Lupino and Lauri Lane

Lupino Lane (Henry William George Lupino, 1892-1959) with his son Lauri Lupino Lane (1921-1986).

Lupino first went on the stage at the age of four, and he was professional from early adolescence. Lane achieved renown in a 1921 pantomime production of ALADDIN, where (per Wikipedia) he “dived through sixty three stage traps in six minutes” at the Hippodrome in London. He had already appeared on Broadway in AFGAR (1920-21) with his wife, Violet Blythe. Three years later he was back, performing in the long-running ZIEGFELD FOLLIES OF 1924 (1924-25) with Will Rogers. His final appearance in New York was as Ko-Ko in the Shuberts’ MIKADO (1925).