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Show oo LAWYER WITNESS IN CHAPLIN SUIT SALT LAKE. April 29. Ray Van Cott, attorney was the principal witness wit-ness yesterday In tho suit of King A-Schulder, A-Schulder, suing Charles Chaplin, com-j com-j edy screen actor. for a legal fee amounting to 125,000. Tho case Is bolng heard In the United States district dis-trict court. Ho testified that tho legal advlco given by King & Schulder to Chaplin was in his opinion well worth $25,000, It was brought out yesterday In tho testimony of Mr King that the first bill for professional services submitted sub-mitted by the firm to Chaplin was for $10,000. Mr. King said that this was before the firm know that the comedian had rocolved as much as $800,000 for the film. "The Kid" The firm, he Hald, based Its fee upon the amount of money Involved In tho matters mat-ters upon which advlco at given, and that the value of "The Kid" ftttM first estimated by him and Russell G. Schuldor at less than half of the amount for which It was finally sold, Mr Schulder was called ns a lt-nes lt-nes and discussed tho matters In which the firm had porformed lpgal services for Chaplin Ho spoke of a personal Interview with Chaplin at tho Hotel T'tah Previous testimony had shown that but few of tho negotiations nego-tiations had hein made with Chaplin personally Mr. King said that Chaplin Chap-lin didn't want to ho bothered with business matters and that he left them to his brother, Sydney f'haplln and to his secretary'. Thomas 11 u-rlngton. |