LUCK OF A LEGACY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21538, 9 January 1932, Page 13

LUCK OF A LEGACY

£25,000 FOR SALESMAN, p : JOY FOR YOUNG COUPLE. ‘ ; Fortune has smiled unexpectedly upon - a young couple in England who, not very. f long ago, had to scrape together funds to ? enable them to marry. A few weeks ago - the husband, Mr Edric Charles WrightBroughton, aged 24, motor salesman, em-. * ployed at Twickenham, was gladdened by > the news that he and his sister, Miss Gladys Wright-Broughton, who runs a - riding school at Thorpe Bay, have each . inherited £25,000. - - The money has come to them on the - death of their father, to whom it was bequeathed by their aunt, Miss Phyllis ;i i Broughton, the actress. ■ - The legacy changes the entire outlook ’• for Mr Wright-Broughton and his actresswife, who, before, her marriage, was Miss' * Eugenie Deborde. The husband a while ~ ago was out of work for 12 months. - He' ; hae lately been earning 35s a week, and he and his wife live in a tiny flat at ; Kensington, London. • 1

Sir Wright-Broughton, on hearing th«> good news, declared: “It is what we have '■ hoped for all along, and naturally we • t are delighted, I have-more or less known ' that the money would come to me for : some time, but of course I could not touch a penny of it, even when I was out of work ajid in need; Now that it has come/ however, I shall still carry on my work.” * “It’s rather like the plot of a novel, , and it is going to be splendid,” was the ■■ comment of the delighted young wife. * - “My husband works from 8 in the morn- * ing until 9 at night most days, and I want ■ him to get some lighter work. Then we' shall get a car again. When we married - three months! ago we had to sell it. Wo ■ i shall have a nice long holiday somewhere v where the sun is shining.” ' ’ Miss Deborde is the daughter of an ; engine driver at Griffithstown, near Ponty- ’ ■ pool, Monmouthshire. After studying aft - Cardiff she went to London six yearn , ago and entered on a stage career. She i appeared in the chorus of “ The Student - Prince,” and then toured in' “ Hit this.. 1 Deck,” “The Love Waltz,” and other * musical shows. s

Like her husband. Miss Deborde han ? often known what it is to be without A money, and for nearly a year, after a. ‘ 1 touring company in which she was em- ■'? ployed had closed, she was out of work. -> Mr Wright-Broughton is an amateur As- 7 sociation footballer. ■