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Davies' palatial hundred-room beach mansion at Santa Monica where a virtually continuous party went on. Marion Davies, herself a zestful mimic, Chaplin, and d'Arrast put on impromptu acts and played practical jokes on the other guests.
The inevitable rumors that all was not well between Chaplin and his wife began to circulate. There were quarrels over the bills Lita ran up. One night, returning fatigued from a long day's work on "The Circus," Chaplin found his house overrun with drunken guests. After an angry exchange the guests cleared out to be followed by Lita and the two babies. It was all over the newspapers the next day (December 2, 1926) that Lita Grey and the children had gone to live with her grandparents.
Attorneys tried to keep the separation case from reaching the courts while the two principals fired headlines at each other. Chaplin charged Lita with extravagance; Lita charged that her husband was holding trunks full of hers and the children's clothing. Chaplin claimed that he had surrounded her with luxury; Lita that he had subjected her to "cruel and inhuman" treatment. Denying this, Chaplin complained that she had made no efforts to share his friendships; Lita charged that he had rebuffed her friends as "common." And so it went.
Finally, on January 10, 1927, Mrs. Chaplin filed suit for divorce. Her forty-two-page complaint contained sensational charges against the comedian, including infidelity, threats upon her life, lack of affection for the children, and a variety of "inhuman" acts. The complaint was framed to permit service on the actor himself, the Chaplin Studios, Inc., Toraichi Kono, Alfred Reeves, the United Artists Corp., and seven Los Angeles and Hollywood banks. An order restrained Chaplin or any of his associates, from transferring or withdrawing any funds, or transporting any of the comedian's motion-picture properties out of the state.