CHAPLIN'S TWO SONS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21274, 30 August 1932, Page 9

CHAPLIN'S TWO SONS

MOTHER PLANS FILM WORK INTERVENTION BY FATHER LOS ANGELES. Aug. 28 Charles Chaplin, film comedian, appeared in the Superior Court, Los Angeles, to-day and asked that his divorced wife, Lita Grey Chaplin, be restrained from presenting his sons, Charles and Sydney, aged seven and six respectively, in moving pictures.

It transpired that Mrs. Chaplin had contracted to have the boys appear in a series of films and to receive £7OOO each, of which the boys were to be given £4OOO. Chaplin said it was the spiritual aspect of the thing. He believed that the children should be permitted to grow up normally and saw no reason why they should be compelled to choose their profession at their present young age. He thought they would suffer from undue publicity. " I will consent if they want to work in pictures when they are older," said Chaplin. It was revealed that a sum of £40,000 was settled on the , boys at the time of the divorce and that under an agreement with Mrs. Chaplin they cannot be "hired out" or employed without the written consent of both their parents.