Jane Cowl (December 14, 1883 – June 22, 1950) was an American film and stage actress and playwright who was, in the words of author Anthony Slide, "notorious for playing lachrymose parts".

[4][5] She attended Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, New York City,[6] followed by some courses at Columbia University.

[7] Her first leading role was Fanny Perry in 1909 in Leo Ditrichstein's Is Matrimony a Failure?, produced by David Belasco, and then she played stock.

"[9] Biographer Charles Higham admired Cowl's "marvelous bovine eyes and exquisite genteel catch in the voice ..."[10] In June 1911, Cowl traveled on the maiden voyage from Southampton of the RMS Olympic, sister ship of the Titanic which was lost in a famous disaster the following April .

[11] In 1930, Cowl appeared with a young Katharine Hepburn in the Broadway production of Benn W. Levy's play Art and Mrs.

[14] A former actor and son of a prominent Jewish photographer in Louisville, Kentucky, Klauber left the Times in 1918 to become a theatrical producer and manager.