Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1927)

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All the lastnight foolishness was being indulged in, and the audience was loving it. Lane exited in a thunder of applause, was recalled half a dozen times, and finally joined me in the wings. He belongs to one of the oldest and most noted theatrical families in the world — the Lupinos. As far back as the fifteenth century, they were famous pantomimists and actors. Grimaldi, probably the greatest of clowns, was a member of the family. Each boy born to a Lupino has been given the special training handed down from generation to generation. Each little Lupino, without question and without exception, was religiously educated — by the same methods — in athletics, dancing, music, and a technical knowledge of stagecraft and management. And there the schooling abruptly ceased, leaving the child to choose whatever branch of the theater he preferred. It was always taken for granted that a Lupino would be theatrically connected in some way, but it was always left to the child's instinct to lead him to the capacity best suited to him. On the maternal side of the house, Lupino is of an equally famous line of managers and producers. Mrs. Sarah Lane, his aunt, who was one of England's leading actresses in her day, is now proprietress of a theater in London. Lupino is Mrs. Lane's favorite nephew. From his first appearance on the stage, at the mellow age of three, she watched his footsteps with a fond, as well as professional, eye. Deciding to make him her heir, she expressed a wish that he bear her name. His father, the late Harry Lupino, agreed — and the small actor was then known as Harry Lane. But when this reached the ears of Grandfather Lupino, there was indignation. "Since the fifteenth century," went the complaint, "Lupino has been good enough for every male member of the family !" Automatically, Lupino Lane evolved. After his debut at three, he continued his work steadily, doing children in musical comedy, drama, pantomime. When he reached ten years, he was known as the cleverest child performer in Great Britain. Lhere are no blank spaces, no idle intervals in Lupino's career. When "Afgar" came to this country, Lupino came with it, and William Fox, scouting for new material, signed him for pictures. Lane had made films in England, on the side. During his engagement with Fox, which brought him to Hollywood for the first time, he made three two-reelers and one five-reeler. From here, he was called back to London, to the Hippodrome. At the close of the season, Ziegfeld brought him to New York for the "Follies." It was there that D. W. Griffith saw him, and engaged him for the pathetic little comic you remember in "Isn't Life Wonderful?" Griffith predicted a great future on the screen for Lane, and on the director's urgent advice Lupino decided seriously to look into this movie business. After taking New York by storm as Koko in "The Mikado," the comedian returned to the Coast to make two-reelers for Educational. Although only six or eight of his comedies have been released, exhibitors are clamoring for more. With his first brief series he has established himself in the — to be anatomical— Hearts of the American Public. His questioning, bewildered little face and elastic tumbling will soon be as famous as the Lloyd tortoise shells, the Keaton poker face, the Langdon vacuity. Like them, he is conscious of the limitations of two-reelers. He would like to introduce something a little different in the way of longer comedies. There would be a market, he is sure, for a series of pictures based on nursery tales such as "Jack the Giant Killer," "Cinderella," and "Bluebeard," modernized and made humorous by gags. In the meantime, Lupino Lane quietly makes two-reelers that sell and sell and sell. He writes most of his own stories and plans his own gags. He lives unostentatiously, with Mrs. Lane — who was Yiole: Blythe of the Adelphi Theater in London — and their five-year-old son. Lauri. He is known to the colony as "Nip," which is a criterion, since out here only the regular guys ge: nicknames. Aside from that, if you're in need of a laugh, try one of his pictures.