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she herself had picked as leading lady for "The Circus." Edna Purviance's pension of $250 a week from Chaplin was also made the subject of insinuations. Mrs. Chaplin estimated her husband's fortune at sixteen millions, of which ten millions could be classified as joint property to which, by California law, the wife was entitled to an equal share. Chaplin disputed her estimate, claiming that even three million would be an exaggeration.
The Chaplin divorce case proved sensational enough to displace the Hall-Mills murder from the headlines. Copies of Miss Grey's petition sold by the thousands for twentyfive cents apiece. Chaplin's countercharges accused his wife and her family of "a money plot." He attributed his love for young girls to a "parental feeling" they inspired in him. He explained that "you can have the same companionship and love for them as for your children." Admittedly, not an intellectual companionship: "I don't think anyone can be deeply intellectual at their age. But I love many people, and there are some friends whom I love deeply. I love some men friends, for example, as dearly as my women friends."
Women's clubs began to agitate, as they had in the Fatty Arbuckle and Mabel Normand tragedies, for the barring of Chaplin's pictures, they succeeded in a number of cities and states. Will Hays maintained a watchful silence.
Chaplin suffered a collapse and was confined to his bed at the Burkan home. It was described as "a nervous breakdown" by Dr. Gustav Tieck, a nerve specialist. Burkan denied published reports that the comedian was under guard against suicide attempts. "There is nothing in Mr. Chaplin's condition to warrant such a report. He is a highly strung man, as most actors are, or they wouldn't be good actors, and yesterday morning his condition was such, after the strain to which he has been subjected the last few weeks, that it seemed advisable to call in a physi