Comox senior Verity Sweeny Purdy is a London-trained ballet dancer who performed in Hollywood, taught at a Seattle dance school and once changed her name to Anna Verite. Having described her girlhood dancing career in The Luckiest Girl in the World (Heritage House 1998), she has recalled her days as a WW II soldier and 'hoofer' with the Invasion Review in As Luck Would Have It (Vanwell $19.95). As Private V. Sweeny she toured from 1943 to 1946 with the Canadian Army Show that included comedians Frank Shuster and Johnny Wayne, plus female impersonators called the Tin Hats. She was born in Vancouver in 1922 and grew up in the city's West End.

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