Milford chronicle., 1958-07-25
Beautiful Blonde
Blends Fine Art
And Syncopation
Associated press

Associates Press
Jane Morgan is on the stock cir
cult this summer, but she prob
ably could be just as successful on
the auction circuit, or doing any
of a number of other things. The
beautiful blonde singer and actress
knows as much about the selling
points of Renoir, Rembrandt, Pi-
casso and Monet as she does about
putting over blues song or a cool
and friendly ditty.
Grandpa Currier was respon-
sible for my interest in. painting, .
says Jane. 81 was put in charge
of some 300 canvases of his after
mothers death, and l got to learn
a good bit about art"
j. Frank Currier, a painter of
the 1880's Classic School did things
that were considered pretty radical
for his time. Jane says:
He loved to paint the moon and
other night scenes, going up on the
hills just before dawn with his
easel. He loved darkness and
gloom, taught Monet, has paint
ing in the YOU'RE, and is just com
ing into his own"
Jane recently was offered $2,500
for one of his still life paintings.
All the Curriers' were individ-
uals, for that matter, and left each
other to their own devices.
1--WE were musical comedy fam
ily," laughs Jane, who was born
Florence Currier in Boston. Some
one was ikel. to burst into a
song or start singing in the middle
of the night. The rest of us just
didn't pay any attention
Jane started in summer stock
when sihio Was eight Her mother
had been concert singer, her dad
was first eeiiiist with the Boston
Opera, her sister was a dancer,
and her brothers were in the thea
ter. One brother has a summer
theater at Kennebunkport, Me.
81 was the youngest, so l took
lessons from every member of the
family" says Jane.
Witty and shapely, the popular
club singer can draw, paint, dance,
play the violin, piano and a couple
of other instruments. She speaks
French, Italian and Spanish. She
studied music at the Juillard school
and took singing lessons from her
mother.
Il sang five years at the Champs
Elysees in Paris" says Jane, be
fore being imported to America.
You must plan career carefully.
1t cost me about $4,000 for clothes
and $1,000 for orchestra arrange
ments to do a stint at the Hotel
Plaza in New York City, but an
engagement like that boosts your
stock, and it is a good investment,
even though you may lose money"
James mother was determined
that one of her children sing, but
four showed no promise, and then
Jane came along. She says:
MON was SO when I was born.
Even the doctor didn't believe her
symptoms and didn't show up for
the delivery. She called him after
it was over and said I told you
SOL"
The youngest of her three bro
theirs is 18 years her senior. They
share a house filled with antiques
and Colonial furniture in Kenne-
bunkport, the area where she plans
to retire when she finally pulls up
stakes. In fact Maine is her main
ambition, where she hopes to find a
150-year-old house for her old age.
I'D like to get married and have
family" says Jane, "but l just
don't seem to meet the right man"
But the right man may not sus-
pect as ne melts to James popular
rendering of Fascination" that
behind all that beauty and talent
there is brain, as one of her fans
remarked recently.
She lives in a three-room New
York apartment furnished in Di-
rectoire, French Provincial, Vic
torian and Italian Provincial fur
niture. She uses black, gold and
white draperies and has a gold
sofa and carpet.