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Betty Compton
Betty Compton (born Violet Halling Compton; May 13, 1904 – July 12, 1944), was an English actress and singer, who married New York City mayor Jimmy Walker in 1933. Compton was born Violet Halling Compton in Sandown, Isle of Wight. She moved to Canada with her parents when she was seven years old. She studied singing in New York City with Estelle Liebling. A member of the Ziegfeld Follies, she appeared in the original stage production of ''Funny Face'' (1927) alongside Fred Astaire and Adele Astaire, as well as '' Oh, Kay!'' in 1926. Compton married film dialog director Edward D. Dowling on February 16, 1931, in Cuernavaca, Mexico, and they were divorced in that city on March 20, 1931. She had received a divorce from a previous marriage in 1923. She married Walker on April 18, 1933, in Cannes, France. On May 11, 1942, Compton married consulting engineer Theodore Knappen in Jersey City. That was her fourth wedding. She and Knappen had a son, Theodore Compton Knappen. She an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandown
Sandown is a seaside resort and civil parish on the south-east coast of the Isle of Wight, United Kingdom with the resort of Shanklin to the south and the settlement of Lake in between. Together with Shanklin, Sandown forms a built-up area of 21,374 inhabitants. The northernmost town of Sandown Bay, Sandown has an easily accessible, sandy shoreline with beaches that run continuously from the cliffs at Battery Gardens in the south to Yaverland in the north. Geography The town grew as a Victorian resort surrounded by a wealth of natural features. The coastal and inland areas of Sandown are part of the Isle of Wight Biosphere Reserve designated by UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere Programme in June 2019, and Sandown's sea front and clifftops form part of the Isle of Wight Coastal Path. The Bay that gives Sandown its name is an excellent example of a concordant coastline with five miles of well-developed tidal beaches stretching all the way from Shanklin to Culver Down due t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
