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Divorced. Betty Compton, 24, musicomedienne (Oh, Kay!, Fifty Million Frenchmen), friend of Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker; from Edward Duryea Dowling, cinema dialog director whom she had married secretly in Manhattan's Carlton House 33 days prior (TIME, March 2 ), from whom she became estranged two days later (TIME, March 16); in Cuernavaca, Mexico, after "a day or two" residence. Grounds: "cruelty, personal violence, refusal to provide maintenance." Said the New York Daily Mirror: "An attempt at suicide preceded Miss Compton's marriage . . . Dowling was an interlude . . . from which the actress emerged when it reached the ears...
Dancer Betty Compton (Oh, Kay! and Fifty Million Frenchmen), pretty friend of New York's Mayor Walker; was suddenly and secretly married to one Edward Duryea ("Eddie") Dowling some weeks ago. Last week she returned from the Havana honeymoon estranged from her new husband. They had found each other "incompatible" after two days. She planned a trip to California...
Married. Betty Compton, 24, musicomedienne (Oh, Kay!, Fifty Million Frenchmen), much-reported golf-partner of Mayor James John Walker; and Edward Duryea Dowling, 26, dialog director for Paramount-Publix Studio, Astoria, N. Y.; secretly, in Manhattan...
...novelty class, Oscar Duryea & wife of New York won with their Conversation, quickly nicknamed Speakeasy Promenade by onlookers. Male and female take an open position and dart and duck at one another in a burlesque of bussing...
Corn Products Refining Co. ("Argo" and "Duryea" starch, "Karo" corn syrup, "Mazola" salad & cooking oil)-$11,905,289. Previous year...