Rosemary Lane

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21229, 27 September 1940, Page 10

Rosemary Lane

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Rosemary Lane is one of four sisters given to the entertainment world by Indianola, lowa. Like her sisters —Lola. Leota and Priscilla (Pat) — Rosemary attended high school and Simpson College in Indianola, where she appeared in operettas and plays and also took an active part in sports. Her childhood ambition was to be a concert pianist. At 16 Rosemary, who had been attending the Fagin Dramatic School in New York City with Pat, one day stopped at a music company in Tin Pan Alley to go over some arrangements. The girls were heard singing by the president of the company and he immediately arranged an audition for them before Fred Waring, orchestra leader. "Discovered” by Fred Waring Rosemary and Pat won the job with Waring and thus followed their older sisters into show business, even dropping the family name, “Mullican,” in favour of the professional name, “Lane.” used by Lola and Leota. Waring soon popularised Rosemary as a glorified Betty Co-Ed and typical American college girl on the air. When Waring and his Pennsylvanians came to Hollywood in 1937 to appear in "Varsity Show,” Rosemary proved a hit. Placed under contract to Warner Brothers, she played leads in "Hollywood Hotel,” “Gold-diggers in Paris,” “Blackwell’s Island,” “Oklahoma Kid,” and “The Return of Dr. X.” With her sisters Lola and Priscilla, Rosemary has appeared in “Four Daughters,” “Daughters Courageous” and “Four Wives.” Is Unmarried Rosemary is as yet unmarried. Her diversions are watching football, tennis and hockey and reading, particularly the classics, philosophy and biographies. She is intensely interested in politics. Producer Jules Levey borrowed Rosemary from Warners for a singing and romantic role opposite Allan Jones in “The Boys from Syracuse,” Universal release of the Mayfair production. Rosemary’s role in the new musical comedy film which also has Martha Raye, Joe Penner, Irene Hervey, Charles Butterworth, Alan Mowbray, Eric Blore and Samuel S. Hinds cast importantly, marks her first loan-out assignment.