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Recent reactions to Derby Day have been as negative as Wilde's. A year ago, the picture was demoted to a dark corner of the National Gallery's canteen; only a handful of sentimental oldtimers objected. Last week the painting was banished to the vaults. Its disappearance was little noted. London's Evening Standard fetched a mild editorial sigh: "Many people, of course, maintain that this is not a 'good picture.' But it is, at least, a sort of institution, and a very English affair at that...
Died. Jane Cowl, 65, oldtime glamorous Broadway star (Romeo and Juliet) turned Hollywood character actress (The Secret Fury), playwright (coauthor of such hits as Smilin' Through and Lilac Time), wartime co-director of Manhattan's Stage Door Canteen; of cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...that, Monica went looking for a job on shore-a procedure that was educational enough. For a while, she grubbed around in vegetable gardens as a worker in the Land Army. Later she struggled as a matron in a camp for conscripted girl munitions workers, then as an army canteen hostess. But her job as hostess seemed to consist chiefly of peeling potatoes and being attacked by hordes of fleas. Once she found herself in a cellar with a self-styled photographer who offered her a job developing dirty pictures. Finally she tried herself out as an assistant librarian...
...Cross station wagons came next. There was also a portable canteen, like those that carried a little bit of sweetness to our boys in the field. These vehicles were driven by housewives who have leisure time. They all wore nice blue-gray uniforms and some had nice blue-gray hair. The drivers became confused when they got to the reviewing stand. There was some tooting and gear-clashing and station wagons all over the place. But only for a moment; the hatchet-faced man directed them and they wheeled their cars to the door of the hotel where the women...
Jane Cowl, 64, veteran of 38 years on Broadway, decided to stop resisting; she signed up to act in the movies for the first time since The Spreading Dawn in 1917 (in 1943's Stage Door Canteen she played herself). Her role: the managing mama of Robert Montgomery...