Mystery Still Surrounds Why Mary Quit Derby's Footlights ; Forty Years Ago This Month, Well-Known Derby Actress Mary Laine Took Her Final Curtain Call After Performing to Rave Reviews in War and Peace at the Playhouse in Sacheverel Street. She Quit, with No Explanation, Never to Return, Though Her Career Continued Elsewhere - As Pat Parkin, Left, Reports.

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Forty years ago this month, well-known Derby actress Mary Laine took her final curtain call after performing to rave reviews in War and Peace at the Playhouse in Sacheverel Street. She quit, with no explanation, never to return, though her career continued elsewhere - as Pat Parkin, left, reports.

Forty years after the final curtain fell on the Derby career of actress Mary Laine - who had been the darling of Playhouse theatre audiences - mystery still remains about why she left.

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Mystery Still Surrounds Why Mary Quit Derby's Footlights ; Forty Years Ago This Month, Well-Known Derby Actress Mary Laine Took Her Final Curtain Call After Performing to Rave Reviews in War and Peace at the Playhouse in Sacheverel Street. She Quit, with No Explanation, Never to Return, Though Her Career Continued Elsewhere - As Pat Parkin, Left, Reports.

For 11 years she had played the leading lady in almost every production, winning tremendous reviews and popularity; but then, after taking her usual curtain calls for her role in War and Peace in July 1967,...

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