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When Rusty Lane isn't acting at the theatre, performing fatherly duties for his two small children, or regaling his wife, actess Sara Anderson with tales of the excitement backstage at the Barrymore, one can be certain to find him in an aquarium. For Mr. Lane is a devoted ichthyologist or in simpler language, a student of fish life. In fact, he has several tanks filled with numerous marine species not only in the sanctum at his home in Astoria but also in his dressing room at the theatre, and needs little encouragement to explain their habits and their lineage to anyone who cares to listen. Indeed Mr. Lane is a man of many interests. For thirteen years, before his Broadway career began, he was a professor of speech and drama at the University of Wisconsin and also directed the University Playhouse. Still further back when he was an undergraduate at the University of Illinois, he played star quarterback on the football team alongside the famous Red Grange. In 1942 he went to England to direct the London production of "The Eve of St. Mark" and was persuaded by Dwight Deere Winman, then staging shows for our troops, to remain as the latter's assistant. His first Broadway appearance was in "Decision" and since then, he has been involved in many video dramas as well as in "Lower North," "Bathsheba," "Galileo" and the revival of "What Price Glory." His longest run, however, was in "Mister Roberts" in which he started in the role of Chief Johnson and eventually toured in the part of the Captain. |
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