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cheeks and with trembling lips, she announced dramatically, "Now I will live only for my work." But they made up again and the now radiant actress announced: "He told me he loved me and could not live without me."
There was too much drama and temperament in the affair. Pola Negri's emotions were a torrent the little comedian could not control. The Polish tigress went tooth and nail after a rival, a Mexican girl who had entered the house by a ruse and secreted herself in Chaplin's bedroom. In the middle of 1923 the match was definitely declared off. "I am glad it is over, for it was interfering with my work. ... I am sure I could not be a great actress as Mrs. Chaplin." The papers soon noted that Chaplin was seen escorting Leonore Ulric, while Pola, at a tennis championship match, was attended by William Tilden and Manuel Alonzo.
Chaplin seems to have been humiliated by the affair and was chagrined to hear that another actor, Rudolph Valentino, had supplanted him. "That ham," he said in disgust. In later years one of Chaplin's favorite parlor acts was his impersonation of a certain fading actress courting publicity with a great emotional scene at the funeral of a certain famous actor!
Chaplin's loves, real or gossip-created, filled the columns during the twenties. Before his marriage to Lita Grey, he was reported seen in the company of Lila Lee, Thelma Morgan Converse, Anna Q. Nilson, Josephine Dunn and others.