"FOOLING AROUND."

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 156, 3 July 1937, Page 23

"FOOLING AROUND."

HOLLYWOOD MARRIAGES. JUDGE TO CHAPLIN'S EX-WIFE. Hollywood husbands and wives who regard any marriage that lasts more than a year as old-fashioned, were shocked to hear that Judge Burnell, of j the Californian Court, no longer regards | too much golf or too little dinner conversation as grounds for divorce. | When Mrs. Lita Grey Chaplin Aguirre, former wife of Charlie Chaplin, and mother of his two sons, applied for a divorce from her actor-husband. Henry Aguirre, whom she married only last , September, Judge Burnell declared:— i "This woman, in the good old Hollyj wood custom, fooled around with her j husband for several months, then put i him aside. This Court will not lend 1 itself to that sort of procedure." ! Mrs. Aguirre said four months were ! enough to convince her that her second ! marriage was a failure, gave "mental cruelty" as grounds for divorce. Mr. j Aguirre denied the charges, and said his | wife was "The meanest woman in the j world." j Judge Burnell ruled that Mrs. Aguirre I had not given marriage a fair trial, and refused her application. j Mr?. Aguirre was Chaplin's second j wife. She was granted an interlocutory decree of divorce from him in 1027. Chaplin then agreed to pay her £125.000 and create a trust fund of £40,000 for their two children.