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smile on its face although the baby had never smiled. He was to remember the infant much longer than the mother who gave it birth.
Mildred was to complain that Chaplin's love for her died together with their baby. According to some of Chaplin's intimates, however, his love had died before their marriage. They had little in common. The rather shallow child-wife could not comprehend her more complex husband. She tried to domesticate him into an average husband, little understanding his devotion to his work. There were long periods of silence between them. Chaplin leased another house at 674 South Oxford Drive, near Wilshire Boulevard, for his wife, and then soon left to take quarters at his club. The failure of the marriage had been foreseeable from the start.
Early in 1920, several months after the separation, charges and countercharges began to appear in the press. Chaplin was declared "cruel" and was accused of desertion and nonsupport. "He humiliated me before my servants," Mildred pouted. "Isn't that cruelty?" Chaplin pointed to fifty thousand dollars in canceled checks as proof that he had not neglected her. That sum, she replied, covered household expenses for their entire married life. "I do not want a divorce, neither do I want Mr. Chaplin's money, but I must have support." Next she blamed her unhappiness on a woman acquaintance of Chaplin's before the marriage. Should Chaplin bring suit for divorce, she intimated that she would contest the action with a countersuit, naming a co-respondent. "There is another woman back of all this," she charged with tears in her eyes. "I still love Charlie to death," but she protested that she did not want to hold an unwilling man.
On April 8, 1920, the papers reported fisticuffs between Chaplin and Louis B. Mayer, who was by now producing the Harris pictures in addition to the Anita