Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 279, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1919 — $1,080,000 YEAR’S PAY FOR MARY PICKFORD. [ARTICLE]

$1,080,000 YEAR’S PAY FOR MARY PICKFORD.

Looking like a school girl, so far as size was concerned, for her hat Just, topped,, the... chair in. which shg, sat, Mary Pickford was the center ofn all eyes in the crowded court, room when she appeared in the supreme court as defendant Tuesday in the retrial of the SIOB,OOO suit brought against her by Mrs. Cora C. Wilkenberg, actors’ agent and" play broker. Miss Pickford was alleged to have contracted to pay 10 per cent to

the plaintiff for obtaining for the film star work with the Famous Players’ company which would pay $1,000,000 or (more a year to Miss Pickford. „ Mrs. Wilkenberg asserted that Miiss Pickford’s earnings amounted to $1,080,000. Miss Pickford maintains that Mrs. Wilkenberg was not responsible for her employment by the Players’ company .