An alumna of the Juilliard School of Music and the Ziegfeld Follies, Soprano Jane Pickens married millionaire Manhattan Investment Banker William C. Langley in 1954, gave up her TV show to juggle benefit balls and paint. Working in her Park Avenue apartment and at her Westbury, L.I., country home, she developed what one art authority called "an innocent eye." Wondered she: "Is that good or bad?" Last week, good or bad, the ex-songstress had her first one-woman show (with proceeds to cerebral-palsy research), sold 34 canvases on opening day to such prominent gallerygoers as Mrs. Laurance Rockefeller. Adele Astaire Douglass, Elizabeth...
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