DEBTS OF £24,000.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 66, 19 March 1938, Page 12

DEBTS OF £24,000.

CLAIM BY WOMAN. FORMER ENGLISH ACTRESS. SECOND TIME BANKRUPT. (Special.—By Air Mail;) LONDON, February 25. '1 never thpuglit I should ever want for money. I iised to lend it right and left. If I could gather in those debts I would be worth £24,000." Miss Blanche Tomlin, once popular musical comedy star with a private income of £10,000 a year from her first husband, made this statement after she had been adjudged bankrupt for the second time. Miss Tomlin, who is 48, was summoned at London Bankruptcy Court as Mrs. Blanche May Innes and described in the receiving order as Louisa Tomlinson. Her liabilities were stated to be £1640 against assets of £3. She stated that in 1924 she was adjudged bankrupt with . liabilities of <10,193 and assets of £200, and obtained ' fc»r *disi^iir^frbtt*tlW®e' proceedings in July* 19?7,;: subject to a suspension of r; months. | p ' She was in some distress in Court. • Dressed in brown, she: wore pale bluerimmed spectacles, and ear-rings of _ the same colour. iSh® agreed that fa ordering £800 worth Jl repairs, decorations and furnishings for her house in 1936 she told a well-known West End firm that she had received a birthday gift of £1000 in shares. "Almost immediately after I received them it was decided that I should, not have them at all," she stated. Mr. S. W. Hood, the official receiver, queried: "You got credit on the representation that you had £1000 in shares?" Slie said that was so. After the hearing she; said:. "In the days" when I was drawing a large income from my stage work and from the will of my first husband, I lent money right and left to needy col : leagues in my profession. "I have been retired from the stage since my second marriage in 1931. "I have had six operations in three years, and my husband had been ill and not working for some time during the period leading up to these proceedings. I have not slept for worry for nights." As Blanche Tomlin she made her first stage appearances in the chorus of "The Arcadians."