The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-24
Joon Barry Testifies
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 S--.-.--,s----------.---------- Chaplin, spent most of yesterday afternoon telling her story to Q Jury of elderly men and women in tho court Of Judge J. r. T. OConnor Prosecutor Charles II, Carr did th' questioning.
 The portly dieslor barely hac started his cross s.eXatnlnation Whet court recessed for the night. He hat to postpone until this morning hi numerous queries designed to show that Miss Barry had numerous mas' cullne admirers and to prove that even while she was spending tim( with Chaplin at the Waldorf.As' toria, she had another man walt Ing for her at the Hotel Pierre. Carr Oblect <
 Each tllno dicsler mentioned tho other man. apparently an escort ol MisS Barry in Mexico, Carr objected heatedly. At one stage Of the argu' ment, the prosecutor cried:
 "E1Ven If the lowlieBt prostitute were brought Into this court, her af- fairs would Do !inmaterial to thii case"
 The judge sustained him and Mss Barry, who had been growing in- creAsingly nervous, dabbled ct hei eyes,
 0ieslCr also hoped to get Into tho court reporters notes his contention that the Charlie Chaplin studioi had spent more than 5000 groom ing Miss Barry Rs Q movie Btarlel when they were forced to desist be- cause Of her pregnancy. Carr man- aged the first day to stop that line of attack, too, and MisS BafTy'i story that she was c woman wrong ed--transcontinentally-waS shaken ct court opening this morning.
 She told Of meeting Chaplin " Hollywood in i94l. of having inti' mate relations with him SeverN times c week for months, md of go' ing In the fall of l042 to meet hin' in New York.
 Her unnamed boy friend, she Said took her dancing ct the StoFk Club where she met Chaplin and con- graduated him upon his speech. A few nights later sine met the ceme' dian for dinner at the 2i Club, im- bibed some Scotch with him ct EI Morocco, and finally went With him to his apartment Rt the Waldorf.
 Small Talk
 we talked few minutes about the Russians" sine said. MT. Chap lin said they were very artistic Then he asked me to go Into the bedroom. We stayed there three hours"
 Did you have sexual inter- course2" demanded Carr.
 "Yes," she replied. biting her heavily rouged lips,
 A day Or two later, slle continued, Chaplin gave her three Slo0 bills and sent her back to Hollywood. On November and again on Dcccm- Der i3, she said she had intimate relations with him, By then he had removed her from his payroll and on December i9 she visited him again, carrying c gun, just in case She said she had to break win dow to get in. She ran upstairs and found the silver.haired Chaplin, In bed.
 But 1 did not threaten to shoot him." she said. T spent the night with him. When I got there he was talking to somebody on the tele- phone. He was talking about West brook Pegler, the columnIst who'd just written a colum about him. ] heard him say. This Pegler is ar absolute fool: he is prosecuting me and he doesn't know what he Il talking about
 Stayed TllI 3 A. M.
 ''When MT. Chaplin turned to mo I was trembling. with the gun in my hand. He said, Come here, you little fool I did. He tried to take the gun away from me, but I said No, Charles, you can't have 1t So we sat on the bed while. We must have stayed until three a. m
 Again came Carr's familiar ques- ton about sexual intercourse. Again Miss Barry said "yes".
 And when he was through witII me-" she continued, T went into another room. I did not see him again until noon the next day. When I did see him, he told me he was going to rehabilitate me. He said was extravagant. He said if Ic move into the Studio Club Ca board. ing house for young actresseS) he'c give me $25 a week. on condition that he could have me when he wanted"