New Britain herald., 1927-01-13
EDNA PURVIANCE
 NAMED IN CASE
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court order directing United Artists corporation, distributors for some of Chaplin's pictures and named as a defendant in Mrs. Chaplin's divorce action. to withhold all money due the comedian as well as any amounts due him in the future.
 Notices preventing the withdraw al of funds or the contents of safe- ty deposit boxes were served on all banks with which the actor and his associates are known to have trans acted business.
 In her divorce petition, Mrs. Chaplin averred the screen actor had confessed intimacy with several motion picture women.
 "It's Terrible" Charlie Says
 Chicago, Jan. 13 R1Charlie Chaplin's first public comment on the divorce suit of his wife Lita Grey Chaplin, was It's terrible too terrible for works"
 The film comedian. most of whose fortune together with his trick cane, floppy pants. derby hat and over sized shoes, have gone into the hands of receivers in Los Angeles, had little more than this phrase, murmured several times, when he arrived in Chicago last night on his way to New York.
 Plainly dejected and barely able to summons a smile when reporters besieged him as he stepped reluc- tantly from a western train, Chaplin finally posed for a picture after he warded off reporters with these words.
 Declines To Comment
 Really boys, I'm sorry. I'd like fo talk for you but this is not the time and place and I shall reserve my statement for just that-the right time and place.
 Its just simply too terrible for words"
 He stopped moment, irresolute, and seemed on the verge of going on with something more but in the next instant his mouth frightened a bit grimly and he simply repeated that statement:
 'It's just too terrible for words" !"
 Seems Broken Man
 There were circles under his eyes There appeared no spring in his walk, and his shoulders seemed to sag. Only once was there flash of his old time humor, and that came when he was asked what was taking Jim to New York.
 T arn going there," he said, and paused, while a slow smile came to his lips, "to write the concluding chapters to story of my life, which Is now appearing in New York magazine"
 Denying that he intended to go to with Will Hays, director of moving pictures, Chaplin hoped into taxi7 cab and sped away, shaking off pur- suing reporters. He was not regis tered at any of the leading hotels, but it was believed he spent the iiiSLI liSlt, plCpii GU to i1ouiliC i4io Journey eastward today.
 Hays Not Interested
 Nr. Hays in New Orleans denied that his appearance there had a bearing on the Chaplin case. The movie head said he was on his way 10 Los Angeles after attending the opening of a hotel at Edgewater, Miss.
 Hays said he knew nothing of the case, had nothing to say, and that it was quite probable he never would have anything to say con- corning it.
 T am. of course. not the arbiter of morals of the film 1ndustry's flf- ty thousand people. However. there hasn't or hadn't been scandal in Hollywood since the producers and distributors organization was form ed four years ago."
 May Bar Films
 As attorneys for Mrs. Chaplin be- gan efforts in the moving picture city to trim the payroll of the Chap lin film organization, movements were started in several cities to bar films In which the comedian ap- pears until the divorce case is dis pocad of