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From the autobiography of the playwrite John Osbourne

.....I went inside to see if any of the girls were there. Only one was left. Lily in the box office with her dark ringlets and strawberry lips and green dresses, who had allowed me in for nothing and let me take her home, had left to get married. The girl who had replaced her looked at me, coldly, barring me the privilege I had known before.

There were no occasional free Cambridge steaks to be had in the restaurant upstairs and only the one usherette left to sit beside you cosily among the old-age familiars before the ice-cream interval

[Here is a picture of Lily standing outside the Rembrandt; no doubt in her green dress.]

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