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Lita Grey — second marriage and divorce 205
cian. He will remain in bed for a week or ten clays at least and get needed rest."
Meanwhile., because Alfred Reeves, who knew the combinations of the safes at the Hollywood studio, was conveniently "ill at home," Lita's clique threatened to drill the safes open. With the government liens against more than one million dollars of Chaplin's funds and property in California, Lita Grey could not collect the alimony awarded her. (Chaplin's New York funds were released when he posted bond.) Lita claimed she needed four thousand dollars a month. Attempts to ferret out information of her husband's assets produced a deposition by Henry Bergman that his restaurant was his business sideline, that Chaplin had no share in the ownership and had never deposited any of his assets with him.
Hollywood and Los Angeles clubwomen actually got together and pledged to raise funds for Chaplin's "penniless wife and children." The actor's answer to the interfering clubwomen was that it was a manufactured lie and that the plaintiffs "do not want milk for the children. They want to milk me." His California lawyer, Lloyd Wright, had been offering Lita a temporary $25 a week, but the other side was pushing for a big cash settlement.
The battle went on and on. It was stated that Chaplin would finish "The Circus" in New York. Police guarded the Lita Grey domicile after the receipt of anonymous death threats. Among other communications were marriage proposals! Not all the sentiment was on Lita's side. There were editorials scoring the comedian's critics who lived in glass houses themselves. H. L. Mencken, in the Baltimore Sun wrote: "The very morons who worshipped Charlie Chaplin six weeks ago now prepare to dance around the stake while he is burned; he is learning something of the psychology of the mob. ... A public trial involving sexual accusations is made a carnival everywhere in the United States. . . ."