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Show ,ju ACTOR SUED BY MOTHER OF GIRL Herbert Rawlmson Facing $200,000 Damage Action in Los Angeles I.' is AN'tJF.LKS Call) March 29 ' Herbert Rawllnson. motion picture ac-i ac-i , . y. - mail, ib fendanl ui .i sua lor damages .if $200,000 filed In the au-I au-I perlor court here Tuesday by Mrs. Kthel K Clark of New York, who charged Ravllii9on had committed a statutory offense against her daughter. daugh-ter. Dorothv ClarkT Iwo years ago. Mrs. Clark and her daughler. are I now in New York, but their exact ad-I ad-I dress was withheld by their attorney. J. K. Stick ney of San Diego. Calif.. ! who said he had filed the action at the request of Mrs. Clark The alleged offense, according to ' the papers In the suit, was committed j ln New York In 1920 when the girl I was 15 years old. At that time, it was said, the girl ! had had brief experience in motion i picture work. More recently. Attorney Attorn-ey fstiekney stated, she had been on the legitimate stage ln New York. Returning from Balhoa. C.il.. where he had been on locution. Mr. Rawllnson Rawlln-son made the following statement. "I never was mure astounded in my life. The suit would be ludicrous if it did not Involve the entire motion picture pic-ture profession, already the victim of similar slander. I knew Mrs. Clark and her daughter several years ago. and 1 1 led to help them out of w hat th'-v said was a desperate financial situation. Kroin time to time I gav'Q Mr.--. Clark ojnjll sums of money to enable them to buy food. I fool poorly repaid by a suit for which there is no foundation. "I have placed the entire matter in tho hands of my attorneys." |