SPENDING ORGY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 266, 9 November 1937, Page 9

SPENDING ORGY.

WOMAN'S ADMISSION. DRUDGERY OF DULL LIFE. IMPRISONED FOR FORGERY. (Special.—By Air Mail.) LOXDOX, October 21. "I was lonely and unhappy and loved spending money, and the desire for fashionable clothes and pretty things became an ob*e*sion. My time off duty was an orgy of spending money, so as to l>e as far removed from the drudgery of my dull existence as possible." This etatement, made by a former actress, Kileen Mary Dartry, aged 4.1, said by the police to have been manageress of a London theatre, wu read at 1 Dorset Aseizes when she pleaded guilty to forging cheques totalling £48, and was sentenced to 12 months' iniprieonnient. The cheques belonged to Miss Constance Tebbs. of B>'oadetone. by whom she was employed as a cook. Superintendent Swayne eaid that Dartry was born at Blackheath. Her father was a playwright and her mother an aetrese. After being educated at a convent until she was 18 she went on the stage, where she remained until 1015. For the next two years *he wa* a clerk at the Ministry of Munitions and during that period married an R.A.S.C officer. Charles Edward Hill-Brown, who was later discharged from the Army because of his drinking habite. Allowance Stopped. He went to the Malay States, but owing to domestic trouble she would not follow him and he stopped her allowance. She left her situation in 1917 because of the birth of a daughter, and in 1J)1!>, after putting the child into a home, *he returned to the stage. Owing to difficulties in getting work, however, she became a programme-seller at the Fortune and Drury Lane Theatres. London. Then she was appointed assistant manageress at the Apollo Theatre, of which she later became manageress. She was transferred to the Shafte*bury Theatre and the New Gaiety Theatre, but owing to illness left in 1929. In 1933 she was bound over on 13 chargee of forgery.