Norwich bulletin., 1922-03-02
JURY TO DECIDE WHETHER
 MARY PIcKFORD HAS LIE,


 New York, March 1.-F'edeEal Judgs Mack reached the conclusion today that ether Mary Pickford or Mrs. Cora C. Wilkenning, who sued the cinema actress for s1oS,0O0, had deliberately lied, and he left it to a jury to decide which one was guilty
 The jury returned it's decision late this afternoon, but as Judge Mack had gone home the verdict was sealed. and the question of veracity will not be pub licly settled urItil tomorrow.
 i The Me.. according to the judge, resteo somewhere in the conflicting stories of the methods Mary used back in 1916 to 1 get Adolph Zuckor to raise her salary from s4,000 8 wee kto s1G000
 Mrs. WiAennfng. whose business is that of locating jobs and better salaries for people who live by amusing others, claimed that it was she who persuaded AIr. Zucl1or to fatten Nary's income. She said the screen star came to her and told her about hearing that Charlie 1 Chaplin was making a million dollars a 1 year, and she thought her curls and 1 her pout were worth just as much as the -comedian's derby and shuffe, or words 1 to that effect
 l t was agreed that she would sally forth and get other producers to bid for Mary s services, which would force Zuckor to raise the ante, and then she would get 10 per cent commission on the new con 1 tract. Thus. she claimed s108.0 as her commission and extra charges, be- cause Mary got a s1O.od0 week con- tract running for two years.
 Mary. who was in the court room to- day with her husband. Douglas Fair banks, and her mother, fatly denied Mrs. Will1enning's story. Her lawyers 1 told the jury that Mary was such 2. good | actress that producers came around to her with tempting contracts, and that it was downright silly to think she would 1 have to run around looking for job. 1 Mary's mother testified yesterday that ] Mrs. Whitening didn't have g. thing to { do with the contract, but wanted it sign 1 ed in her office because it would lend her prestige. Today Mrs. Wilkenning's law yer told what he thought about Mary's ] mother. and Mrs Pickford almost cried 1 But she smbled again when Mary kissed her and told her to brace up and show her Irish sense of humor.''
 This interview. between the plaintiff and the defendant either took place or il l did not take place." said Judge Mack addressing the jury. One or the othe, has deliberately lied. It cannot be { mere fgment of the imagination" Then he told the jury that if they i found Mary had been the one who slipped 1 from the path of trlsh, they could award l Mrs. Wiikenning any sum up to $10s, ,0O0
 A crowd loafed all day in the corridor
 outside the court room to catch a glimps,
 of Mary and Doug. When the screer
 stars departed after tho judge haC l charged the jury. these movie fans focr1r i ed an unsolicited escort down the stair,
 to a waiting automobile. Douglas wa.
 so busy slipping on a great coat of bear
 ish fur that he almost lost Mary in th,
 mob of autograph hounds stenographers clerks, star gazers and unclassifed nor tals who surrounded her.
 "Watt a minute dear" she said.
 That seemed to tickle the crowd just al though they had been wondering al along what Mary called her husband.