The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-22

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 Mrs. Doug Fairbanks, daughter of the cotton king, arrives in New York in April, 1918. A persistent rumor has to do with a separation and an eventual divorce from Doug. Doug issues statement after state ment from. towns he covers as a Iib- erty Loan campaigner- He condemns this rurnor as German propaganda .Dougs' Denies Report. Mrs. Doug is said to have de- c1ared that she and Doug have agreed to disagree. Doug indignantly wires the newspapers that this likewise is German propaganda.
 Owen Moore is here in the East making pictures Mary is on the Coast-maling pictures.
 April 12. 1918, a report is pub lished. claiming: Mrs. Fairbanks is separated from Doug. Because sho' believes he and Miss Pfckford are ''so fond of each other that it would be unkind for a wife to disturb their happiness.''' Mary is silent Things go along with storm clouds threatening until August IS. 1918. Mrs Fairbanks and Doug separate, after twelve years of happiness.
 "T have no malice for anybody declared Mrs. Fairbanks, at this time. day adore MT. Fairbanks just as much as I did the day we met, and always will. To be truthful, I do not blame sanybedy for loving my hus band.'
 And in November, 1918, Mrs. Fair banks was granted a, divorce, the GUS l tody of their one child being hers.
 1926 con1es' and nd with it, Mary's suit for a divpfce against her husband, Owen Moore. on the ground of deser | ton.
 Mary Weeps.
 ''The scene is in the little court room in Minden, Nevada. Farmers 1 for miles and miles around, crowd the room. Mary Pickford takes the stand, testifying her reasons for a di- band, now in the East starring in Selznick pictures.
 'tTn the midst of her t-stim ony Mary breaks down and sobs. A re- her story. Sitting quietly by are Owens attorneys. They do not pro test the case. But they listen atten- lively to the proceedings
 | ."It is the end of November, 1920, when Mary is granted her divorce.
 Several days later she is married I to Douglas Fairbanks The country \ at large is divided in sympathy. They null over Doug's divorce and the for titude and kindlines1s of his former wife, now married to a broker in | Pittsburgh, Pa. James Evans. Opin- Hons fly pro and con-
 Their reception is the most enthu- siastic any celebrities ever boasted. From London they go to Paris. I Thence home, and to making more | pictures.
 'sNow, in March, 1921. comes the 1 challenge of the State of Nevada represented by its attorney general | Is Mary Pickford really married
 Ne!' says the attorney general. Why not? Prove iti T will retorts the at torney general, and he publishes brief, charging: | And Now What? | ".A fraudulent and collusive judg- ments as between Miss Pickford, now Mrs Fairbanks, and MT. Moore and so admitted
 And the past is going to be re- hashed, way out in that one-horse town, Minden, Nevada Mrs. James Evans, the former Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks, nee Beth Sully, daughter | of the cotton king will be brought | into the rnerciless 1i1nelight again; Doug and Owen will be brought into the legal fold: and Mary-our own little Mary-wi1l stand, the centre of the storm that is commencing to | blow and to swirl around her slight | figure as she stands in that court room in Minden, fighting-as in the | old days when she was making a na.1ne-for her rights as a free, Amer ican citizen.