The Chaplin Children

Horowhenua Chronicle, 5 September 1932, Page 3

The Chaplin Children

MUST NOT BE MADE TO WORK. CHARLIE WINS HIS CASE. * Received Sunday, 5.5 p.m. LOS ANGELES, Sept. 2. Charlie Chaplin won his suit against his divorced wife. The Superior Court Judge allowed the insertion of a clause in the divorce prohibiting either parent allowing the cnildrcn to work. However, he granted Mrs. Chaplin’s attorney ten days to file an appeal. A cable message last Monday stated: Charlie Chaplin appeared at the Superior Court to-day and asked that his divorced wife, Lita Grey Chaplin, be restrained from presenting his sons, Charles and Sydney, aged seven and six, in moving pictures. It developed that she contracted to have the boys appear in a series of films, receiving 35,000 dollars (of which the boys received 20,000) for each. Chaplin said: “It is the spiritual aspect of the thing. I believe children should bo permitted to grow up normally. I sec no reason why they should be compelled to choose their profession at this young age. I think they will suffer from the undue publicity. I will consent if they want to when they are older.” It is revealed that 200,000 dollars were settled on them at the time of the divorce and under agreement with Mrs. Grey they cannot be “hired out or ernplaycd” without the written consent of both parents.