New Britain herald., 1927-07-02
MADE OWN CLOTHES
 MRS. CHAPLIN SAYS
EeanEhle "Other Woman'
 Vas Given Jewels, She Protests

Los Angeles. July ? R-More fragments from the wreck of the Charles Chaplin matrimonial ship were left on the legal shoals today as the film comedians attorneys studied Lita Grey Chaplin's newest bundle of charges against her dis tinguished screen actor husband, from whom she is seeking a divorce,
 Tn an 1S,000 word answer filed yesterday to the actors cross com- plaint, Mrs. Chaplin described her self as having been a frequenter of second hand stores and patron of basement bargain counters, the de- signer and seamstress of her own clothes and subject to her famous husbands Japanese valet in finan- cial matters. These conditions were imposed, she declared, by her mil- lionaire husbands ideas on economy.
 A s2 hat purchased from the bar gain counter of San Diego depart ment store served as her best in headgear. she said. A s20 baby bed and mattress for one Of the small heirs 10 the comedian's fortune brought protests from the actor and she was forced 10 tour second hand stores Of San Diego until she found a used bed and mattress at a total cost of s11.
 On her husbands charges that she was too friendly with "a certain young man" and with an automobile salesman, Mrs. Chaplins answer de- nied all of his accusations.
 She made the first specific charge against the actor of improper asso- citation with another woman. This occurred. she said, in July. 1925, in bungalow owned by Chaplin on his Hollywood studio lot, Other in stances in the Chaplin Beverly Hills mansion and other places in South ern California she mentioned The woman was unnamed.
 She also declared that although her husband bought her a s1,aoo diamond studded watch in a New York shop, he complained that it was an expenditure he could ill af- ford. Later, she said, she learned he had purchased another watch for s2. 500 from the same shop for an- other woman
 An automobile salesman whom she knew. many of her acquaint- ances and persons with whom she had any contact. including beach boys at Honolulu and oilers aboard the steamer City Of Los Angeles. all had been approached by persons who said they were representatives of her husband. she declared, assert ing that they received offers of money 10 make statements to the effect that she had been indiscreet.
 She accused her husband of hav- ing arranged for her trip of last summer to Hawaii in the hope that he would be able to obtain evidence against her. Detectives hired by the actor watched her every movement on route to the island and her re- turn to California. she declared.
 Up until about IS months after her marriage to the film actor, Mrs. Chaplin said she neither had Sm ok cd cigarette nor taken a drink of liquor. Her first drink was taken on his urging that she be good fellow"
 Tn answer 10 her husba nd's charges of over drinking Mrs. Chap lin declared that after taking the first drink with her husband. she sometimes drank wine in their home. She recounted q visit to the home of one of his friends where she took one drink, somewhat un willingly and after urging, but with disastrous effect, she became so ill she was unable 10 eat her dinner and was forced 10 lie down.
 Later when she asked Chaplin why she became ill from drinking tho liquor she said. he declared: Sick nothing. you were drunk"
 She said Chaplin and his friends drank intoxicating liquor as an or dinary and usual thing"