Show Kitty Blanchard Sues McKee Rankin Special THE HERALD Examiner Dispatch NEw Yom Sept 19 McKee Rankin has been servea with a summons in a suit brought against him by his wife known on the stage as Kitty Blanchard Mrs Rankin has two daughters one of whom Is married to Sidney Drew and is on the stage and her sixteenyearold daughter resides with her I is for the support of her and her unmarried daughter that the suit ois brought Mrs Rankins counsel explained it was not the intention of his client to prosecute her husband criminally or to speak of him disparagingly There were two counts in the complaint he explained ex-plained ono for abandonment the other for nonsupport Mrs Rankin does not bring suit Uhe explained She only 1 wants proper support According to Mrs Rankles side of the case her husband has not lived with her or supported her for three or four years Mrs Rankin is well provided for in her own right but her lawyer claims that there is no excuse for Mr Rankin not contributing contrib-uting toward her expenses I is claimed that his profits are about five hundred dol lars per week |