£276,000 IN TWO YEARS

Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 38, 15 February 1919, Page 10

£276,000 IN TWO YEARS

MARY PICKFORD'S RIVALRY OF

CHARLIE CHAPLIN.

_ Mary Pickford's remarkable rise in the cinematograph world, to a salary and bonus amounting to no less than £276,----000 in two years, was mentioned in the Supreme Court (says the New York correspondent of the" London Daily Express), when the cinema "star" was sued by Mrs. Cora Carrington Wilkening, theatrical and literary agent, for 10 per cent, of the actress's contract with the Pickford Film Corporation and 6 per cent, of the income from the sale of articles about her life and experiences through the M'Chu.. Syndicate. Mrs. Wilkening alleges that it was by her efforts that Miss Pickford was able to make advantageous contracts. This Miss Pickford denied in the wit-ness-box. The £276,000 salary and bonus in two years was due, according to Mrs. Wilkening, to the little actress's displeasure at learning that Charlie Chaplin was receiving more than she. "Miss Pickford came to me," stated Mrs.' Wilkening, "and said she had heard Mr. Chaplin was making or had made a contract at the highest rate of compensation ever paid an actor. She wanted meto see why Mr. Chaplin should receive more pay than she did." Miss Pickford denies that she engaged Mrs. Wilkening to represent her.