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Lawson Butt was born on 4 March 1880 in Bristol, England, UK. He was an actor and director, known for Dante's Inferno (1924), The Beloved Rogue (1927) and Afterwards (1928). He died on 14 January 1956 in Hampshire, England, UK.- Actress
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Composer and singer Grace Lane was part of The Lane Sisters - Dorothy (later Walker), Grace and Betty Lane - who began their careers at Connecticut radio stations WICC in Bridgeport and WELI in New Haven. They lived at 1080 Morehouse Street and their father Bill Lane owned Bill's Diner on Broad Street and their mother was pianist Carrie Lane, who was instrumental in promoting the girls' career at various benefits and charitable events. When they joined the McFarland Twins Band just before World War II, they began being billed as the Norton Sisters (from their mother's maiden name) so as not to be confused with the Lane Sisters of films. Soon they began working with the orchestras of Tony Pastor, Carl Hoff and then Vaughn Monroe, with the latter recording several RCA Victor hits including "There I've Said It Again" and "Let It Snow." Middle sister Grace ended the trio in October of 1945 with her marriage to music publisher Al Gallico. Betty (later Frankhauser), the youngest sister, joined the bands of George Paxton and Hal McIntyre until she married and left the business in the early 1950s. But in 1961 the Lane Sisters reunited under their original name, encouraged by Al Gallico of the Shapiro Bernstein publishing company, and recorded "Peek A Boo Moon" and "Birmingham Rag" (written by Grace) for Landa Records. Grace Lane Gallico joined ASCAP in 1954 and her musical collaborators included Tom Glazer, Earl Shuman and Leon Carr. Her other popular-song compositions include "Pass the Plate of Happiness Around," "Fontainebleu," "Margarita," "Penny Was Lucky for Me," "Darling, You Make It So", "Twilight Waltz", Clinging Vine", "Believe in Me", and, for Titus Turner, "Bla Bla Bla, Cha Cha Cha."- British novelist and playwright Sheila Kaye Smith was born near Hastings, England, in 1888. Her father was a wealthy physician, and she was educated at private schools. She took to writing at an early age, and had published her first novel by age 20. In 1924 she married T. Penrose Fry, the Anglican rector in her home town, but five years later they both converted to Roman Catholicism. Her husband resigned from the Angelican church and the couple moved to London, and later they retired to a country home they had bought in Sussex (the location of several of her novels). She turned out dozens of novels, several plays and short-story collections, a collection of essays and an autobiography, "Three Ways Home", which was published in 1937. She died in 1956.