
. that he and Lita have forgotten til
bitterness that marked the earl
stages Of their trouble. Indeed, bal
ring 1pEoreseen happenings. it
= probahteithat they will be very GOO
j friendsaonce they are no longer ma
/ and wife.
4 Chaplin's chief interest, now tn;
his marital troubles are settled, is
- his new picture. "The Circus" Wol
" on this picture had been begun whe
Mrs. Chapman sued him for divorc
but all !. activities were suspend,
when she began filing attachmen
on all her husbands property. No
however, he is ready to .r1sume fir
ne ing: -, ).
~, ished and released before Christmas
~ he told me. ."L have several 9th
" stories in mind for future pictur
IN and I will start work on one of the
~ right after New Years. There rul
he or. th3t am going to produce pi
he lures 16tQad are wrong. l will co
an tinue. all @of my work in my. Holl
wood ke4io."
Chaplin seems genuinely reliev
~ at the settlement Of his trouble
do And he is not the only one. T
r "higher-ups" Of FINLAND are reliev
Mt. also.
mn ~ Mrs. Chaplin's threats to nal
;on seven actresses as correspondent
nm. had set Hollywood buzzing. 1t "
his generally agreed that all of II
.he would have been dad for bushes
hat for. once scandal in the mo'
Mn world gets started no one kno
ION whom or where it will stop.